Apr. 19, 1389

“Order” of Sigmund Huller, Administrator of the Lower Chambers (‘Landesunterkämmerer’) in the Kingdom of Bohemia [Present-day Czech Republic, Germany, Poland, etc.; Kingdom of Bohemia]: “Sigmund Huller, Administrator of the Lower Chambers (‘Landesunterkämmerer’) orders on the explicit command of the King all mayors, judges, councilmen, jurors/aldermen in all the cities in Bohemia, that they should immediately arrest all Jews in their cities and keep them and their movable and immovable possessions locked away in safe custody [until further notice] […]” [Researcher’s note: The above is a translation of a German summary of the original Latin text. The original text can be found in Franz Palachy’s Ueber Formelbücher, zunächst in Bezug auf böhmische Geschichte. Nebst Beilagen.]
Zur Geschichte der Juden in Böhmen, Mähren und Schlesien von 906 bis 1620. Herausgegeben von Gottlieb Bondy, em. Präsidenten der Handels – und Gewerbekammer in Prag. Zur Herausgabe vorbereitet und ergänzt von Franz Dworsky, em. Director des Landesarchives des Königreiches Böhmens. I. 1577 bis 1620. (Prag; 1906); (Regarding the history of Jews in Bohemia, Moravia, and Silesia from 906 to 1620. Published by Gottlieb Bondy, fo[rmer] President of the Trade and Commerce and Industry in Prague. Prepared for publication and supplemented by Franz Dworsky, fo[rmer] Director of the National Archives of the Kingdom of Bohemia. I. 1577 to 1620.); (Prague; 1906); Researched and Translated by Ziba Shadjaani 5/10/2019