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CURRENT CZECH NAME: Podivin

OTHER NAME: Kostel

LOCATION: About 7 km northwest of Breclav.
(see Map - by Mapquest, then click on your browser's "Back" button to return to this page).

HISTORY: 

GENEALOGICAL RESOURCES: 

RESIDENTS AND DESCENDANTS: 

Hirsch Eisinger         (In 1787, first Jew to obtain permission to deal in horseshoes and metal parts for wagons)
Bendet Straussler     (In 1820, responsible for renovation of Temple as head of congregation)
Florian Neuman         (In 1870, first head of Chewra Kadischa)
Markus Neuman        (Subsequent Heads of Chewra Kadischa)
Leopold Sachs                                                   "
Adolf Weigl                                                       "
Moses Hesky                                                     "
Josef Rosenzweig                                             "
Josef Hirsch                                                      "
Juda Neuman                                                     "
Josef Eisinger                                                   "
Jakob Sachs                                                      "
Arnold Boemer                                                 "
Paul Neuman                                                     "
Jakob Straussler                (Jewish Judge, 1832)
Aron Loeb Goldschmied    (Jewish Judge, 1832)
Baruch Boehmer                (Jewish Judge, 1836, and 1850 - 1868)
Salomon Aschkenes          (Jewish Judge, 1837 - 1887)
David Weinberger              (Jewish Judge, 1885 - 1888)
Josef Rosenzweig               (Jewish Judge, 1896 - 1910)
Sigfried Eisinger                (Jewish Judge, 1896 - 1919)

Rabbis in Kostel:

Monisch ben Jesaia Theomin   (died in Prag 1684)
Elieser Trillinger                       (died 1672)
Benjamin Wolf                            (from 1663)
Mordechai                                    (around 1818)
Abraham Baeck                          (until 1823, thereafter in Holitsch, died 1851)
Moses Blatt                                  (until 1830)
Simson Kulke                             (1838 - 1894)
Dr.Simon Mandl                         (1894 - 1899)
Abraham Wesiss                        (1899 - 1903)
Dr.Koppel Duschinsky              (1904 - 1907)
Dr.Jakob Hoffmann                    (1908 - 1917, later Rabbi in Radautz and Frankfurt an Main)
Dr.Adolf Deutsch                        (1914 - 1920, later in Budapest)
Juda Neuman                               (1921 - 1929)
Dr. Heinrich Schwenger           (Rabbi of Lundenburg responsible for religious instruction and weddings)

Names of Jews who died in World War I. Names on a marble tablet affixed to Kostel temple:

Baruch Eisinger, Max Eisinger, Jakob Eisinger, Oskar Wollner, Georg Loewy, Moritz Pollak, Max Engel, Leopold Sachs, Albert Tausky, Erich Rosenzweig, Berthold Rosenzweig and Jakob Rosenzweig.
 

SYNAGOGUE: 

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CONTACTS: 

SOURCES: "Gedenkbuch der Untergegangenen Judengemeinden in Mahren" by Hugo Gold, p. 70 (the chapter on "Kostel").

SUBMITTER: Frank Eisinger


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