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Heřmanův Městec ( [ˈɦɛr̝manuːf ˈmɲɛstɛts]; German: Hermanmiestetz, Hermannstädt(e)l) is a town in Pardubice Region of the Czech Republic. It has c. 4,800 inhabitants.
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- Map of 538 03 HeC599manC5AFv MC49Bstec Czechia
- B ko 2007 2016 z he man v m stec
- Jewish Hermanmiestetz
- Nearby municipalities
- References
Map of 538 03 He%C5%99man%C5%AFv M%C4%9Bstec, Czechia
B ko 2007 2016 z he man v m stec
Jewish Hermanmiestetz
Jews were living there as early as 1509, engaged in commerce and money-lending; but the Jewish community proper dates from 1591. The Jews were confined to a ghetto under the protectorate of the overlords of the city. One of these, Count Johann Wenceslaus Spork, built a synagogue in 1760, which was modernized in 1870. The Jewish parochial school was transformed into a German public school. Since 1891 Hermanmiestetz has been the seat of a district rabbi, the dependent communities being Chrudim, Roubowitz, and Drevikau.
The following have officiated as rabbis in Hermanmiestetz:
Judah Löb Borges (died 1872), a member of the community distinguished for his Talmudic and literary attainments, officiated temporarily whenever there was a vacancy in the rabbinate.
The community supports a burial society, a society for nursing the sick, a Talmud Torah, and a women's society. The cemetery must have existed as early as the sixteenth century, for it is recorded in a document that in 1667 a field was bought from a citizen for the purpose of enlarging the burial-ground. In 1903 the Jews of Hermanmiestetz numbered 300, those of the whole district aggregating 1,100.