Jewish Religious Community of Náchod - 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:: 93

Title:: Jewish Religious Community of Náchod

Title (official language):: Židovská náboženská obec Náchod

Creator/accumulator:: Jewish Religious Community of Náchod

Date(s):: 1802/1941

Language:: Czech; German; Hebrew

Extent:: 0.77 linear metres

Physical condition:: good

Scope and content:: The fonds contains the statutes of the Jewish Religious Community of Náchod (1928), meeting minutes, official memoranda, financial records, registers of synagogue seats, documents of the burial society (chevra kadisha), and registers of a Jewish school.

Administrative/biographical history:: A religious community in Náchod probably existed from the 15th century onwards. Náchod was the headquarters of the regional rabbi in the 19th century. The community was disbanded by the Nazis during the Second World War but subsequently resumed its activities.

Access points: locations:: Náchod

Subject terms:: Burial; Education; Education--Schools and universities; Financial records; 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 and files of the local synagogue and registers of the burial society (chevra kadisha), files of a Jewish association, registers and files of a Jewish school.

Finding aids:: Dolista K, Heřman J: Židovská náboženská obec Náchod, Prozatímní inventární seznam, 1971, 4 s., ev. č. 93.

Links to finding aids:: http://c.jewishmuseum.cz/files/documents/archiv-sbirky-a-fondy/inventare/093ZNONachod-prozatimniinventarniseznam.pdf

Yerusha Network member:: Jewish Museum Prague

Author of the description:: JMP Survey, 2015.

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