Jewish Religious Community of Holešov

Collection description

Scope and content:: The most important part of this fonds consists of pinkasim from 1668–1731 and 1785–1830 and takkanot from the 18th century. This fonds also contains meeting minutes, financial files, records of charitable foundations, synagogue seats records, books of hazkarot and burial society records. Records from 1939–1943 contain registry matters, documents relating to the registration of Jews (including mixed marriages and Jews of the “non-Mosaic” religion), work assignment records, travel permits, housing and construction records, information on the registration and surrendering of property, a community inventory list, property insurance, lists of charitable foundations, accounting records, and emigration files.

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 first record of a Jewish community in Holešov dates from the first half of the 16th century. It was re-established after the Second World War. In the 1950s it became a synagogue congregation under the direction of the Jewish Religious Community of Kyjov, from 1960 under the direction of the Jewish Religious Community of Brno. The congregation disbanded in about 1980.

Subject terms:: Aid and relief; Aid and relief--Philanthropy and charity; Architecture; Burial; Halakhah; Hazkarah; Hevrah kadisha; Interfaith marriage; Jewish community; Jewish community records; Jewish community records--Pinkasim; Migration; Migration--Emigration; Real estate; Synagogues; Vital records

Finding aids:: Dolista K, Heřman J: Židovská náboženská obec Holešov (1651) 1668 - 1943, Prozatímní inventární seznam, 1971, 5 s., ev. č. 37.