Although the origin of Tabor is closely tied to Biblical tradition, which puts in mind the name of the town the same as the river Jordan, the Jews here in the past were shown no particular favor. As soon as Tabor became a royal city in 1437, the Jews were subjected to the same restrictions as in all the other royal cities in the land. Jews in the vicinity (for example from Tyn nad Vltavou or Ceske Budejovice) were allowed to come into the town to sell their merchandise apparently already during the Hussite era, but they could not reside here or even stay overnight.

The oldest record of "Jews in Tabor" is from 1548, but not until 1594 is there evidence of the first Jewish family living here, when a house at number 51 was rented by Pavel Lidl the younger from Lidlova. Up until 1618, under the rule of Petr Vok Zmyslovsky of Radvanova, there lived two Jewish families in Tabor: in the house of Lidl lived the Jew Benes with his wife Rachlicka and son Adam, and the Jew Jachym, the Jew Hirsl with his wife Rejna and foster child Mark.

The actual settlement of Jews in Tabor occurred between the years 1621 and 1622. When Tabor capitulated after the Battle of White Mountain, a war tax of 60 thousand gulden was imposed, and each homeowner was to pay a third of his estimated assessment. Because the majority of the inhabitants did not have such ready money, their most valuable possessions were taken from them. Evaluation of these objects was done by the local Tabor commander Maximilian Bechler of Meningen, Izak Brasovsky of Tyn nad Vltavou, and his brother Mojzis Bechynsky of Sobeslav. Izak Brasovsky came to Tabor with his sons Zacharias and Wolf, Mojzis Bechynsky with his sons Izak and Jakub. The families of both brothers remained in Tabor, permanently settling and becoming the founders of the local Jewish community, which in the years 1630 to 1640 acquired a place for its cemetery and a building for holding prayers. Thanks to the intercession of the nobleman Voldrich Skuhrovsky of Skuhrova, the royal council and commissioner of the treasury sold Pakostovsky Garden to the Jews for their cemetery. The land lay at the gateway of the castle and was fenced by it, so that burials of local and nonresident Jews could take place "without hindrance." For this the Jews paid 4 gulden a year. The old Jewish cemetery on today's Korandova street lies on a sharp slope toward the Bechyne road along Luznice south from the Bechyne gate, below the mortuary of the old St Jacob's cemetery. Later it was often enlarged to eventually about 32 x 85 meters, and was in use until 1893. In 1884 the Tabor rabbi, Guttmann Klemperer, was buried there in the last row. The old tombstones were not removed until the Nazi occupation, and after the war the cemetery was turned into a garden and joined to the former Jacobean cemetery. On 23 October 1955 in the lower section of the cemetery a monument was unveiled as a memorial to the wartime racial persecution.