Jewish Religious Community of Humpolec - 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:: 45

Title:: Jewish Religious Community of Humpolec

Title (official language):: Židovská náboženská obec Humpolec

Creator/accumulator:: Jewish Religious Community of Humpolec

Date(s):: 1800/1930

Language:: Czech; German; Yiddish

Extent:: 0.21 linear metres

Physical condition:: good

Scope and content:: The fonds contains fragmentary records: a register of synagogue seats, registers of a Jewish school, and a register of the burial society (chevra kadisha).

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:: Jews were already living in Humpolec by the end of the 14th century. They were subsequently expelled. The presence of a new settlement is documented as late as the 17th century. A Jewish religious community was established there in the first half of the 18th century. It was disbanded by the Nazis during the Second World War and did not subsequently resume its activities.

Access points: locations:: Humpolec

Subject terms:: Burial; Education; Education--Schools and universities; Hevrah kadisha; Jewish community; Jewish community records; Synagogues

System of arrangement:: The fragmentary fonds is arranged thematically as follows: registers and files of the local synagogue, registers of a Jewish school, a register of the burial society (chevra kadisha).

Finding aids:: Dolista K, Heřman J: Židovská náboženská obec Humpolec, Prozatímní inventární seznam, 1971, 1 s., ev. č. 45.

Links to finding aids:: http://c.jewishmuseum.cz/files/documents/archiv-sbirky-a-fondy/inventare/045ZNOHumpolec-prozatimniinventarniseznam.pdf

Yerusha Network member:: Jewish Museum Prague

Author of the description:: JMP Survey, 2015.

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