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Jews were mentioned in Schwihau (in Czech: Švihov)^[1] for the first time around 1570. From this year, we possess an incomplete register of those places where Jews were located, including details of how many of them were taken into consideration for the payment of the Berne [translator's note: from the Czech Berněz židův, a tax on Jews] that was approved by the Landtag provincial parliament. In it, Schwihau is listed with one Jew. Anyone who was over the age of twenty or was married was to pay 2 Hungarian guldens or 1½ schocks (a total of 90) Bohemian groschens, and those who were younger were to pay 1 gulden or 45 groschens. There was perhaps only one Jewish household present. If the son or the daughter married and remained in the same home, then it was possible now and again that three to four families could appear in the register as “One Jew”, specifically when what was concerned was the provincial tax on Jews [Landesberně]. What was of importance was the basic authority to which the application of the register was subjected, with the Jews paying their tax to it alone.

On a gravestone in the old Jewish cemetery can be read “Mrs. Resel, the daughter of Mr. Gerson, died in the month of May in the year 1644.” Official approval for a new grave was requested by the Jews of Schwihau on June 10.

On September 5, 1674, Franz Maximilian Czernin sold to the Jew Sigmund Löbl… of Schwihau the so–called “Janata house”, situated between the houses of Wenzel Boleška and Martin Beránek, including the courtyard and small garden, for 116 guldens 40 kreutzers.

On December 26, 1674, with the approval of the lord of the castle, in the presence of the honorable Mr. Martin Samuel Stehlík, fellow citizen, councilman, and clerk of the city of Schwihau; the citizen Johann Paltes sold the house that he had previously purchased from the Jew Moses, along with a copper oven pot and the storage yard of Wenzel Boleška to the Jew Isaak for 4 Rhenish guilders and 4 cubits of linen.

On December 15, 1693, with the approval of Franz Maximilian Czernin, Martin Zborovský let the Jew Salomon Sender have his house without the field, meadow, and garden for 50 Rhenish guilders with the expressed reservation that if at any time a Christian were to present himself as a buyer, then he, Sender, could no longer request it. As long as he was earning his living from the house, he should immediately pay the “protection money” of other Jews to the income of the nobility (VII).^[2]

On February 15, 1694, the same Czernin allowed the Jewish woman Cheilla Löbl to carry out the building of an annex at the shop that was built on the storage yard that originated from the Beránek property. She was allowed to keep the shop open on holidays from the morning until the sounding of the third bells and after mass for the whole day, whereby with special solemn occasions, the right was reserved to the priest to indicate to her when she ought to close the shop (IV).^[3]

On November 24, 1697, the Jew David Israel bought a dilapidated house without fields from Martin Boleška, situated between Karl Jelínek and Martin Voráček in the upper city, for 40 Rhenish guilders.

On October 20, 1698, Franz Maximilian Czernin, lord of Schwihau and Malechau [Malechov], took the Jew Abraham Samuel of Klattau [Klatovy] under his protection and allowed him to purchase the house of Dorothea Helm and to carry out in it any honorable trade, both within the city and within the domain, and specifically at an annual fee of 12 guldens (III).

In 1706, the lord's authority has the following receipts in its incomes from the Schwihau Jews:

Protection money from the Jews (without an indication of the number)	154 guldens
From the Jewish cemetery	4 ”
For 120 pounds of rendered tallow @ 9 kreutzers makes	18 ”
For 2 pounds of pepper @ 36 kreutzers	1 ” 12 kreuzers
For 2 pounds of ginger @ 36 kreutzers	1 ” 12 kreuzers
Total	178 gulden 24 kreuzers

On March 21, 1709, in the presence of the councilman Lorenz Schilt and the municipal scribe Johann Hájek, Johann Boleška bought from the Jew Philipp Löbl a garden plot that was 7 klafters [fathoms] long and 3 klafters wide, in the middle between the huts [Chaluppen] of Wenzel Šedivý and the Jew Itzig, for 8 Rhenish guilders for the construction of a hut. If perhaps over time, the lords were to build huts for the Jews, then Löbl would leave this little house to Boleška or his children without charge. One year later, Boleška let the Jew use a portion of his oven [translator's note: probably a portion of the area where his outdoor oven was located] up to the end of the stables of the nobility for his own stables for 1 gulden (X).

