📖 Now published: Three Women, a Rabbi and a Musician from Bohemia by Mike Frankl.

Time period

1820 – 1870

The growth of the ‘Age of Enlightment’  the Familianten restrictions come to an end – Jews are allowed to own property – attend secular universities and take up professions in medicine, law, philosophy, engineering, etc

People: Juda Frankl, Abraham Frankl. Michal Frankl, Jakob Frankl, Joachim Frankl, Alzbeta Frankl, Rabbi Isakl HaCohen Frankl.

  • Třebivlice/Vlastislav

    Třebivlice is a small town lying at southern edge of the Bohemian Uplands about half way between the larger towns of Most and Litoměřice. Vlastislav is a very small village a few…

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  • Široké Třebčice (Bohemia)

    Jews lived in the village from the early 17th Century and slowly over the following decades several more families moved into the village. The Jewish quarter took up the entire northern part…

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  • Fany Porges

    1868 – 1945, Prague Had to bring up her teenage children after Max died – survived Terezin

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  • Maximilian Frankl

    1869 – 1935, USA Maximilian, son of Rabbi Isak and Eva Frankl and was born in Vienna in June 1869. The family moved back to Louny in Bohemia quite soon after he…

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  • Joachim Frankl

    Joachim was born in Vlastislav in February 1814, six years after his brother Jakob. He grew up in Vlastislav, but was not trained as a butcher.  He is recorded as being a…

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  • Alzbeta Frankl

    1829 to 1914 Alzbeta was born in the small town of Nové Strašecí in house no 45 on the 3rd January 1829. Her parents were Moses Graff, a shopkeeper and Rachel Graff,…

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