Jewish Religious Community of Miroslav - 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:: 89

Title:: Jewish Religious Community of Miroslav

Title (official language):: Židovská náboženská obec Miroslav

Creator/accumulator:: Jewish Religious Community of Miroslav

Date(s):: 1715/1938

Language:: German; Hebrew

Extent:: 0.14 linear metres

Physical condition:: poor

Scope and content:: The fonds contains Hazkarot, fragmentary files, and copies of material relating to the history of the Jews in Hrušovany nad Jevišovkou.

Archival history:: The records were sent to the archives of the Jewish Museum in Prague from Brno during the Second World War as part of shipments of material from Jewish religious communities that had been disbanded. The copies of records are from the Jewish Museum in Mikulov.

Administrative/biographical history:: The earliest references to a Jewish community in Miroslav date from the 16th century. The Jewish community was at its largest around the middle of the 19th century. It was disbanded after the annexation of the Sudetenland by Nazi Germany in 1938 and did not resume its activities after the Second World War.

Access points: locations:: Hrušovany nad Jevišovkou; Miroslav

Subject terms:: Hazkarah; Historical research; Jewish community; Jewish community records

Finding aids:: Dolista K, Heřman J: Židovská náboženská obec Miroslav, Prozatímní inventární seznam, 1971, 1 s., ev. č. 89.

Links to finding aids:: http://c.jewishmuseum.cz/files/documents/archiv-sbirky-a-fondy/inventare/089ZNOMiroslav-prozatimniinventarniseznam.pdf

Yerusha Network member:: Jewish Museum Prague

Author of the description:: JMP Survey, 2015.

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