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At that time (1709), six Jewish butchers already lived in Schwihau. The paid a tax from the butcher shops annually to the Chudenitz income of 120 pounds of tallow @ 9 kreutzers, 16 strichs [a total of approximately 1,500 liters] of oats, and for every head of cattle slaughtered, 6 kreutzers instead of the tongue.

From 1734, a register was maintained of a list of Jews that had been ordered by the provincial government. Beginning from 1618, when the individual families had come to Schwihau, either with imperial approval or without it, and how long they stayed here:

From the Year	Family	Up to the Year
1653	David Israel	1707
1653	Charscha Israel	1707
1664	Jakob Löw	1716
1702	Philipp Löw	1707
1674	Abraham Samuel	1707
1632	David Eisigl	1707
1714	Löwl Moyses	1723
1709	David Moyses	1723
1710	Salomon Alexander	1715
1684	Markus Löw	1722
1706	Feischl Löwl	1707
1706	Josef Herschel	1712
1706	Daniel Alexander	1712
1706	Löw Aron	1722
1674	Wolf Pinkas	1707
	Sprinzl Adamin, beggar	”
	Hinde Salomonin, beggar	”

A full register of a list of the Jews was written up by the priest Stell on April 18, 1747. According to it, eleven Jewish families lived in Schwihau:

1. W. Pinkas, named as knight by the authorities, his wife Mirl, daughter Rebeka, the maidservant Idl.
2. Wolf Pinkas, his wife Frandl, little son Abraham, maidservant Hend, and the apprentice Lazar Josl.
3. Josl Hersch Blach, wife Schiferle, son Daniel, daughter Marie, granddaughter Marie.
4. Salomon Kaufmann [or the merchant Salomon], wife Mirl, daughter Banr, the lodger Marek Lebl with his wife Annerle.
5. David Samrle, wife Mirl, son Josef, lodger Moyses Salomon with his wife Aidl.
6. Lazar Bloch, wife Pezl, sons Abraham, Maysl, Salomon, Jakob, daughters Chaihe, Rezl, maidservant Resl.
7. Sigmund Abraham, wife Chaisara, sons Herschl, Lebl, daughter Rachel.
8. Joachim Faule, wife Zerlte, son Faule, daughters Marie and Czizl; the lodger Hinde and her daughter Hine.
9. Josef Abraham, wife Chaile, daughter Rachel, son Pinkas; Samuel, the unmarried brother of the landlord.
10. Sacrle Herschl, wife Eva, sons Jakob, Abraham, Herschl, daughter Anna.
11. Moyses Josef, wife Chaile, sons Josef, Abraham.

In 1749, Count Prokop W. Czernin raised the Jewish tax for those “who are well–to–do, in the event that they wish to continue to remain under my protection” to 100 guldens. He divided up his domain into peddling regions so that specifically those of Schwihau would not circulate around the entire domain and would not disturb those from Chudenitz [Chudenice] and Kolautschen [Koloveč]. And with his decree from Schwihau on May 27, 1749, he also officially granted the request of many years by the Jew Pinkas: [“]Since the supplicant's house had been offered for sale since 1743, or else since 1746 according to a notice attached to the door,^[4] and no buyer had responded, but the house would decay and fall into disrepair, I therefore allowed the Jew to repair the house, to live in it, and to use it for his trade, under the expressed condition of keeping the shop closed on Sunday and holiday mornings, to close the windows of the shop during public processions and funerals, under the penalty of ten guldens for every individual case of disobedience. However, as soon as he finds a Christian buyer, he is to sell it and move back to the Jew's Alley.[”]

