Jewish Families from Hranice (Weisskirchen), Moravia, Czech Republic

This project seeks to list representatives of all of the Jewish families from the Moravian town of Hranice (Weisskirchen) in the Czech Republic.

HRANICE (Ger. Maehrisch-Weisskirchen; Heb. רייניץ, הרייניץ), town in Moravia, Czech Republic. According to tradition Jews settled there between 1475 and 1553, but the first documentary mention dates from 1644. Among the Jewish settlers were refugees from the *Chmielnicki massacres (1648) and cattle dealers who passed through the town on their way to the Moravian markets. The number of Jewish families permitted to reside in the town by the *Familiants Law was 120; 115 families lived there in 1753. From 659 persons in 1830, the community grew to 802 in 1857, but then declined to 582 in 1869, 522 in 1880, and 462 in 1900. The greater number of Jews lived in the Christian part of the town. After 1848 the Jewish community was constituted as one of the *politische Gemeinden. In 1930 the community numbered 192 persons (1.8% of the total population). Those still remaining in 1942 were deported to Nazi extermination camps. Fourteen Jews returned to the town after World War II. A religious congregation was revived but did not remain active. Its prayer room was in use until 1969. Synagogue appurtenances were sent to the Central Jewish Museum in Prague. The synagogue, built in 1863–64, served from 1943 as the municipal museum. Julius Freud, the brother of Sigmund Freud, is buried in the local cemetery. Natives of Hranice included the German apostate writer, J.J. David; the Jewish scholar, Isaac Hirsch *Weiss; the editor of the Jewish Encyclopedia, Isidore *Singer; and the advocate of Reform, Aaron *Chorin. The community gave its name to the Reinitz families.

Rabbies in Hranice:

• 1770 (and earlier?) Josef ben Menachem Mendel, originally from Lipník nad Bečvou
• 1780 (and earlier?) Israel, son of David (his children used the surname Deutsch)
• 1790 (and earlier?) substitute rabbi Jacob Toff, formerly rabbi in Bystřice pod Hostýnem
• 1792 (and earlier?) Moses Aron Deutsch (1752-1799), originally from Mikulov
• 1812-1827 Abraham Trischet (1753-1827), originally from Třešt
• 1827-1833 substitute rabbi Markus Trischet, son of Abraham Trieschet and later rabbi in Dolní Kounice
• 1833-1840 Abraham Placzek (1799-1884), originally from Přerov, later rabbi in Boskovice
• 1840-1857 Isaias Reiniger (1783-1857), originally from Strážnice, formerly rabbi in Kojetín
• 1859-1867 Markus Pollak (1830-1895), originally from Cologne and later worked in Vienna
• 1867-1887 Dr. Moriz Deutsch, formerly rabbi in Pilsen and later worked in Vienna
• 1887-1892 administrator of the rabbinate Herrman Reiniger (†1897)
• 1892-1894 Dr. Adolf Leimdörfer, formerly rabbi in Česká Lípa and later worked in Těšín
• 1894-1935 Dr. Jakob Rabbinowicz

BIBLIOGRAPHY:

Rabbinowicz-Wachstein, in: H. Gold (ed.), Juden und Judengemeinden Maehrens (1929), 381–5; I.H. Weiss, Zikhronotai (1895), 13–18 and passim.

http://www.historie.hranet.cz/pdf/zide2007.pdf

Sources of Information

• Births from 1760-1846, and also including a Familianten list from 1788. (alternative source)
• Births from 1834 and 1847-1849
• Marriages from 1789-1846, and also including Familianten lists from 1784 and 1805 (alternative source)
• Deaths from 1784-1846 (alternative source)
• Deaths from 1847-1849
• Births from 1918-1939 and 1942-1946, Marriages from 1918-1939 and 1942-1943, and Deaths from 1918-1946 (alternative source)
• Book of families in Hranice from sometime in the mid-to-late 1800s
• 1857 Census of Hranice (partial), including Jews
• 1869 Census of Hranice (partial), including Jews
• 1880 Census of Hranice (partial), including Jews
• 1890 Census of Hranice (partial), including Jews
• Book of Homes, 1780-1792 (home ownership records)
• Book of Homes, 1792-1885 (home ownership records)
• Book of Changes in Land Holdings #1
• Book of Changes in Land Holdings #2
• Searchable database of some graves in the Hranice jewish cemetery is accessible at chewra.com
• Additional Familianten lists in Hranice are attached in the Photos and Documents section.
• Map and lists of the Jewish population in Hranice: https://map.kehillot.eu/domy.html?loc=Hranice

