01. Babčice
According to written sources, Jews lived in Babčice from the middle of the 18th century at the latest. In the second half of the 18th century, they apparently lived in two houses: the Josephinian Cadaster indicates municipal building No. 2 and a…
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02. Bechyně
Written sources show that Jews were in Bechyně from the second half of the 16th century. During the 17th century there was a Jewish com-munity founded that lasted until the Nazi occupation. In 1880, there were 91 Jews living in Bechyně, then from…
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03. Běleč a Mladá Vožice
Written sources have documented Jews in Běleč in small numbers since the end of the 18th century. During the 19th century there were about three to five Jewish families living here, with the last Jew mentioned here in 1921. The cemetery was founded…
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04. České Budějovice
Jews settled here from the first half of the 14th century. By the 15th century there was a relatively large Jewish community here with a synagogue and a cemetery in front of the town walls. In December 1505, pogroms broke out and the Jews were…
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05. Český Krumlov
Written sources document a small number of Jews in Český Krumlov from the first half of the 14th century until the end of the 15th cen-tury, when they were forbidden to remain in town. Jews were permitted to settle in Český Krumlov again only after…
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06. Čichtice
A Jewish settlement in Čichtice is documented from the end of the 17th century until the beginning of the 20th century. The Jewish community that was founded in the first quarter of the 18th century was abolished at the end of the 19th century. …
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07. Čkyně
Written sources document a Jewish settlement in Čkyně since the mid-17th century. The largest number of Jews in the town was record-ed at the beginning of the 19th century: in 1825 there were 151 Jews living here. Their number later declined: in…
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08. Dolní Bolíkov
The first Jews most likely came to Dolní Bolíkov after 1670, then in the 1830’s and 1940’s there were more than 160 Jews living here. The Jewish community was founded at the beginning of the 18th century and was abolished in 1891. Ghetto. In the…
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09. Dub
A Jewish settlement in the town is documented from the beginning of the 17th century, while the Jewish community existed here from the 18th century until 1906. Jewish houses were concentrated on a street leading from the square to Javornice on the…
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10. Hluboká nad Vltavou
A local Jewish settlement is documented from the first half of the 17th century, while a Jewish community with a prayer house was here from the end of the 17th century until the Nazi occupation. The Jewish quarter is located on Tyršova Street…
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11. Hoštice
The Jewish settlement in Hoštice is documented from the early 18th century, with a Jewish community already existing at the time. The synagogue is of unknown age and stands north of the village square near a former Jewish house. It is presently…
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12. Jindřichův Hradec
The oldest preserved written source documenting the presence of Jews in the city is from 1294, when there could have been eight Jew-ish families here. The original eight Jewish families gradually evolved into a Jewish community. The highest number…
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13. Jistebnice
Jews in Jistebnice are mentioned in written sources from the first half of the 16th century. The Jewish community was established in the first quarter of the 17th century at the latest. After 1930, due to its low number of members, it was annexed to…
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14. Kardašova Řečice
The first reports on Jews in Kardašova Řečice come from the begin-ning of the 15th century. In the mid-17th century, there were 3 Jewish families living in the town; in the early 18th century around 8 Jew-ish families, then in 1840 there were 23…
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15. Koloděje nad Lužnicí
Written sources document Jews in Koloděje for the first time in the middle of the 17th century. In 1721, there were 35 Jewish families, at the end of the 18th century there lived about 80 Jewish families, then about 600 Jews around the middle of the…
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16. Kovářov
A Jewish settlement has been documented in the town from the first half of the 19th century. There was a prayer room and a teacher’s flat in house No. 39, which now serves as a residence. The cemetery covers 2,090 square meters and was estab-lished…
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17. Markvarec
The earliest written references to Jews in Markvarec date back to the first half of the 18th century. A Jewish community was founded most likely in the second half of the 18th century, but it was dissolved in 1888 due to the small number of members…
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18. Milevsko
A numerous Jewish settlement was documented in the city from the first half of the 16th century. In 1694, there were 8 Jewish families living in Milevsko, 90 Jews in 1849, and the highest number, 172 Jews, in 1890. Afterwards, their number decreased…
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19. Mirotice
The Jewish settlement in the town is documented from the first half of the 16th century, with a Jewish community being here from the 17th century. In 1724, there lived 20 Jewish families here, and in the first half of the 19th century there were 13…
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20. Mirovice
The Jewish settlement in Mirovice was documented since the second half of the 16th century until the Nazi occupation. In 1721 there were 12 Jewish families, from the middle of the 18th to the middle of the 19th century there were 5 to 9 families,…
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21. Myslkovice
The first Jewish family settled in Myslkovice before 1650, but it is not known exactly when. In 1706, there were 3 Jewish families living here, 7 Jewish families in 1723, and 65 Jewish families (474 people, or 55% of the population) in 1850, the…
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22. Neznašov
The earliest written reports of Jews in Neznašov are from the begin-ning of the 17th century. In 1618, 15 Jewish families (51 persons) lived in the Neznašov estate, then in 1721 there were 10 Jewish families living here; the registry of Jews from…
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23. Nosetín a Květuš
Jewish settlements have been documented in Nosetín from the 18th century, but only a few Jewish families lived there. More Jews lived in nearby Květuš: in the beginning of the 18th century, there was a wine distiller, a tanner, a leather merchant, a…
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24. Nová Bystřice
It is not known exactly when Jews began to settle in Nová Bystřice. An unspecified number of Jewish settlements have been documented in the town since the second half of the 18th century, but it rose sharply after the mid-19th century. At the turn…
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25. Nová Včelnice
