Bohemian Jews

My Jewish family in south Bohemia in the 18th to 19th centuries all had German names and family lore is that they spoke German as well as Czech. I think this was typical. The only Czech name I’ve encountered in the records was a midwife who was probably not Jewish. There are some surviving letters written in high German using Hebrew script.

That profile has been deleted, so I can't answer the question of whether the inclusion of Rabbi Joseph Krauskopf (whoever he was) in this project was correct or erroneous.

However, Howard Bregman's reasoning is ill-informed. First, as Haakon Chevalier points out, most Jewish families in Bohemia had German names (my own, for example); so the idea of ruling out a surname because it is "very German" is baseless. Second, as regards the surname "Krauskopf" in particular, it occurs in no fewer than seven Familiant books, according to a search at JewishGen; so there is no doubt that it was a surname borne by Bohemian Jews. Rabbi Krauskopf may have been a descendant of one of the listed Familianten.

My mistake, here is the correct link: Rabbi Joseph Krauskopf

I am not saying that because he had a German name, he could not have been Bohemian. However, I see no evidence in his profile or his heritage that his family was Bohemian, only that he happened to have a name that in some cases were Bohemian Jews.

Before you immediately claim I am ill-informed or my claims are baseless, take a moment.

Bohemian Jews were predominantly German speaking and while from the end of the 19th century many switched to Czech language these were probably not the majority. As to the antecedents if this one profile there is nothing on geni concerning his matrineal line, in the areas of north/northwest Bohemia where my grandfather's father came from Czech soeakers were maybe 5% of the population generally before the post-war period, ( my grandfather's mother came from Lissa in Posen tgis does not mean that her husband was not a Bohemian Jew, and while her son, my grandfather, was born in Prague he lived most of his life in Breslau before fleeing to Shanghai, -should I remove him from the project as well? (Bohemian father but not mother only lived in Prague until 4 years old... can you sort this out for me Howard? Does my grandfather qualify?)
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Thanks for the correct link. There is certainly nothing in the profile or the associated ones to justify inclusion of this profile in the project. Rabbi Krauskopf, as you say, was born in Ostrow; his father---the only parent named in the profile---is also said to have been born there; his two wives and all his children were born in the U.S.; so, in sum, no connection with Bohemia whatever.

I'm trying to remove the profile from the project but can't find an easy way of doing it.

PS. Mr. Bregman, I did not say that your claim was baseless but that your reasoning was so---as indeed it was. You gave the fact that Rabbi Krauskopf had "a very German family name" as a reason for concluding that he was not of Bohemian origin: that is a non sequitur. The fact that he was born in Prussia or Poland is relevant; the fact that he was named "Krauskopf" is not.

I had to try several different methods of search to get the profile to appear in the project so that I could remove it, but it has now been removed. It's ridiculous that you cannot search for a profile by name but only by dates and places; and when I looked for the profile according to Rabbi K.'s place of birth, I could not get any search results!

My family came from Prague surname Engländer
They spoke German at home but my father the eldest of three brothers also spoke Czech
I have my father s university diploma and also the honours
he received from the emperor of Austria for his work during the First World War rebuilding bridges. His life was saved in 1939 as he happened to be in Sweden on business and then went to England

Deborah
Your father, Otokar, is/was my second great aunt's first cousin once removed.

We (You and I) are linked via Weis/ Hachenburg achievers in Prague and Pilsen....

I guess most of these people communicated in German most of the time

How nice to have a new cousin
I do have a website if you would like it
Do you have one?