Heřmanův Městec

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Heřmanův Městec (Czech pronunciation: [ˈɦɛr̝manuːf ˈmɲɛstɛts]; Template:Lang-de) is a town in Pardubice Region of the Czech Republic. It has c. 4,800 inhabitants.

Jewish Hermanmiestetz

Jews were living there as early as 1509, engaged in commerce and money-lending; but the Jewish community proper dates from 1591. The Jews were confined to a ghetto under the protectorate of the overlords of the city. One of these, Count Johann Wenceslaus Spork, built a synagogue in 1760, which was modernized in 1870. The Jewish parochial school was transformed into a German public school. Since 1891 Hermanmiestetz has been the seat of a district rabbi, the dependent communities being Chrudim, Roubowitz, and Drevikau.

The following have officiated as rabbis in Hermanmiestetz:

Bunem (died 1734);
Selig-Landsteiner (died 1743);
Ḥayyim Traub (died 1790);
Elias Treitel (died 1823);
Samuel Brod (died 1850);
Moses Bloch, till 1855 (since 1877 rector at the Budapest University of Jewish Studies);
Benjamin Feilbogen, till 1863;
S. Rosenberg, 1864–68;
Dr. Nehemias Kronberg, the present incumbent, called in 1891.

Judah Löb Borges (died 1872), a member of the community distinguished for his Talmudic and literary attainments, officiated temporarily whenever there was a vacancy in the rabbinate.

The community supports a burial society, a society for nursing the sick, a Talmud Torah, and a women's society. The cemetery must have existed as early as the sixteenth century, for it is recorded in a document that in 1667 a field was bought from a citizen for the purpose of enlarging the burial-ground. In 1903 the Jews of Hermanmiestetz numbered 300, those of the whole district aggregating 1,100.

References

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Gotthard Deutsch and Nehemias Kranberg (1901–1906). "Hermanmiestetz". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. New York: Funk & Wagnalls.

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