Jewish Religious Community of Mladá Boleslav

Collection description

Scope and content:: The fonds contains a collection of 17th-18th-century records (including copies), a register of names of Boleslav Jews who changed their names (1788), Familiantenbuch (register of Familiants) (1827–1841), meeting minutes, filing registers, personnel records, registry records, documents relating to Jewish houses, construction-related documents, correspondence, financial records, tax contribution records, Perdon Tax ledgers, a register of synagogue seats, statutes and documents of the burial society (chevra kadisha), a Hazkara, registers and files of Talmud Torah School, files of a Jewish school, and fragmentary documents of several Jewish associations. The fonds also contains the accounting records of charitable foundations and a cash book of the local Bikur Cholim Association, which were kept until 1940.

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 Mladá Boleslav is documented from the third quarter of the 15th century. The town was a prominent centre of Jewish scholarship and education in the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. From the 16th century, at the latest, there was a Jewish religious community there, which founded its own museum in 1922. The area of the disbanded Jewish religious communities of Libáň and Mnichovo Hradiště was allotted to the community in 1932 and 1932 respectively. The community was disbanded by the Nazis during the Second World War and did not subsequently resume its activities.

Subject terms:: Aid and relief; Aid and relief--Philanthropy and charity; Architecture; Bikur holim; Burial; Correspondence; Education; Education--Schools and universities; Education--Talmud Torah; Financial records; Hazkarah; Hevrah kadisha; Jewish community; Jewish community records; Real estate; Synagogues

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

Finding aids:: Dolista K, Heřman J: Židovská náboženská obec Mladá Boleslav, Prozatímní inventární seznam, 1971, 22 s., ev. č. 90.

Links to finding aids:: http://c.jewishmuseum.cz/files/documents/archiv-sbirky-a-fondy/inventare/090ZNOMladaBoleslav-prozatimniinventarniseznam.pdf