Under the new lord, the Jews breathed a sigh of relief, and they returned to the city again. On June 10, 1759, Wenzel Maršálek leased out his dilapidated little house between [that of] Jakob Wächtler and [that of] Wenzel Fišar with the permission of the authorities for ten years to the Jew Adam Fürth, who committed himself to repair the dwelling at his own expense and to pay the proprietor three Rhenish guilders annually. Marriages were also permitted to the protected Jews without delays. It was permitted on November 10, 1762 to Josef Brummel with the daughter of the Jewish “fellow” Salomon Wotitz in Strakonitz [Strakonice], on February 12, 1767 to Josef Samuel with Rosa Nathan from Lieben [probably the Libeň district of what is now Prague], as well as on April 19 of that year to Löbl, the son of Sigmund Brummel, with Resl, the daughter of Joachim Pinkas, and these bridal couples then multiplied the number of Jewish families in Schwihau. The favorable attitude of the count, who often borrowed money from Christians and Jews, went even further. In late 1759, the Jew Fürth already requested of the lord to be handed over the leased Maršálek house for his extensive business that was growing more and more, and for which he had hired clerks; he would tear it down and set up a new business house. He referred to the fact that he had already been living under lordly mercy (i.e. protection), that he had always behaved loyally, obediently, honorably, and respectably, had worked tirelessly, and had caused his business to flourish in a way that had never before occurred in the domain, such that in spite of his six children, he had always made the effort to make all of his payments punctually… It did in fact seem that he had requested in vain, since on July 7, 1764, and thus five years afterward, Czernin still repeatedly refused Adam Fürth with his request, with the remark that he did so reluctantly since he offered a good income to the citizens of Schwihau and he would prefer to give him something in the lower city… But Maršálek had in the meantime accepted. Because the times were bad and for the settlement of the sale of land and other obligations, nowhere could 250 guldens be borrowed from a Jew. He therefore declared that with the permission of the authorities, he would sell everything to Fürth in perpetuity in as–is condition, including a spacious courtyard area that extended as far as the dwelling of Johann Fišer, for 400 guldens, and furthermore, so that the Jew would not have to bear any civil charges, he wished for those charges to be transferred to his second house, called Zabranský.

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He provided a binding declaration on this along with his wife before the sworn attorney, Johann Wächtler, and the neighbor, Nikolaus Hrudička. This persistence bore fruit for the tanner Adam. On July 27, 1764, the Chudenitz Registration Office received the count's order to sell the Maršálek house for a lordly tannery, which was to be modernly furnished and was to be handed over to the Jew A. Fürth for emphyteutic possession (a hereditary lease). Aside from the taxes and donations (around 34 guldens), he was to pay rent that was to be agreed upon from year to year and the contract was to last for at least ten years after the rebuilding of the house. The Jew accepted the conditions, he fulfilled them, and when he received the necessary building materials from the lord, he rebuilt the house himself and set up a tannery in it (actually more of a storage area than an operation area, added to which he got himself a Jewish subtenant) and a small shop. When he then died in 1769, he bequeathed the house to his widow Susanna, who continued the wool and feather trade. She had a fire in 1773, but rebuilt and continued her activity. From the tannery and the leather cutting, Fürth paid the lord 100 to 160 guldens every year.

On January 1, 1771, the lord sold the potash hut that was situated across from the Swoboda house along with the ash chamber and along with a garden that was 9 ½klafters [fathoms] long and 6 ½klafters wide for 230 guldens and an annual rent of 15 guldens to Mänl [sic – Mändl] Wolf Lebl.^[5]

In contrast to that, in 1770 the lord prohibited Jews from slaughtering livestock on account of the great uncleanliness with which they had been operating their butcher works. They of course defended themselves with the assertion that Christians did not do it any better and that their meat trade came into consideration more for other Jews than for the Christians. They produced a letter from the late Franz Maximilian Czernin for the Jew Sig. Lebl by virtue of which the right of butchering was granted to him and his heirs and descendants, and they requested to be left to their trade and, as had been the case up to that point, they would pay 50 guldens from the butcher shops, 18 pounds of tallow, and 5 guldens from the beef tongues. This was followed by the petition that the butchers should bilaterally reach a settlement in a friendly manner within six weeks, and if not, then things should remain as they were, since what was unclean for the Jews was clean for the Christians (no doubt an allusion to pork).

