Metadata: Archive of the Jewish Religious Community of Basel
Collection
- Country:
- Switzerland
- Holding institution:
- Jewish Religious Community of Basel
- Holding institution (official language):
- Israelitische Religionsgemeinschaft Basel, IRG Basel
- Postal address:
- Ahornstrasse 14, CH-4055 Basel
- Phone number:
- +41 61 301 48 98
- Email:
- irginfo@gmx.ch
- Title:
- Archive of the Jewish Religious Community of Basel
- Title (official language):
- Archiv der Israelitischen Religionsgemeinde Basel
- Creator/accumulator:
- Jewish Religious Community of Basel
- Language:
- German
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The archive of the IRG [Jewish community] Basel contains only a few documents, mainly minutes of general assemblies.
- Administrative/biographical history:
-
Today's third Jewish community has existed since 1805, after the first Jewish community, which was established as early as the 12th century, was wiped out in the Basel Jewish pogrom of 1349 and the second community dissolved in 1397. Even without a significant Jewish presence, Hebrew printing and Hebrew linguistics flourished in Basel from the 15th century onwards under the influence of humanism.
In the 1860s, the congregation had the Great Basel Synagogue built by the architect Hermann Rudolf Gauss at Eulerstrasse 2, located next to the present parish hall at Leimenstrasse 24, built in 1960 by the architects Marcus Diener and Georges Olstein. In 1903, the congregation's cemetery in Basel was inaugurated; until then, the congregation members had been buried at the Jewish cemetery at Hégenheim in Alsace, France. In 1897 the first and most important Zionist congress was held in Basel, after the Jewish establishment of Munich had successfully prevented it from being held there. In 1927 the strictly orthodox religious society of Basel split from the community. It still exists today and has a synagogue in Ahornstrasse.
- Access points: locations:
- Basel
- Subject terms:
- Jewish community
- Access, restrictions:
- No open access. Subject to application.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Hohenems
- Author of the description:
- Severin Holzknecht and Dinah Ehrenfreund-Michler; Jewish Museum of Hohenems; 2020
