Martin or Markus Unknown

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Even in Šternberk, according to the valid anti-Jewish regulations, the physical separation of the Jewish street from other parts of the city was observed. In Morav's Chronicles of Houses (Morav 1975, 1977) there is only one name of a Jewish inhabitant living outside the mentioned Jewish street: Martin or Markus Jew cutler, it is registered in 1515 and 1531 to 1546 in Široká street No. 25. K. Morav states, that Martin the Jew cutler pays Jewish tax, in 1562 he no longer lives and his widow Markéta with his sons Petr and Tomáš then sells the house to Šimek wheeler. This house in Široká street (now ČSA) was demolished in 1950. However, K. Morav does not rule out that there were other Jewish families living in the town, but since they had no real estate, their names are not written in the land registers. (In old records, the name of a Jewish settler was always accompanied by the designation Jud, Jüdin or in Czech written documents Jew, Jewish, which expressed their legal status at the time.) Among more than thirty people in the period under review, K. Morav managed to capture abundant family relations , the names of several burghers who also owned two houses and paid Jewish tax. Several local Jews also have a different field of activity than trade - at that time there was a Jewish scribe, a glazier, a butcher, a swordsman, a knife maker, a shoemaker, a furrier and a bag maker (that is, a purifier, a manufacturer of leather purses). As permanent surnames were introduced only in Theresian times, some Jewish citizens are still identified in the land registers by a more specific attribute (Izák Jew water, ie. living by „water“, Izrahel an old Jew, Johel a lame Jew, Samuel a small Jew, Jakub squinting Jew, a Jew Josef Šťastný), or the names of the parents or wife of the person in question are given. Apparently for its poorest, the Sternberg Jewish community (established in 1531 under the spiritual leadership of Rabbi Abraham) bought a house from private Jewish property in 1569 and set up a Jewish poorhouse there, a shelter for the Jewish poor, "so that the poor people of the Nation ’.