Jewish Religious Community of Rychnov nad Kněžnou - 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:: 128

Title:: Jewish Religious Community of Rychnov nad Kněžnou

Title (official language):: Židovská náboženská obec Rychnov nad Kněžnou

Creator/accumulator:: Jewish Religious Community of Rychnov nad Kněžnou

Date(s):: 1856/1939

Language:: Czech; German; Hebrew

Extent:: 0.59 linear metres

Physical condition:: good

Scope and content:: The fonds contains the statutes of the Jewish Religious Community of Rychnov nad Kněžnou (1895), minutes of meetings, correspondence, financial records, a Hazkara, a register of synagogue seats, and fragmentary material relating to a women's association.

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 Rychnov nad Kněžnou existed as early as the first half of the 16th century. A religious community there is documented from the beginning of the 17th century. The community was disbanded by the Nazis during the Second World War and did not subsequently resume its activities.

Access points: locations:: Rychnov nad Kněžnou

Subject terms:: Correspondence; Jewish community; Jewish community records; Synagogues

System of arrangement:: Materials in the fonds are arranged thematically as follows: books/registers and files of the Jewish community, books/registers of the local synagogue, a register and files of a Jewish association.

Finding aids:: Dolista K, Heřman J: Židovská náboženská obec Rychnov nad Kněžnou, Prozatímní inventární seznam, 1971, 2 s., ev. č. 128.

Links to finding aids:: http://c.jewishmuseum.cz/files/documents/archiv-sbirky-a-fondy/inventare/128ZNORychnovnadKneznou-prozatimniinventarniseznam.pdf

Yerusha Network member:: Jewish Museum Prague

Author of the description:: JMP Survey, 2015.

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