Since I learned that my G6father Israel Wolf (1719-1791) moved to Hranice from Tovacov (Tobitschau) in the mid-1700s, I have been looking at information sources from Tovacov, one of which is an interesting article called “The Pinax of Tobitschau”. The article was published in German in the 1931 Yearbook of the Society for the History of Jews in the Czechoslovak Republic ( https://sammlungen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/.../titleinfo/2644305 ) and studies a book of Synagogue seats (considered at the time to be an important and sometimes the only asset of the Jews) and donations. The original can be found here :
https://collections.jewishmuseum.cz/.../object_id/335524...
The article mentions many names of people during the period ~1640 – 1909 most from Tobitschau but also from many other cities/villages most in Moravia:
• Proßnitz (Prostějov)
• Holleschau (Holešov)
• Vienna
• Metz
• Trebitsch (Třebíč)
• Gewitsch (today = Jevícko)
• Strassnitz (Strážnice)
• Austerlitz (Slavkov u Brna)
• Mähr. Aussee (Usov)
• Krakow
• Kojetein
• Neu -Raußnitz (Rousínov)
• Loschitz (Loštice)
• Kromau (Moravský Krumlov )
• Eiwanowitz (Ivanovice na Hané)
• Boskowitz (Boskovice)
• Prague
• Boschatz (Buczacz)
In the comments part, the article also derives information from many other sources and provides a very interesting picture of the life of the Jews in the 17th-18th centuries. Most people at that period did not have family names and only use the father’s name. Many of these names are still useful for genealogical purposes and I made a summary, listing the names I found in the article.
A word of caution, the article is in written in old German for which I used a translation software and not 100% correct. Some names are also repeated a few times. The translation was done for my personal research, however if anyone is interested in the summary and/or in the full translation please message me.
For those interested there are additional sources for Tovacov some are:
• https://www.jewishgen.org/databases/cemetery/ (search for Tovacov)
• https://cemeteries.zob.cz/tovacov
