Jewish Religious Community of Nymburk

Collection description

Scope and content:: The fonds contains filing registers, financial records (both up to 1941) and a Hazkara.

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:: An earlier Jewish settlement in Nymburk came to an end after the expulsion of Jews in 1541. It was not until the 1830s that Jews were allowed to live there. As part of the Jewish Religious Community of Kovanice, a prayer association probably existed there before 1875. A religious community was established in Nymburk in 1893. It incorporated the area of the disbanded Jewish Religious Community of Rožďalovice in 1925. The community was disbanded by the Nazis during the Second World War and did not subsequently resume its activities.

Subject terms:: Financial records; Hazkarah; Jewish community; Jewish community records

System of arrangement:: Materials in the fragmentary fonds are arranged thematically as follows: books/registers and files of the Jewish community and a register of the local synagogue.

Finding aids:: Dolista K, Heřman J: Židovská náboženská obec Nymburk, Prozatímní inventární seznam, 1971, 1 s., ev. č. 99.

Links to finding aids:: http://c.jewishmuseum.cz/files/documents/archiv-sbirky-a-fondy/inventare/099ZNONymburk-prozatimniinventarniseznam.pdf