Self-Government of Jewish Communities in Nobility-Owned Towns in the Second Half of the Seventeenth and Beginning of the Eighteenth Centuries – Roudni
Self-Government of Jewish Communities in Nobility-Owned Towns in the Second Half of the Seventeenth and Beginning of the Eighteenth Centuries – Roudni

Summary/Abstract: The Jewish minority in Bohemia was left a certain amount of autonomy by rulers, the form of which changed in time as a result of external and internal intervention. In the second half of the seventeenth and beginning of the eighteenth centuries, Jewish community self-governments worked on the principle of an elected group of leaders who were to be replaced at regular intervals. Elected self-government representatives were delegated powers covering judicial, economic, police and social issues and not only ran the community, but also represented it in its relations with the outside world.

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