Baruch Unknown

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According to a report by Wilhelm Stief (Illustrierte Geschichte der Stadt Sternberg - Illustrated History of Sternberg) Jew Eleazar bought two guests from the Catholic priest Peter Damm, who got into financial difficulties. Probably in connection with the persecution of Jews in Poland, however, some of their immigrants anchored again in Sternberg, but with the permission of the nobility. In his topographical chronicles of the Sternberg Houses, the regional ethnographic researcher Karel Morav traces the fate of the Sternberg Jews primarily on the basis of their ownership of the houses in the years 1530-1577, until their further expulsion from the city. He found, for example, that while, according to the land register of 1515, there was only a Baruch Jew in the town and only one Jewish family in 1541-1546, the number of Jewish families increased to 22-25 by 1576. These wealthy Jewish burghers and craftsmen owned about 16% of the houses in the inner city since we knew them. They settled along the "water", ie in the area between Růžová street (today's Jaroslavová) and Vodní street. In Vodní street they owned house no. 10, 12, 14 and 16, in Růžová street house no. 13. The houses were mostly new. The Jews also lived in the street leading to the south fort, in today's Pekařská, from which a short path led along the inner side of the walls to the Jewish school behind houses no. 8 and 9 from the square. The school is mentioned in documents from 1563, 1585, 1609, 1620, 1634 and 1660.