Jewish Religious Community of Hroznětín

Collection description

Scope and content:: This fonds consist of a cash book (maintained until April 1938) and fragmentary accounting records of the Jewish prayer association in Nejdek. It also includes an acknowledgement of receipt of the cash book, of the accounting records, and of savings book from a savings bank in Nejdek, which was issued by the Supreme Council of the Associations of Jewish Religious Communities in Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia on 31 October 1938.

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 Hroznětín is documented from the beginning of the 16th century. Jews who had been banned from Karlov Vary moved there to live. The Jewish population was at its largest in the first half of the 19th century. A prayer association in Nejdek (under the direction of the Jewish Religious Community of Hroznětín) was existence from the 1880s until 1938. The Hroznětín community was disbanded during the Nazi Occupation and was not re-established after the Second World War.

Subject terms:: Financial records; Jewish community; Jewish community records

Finding aids:: Dolista K, Heřman J: Židovská náboženská obec Hroznětín 1921 - 1938, Prozatímní inventární seznam, 1971, 1 s., ev. č. 44.