People in Hranice

In 1805, the Familianten list in Hranice included the following people:

1. Joseph Orlich
2. Jakob Isak Tof
3. Jonas Tauber
4. Salomon Spitzer
5. Jakob Moises Bruk
6. Philip Bek
7. Pinkus Bichler
8. Abraham Feigel
9. Moises Neuman
10. Michael Furst
11. Isak Lichtenstern
12. Isak Hürsch
13. Bernard Adler
14. Raphael Hürsch
15. Jakob Israel Wolf
16. Jakob Bruk
17. Benjamin W Adler
18. David Stross
19. Markus Feigel
20. Jakob Deutsch
21. Israel Winter
22. Simon Vogel
23. Bernard Sontag
24. Jakob Lechnowsky
25. Abraham Widder
26. Raphael Schindler
27. Jakob Singer
28. Moises Grossman
29. Zachrias Knopf
30. Valentin Bruk
31. Joseph Kulka
32. Nehemias Jelitz
33. Michael Polak
34. Isak Sakel?
35. Markus Low
36. Salomon Klein
37. Salomon Fischer
38. Israel Klein
39. Abraham Lang
40. Markus Adler
41. Jakob Wetzlar
42. Donat Ziefer
43. Moises Weinstein
44. Simon Bruk
45. Jakob Weinstein
46. Markus Hürsch
47. Joachim Wolf
48. Salomon Lux?
49. Ezechias Kafka
50. Salomon Goldstein
51. Joseph Neuman
52. Joseph Hessinger
53. Moises Urbanek
54. Michael Bek
55. Jakob Fried
56. David Bruker?
57. David Morgenstern
58. Abraham Morgenstern
59. Joseph Klohs
60. Salomon Ditel
61. Moises Mausel
62. Markus Fischer
63. Benjamin Wolf
64. Jakob Steiner
65. Gerson Steiner
66. Joseph Grosser
67. Markus Berger
68. Moises Vogel
69. Joseph Gerlich
70. Jonas Zwillinger
71. Isak Singer
72. Jakob Neuman
73. Nathan Morgenstern
74. Lowy Wolf
75. Jakob Lichtenstern
76. Israel Tiller
77. Abraham Schlesinger
78. Samuel Fromer
79. Philip Dittel
80. Juda Low Mandler
81. Elias Fried
82. Matis Lang
83. Markus Braschmann
84. Joseph Ziefer
85. Isaias Ziefer
86. Jakob Stross
87. Benjamin Schonbek
88. Moises Rintel
89. Abraham Reich
90. Samuel Auerhahn
91. Joseph Sontag
92. Samuel Sobek
93. Markus Somer?
94. Isaias Jakob Donat
95. Moises Zwilling
96. Jakob Hürsch
97. Isak Rephael Hürsch
98. Valletin Schlesinger
99. Jonas Czech
100. Isaias Stangel
101. Isaias Low
102. Isak Hasz
103. Jochim Knopflmacher
104. Isak Baron
105. Jochim Hürsch
106. David S. Deutsch
107. Samuel Lam
108. Isak Meitner
109. Salomon Perl
110. Isak Siebenschein
111. Jakob Widder
112. Abraham Lazar Schlesinger
113. Aron Polak
114. David Knopflmacher
115. Abraham Vogel
116. Jonas Tof
117. Jakob Stern
118. Abraham Singer
119. Markus Tof
120. Noa Alter