Ein Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Judensiedlungen in in Böhmen in den Jahren 1650 und 1674
Contribuition to the History of Jewish Settlement in Bohemia in 1650 and 1674

Author(s): Josef Hrásky
Subject(s): Cultural history, Jewish studies, Local History / Microhistory, Social history
Published by: CEEOL Collections / Digital Reproductions
Keywords: Census of Jewish population; taxation of Bohemian Jews;
Summary/Abstract: Until the end of the 1820s, no special attention was paid to the question of settlement and population of Jews by the authorities. If we look at some random reports about the number of Jews in the cities, resp. rule districts, was the first official total conscription of Jews living in Bohemia, as far as it is known at least, made in 1618. However, this record cannot be described as an actual conscription in the modern sense of the word, since it cited neither the sex, nor the age and name of the Jews, but only recorded how many persons and families of Jews lived in that particular area. This count, which was apparently ordered for fiscal reasons to determine the total number of eligible Jews in Bohemia, occurred after the Thirty Years' War, when the anti-Semitic mood in the official Viennese circles in spite of frequent and urgent reminders of the Bohemian chamber with its peak reached the beginning of the reduction efforts, which for the first time clearly appeared on the Bohemian Diet of 1650.

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