Encyclopaedia of Jewish Communities: Slovakia

Translation of
Pinkas ha-kehilot; entsiklopediya shel ha-yishuvim le-min hivasdam
ve-ad le-aher shoat milhemet ha-olam ha-sheniya: Slovakia

Edited by Yehoshua Robert Buchler

Co-edited by Ruth Shachak

Editor of the maps and photographs: Aryeh Fatran

Published by Yad Vashem

Published in Jerusalem 2003

Click here to see how to add a Memorial Plaque to this Yizkor Book

Our sincere appreciation to Yad Vashem for permission to put this material on the JewishGen web site.

This material is made available by JewishGen, Inc. and the Yizkor Book Project for the purpose of fulfilling our mission of disseminating information about the Holocaust and destroyed Jewish communities. This material may not be copied, sold or bartered without JewishGen, Inc.'s permission. Rights may be reserved by the copyright holder.

JewishGen, Inc. makes no representations regarding the accuracy of the translation. The reader may wish to refer to the original material for verification. JewishGen is not responsible for inaccuracies or omissions in the original work and cannot rewrite or edit the text to correct inaccuracies and/or omissions. Our mission is to produce a translation of the original work and we cannot verify the accuracy of statements or alter facts cited.

slo000.jpg [52 KB] - Cover

Pinkas Hakehilot

Encyclopaedia of Jewish Communities

SLOVAKIA
Editor: Yehoshua Robert Buchler

Co-Editor: Ruth Shachak
Editor of the maps and photographs: Aryeh Fatran

YAD VASHEM
The Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority
Jerusalem 2003

This book was published with the assistance of the Gold family in Canada and Israel,
in the loving memory of their family members from Czechoslovakia who lost their lives in the Shoah:
Joseph, Eva, Gisi, Elizabeth and Egon Birnbaum; Dorothy (née Birnbaum) and Karl Roth;
Chayim, Yosef-Shalom, Sara, Renate, Moshe Tov-Yehia, and Abraham-Pinchas Goldberger.

Hebrew
ISBN 965-308-178-0

Table of Contents donated by Ada Holtzman

Preface	Y. R. Buchler	1
Introduction: Chapters in the History of Slovakian Jewry		5
Slovakia – a Geographical and Historical Background		5
Jews in Slovakia from its Early Beginnings until the 17th Century		12
The Re-establishment of Jewish Communities from the Middle of the 17th Century until the end of the 18th Century		14
From the Beginning of the 19th Century Until World War I		18
Slovakian Jewry Between the World Wars		26
Slovakian Jewry During World War II and the Holocaust		37
The Survivors of Slovakian Jewry - the Postwar Period		54
General Bibliography		61
Archives and their Abbreviations		64
Newspapers, Journals, Periodicals and their Abbreviations		64
The Photographs Sources		64
The Jewish Communities in Slovakia		65
Additional Jewish Communities Populated by More Than 50 Jews		H
Lucenec		295
Malacky		331
Nitra		351
Spišské Podhradie		412
Piešťany		443
Pečovská Nová Ves		452
Kosice		495
Kezmarok		505
Královský Chlmec		514
Reca (Rete)		537
Index of Places		561
Index of Persons		569
Glossary		588
A Brief History of Slovakian Jewry – A Summary of the Introduction in English		XI

Maps

Yizkor Book Project JewishGen Home Page

Yizkor Book Project Manager, Joyce Field
This web page created by