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Lot #    15834
Auction End Date    10/24/2006 10:16:30 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Gottesdienstliche Gemeinde-Lieder der
Title (Hebrew)    Troppauer Cultus-Gemeinde
Author    [Community - Only Ed. - Liturgy]
City    Troppau (Opava)
Publisher    J. Feitzinger
Publication Date    c. 1920
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    [4] pp., 224:146 mm., light age staining, creased on folds.
          
Detailed
Description		    German language poetry recited by the Jewish community of Opava, Czechoslovakia on the High Holidays. Opava (Ger. Troppau), city in N. Silesia, Czech Republic. A tale about 27 Jews being executed for well-poisoning in Opava in 1163 is probably unreliable. A Jewish community is first mentioned in 1281. Although their expulsion is not documented it is recorded that in 1501 Jews were permitted to return and buy back their houses. Jews from Osoblaha (Hotzenplotz) traded in Opava. In 1737, 20 Jewish families lived in the duchy. Several Jewish families lived in Opava at the beginning of the 19th century, and their number increased after the 1848 Revolution. At the end of the 19th century Opava became a center of the Schoenerer brand of German nationalism, and the community suffered from anti-Semitic attacks. The community developed, inspired by its rabbi, Simon Friedmann, an ardent Zionist from his student days. In 1923 a progressive community statute was introduced. On the outskirts of Opava in the 1920s the training farm, Komorau, was a center of the He-Halutz movement. The community numbered 134 in 1867, 1,127 in 1921, and in 1931, 971 (2.6% of the total population), 502 of whom declared their nationality as Jewish. At the time of the Sudeten crisis the community dispersed. The synagogue was set on fire by the Nazis.
          
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Listing Classification
Period
20th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Other:    Czechoslovakia
  
Subject
Liturgy:    Checked
  
Characteristic
First Editions:    Checked
Language:    German
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica