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After serfdom was abolished Jews had more opportunities for profitable trade. What people needed to live grew rapidly. Jews profited from loans and business. Finance was still in their hands.However, the upcoming seventies and eighties of the 19th century brought a depression that influenced everybody, including Jews, and especially the poor. They followed the examples of Christian families moving to America for "happiness and easier living".  In Janovice, the town's situation was the same, and the number of Jewish families became less and less. In 1891 there were only 11 families with 61 people. The last families remaining in Janovice were the Sucharipas, Feldmans and Leders. The Janovice community’s loss of members significantly decreased its income. Later it was administratively joined with the neighboring Nyrsko community where E. Klauber was the rabbi.
The Rabbis of the Jewish community in Janovice were:
  • 1814 - 1851 -  Simon Lewitoch, who also worked as a teacher and register keeper (Matrikführer)
  • 1851 - 1853 - Ludvik Pollak
  • 1854 - Leopold Mueller
  • 1857 - 1867 - Jakub Stein, who was also a mohel and register keeper
  • 1872 - Karel Polesi
  • 1873 - Salomon Kulka
  • Dr. Resier from Klatovy
         The teachers were:
  • 1807 - 1810 - Samuel Loewy
  • 1811  - 1851 - Simon Lewitoch
  • 1851  - 1853 - Rudolf Kahn
  • 1871 -  1873 - Jakub Toepfer and Bernard Klein, who was also a postmaster in Janovice
  • 1877 - Rafael Richnovsky, who was then followed by Weiskopf, Gans and Beck

        The mohelim (circumcisers) were:

  • 1818? - 1842 - Jonathan Kahn 
  • 1842 - 1845 - Volf Sieber
  • 1846 - 1862 - Leopold Veis
  • 1857 - 1867 - Jakub Stein
**Some of the Jews were of German nationality.**
Jewish Houses in Janovice

House No. I - former Jilek's house

It was abandoned in 1713. In 1726 it was occupied by Moses Abraham and his sons Abraham, Chadim, Volf, Aron and Schindl. In 1790 Samuel Abraham lived there with his wife Rachel. After his death Rachel stayed in the house - known as Rachel Janovska (Janovska was a newly adopted surname).

According to old tradition, Pollak and Steiner were originally full brothers. Simon Pollak from Janovice 155 and I was a trader and a son of Moses Pollak, a trader in feathers. He was born on July 9, 1821. On May 30, 1853 he applied for permission to purchase a piece of land to build house number 155. The request for permission to build was sent to the district authorities on June 1, and was approved on June 18. On October 20, 1853 he asked for a wedding allowance. His bride was Eleonora, a 20 year-old daughter of Elias Klauber from Blizejov and Praporiste. On December 17, 1879 he was granted permission to run a wine inn. On September 21, 1881 he asked for an exemption from paying school fees for his son Joseph, a student in Pilsen. (This Joseph is later recorded as a
student of medicine and a voluntary soldier). In November 1881, he was allowed to run a brandy bar. In 1881 Simon Pollak together with Bernard Klein and Antonin Vitak made a complaint against three shopkeepers: Rosalie Luft, Marie Kobler and Frantishka Ulrich. On June 12, 1884 his barns burned down. After he lost his first wife, Lia (Eleonora) on 5.11.1856, he married again on 17.8.1858. His second wife was Judita, daughter of Isak Steiner, 18 years old.

A Bloch family also lived in house Nr. I . On July 17, 1849 Barbora Bloch, wife of Gabriel Bloch from Janovice, 32 years old, died there of peritoneum inflammation. On April 8, 1850 Gabriel Bloch, son of Joachym from Dub, married Marie Janovska daughter of Volf from Janovice. On February 26, 1855 Anna Bloch, the widow of Joachym Bloch, a trader from Dub, Volyne district, 64 years old died. On April 8, 1857 Simon Arnstein from Cestic (?), 80 years old, died there of nerves paralysis. In the period 1807 - 1810 Samuel Loewy, a teacher, lived there with his wife, Bedora. In 1808 their daughter Rosalia was born.

In the Janovice birth register the following records about Janovsky (Janowitz) family members are recorded :
In 1807 Rachel, daughter of Volf Janovsky and Ludmila, was born. In 1808 a birth record is noted for Eleonora (her mother Elisabeta), in 1809 Jakob, in 1812, Frantishka, in 1817, Samuel and in 1822, Julia. On January 19, 1842 Volf Janovsky, 74 years old, died of weakness. In 1810 Cecilie, daughter of Abraham Janovsky and Rosalie, was born there. This Cecilie married Abraham, son of Markus Hutter and Katerina Sicher from Tyn, in 1838. In 1812 Abraham Janovsky married Anna Schnurmacher from Svihov. Abraham Janovsky died on 4.6.1835 at the age of 71 from intestinal inflammation. His first wedding was recorded on November 30, 1808, when he married Rosalie Janovska (or Janovicka) from Spalene Porici. In 1857 A. Schuman married Frantishka, a 26 year-old daughter of Wolf Janovsky, a trader, and Elisabeta. The wedding took place at Welbhausen, Bavaria.

In the Janovice Cadastral Register (Grundbuch) there is a record from 5.1.1836 : L. Janovsky, son of Abraham Janovsky, inherited one half of his father’s house. In the same book (fol. 390) there is a testament dated on 16.6.1842, left by Volf Janovsky, where Volf 's children and heirs are listed : Marie Klauberova, Moric Adolf  and Leopold Janovsky, Karolina Klauberova, Frantishka Zihmanova, Samuel Janovsky, Jakub Janovsky, Barbora and Julie.

Karel Bloch also lived in house number I (there is a record from 1851: Karel Bloch from Janovice I opened his shop during the time of divine service. He was punished with a fine of one gold piece.) Jan Pelikan, a teacher in Janovice, also lived in house no. I. He was a son of  Jan Pelikan, a glazier, from Prestice [307?] and Marie Hruba from Dnesice. Jan Pelikan's wife was Katerina, daughter of Ondrej Ris, a baker in Svihov and Alzbeta Stichewichova from Svihov. In 1855 Vojtech Steindler, a baker from Janovice I, son of Frantishek, a tanner in Klatovy and Rosalie Blohenova ? from Klatovy is recorded. Vojtech Steindler's wife was Rosalie, a daughter of Frantishek from Klatovy.

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