Jewish Religious Community of Hořovice - 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:: 40

Title:: Jewish Religious Community of Hořovice

Title (official language):: Židovská náboženská obec Hořovice

Creator/accumulator:: Jewish Religious Community of Hořovice

Date(s):: 1863/1941

Language:: Czech; German

Extent:: 0.27 linear metres

Physical condition:: good

Scope and content:: The fonds contains meeting minutes, correspondence, financial registers, statutes and fragmentary documents of the burial society (chevra kadisha), including a graves register of the cemetery in Praskolesy. It also contains the burial society's cash books.

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 Hořovice is documented in the mid-15th century. Jews were not allowed to live in the town from the 16th century until the middle of the 19th. A Jewish religious community was established there in 1875, having separated from the religious community of Praskolesy. It was disbanded by the Nazis during the Second World War and did not subsequently resume its activities.

Access points: locations:: Hořovice; Praskolesy

Subject terms:: Burial; Cemeteries; Cemeteries--Gravestones; Correspondence; Financial records; Hevrah kadisha; Jewish community; Jewish community records

System of arrangement:: Materials in the fonds are arranged thematically as follows: registers and files of the Jewish community, registers and files of the burial society (chevra kadisha), the cemetery register of an affiliated community.

Finding aids:: Dolista K, Heřman J: Židovská náboženská obec Horažďovice, Prozatímní inventární seznam, 1971, 1 s., ev. č. 40.

Links to finding aids:: http://c.jewishmuseum.cz/files/documents/archiv-sbirky-a-fondy/inventare/040ZNOHorovice-prozatimniinventarniseznam.pdf

Yerusha Network member:: Jewish Museum Prague

Author of the description:: JMP Survey, 2015.

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