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CURRENT CZECH NAME:  Hostice

OTHER NAMES/SPELLINGS: Hostitz bei Wolin, Hoschtitz

LOCATION:  114 km s. of Prague at 49o10' N. / 13o53' E. 
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    Webmaster's note: The following information is  from a photocopy the Balch Institute made for the submitter 15 years ago.  Unfortunately, they did not write the reference on the photocopy but they said it was a from a book written in the 1920s or 1930 by a person who visited many small Jewish settlements in Central Europe.
     The original text of the photocopy was in Czech - many thanks to Eugen Stein for the initial translation.

HISTORY:      According to the records in the Register it is likely, that in  Hostice by Volyne were settled a number of Jewish families. This is supported by the evidence that the Jews of Hostice had their own synagogue and graveyard.  Over time, the living conditions in this small Jewish community detoriated and a natural emigration began.  When there were no conditions for further existence of the community (Jewish ? or general? it is not clear from the text), the community was abolished.
 

NOTABLE RESIDENTS AND DESCENDANTS: 

Names of families and individuals that settled in Hostice in the past -
Kafka, Karel Weidental, Josef Bloch, Markus Lowy Gans, ucitel, Weigel, Jakub Weil, Marcus Skall, Abraham Bitternamm, Leopold Kohn, Pereles, Ruben Abeles, Abraham Meller, knihar, Karel Kohn, Izak Weil, Moses Bittermann, Benjamin Voticky.
SYNAGOGUES:      The synagogue and graveyard were taken over by the Jewish congregation of Volyne on January 30. 1899. The synagogue was sold to private citizens, Izak and Johanne Weil, for 20 Guildens.  The Volyne congregation stipulated that a condition (servitut)  be put in the land register:  should the synagogue be demolished in the future, then, so the ground would not be desecrated,  on the location of the synagogue nothing other than a garden would be built.  Since June 3, 1902 the property has belonged to Mr. and Mrs. Trejbal, who accepted this condition in their deed. 

CEMETERIES:     The community of Volyne looks after the graveyard; however, the walls and the tombstones are in such poor condition that they are impossible to repair.

SUBMITTER:   David Attride, Jonesborough, Tennessee.  E-Mail: dattride@mounet.com
Original Text
      Dle zaznamu matricnich lze souditi, ze v H. u Volyne bylo usazeno dosti rodin zidovskych.  O tom svedci i ta okolnost, ze zide hosticti meli i avou synagogu a hrbitov. Avsak behem casu ubyvalo existencnich podminek v teto male obci a tak nastala prirozene emigrace. Kdyz pak zanikly podminky pro dalsi trvani obce, byla tato zrusena.

       Synagogu i hrbitov prevzala zidovska obec ve Volyni dne 30 ledna 1899.  Synagoga prodana soukromniku lzaku a Johanne Weilovym za 20 zl.; vyminila si vsak obec volynska, ze bude vlozen do posemkovych knih servitut, ze na pudorysu jejim, kdyby rozbourana byla, zrizeno nebylo nic jineho nezli zahradka, by to misto nebylo znesveceno.

       Od 3. cervna 1902 patri manzelum Trejbalovym, kteri servitut prejali do kupni smlouvy.

       Obec volynska sice dohlizi na brbitov, ale ohrada jeho i pomniky jsou jiz v takovem stavu, ze nelze pomysleti na opravu.

       Jmena rodin kdysi v Hosticich usazenych.

       Kafka, Karel Weidental, Josef Bloch, Markus Lowy Gans, ucitel, Weigel, Jakub Weil, Marcus Skall, Abraham Bitternamm, Leopold Kohn, Pereles, Ruben Abeles, Abraham Meller, knihar, Karel Kohn, Izak Weil, Moses Bittermann, Benjamin Voticky.

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