Background

The Bohemian 1793 Jewish census has been transcribed by Jan Bohacek; Martin Jirinec, Martin Holyy, Jindrich Marek, and Ivana Ebelova, and published in six volumes by the Czech State Archives in Prague under the title Soupis zidovskyych rodin v Cechaach z roku 1793. See https://www.worldcat.org/title/soupis-zidovskych-rodin-v-cechach-z-roku-1793/oclc/863503375.

This database contains the index to those six volumes. You can find the books from the website for The Inventories of the Jewish Population in Bohemia 1723-1811, http://www.projektsoupis.cz/aindex.php, under News:Inventories, specifically at http://pvh.ff.cuni.cz/soupisy.htm.

To use the database, search first and last names as you normally would. The results will include the district (Kraj) and the page number in the original books. Go to the http://pvh.ff.cuni.cz/soupisy.htm website where you can download a pdf of the census book for each district. The page numbers for the pdf may not match the page numbers for the published book, but you can search the pdf to find the person you are looking for. There you will find census information including the town where they were counted and (with German headers):

• "Namen der jüdischen Familien" = the names of the head of the family as well as his wife and children (and sometimes ages)
• "Namen der ledigen Juden und Wittwen" = names of unmarried Jews and widows living with them
• "Gehören in Schutz nach" = the city under whose protection they are listed
• "Ist possessioniert und besitzet" = a business they own, or sometimes where they live
• "Ernähret sich" = how they support themselves

There are 18,817 records in this collection.

For further information, please contact: E. Randol Schoenberg.

Searching the Database

This database can be searched via the JewishGen Austria-Czech Database or the JewishGen Unified Search