Jewish Religious Community of Dolní Kralovice - 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:: 24

Title:: Jewish Religious Community of Dolní Kralovice

Title (official language):: Židovská náboženská obec Dolní Kralovice

Creator/accumulator:: Jewish Religious Community Dolní Kralovice

Date(s):: 1791/1941

Language:: Czech; German; Hebrew

Extent:: 0.13 linear metres

Scope and content:: This fonds is fragmentary and consists of community's statutes, the statutes of the burial society, meeting minutes, a book of incoming correspondence (1905–1941), a Jewish tax register (1938–1941) and a graves register. The most valuable part of the fonds is a circumcision register (1791–1835).

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:: A Jewish settlement was established in Dolní Kralovice in the 17th century at the latest. The Jewish community was disbanded during the Nazi Occupation.

Access points: locations:: Dolní Kralovice

Subject terms:: Burial; Cemeteries; Circumcision; Hevrah kadisha; Jewish community; Jewish community records; Jewish community records--Mohel books

Finding aids:: Dolista K, Heřman, J: Židovská náboženská obec Dolní Kralovice (1714) 1791-1941, Prozatímní inventární seznam, 1971, 1 s., ev. č. 24.

Yerusha Network member:: Jewish Museum Prague

Author of the description:: JMP Survey, 2015.

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