In 1773, the entire Jew's Alley burnt down, including the school and the synagogue. The city thereupon obtained a second hose and other fire extinguishing equipment for the amount of 158 guldens 5 kreutzers. The Jews declared that they would contribute nothing, they had no money. The community submitted it to the senior district magistrate for a decision, and on July 10, 1779, he recognized that it was right and just that the Jews take upon themselves half of the expenses in the amount of 79 guldens 2 ½kreutzers. On the same day, the lords had Lambert, the son of the widow Fürthin [i.e. Mrs. Fürth], locked up for suspicion of intercourse with Christian women. The widow defended him and complained that as a result of his arrest, her entire family had been besmirched. Salomon of Chudenitz and the senior district magistrate Friedl investigated the entire manner carefully and precisely and then let the arrested man go free without damages or detriments on either side. At that time, the city council once again lodged a complaint with him (the first time was on July 21, 1777) that the Jews were once again sneaking into Christian houses in the district and he should confirm their order that Jews who did not own their own house in the city should betake themselves elsewhere. It was to be taken care of with the greatest importance, the Christian youth could be infected by any Jewish error. The entire community had gotten outraged about it on this day (January 2, 1780) before the office of the mayor and demanded that the Jews be expelled from there, they were causing offense, they were leading the children astray into haggling and pilfering, there were getting to be more and more of them in Schwihau… For their part, after Easter of that year the Jews complained once again to Chudenitz that on their days of prayer, it was not just Christian youth but also adults of both sexes who forced their way into their assembly in the synagogue, behaved in a manner as to cause a nuisance, disturbed them in their prayers, aped their language, and mocked them. Friedl apparently did not respond to these complaints. Only on September 19, 1787 did he quote to the Jews and the magistrate the entire tolerance edict with the order to instruct the citizenry that no one may be disturbed with the practice of his religion, and that he would severely punish both Jews and Christians, and specifically ill–mannered children, if they were to be found guilty of once again of such an offense. In 1783, the Jews received the permission for the construction of a new synagogue. Upon the (third) complaint by the community that Jews were buying different victuals that were used in the city and then selling them at a higher price, he gave the order that the Christians ought to get together and also buy early. Up until then, they had preferred to try to push the prices down by waiting, until someone else had bought the food out from under them. Business was, at its root, cleverness. – And for that he could not send those of Schwihau out of Chudenitz. From the additional complaints by the city, it emerges that as early as 1720, no weekly market was being held in the city any more.

The last register of a list of the Jews of Schwihau that we have is from 1782.

1. Belongs to Susanne Fürthin, the widow of Ad. Fürth (died 1769). She deals in wool and feathers.
2. Belongs to the same widow, but the official clerk Simon Benjamin lives in it; it has not been expanded.
3. Samuel Daniel, the son–in–law of the owner Pinkas Wolf, currently the tenant of the distillery and distilled spirits shop in Neuhaus [Jindřichův Hradec]. He deals with various fabrics and spices, pays 20 guldens protection money, 37 years old.
4. Belongs to Mayer Fürth in Prague, now uninhabited; he pays 20 guldens protection money. It previously belonged to Sal. Götzl, then from 1745 to Adam Fürth.
5. Salomon Wotitz, butcher, pays 9 guldens protection money; 41 years old. Living with his family is the widow of the late Jos. Brumml, pays 3 guldens protection money.
6. Lebl Brumml, 53 years old, deals with merchant's goods. Protection money 9 guldens.
7. Salomon Hönig, 58 years old, has a leather and feather business, pays 12 guldens protection money. In 1745 two families lived in this house: Joachim Lebl and Mojses Salomon.
8. The widow of Herschl Brumml, 45 years old, has a leather warehouse but only trades to a small extent; she therefore pays just 4 guldens protection money. Previously Sigmund Abraham lived here, after him his son Sigmund Brumml and then the latter's son Herschl Brumml. Living with her as a renter is Joachim Foule, widower, his trade being butcher, born in Schwihau, now 68 years old, butchers for the Jews and trades in leather; protection money 4 guldens.

