Jewish Religious Community of Pardubice - European Jewish Archives Portal

Collection description

Collection

Country:: Czechia

Holding institution:: Archives of the Jewish Museum in Prague

Holding institution (official language):: Archiv Židovského muzea v Praze

Postal address:: Stroupežnického 32, Praha 5, 150 00

Phone number:: 00420222749111

Web address:: http://www.jewishmuseum.cz/

Email:: office@jewishmuseum.cz

Reference number:: 105

Title:: Jewish Religious Community of Pardubice

Title (official language):: Židovská náboženská obec Pardubice

Creator/accumulator:: Jewish Religious Community of Pardubice

Date(s):: 1792/1944

Language:: Czech; German; Hebrew

Extent:: 0.77 linear metres

Scope and content:: This fonds contains lists of Jews living in the Pardubice domain at the end of the 18th century, the community's statutes including amendments (1874, 1977, 1896, 1936), meeting minutes, election records, personnel records, a list of war refugees (1914–1918), construction records (including for the construction of a synagogue), burial society records, and draft texts on the history of the Jews in Pardubice. The burial society registers, particularly grave records, were kept until 1942. The fonds also includes files from the Pardubice Arbeitsamt (labour office) with records of work assignments for Jews: a card index (1941–1942) and files (1940–1945).

Archival history:: The documents were brought to the Jewish Museum as a part of the wartime shipment of artefacts and documents from Jewish Religious Communities liquidated during the WWII.

Administrative/biographical history:: Jewish settlement in Pardubice is documented in the 16th century. Jews were expelled from the town in 1662. A Jewish community was founded there in 1859. It was re-established after the Second World War, but soon became a synagogue congregation (part of the Jewish Religious Community of Prague). The congregation was disbanded in the 1980s.

Access points: locations:: Pardubice

Subject terms:: Architecture; Burial; Jewish community; Jewish community records; Refugees; Synagogues

Finding aids:: Dolista K, Heřman J: Židovská náboženská obec Pardubice 1792-1944 (1948), Prozatímní inventární seznam, 1971, 3 s., ev. č. 105.

Yerusha Network member:: Jewish Museum Prague

Author of the description:: JMP Survey, 2015.

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