Association of Jewish Religious Communities in Bohemia

Collection description

Title (official language):: Svaz českých náboženských obcí židovských v Čechách

Creator/accumulator:: Association of Jewish Religious Communities in Bohemia

Scope and content:: The fonds contains statutes, records of meetings and records of contribution payments by individual communities.

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:: The association was founded in 1927. Every Jewish religious community in Bohemia with German as its official language was able to become a member. Membership was voluntary and basically had no effect on the autonomy of the communities that joined the association. The association brought together about 70 Jewish religious communities from rural areas of Bohemia (not all, therefore). It was existence until the Second World War.

Finding aids:: Hamáčková, V: Svaz českých náboženských obcí židovských v Čechách, Prozatímní inventární seznam, 1990, 1 s., ev. č. 191.