Doudleby nad Orlicí - Židovské muzeum v Praze

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The old synagogue
The temporary prayer room
The new synagogue
Torah scrolls from Doudleby in the world
Burials
Birth, marriage and death records in the National Archive
Other archive documents
Statistics of the village from the year 1850
Illustrations and photos
Reference literature and other sources
Jewish settlement
„all older Jewish people here say that their ancestors came here from Vamberk“, according
to tradition Jews had originally settled (for a short time?) in Vamberk from where they
were later expelled ••*L
the beginning of Jewish settlement dates back to the times Jews left Vamberk (the expulsion?)
(according to rabbi Abraham Kohn from Hradec Králové ••*K
1640-70: possible beginning of settlement ••*L
circa 1650: 8 families ••RJC
1702: Doudleby – Horní Jelení – Blato estate 16 Jews (and 1023 Christians) over the age
of 10 ••MPS
1723: 15 families (their names are not given) ••HBS
1733: Žamberk – Doudleby estate in the years 1725-33 the number increased by:
▪ Joseph Moyses
▪ Samoel Dawid (from > Rychnov nad Kněžnou) ••HBS
1783: at the Doudleby estate there were 30 families or married couples and single
economically independent men, including 72 children
„surnames“: Kalmuß, Mautner, Pick, Polatschek, Schlapel, Taußik, Vitek,
Wamberg [unless meant as a place name]
in Doudleby there lived 27 families or married couples:
▪ Abraham Herzman (6 children) = peddler
▪ Abraham Mautner (1 daughter; single journeyman Marses David) = distiller
▪ Alexander David (married, with no children) = perhaps a shammash („Bedinter“)
▪ David Ajasgr [?] (1 daughter) = peddler
▪ David Marcus (10 children) = peddler
▪ Herzmann Enoch (5 children) = butcher
▪ Herzman Löbel (1 daughter) = peddler
▪ Herzman Zacharias (3 children) = peddler
▪ Hirschel Jachim (3 children) = „poor peddler“
▪ Isac Jacob Taußik (1 daughter) = trading with semi-manufactures
▪ Isac Marcus (2 children; single journeyman Joachim Joseph) = tanner
(„Rothgerber“)