9. The widow of Sigmund Brumml, 77 years old, does not practice any trade, she is supported by her son Lebl Brumml; protection money 20 guldens.
10. Jakob Salomon or, as Jewish, Koppl Santl, 38 years old; peddles in the villages. Prior owner Lazar Bloch.
11. Fire site of Pinkas Wolf, currently distiller in Neuhaus [Jindřichův Hradec]. Protection money 12 guldens. Previously David Lebl, then his son Salomon.
12. Joachim Jacob, district Jewish judge and lives from the salary that he receives from the office. Before him, Wolf Pinkas was there.
13. Mändl Wolf Lebl, currently leaseholder of the distillery in Chudenitz [Chudenice]; he transferred his house to his married 22 year–old son Josef.
14. Jakob Lazar Bloch, lodger, 42 years old, gives out [i.e. sells] brandy in the city. The house, which is called The Tannery, belongs to the widow Susanne Fürth, who pays 34 guldens protection money. In 1745, Salomon Kaufmann and Lebl Layer resided here.
15. Salomon Bloch, 50 years old, peddles in the villages. Protection money 12 guldens.
16. Abraham Bloch, 56 years old, butchers for sale.
17. In 1739, Wolf Pinkas bought this house from a certain tailor when the Jews moved into their own alley, and he lived in it since he was looking for a buyer for his house that was situated in the city. When the authorities then gave Pinkas an edict once again for a house in the city, he sold this one to the brothers Salomon and Abraham Bloch.^[6]

Protection money from 15 families	178 guldens
Tax from the Jewish cemetery	10 ”
Tax from the tannery	34 ”
Cattle tongue tax	5 ”
Spice tax	2 ” 24 kreutzers
Butcher shop tax	50 ”
Total	279 guldens 24 kreutzers

According the Josephinian Land Survey, aside from the local Jews, at that time the Jews from the following locations also belonged to the Jewish community of Schwihau: Chudenitz [Chudenice], Pollin [Poleň], Grillendorf [Svrčovec], Drslawitz [Drslavice], Dolan [Dolany], Przedslau [Předslav], Miecholup [Miecholup], Tyrol [?], Obitz [Obytce], Pořičí, Nedanitz [Nedanice], Mlýnec, Strzebitschen [Třebýcina], Hraz [Hráz], Habartitz [Habartice], Brzeskowitz [Vřeskovice], Schepadl [Všepadly], Mezholez [Mezholezy], Kbell [Kbel], Puschberg [Pušperk], Nezditz [Nezdice], Tietietitz [Tetětice], Myslowitz [Myslovice], Witkowitz [Vítkovice], Petrowitz [Petrovice], Boleschin [Bolešiny], Kamejk [Kamýk], Lušice, Chotzomyschl [Chocomyšl], Zdaslaw [Zdeslav?], Wlčí, Mallinetz [Malinecká], Wěckowicz [Věckovice], Ausilau [Úsilov], Žinkow [Žinkovy], Ruppau [Roupov], Kydlin [Kydliny], Lužan, Czernikau [Černíkov], Skotschitz [Skočice], Zeleny, and from – Klattau [Klatovy], since according to the decree of August 5, 1747, that royal city belonged among those thirty–five cities in Bohemia that were closed to the Jews, that is, they were not allowed to settle there, and in fact not allowed to spend even one single night there.^[8]

Schwihau became the center of Jews in a broad area, since the school, a lovely synagogue, and the registers were all located here. The children from the aforementioned towns came to school here, and specifically in the wintertime they even lived with Christians for moderate remuneration. A school already existed in Schwihau as early as July 10, 1664. In 1737, the old Jewish school and chapel which had served them for seventy years in the attic rooms of a fellow believer made of wood were dilapidated such that they might easily collapse during the assemblies, so in that year, the Jewish community applied to Countess Isabella M. Czernin for the permission to instead be able to build a new one out of stone. The community requested to be provided free of charge with 8 tree trunks and ½three score [i.e. thirty] slats as well as 2,000 shingles against the replacement of the labor charge @ 1 gulden 10 kreutzer. With humble words, the community made reference to the fact that the lord attained an annual income from the Jews of 225 guldens 24 kreutzers. With an edict from Chotzomyschl [Chocomyšl] dated August 12, 1737, they received the permission under the expressed condition to build the new school where the old one stood. But the lord would give them nothing free of charge since the Jewish community had so many means to pay for everything. They built a wooden school upon a stone underwall which with them burnt down in 1773.

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In 1783, the community requested construction permission for a stone building with the desire to have it at the site of the fire at the little house which had previously been owned by Mändl Wolf Löbl between the house of the just deceased judge Joachim Jakob (XII) and the so–called “lord's tannery” (XIV) with the little garden of 9 ½x 6 ½klafters [fathoms]. The senior district magistrate Friedl along with the officials Count Fr. X. Rieger, the granary scribe Josef Anton Seegert, and the contributions collector Franz Domečka indicated that after a visit by the commission to the count, they found the site to be suitable: at the end of the Jew's Alley, removed from all of the Christian houses, and that the school could be built according to the Old Testament law toward sunrise [i.e. facing east]. The windows in it would not provide anyone with cause for complaint that under imperial and royal town privilege, he would be bothered by the view. Mändl Wolf Löbl would give away the plot since he had built a little house elsewhere on Jew's Alley with the permission of the authorities. The officials were of the opinion that the Jewish community should be provided with the following materials: wall and vault bricks @ 6 guldens per thousand, the roof beam at 1 ½guldens, the wall beam at 48 kreutzers, and wood for the rafters at 24 kreutzers. The count gave his permission with the edict of Neuhaus [Jindřichův Hradec] dated May 24, 1783.

During the times of war, the “local Jews” became impoverished, while those who were “working in the countryside” became rich, astonishingly rich through military supplies, as can be observed from the Napoleonic Era with Rotschild [sic – Rothschild] and others. In 1804, the office of Chudenitz appointed a trustee for the Jew Jakob Brumml because of a debt of 77 guldens 25 3/4 kreutzers. From time immemorial, the Jews had not been pleased about paying taxes; with regard to various privileges, they also considered themselves to be exempt from them. The register of the imperial and royal taxes that were still unpaid at the end of January 1806 which the community of Schwihau was to pay without a further reminder under immediate impounding on December 30, 1809: Susanna Fürthin 673 guldens 7 ½kreutzers; Wolf Fürth78.5¼; Moses Fürth 89.57; Salomon Sicher 63.31½; Wolf Sicher 19.6, also arrears with income tax 36 guldens and building tax 8.51; Jakob Brumml 56.18, bonded and insured arrears 77.25¾; Johann Brumml 6.–; Lazar Bloch 2.–; Salomon Abraham Bloch 3.48; Salomon Weil 0.45; Markus Fleischer 9.32; Isaak Weil 3.04½; Phil. Kohn 7.07½; Moises Lederer 1.52½; Wolf Brumml 17.30; – income tax by class in arrears for 1803: 1.19, for 1804: 5.16, property tax for 1804: 2.11¼; Abraham Bloch 0; Salomon Bloch 1.30; checked for Phil. Bloch up to January 24; Jak. Bloch 3.–; Jak. Schnurmacher.^[9] There was a similar situation with a whole series of Jews from the “district of Schwihau”. The city judge Johann Bayer gave Abraham Bloch a certification under seal dated September 28, 1806 “that he [is] really a poor Jew stooped with age who is not capable of paying the imperial and royal taxes either for the current year or for the coming one.” The Schwihau “district” judge Philipp Kohner wrote in particular, “Abraham Bloch is a miserable, ill beggar…” Bayer and Kohner of course used the German language. And for the paying off of the Bankozettel paper money in the war [i.e. the Napoleonic Wars] , the Jews had to retroactively contribute in 1820: for example, Salomon Sicher, 12 guldens 40¾ kreutzers.

Interesting reading is offered by the registers of Jews. They were kept by the priest and still exist in part, specifically those of marriages from January 1, 1825 to March 28, 1860, the birth registers up to April 8, 1862, and the death registers up to April 7, 1862.

On September 16, 1865, at the order of the district authorities in Klattau [Klatovy], it was with visible relief that the priest handed over the making of entries in the registers to the Jew, the teacher Leopold Wolfner from Schwihau.

