Jewish Religious Community of Votice - 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:: 163

Title:: Jewish Religious Community of Votice

Title (official language):: Židovská náboženská obec Votice

Creator/accumulator:: Jewish Religious Community of Votice

Date(s):: 1793/1940

Language:: German; Czech; Hebrew; Yiddish

Extent:: 0.88 linear metres

Physical condition:: poor

Scope and content:: The fonds contains a collection of Judaica from the Votice domain (1793–1847), filing registers, minutes of meetings, correspondence, financial and tax registers, books/registers of a Jewish school, the statutes and books/registers of the burial society (chevra kadisha) and other Jewish associations.

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 Votice may have existed from the end of the 14th century. The earliest written record of this settlement dates from 1538. A Jewish religious community already existed there in the first half of the 16th century. This prominent and populous community was the seat of the regional rabbinate. It was disbanded by the Nazis during the Second World War and did not subsequently resume its activities.

Access points: locations:: Votice

Subject terms:: Burial; Ceremonial objects; Education; Education--Schools and universities; Hevrah kadisha; 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, a register and plans of the local synagogue, books/registers and files of a Jewish school, a register and file of the burial society (chevra kadisha), books/registers and files of Jewish associations.

Finding aids:: Dolista K, Heřman J: Židovská náboženská obec Votice, Prozatímní inventární seznam, 1971, 3 s., ev. č. 163.

Links to finding aids:: http://c.jewishmuseum.cz/files/documents/archiv-sbirky-a-fondy/inventare/163ZNOVotice-prozatimniinventarniseznam.pdf

Yerusha Network member:: Jewish Museum Prague

Author of the description:: JMP Survey, 2015.

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