Thursday, September 11, 2014
Kielce, Poland, City with Goldfus families
Nadene Goldfoot
Jews couldn't live in Kielce, Poland until the 19th century. the community grew quickly after the complete abolition of restrictions in 1862. " In 1862, Jews were emancipated and special taxes were abolished and restrictions on residence were removed. Despite efforts to assimilate, Jews continued to be subject to anti-Semitism under the Czars and in Poland." Before WWII, there were 19,000 Jews in this city which was 33% of the total. In other words, 1/3 of the population were Jewish. Most were slaughtered by the Nazis.
Kielce had had many pogroms before the war and again after the war in 1946, when 43 survivors were killed by a mob. You wonder about the people. They were as bad as the Nazis.
Jews had lived in Poland since the 9th century. They came from either West Germany, Bohemia, or the South of the kingdom of Kiev and the Byzantine Empire, but were reinforced by Khazar elements. They most likely were traders who in the Dark Ages helped to open up the area to civilizing influences.
Our Goldfoot family was found in Telsiai, Lithuania, so therefore were Litvaks. They had originally been Goldfus from Germany. Poland is next door to Lithuania, so no doubt the family had lived in many places in the Pale of Settlement. .
Resource: The New JEwish Encyclopedia
http://members.core.com/~mikerose/history2.htm
http://www.yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Poland/Poland_from_1795_to_1939
Jews couldn't live in Kielce, Poland until the 19th century. the community grew quickly after the complete abolition of restrictions in 1862. " In 1862, Jews were emancipated and special taxes were abolished and restrictions on residence were removed. Despite efforts to assimilate, Jews continued to be subject to anti-Semitism under the Czars and in Poland." Before WWII, there were 19,000 Jews in this city which was 33% of the total. In other words, 1/3 of the population were Jewish. Most were slaughtered by the Nazis.
Kielce had had many pogroms before the war and again after the war in 1946, when 43 survivors were killed by a mob. You wonder about the people. They were as bad as the Nazis.
Jews had lived in Poland since the 9th century. They came from either West Germany, Bohemia, or the South of the kingdom of Kiev and the Byzantine Empire, but were reinforced by Khazar elements. They most likely were traders who in the Dark Ages helped to open up the area to civilizing influences.
Our Goldfoot family was found in Telsiai, Lithuania, so therefore were Litvaks. They had originally been Goldfus from Germany. Poland is next door to Lithuania, so no doubt the family had lived in many places in the Pale of Settlement. .
Resource: The New JEwish Encyclopedia
http://members.core.com/~mikerose/history2.htm
http://www.yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Poland/Poland_from_1795_to_1939
Labels: 19th century, anti-Semitism, Goldfus, Jews, Kielce, pogroms, Poland