From the registers, some of the names of Jewish teachers and rabbis in Schwihau can be determined:

• 1825 Philipp Kohner, local district rabbi (VII), went to Pilsen [Plzeň] as district rabbi.
• 1835 Augustin Kafka, local district rabbi (I), died in Pilsen on May 16, 1870, 78 years of age.
• Around 1815–1825 the teacher Isaak Schnurmacher, after him 1825 his son Bernard Schnurmacher, teacher, died of cholera on November 21, 1836 at the age of 46.
• 1836 The teacher Samuel Mandelbaum
• 1843 Rabbi Lazar Fürth
• 1860 Rabbi Simon Fürth
• 1862 Rgl. Daniel Gottlieb
• 1866 The old “rebbe” Fürth
• 1909 Rabbi Siegfried Bret

The Jewish tax to the lord came to an end in 1848 and was eliminated [or paid off] in 1852 to 1854. The last register of it that is available originated in 1834.

Finally, a register of the inhabitants of the Jewish houses on the Jew's Alley in Schwihau was kept, as the late priest Father Zeman assembled in the book on Schwihau on p. 479:

• No. 199 (I) by Chajnebl. In 1706, Andreas Helm; 1716 the innkeeper Georg Maršálek; 1738 Wenzel Maršálek, soapmaker; in 1765 the lord sold the site of the fire, built the tannery, and leased it to Adam Fürth; 1769–1789 Susanna Fürthin, widow; 1827 Lambert Fürth; in 1858 Joachim Kohn died, 76 years old; 1842–1854 Salomon Kohn, wife Judith (Jetti) Pereles from Praschno–Augezd [Prašný Újezd]. After them, Fr. Burda, cabinetmaker, 1897, inherited by his son Fr. Burda Jr.
• No. 200 (II), from time immemorial the so–called “Pedalhof” (or “Bedalhof”). In 1734, Mathes Vávra, weaver from Pořičí; it was bought in 1773 by the widow Susanna after the death of Adam Fürth.Wi8th her, it burnt down, was rebuilt in 1782, in 1789 she was still running it; 1820 Moses Fürth, wife Anna; 1850 Efraim Fürth, died 1851; 1850 Salomon Weil, wife Marianna maiden name Brüll from Neu–Sedlischt [Sedliště]; 1887 Wenzel Hůra; 1896 Andreas Tomášek.
• No. 201 (III) by Hermann, old Jewish house as early as 1693; 1729 Wolf Pinkas, 1782 Wolf Pinkas Jr.; 1789 Salamon Sicher, wife Mona Lewi from Lettin [probably Letiny]; 1823 Joachim Löwi; 1845 Salomon and Daniel Sicher; 1890 Bernard Sicher; 1898 Ferd. Klein and Regina Sicher.

