Metadata: Jewish Community Driesen
Collection
- Country:
- Germany
- Holding institution:
- New Synagogue Berlin - Centrum Judaicum Foundation, Archive
- Holding institution (official language):
- Stiftung Neue Synagoge Berlin - Centrum Judaicum, Archiv
- Postal address:
- Oranienburger Str. 28-30, 10117 Berlin
- Phone number:
- 0049-30-88028-425
- Web address:
- www.centrumjudaicum.de
- Reference number:
- CJA, 1 A Dr 2
- Title:
- Jewish Community Driesen
- Title (official language):
- Jüdische Gemeinde Driesen
- Creator/accumulator:
- Jewish Community Driesen (Synagogengemeinde Driesen)
- Date(s):
- 1791/1924
- Language:
- German
- Extent:
- 0.65 linear metres (61 archival units)
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- Good
- Scope and content:
- From the former synagogue community Driesen (now Drezdenko (Poland)) a total of 61 files from the years 1791-1924 have survived. The majority are general files (official orders, board of directors and representatives). In addition to the statutes of 1855, these files contain, among others, the admission of new members and lists of members with voting rights for the representative elections from the period 1881-1902. There are also files on the employment of religious officials (cantor, teacher and butcher), 1843-1884, as well as files on community buildings (cemetery, reconstruction of the synagogue, mikveh). For the period 1855-1924, the budgets and annual bills of income and expenditure of the municipality have been preserved. There are also files on legal disputes as well as a donation book for mitzvot money (partly in Hebrew) and files on support.
- Archival history:
- The files of the synagogue community of Driesen were part of the former Gesamtarchiv der deutschen Juden [General Archive of German Jews] with the designation Dep. Driesen. In 1996 the Federal Archives transferred the holdings to the archive of the New Synagogue Berlin Foundation - Centrum Judaicum. Two further files were handed over in 2008 by the Brandenburg State Main Archives.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- After the expulsion in the 16th century, the Brandenburg Elector Friedrich Wilhelm permitted the resettlement of Jews in the country in 1671 - including some families in Neumark. Almost 80 Jews lived in Driesen (Friedeberg district) around 1843, over 100 after 1850, and 77 around 1913.
- Access points: locations:
- Brandenburg
- Drezdenko
- Poland
- Subject terms:
- Cemeteries
- Jewish community
- Legal matters
- Mikveh
- Synagogues
- Finding aids:
- An online finding aid exists.
- Links to finding aids:
- www.findbuch.net
- Yerusha Network member:
- Centrum Judaicum
- Author of the description:
- Barbara Welker; Stiftung Neue Synagoge Berlin - Centrum Judaicum; 2019