Jewish Religious Community of Čáslav - 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:: 14

Title:: Jewish Religious Community of Čáslav

Title (official language):: Židovská náboženská obec Čáslav

Creator/accumulator:: Jewish Religious Community of Čáslav

Date(s):: 1872/1940

Language:: Czech; German

Extent:: 0.13 linear metres

Scope and content:: This fonds is fragmentary and consists of meeting minutes (maintained until 1940), a banns registry (1892–1937), a cash book, and fragments of documents relating to the Jewish Women's Charity Association, including its statutes (1922).

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:: Jews are recorded as living in Čáslav in the 14th century. The Jewish settlement was disbanded in the 15th century. A Jewish community was established there in the second half of the 19th century. It was not re-established after the Second World War.

Access points: locations:: Čáslav

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

Finding aids:: Dolista K, Heřman J: Židovská náboženská obec Čáslav 1872-1940, Prozatímní inventární seznam, 1971, 1 s., ev. č. 14.

Yerusha Network member:: Jewish Museum Prague

Author of the description:: JMP Survey, 2015.

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