Jewish Religious Community of Pohořelice

Collection description

Scope and content:: The fonds contains a ledger (pinkas) from 1793–1847, the statutes of the Jewish Religious Community of Pohořelice from 1895–1898, filing registers, minutes of meetings, election records, personnel files, registry records, a community membership register, several of the records of the local Jewish political community, official memoranda, financial and tax records, a register of synagogue seats, files relating to the construction of a synagogue, statutes from 1891 and fragmentary records of the burial society (chevra kadisha).

Archival history:: The records came to the archives of the Jewish Museum in Prague from Brno 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 Pohořelice is documented from the first half of the 15th century. It increased in size until the end of the 19th century. A religious community existed there from as early as the 16th century; it was disbanded after the annexation of the Sudetenland by Nazi Germany in 1938 and did not resume its activities after the Second World War.

Subject terms:: Burial; Hevrah kadisha; Jewish community; Jewish community records; Synagogues

System of arrangement:: The fonds is arranged as follows: books/registers and files of the Jewish community, books/registers and files of the local synagogue, books/registers and files of the burial society (chevra kadisha), books/registers and files of a Jewish school.

Finding aids:: Dolista K, Heřman J: Židovská náboženská obec Pohořelice, Prozatímní inventární seznam, 1971, 6 s., ev. č. 114,

Links to finding aids:: http://c.jewishmuseum.cz/files/documents/archiv-sbirky-a-fondy/inventare/114ZNOPohorelice-prozatimniinventarniseznam.pdf