New Synagogue

Collection description

Scope and content:: The fonds contains registers of synagogue seats and a prayer book.

Archival history:: The records came to the archives of the Jewish Museum in Prague during the Second World War as part of shipments of material from Jewish communities and organisations that had been disbanded.

Administrative/biographical history:: The New Synagogue was established as a private house of prayer by Isaac Wechsler at the end of the 16th century. After a fire in 1689 it was rebuilt in 1703 as a private synagogue for the Duschenes family. It burned down again in 1754 and was rebuilt at the expense of David Kuh. Unusually, the synagogue was situated on the upper floor of a street-front building. It was demolished during the urban renewal of Prague's Jewish Town in 1898.

Subject terms:: Jewish community; Jewish community records; Prayer books; Synagogues

System of arrangement:: The fonds is arranged as follows: books and files relating to the synagogue, books and financial files, books and files of the Boruch Sheomar association.

Finding aids:: Hamáčková, V: Nová synagoga, Prozatímní inventární seznam, 1990, 1 s., ev. č. 185.

Links to finding aids:: http://c.jewishmuseum.cz/files/documents/archiv-sbirky-a-fondy/inventare/185Novasynagoga-prozatimniinventarniseznam.pdf