Jewish Religious Community of Nové Benátky - 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:: 96

Title:: Jewish Religious Community of Nové Benátky

Title (official language):: Židovská náboženská obec Nové Benátky

Creator/accumulator:: Jewish Religious Community of Nové Benátky

Date(s):: 1878/1943

Language:: Czech; German; Hebrew

Extent:: 0.08 linear metres

Physical condition:: good

Scope and content:: The fonds contains minutes of meetings (up to 1940) and a religious tax register as well as records of the affiliated community of Lysá nad Labem: statutes (1939), a graves register (up to 1942) and fragmentary files (up to 1943).

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:: A small Jewish settlement in Nové Benátky is documented from the second half of the 16th century. There was a house of prayer was in the town after 1740. A Jewish religious community was established there in about 1836. The community was disbanded by the Nazis during the Second World War and did not subsequently resume its activities.

Access points: locations:: Lysá nad Labem; Nové Benátky

Subject terms:: Cemeteries; Cemeteries--Gravestones; Jewish community; Jewish community records

Finding aids:: Dolista K, Heřman J: Židovská náboženská obec Nové Benátky, Prozatímní inventární seznam, 1971, 1 s., ev. č. 96.

Links to finding aids:: http://c.jewishmuseum.cz/files/documents/archiv-sbirky-a-fondy/inventare/096ZNONoveBenatky-prozatimniinventarniseznam.pdf

Yerusha Network member:: Jewish Museum Prague

Author of the description:: JMP Survey, 2015.

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