Židé v soudním okrese Tachov Židovské osídlení soudního okresu Tachov s výjimkou města Tachova v letech 1921–1938
Jews in the judicial district of Tachov. Jewish settlement of the Tachov judicial district outside the town of Tachov in 1921–1938

Author(s): Jan Edl
Subject(s): Jewish studies, Ethnohistory, Interwar Period (1920 - 1939), Ethnic Minorities Studies
Published by: Židovské Muzeum v Praze
Keywords: Jews; Tachov; judicial district; first half of the 20th century;
Summary/Abstract: This paper follows on from the previous article, which deals with the fate of the Jewish minority in the town of Tachov (Tachau) in the first half of the 20th century. This time the focus is on Jewish families who lived in villages in the judicial district of Tachov (Tachau). Only a small number of Jews lived in areas of the Tachov judicial district outside the town of Tachov (50 in 1921, only 38 in 1930, and only 16 in 1938). The first part of the paper acquaints us with the demographic structure of the Jewish minority according to data obtained from census forms dating from 1921 and 1930. The second part focuses on individual Jewish families living in nine villages in the Tachov judicial district – Bažantov, Částkov, Halže, Lesná, Nové Sedliště, Písařova Vesce, Pořejov, Staré Sedliště, and Tisová – and on their lives up until to the Holocaust period. The entire period under study is characterized above all by a steady decline in the Jewish population of rural localities, ultimately coming to a tragic end.

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