Jewish Religious Community of Poběžovice

Collection description

Archival history:: It is not exactly known how the book came to be in the archives of the Jewish Museum in Prague.

Administrative/biographical history:: Jewish settlement in Poběžovice is documented from the 16th century. A Jewish religious community existed there from the 17th century and a prominent yeshivah was active in the town from the end of the 18th century. Poběžovice was the seat of the regional rabbinate in the first half of the 19th century. The community was disbanded after the annexation of the Sudetenland by Nazi Germany in 1938. It did not resume its activities after the Second World War.

Finding aids:: Dolista K, Heřman J: Židovská náboženská obec Poběžovice, Prozatímní inventární seznam, 1971, 1 s., ev. č. 109.

Links to finding aids:: http://c.jewishmuseum.cz/files/documents/archiv-sbirky-a-fondy/inventare/109ZNOPobezovice-prozatimniinventarniseznam.pdf