Stanovy Israelitske Obce Nabozenske Slany [”Statutes of the Jewish Community of Slany”]

(BOHEMIA).

Neubert & Slanem

Slany

(1905)

Text in Czech. Additional manuscript page tipped in and two further manuscript lines on final age.

Contains the rules and regulations of the community and synagogue from 1895-1905. Including the duties and terms for hiring the Rabbi, cantor and other synagogue officiants. The Royal town of Slany (German: Schlan) is located in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic, some 20 miles northwest of Prague. Jews sporadically settled in Slany from the 14th century until they were all summarily expelled in the year 1458.  A small Jewish community was established in the first half of the 19th-century and reached its peak population in 1890 of just 290. The Jewish residents of Slany were deported to Terezin in 1942. No Jews returned after the war.