Jews in Nová Včelnice are documented in written sources from the first quarter of the 18th century. The Jewish community was established in the first half of the 18th century and discontinued in 1893. The simple Classicist synagogue was built in the…
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26. Olšany
Jews apparently settled in Olšany immediately after their expulsion from Vienna and lower Austria in 1670. A Jewish community was founded during the 18th century, but it was discontinued in 1890 due to its low number of members. The quarter with…
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27. Osek u Radomyšle
The oldest surviving written mention of Jews in Osek dates back to the end of the 17th century. A noble wine distillery was documented in Osek in the 1780’s, as was a noble potash refinery and a Jewish house. In 1793, there were three Jewish…
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28. Písečné
Written sources show that Jews were in Písečné from the 17th century. In 1759 there were 24 Jewish families in Písečné and by 1848 their number had increased to 52. In 1848 there were 333 Jews (38% of the total population), in 1880 there were 106…
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29. Písek
The Jewish settlement in Písek has been documented in written sources since the end of the 14th century, but the Jews were expelled from the city in 1424. They began to settle here again in small numbers from the first quarter of the 17th century;…
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30. Protivín
A small Jewish settlement in the town was documented from the early 17th century. There were 3 Jewish families living in town in 1653, at least 9 Jewish families in 1783, and 12 Jewish families in 1837. More Jews moved to the town aft er the mid…
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31. Prudice
Written sources document a small Jewish population in the town from the beginning of the 18th century until the end of the 19th century. In 1724 a Jewish family wine distillery was established within the estates, a Jewish family of a distiller was…
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32. Přehořov a Soběslav
A smaller Jewish settlement in Přehořov was documented in writing from the beginning of the 17th century. It is unknown when the Jewish community was founded, but it was abolished before 1921, when the Jewish community here became a part of the…
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33. Radenín
A Jewish settlement was documented in Radenín since the beginning of the 17th century. In 1723 there were 9 Jewish families living in Radenín, in 1853 there lived 51 Jewish families (190 persons, 19% of all inhabitants of the village), in 1880 there…
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34. Rožmberk nad Vltavou
The oldest written record of Jews in the town dates back to the 17th century. In 1724 and 1783 there were 14 Jewish families in Rožmberk, in 1849 there were 23 families (130 persons, evidently the most in the town’s history), in 1880 there were 53…
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35. Slavonice
Individual Jewish families settled sporadically in the town from the first half of the 18th century. Jews moved to Slavonice in larger numbers only after 1848, when they were granted partial equality. Censuses show that there were 27 Jews (1.1% of…
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36. Stádlec
Jews most likely lived in Stádlec as early as the second half of the 17th century. In 1724, there were three documented Jewish families in Stádlec, then in 1747 there were 6 Jewish families; in the registry of Jews from 1783, there are 10 Jewish…
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37. Staré Město pod Landštejnem
It is not known exactly when Jews came to Staré Město pod Landštejnem. The oldest tombstone in the Jewish cemetery here dated back to 1610 (it has not been preserved), so we can presume that the history of the Jewish population in this town began by…
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38. Strakonice
The Jewish settlement in Strakonice is documented in written sources from the end of the 15th century. In 1724, there were 12 Jewish families living in Bezděkov (part of today’s Strakonice), then before the middle of the 19th century there were 25…
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39. Stráž nad Nežárkou
A small Jewish settlement is documented in the town from the first half of the 18th century. In 1747, there were 2 Jewish families living here, in 1783 there were 6 Jewish families, and in 1793 there were 43 Jews here. In 1880, there were 89 Jews (5…
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40. Tábor
Written sources indicate Jews in Tábor from the end of the 16th century. In 1618, there were 2 Jewish families living in the city, in 1653 there were 8 families, which was the highest number until the middle of the 18th century. In 1769, there were…
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41. Třeboň
A minor Jewish settlement is documented in Třeboň from the last quarter of the 18th century, and other families from the surrounding countryside were permitted to settle in the town since the mid-19th century. There was no Jewish community in Třeboň…
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42. Tučany
Jews began settling in the Tučapy during the 17th century at the latest. In 1723, there were 12 Jewish families living in Tučapy, by 1793 the number of families had risen to 49. Before the middle of the 19th century there were 30 families, in 1990…
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43. Velký Pečín
There was no Jewish community nor Jewish religious community in Velký Pěčín. The Jewish cemetery is located in a forest 1.5 km northwest of the village, on the very border of the South Bohemian and Vysočina Regions, approximately two hundred meters…
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44. Vlachovo Březí
The Jewish settlement in Vlachovo Březí is documented from the beginning of the 17th century and gradually increased until the 19th century. In 1618, there were 8 Jewish families living here (58 persons), in the early 18th century there were about 8…
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45. Vodňany
The Jewish settlement in Vodňany is documented from the end of the 14th century. During the 16th and 17th centuries, Jews were either expelled from the city, or their numbers were reduced. In the middle of the 18th century, there were 8 Jewish…
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46. Volary
A minor Jewish settlement was documented in the town from the middle of the 19th century. In 1880, there lived 2 Jews here, then in 1930 a single Jewish man. In May 1945, a graveyard for victims of the death march was established on the eastern edge…
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47. Volyně
Jews are believed to have lived in Volyně before 1500. In around 1650, there were 12 Jewish families living in Volyně, least 18 families in 1724, in 1783-1811 an average of 14 families, in 1849 there were 27 families (about 140 people), a total of…
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48. Zběšičky
Jews in Zběšičky were documented in written sources from the first half of the 18th century. The Theresa Cadaster from this period mentions a single Jewish tanner, so one Jewish family probably lived here, then in 1793 there were 9 Jewish families…
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