Alexander Kopperl

"Czech Republic, Church Books, 1552-1981", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6PWK-N7VS : Thu Nov 02 00:20:33 UTC 2023), Entry for Alexander and Benjamin Kopperl, 4 Jul 1823.

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Brehy (Brech) near Prelouc (Pardubice)

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1871 Allg. Adress-und Handels buch...
Brech (Brehy): Gemischt.- u. Spezerei-whdl., dann Erz. u. Verschliessung +
vesusster alkoholhaltiger getraenke, Firma " Alexander Kopperl", prot. 11. +
April 1868. P/C

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NOTE Aliza says that Bernard KOPERL of Zabor was married to Marie JERUSALEM, +
daughter of Jakob. I am guessing that Bernard & Alexander were confused.

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http://www.brehy.unas.cz/K_uvod.html
Google Translation from Czech
"The Jewish population up to 18 century did not occur in the country too and +
most are held in cities or in their immediate vicinity. Expulsion of Jews Maria +
Theresa and the same pogrom in 1774 in Prague, but the Jewish population +
strongly scattered throughout the countryside. Although the ban was revoked a +
couple of years, Jews have returned to Prague substantially less than they +
left, and most so taken root in other cities and especially being in the +
country. In particular, according to the Terriers, however, moving to the +
country banks only minimally affected, respectively, in the longer term, when +
lords pub no 11 bought in 1787 by Josef Fink and 22 years it operated. The +
Jewish neighborhood of the previous (before 1774) reminds us of the "list of +
faith" in 1671, which features two banks of the Jews (the two men while +
sedentary, making it likely the two families) or point us to it two names +
Samuel in No. 2 in 1713 to 1777, when that year was recorded in this house .... +
John Samek Podlozitelnejs wave of Jewish neighbors came after 1848. In no 23, +
settled in 1851 by Emanuel Winternitz and his house in 1876 it passed to his +
daughter Wilhelmine and her upcoming Salomon Pick. They kept the house until +
her death (1900), but their only daughter married to Richard Pavlina Popper in +
the same year the house is sold. The major track in the local social and +
economic life of the owners left the aforementioned manor inn no 11th That +
bought in 1849 Weisensten Moses, who married his daughter and gave his property +
Kopperlovi Alexander, who came from a distinguished and wealthy Jewish families +
settled in the Pardubice region. He apparently brought into the business and +
financial capital, so in addition to the inn and associated chandlery (general +
store) to select the newly created trade in men's and women's clothing and +
textile trade in building materials, and apparently the most profitable +
production of spirits. After a fire in 1901, his son Joseph has the original +
building no Significantly expanded to include 11 No. 101 and 107, when one of +
them had built the theater and then built a new armory for the local +
firefighters. Water is also co-founder of cooperatives, credit unions or +
economic brezsk-reading discussions that banks earned in establishing the +
foundation of various associations and libraries. Its capabilities and business +
transactions or social merits of the village could be especially with the +
passing of the official materials of the first half of the 20th century speak +
for a long time. Kopperlov remained faithful to the village, although its main +
store moved to Prelouce, where he built a department store. A distinct +
personality of the house and also the last Kopperlu that after 2 World War II, +
he returned to shore, was Ernest Kopperl. He fled to France from fascism and +
Hitler after the cast on to England, where he served in the Czechoslovak army +
units, reaching the rank of major. After the war he returned back, but after +
1948 most of his property confiscated by communists in 1963 and he left no +
property only 107th Until 1966 the arcade as Ernest lived in a retirement home +
Prelouc. Kopperlov and other Jews from the shore also contributed to the +
construction of a Jewish cemetery in the field in the Holy Prelouc, where he is +
buried most of them."

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JPG P/C Wiener Zeitung 26 Apr 1868 in Handelsregister Chrudim "Firma Alexander +
Kopperl" Betriebe der Gemischt- und Specereiwaarenhandlung, dann bei der +
Erzewugung und Verschleisung verfster alkoholhaltiger Getr„nke in Breg +
vedienen wird..."