• No. 202 (IV). A Jewish house as early as 1697. In 1709, the Jew Bernard; 1745 Salomon Götzl; 1782 Mayer Fürth; 1789 Jonas Fürth; 1794 Wolf Fürth, wife Katele Arnstein from Wodňany; 1833 Moses Fürth; wife Jetti Spiegel from Schönbach [probably either Luby or Meziboří]; 1849 Bernard Kohner, wife Anna Grünhut from Schönwald near Manetin [Manětín]; 1856 Alois Kmínek; 1857 Samuel Stern, wife Amalie Böhm from Schweissing [Svojšín]; 1900 Adolf Stern, wife Josefina.
• No. 203 (V) Jewish house of the Brumml family since 1698. The last Brumml 1745. His daughter Máta married Salomon Wotitz in 1762; 1789 Salomon Weil; 1799 Wolf Brumml, wife Mara Friedmann from Černilow; 1814 Sara Weig (died 1861, 90 years old); 1827 Joachim Sicher, wife Rebeka Weil; 1844 Marie Brumml; 1847 Rosa Kapr; 1865 Samuel Stern; 1868 Michael Šlais from no. 130; 1876 Fr. Havlíćek from Ruzí, wife Anna Hora from Srbicz; 1896 Adolf Stern.
• No. 204 (VI) Samuel Brumml; 1767 Lebl Brumml, wife Rösl Pinkas; 1789 Jakob Brumml, wife Cäcilia (Sesa–)Truelich from Radnitz [Radnice]; in 1849, married as a widow Lambert Fürth (IV); 1840 Hermann Kohner, wife Esther Mautner; 1849–1863 Sigmund Kohner, wife Julia Eva; 1863 Josef Nováček from Těšnicz; after him Michael Šlajs.
• No. 205 (VII) by Chajnebl. Since 1709, the little house of the Jew Joachim Lewi (also written as Löwe) and Moses Salomon; 1782 Salomon Hönig; 1789 Marie Kohner; 1789 Rabbi Philipp Kohner, wife Esther Brüll (Prill); 1829 Joachim Kohner, wife N. Brummlin from Klattau [Klatovy], daughter of Löbl; 1865 Salamon Kohn; 1866 Johann Peroutka, gingerbread maker from Chudenicz, wife Magda Mazanec, she also had the “shop” at no. VIII; after them 1878 Wenzel Berka.
• No. 206 (VIII a), since 1674 Jewish house of the lineage of Sigmund Brumml, Sigmund Abraham, and Herrschl Brumml: 1789 Jakob Brumml Jr., wife Anna maiden name Brumml; 1835 Nathan Bloch from Langendorf [Dlouhá Ves], toll collector from Schwihau, wife Rosa Brumml (from VIII); Rachel Bloch; 1849 Joachim Kohner, but only in the “shop”, because in 1845 Adalbert Babka bought the “wooden Jewish hut”.
• No. 277 [sic – 207?] (VIII b) up to 1848 the Jews from the previous number; 1849 bought by Josef Bakula.
• No. 208 (IX) Sigmund Brumml; 1789 Jonas Brumml, wife Fanny Lewi from Janowitz [Janovice nad Úhlavou]; 1829 Moses Kohn (VII), wife Rosa Brumml; 1863 Franz Zábrodský from No. 137.
• No. 209 (X). Since 1698, Lazar Bloch, Jakob Salomon; after him Israel Schling; 1789 Jakob Gloß; 1801 Isaak Weil, wife Theresia Schling from Žerow; 1849 Joachim Sicher (III), wife Běla Weil (X); 1863 Franz Fornous, cobbler.
• No. 210 (XI). Since 1697 David Löwi, Salamon Löwi… 1774 Pinkas Wolf; 1792 Salamon Sicher; 1802 Wolf Sicher, wife Abigail Schulhof from Prague; 1849 Joachim Sicher, wife Rebeka Weil (I), 1854 Salamon Kohn, 1866 Fr. Zábrodský from Pottenstein (IX) and his descendants.
• No. 211 (XII) by Alexander. Jewish house since 1693. Recognized as owner since 1754 are: Wolf Pinkas; 1782 Joachim Jakob; 1789 Simon Goldberg; 1799 Salamon Abraham Bloch, wife Anna Goldberg; 1840 Alex Kohner (VII), wife Dorothea Kaska from Blowitz [Blovice]; 1870 Simon Kohner; 1789 Mathes Klesla from Malechau [Malechov], a Christian.
• No. 212 (XIII), the distillery house. Since 1711, Mändl Wolf Löwi, his son Josef L'wi (Löwl); in 1769 the authorities bought it. 1789 Josef Mandlbaum; 1810 Isaak Mandlbaum, wife Anna Feigl from Kirchenbirg near Elbogen [Kostelní Bríza near Loket]; 1847 the Christian Wenzel Böhm from Taus [Domažlice].
• No. 213 (XIV), the rabbi's house, the German Jewish school, shut down in 1893. Former lord's tannery. Since 1709, the merchant Salomon Mayer Löwi (Löwl); 1782 Jakob Lazar Bloch – the house became dilapidated. Since 1911 the municipal poorhouse.
• No. 214 (XV). In 1739, Wolf Pinkas bought it from N. Krejčík; 1782 Salamon Bloch, wife Esther; 1822 Bernard Schnurmacher, Jewish teacher, wife Josefine Bloch (XV); 1860 Moses Schnurmacher; 1880 the butcher Martin Götz.
• No. 215 (XVI). In 1782, Abraham Bloch, the brother of Salamon Bloch; his son Abram Bloch; 1828 the butcher Philipp Bloch, wife Esther Klein from Malinetz [Malinecká]; 1847 Abraham Bloch, kosherer; in 1870, he sold it for the expansion of the city hall.

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