Restoration of the Synagogue in Police (Pullitz)
Restoration of the Synagogue in Police (Pullitz)

Summary/Abstract: Police is a small village with a Renaissance and Baroque chateau in a remote region of south-western Moravia, about halfway between Jemnice (Jamnitz) and Bítov (Vöttau). The nearest Jewish communities used to be in Jemnice, Píseèné (Piesling) and Šafov (Schaffa), the latter two of which were once located in the border zone. Jewish settlement reputedly first appeared in Police as early as the beginning of the 16th century. The earliest written evidence of Jewish settlement here, however, comes from the field register of 1671, when Count Karl Berchtold allowed the construction of two Jewish houses in Police, most likely for Jewish exiles from Vienna in 1670. In the following years, however, the Jewish community in Police flourished and grew to unprecedented size.

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