Jewish Religious Community of Luže - 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:: 84

Title:: Jewish Religious Community of Luže

Title (official language):: Židovská náboženská obec Luže

Creator/accumulator:: Jewish Religious Community of Luže

Date(s):: 1828/1938

Language:: Czech; German; Hebrew; Yiddish

Extent:: 0.99 linear metres

Physical condition:: poor

Scope and content:: The fonds contains meeting minutes, statistical reports about the Jewish Religious Community of Luže, official memoranda, financial registers, files of a Jewish school, a register of synagogue seats, and documents 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:: Jewish settlement in Luže was already in existence before 1570. A Jewish religious community had probably been established there by the first half of the 17th century. Luže was the headquarters of the regional rabbi in the first half of the 19th century. The community was disbanded by the Nazis during the Second World War and did not subsequently resume its activities.

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

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

Finding aids:: Dolista K, Heřman J: Židovská náboženská obec Luže, Prozatímní inventární seznam, 1971, 1 s., ev. č. 84.

Links to finding aids:: http://c.jewishmuseum.cz/files/documents/archiv-sbirky-a-fondy/inventare/084ZNOLuze-prozatimniinventarniseznam.pdf

Yerusha Network member:: Jewish Museum Prague

Author of the description:: JMP Survey, 2015.

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