Jewish Religious Community of Podivín - 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:: 112

Title:: Jewish Religious Community of Podivín

Title (official language):: Židovská náboženská obec Podivín

Creator/accumulator:: Jewish Religious Community of Podivín

Date(s):: 1825/1938

Language:: German; Hebrew; Yiddish

Extent:: 0.61 linear metres

Physical condition:: good

Scope and content:: The fonds contains the statutes of the Jewish Religious Community of Podivín (1926–1930), minutes of meetings, personnel files, official memoranda, construction-related documents, charitable foundation files, financial and tax records, fragmentary records of the Jewish political community, books/registers of the burial society (chevra kadisha), and a register of the associated community of Lednice.

Archival history:: The records were incorporated into the archives of the Jewish Museum in Prague during the Second World War as part of shipments of material from Jewish religious communities that had been disbanded.

Administrative/biographical history:: Jewish settlement in Podivín is documented from the beginning of the 17th century, from which time there was also Jewish religious community. The community was disbanded by the Nazis during the Second World War and did not subsequently resume its activities.

Access points: locations:: Lednice; Podivín

Subject terms:: Aid and relief; Aid and relief--Philanthropy and charity; Burial; Jewish community; Jewish community records

System of arrangement:: Materials in the fonds are arranged thematically as follows: books/registers and files of the Jewish community, files of the political Jewish community, files of the local synagogue, books/registers and files of the burial society (chevra kadisha), files of a Jewish association.

Finding aids:: Dolista K, Heřman J: Židovská náboženská obec Podivín, Prozatímní inventární seznam, 1971, 3 s., ev. č. 112.

Links to finding aids:: http://c.jewishmuseum.cz/files/documents/archiv-sbirky-a-fondy/inventare/112ZNOPodivin-prozatimniinventarniseznam.pdf

Yerusha Network member:: Jewish Museum Prague

Author of the description:: JMP Survey, 2015.

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