Jewish Religious Community of Jemnice - 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:: 52

Title:: Jewish Religious Community of Jemnice

Title (official language):: Židovská náboženská obec Jemnice

Creator/accumulator:: Jewish Religious Community of Jemnice

Date(s):: 1723/1938

Language:: Czech; German; Hebrew; Yiddish

Extent:: 0.44 linear metres

Physical condition:: good

Scope and content:: The fonds contains the statutes of the Jewish Religious Community of Jemnice, charitable foundation files, a register of synagogue seats, a Hazkara, fragmentary records of the burial society (chevra kadisha) and of several support associations, as well as a Hazkara and individual records of the affiliated community of Police.

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 Jemnice is documented from the first half of the 14th century. A Jewish religious community undoubtedly existed there in the 15th century. It was disbanded by the Nazis during the Second World War and did not subsequently resume its activities.

Access points: locations:: Jemnice; Police

Subject terms:: Aid and relief; Aid and relief--Philanthropy and charity; Burial; Hazkarah; Hevrah kadisha; Jewish community; Jewish community records; Synagogues

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

Finding aids:: Dolista K, Heřman J: Židovská náboženská obec Jemnice, Prozatímní inventární seznam, 1971, 2 s., ev. č. 52.

Links to finding aids:: http://c.jewishmuseum.cz/files/documents/archiv-sbirky-a-fondy/inventare/052ZNOJemnice-prozatimniinventarniseznam.pdf

Yerusha Network member:: Jewish Museum Prague

Author of the description:: JMP Survey, 2015.

Formats and links