Metadata: Archive of the Jewish Community of Solothurn
Collection
- Country:
- Switzerland
- Holding institution:
- State Archive Solothurn
- Holding institution (official language):
- Staatsarchiv Solothurn
- Postal address:
- Bielstrasse 41; CH-4509 Solothurn
- Phone number:
- +41 32 627 62 80
- Web address:
- https://so.ch/staatskanzlei/staatsarchiv/
- Email:
- staatsarchiv@sk.so.ch
- Title:
- Archive of the Jewish Community of Solothurn
- Title (official language):
- Archiv der Israelitischen Kultusgemeinde Solothurn
- Creator/accumulator:
- Jewish Community of Solothurn
- Date(s):
- 1926/2007
- Language:
- German
- English
- French
- Hebrew
- Extent:
- 2 folders and 1 volume
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The collection of the Jewish Community of Solothurn contains two folders with documents as well as a volume of minutes of meetings of the community board and the general assembly from the period between 1927 and 2007. The first folder contains documents from the period between 1926 and 1993, including statutes from 1937 and 1988, a letter from the Community to various cantonal and municipal offices such as the Solothurn Central Library and the Building Department. There are also letters to other Jewish communities and Jewish individuals, the Federal Statistical Office, Association of Swiss Jewish Refugee Aid and Welfare Organisations (Verband Schweizerischer Jüdischer Fürsorgen (VSJF) and Swiss Federation of Jewish Communities (SIG). In addition, there are individual community balance sheets, a funeral and cemetery regulation of the Jewish Community Bern of 1985, inventory lists from the 1980s and documents on various transactions such as the purchase and sale of premises, e.g., the prayer room, which belonged to the Jewish Community between 1893 and 1983. There are also reports and other documents on renovation work (cost statements, etc.). The second folder contains documents from the years 1988 to 2002: audit reports and annual accounts from 1989 to 2002, letters from the congregation to the Jewish Community Bern, SIG, Christlich-Jüdische Arbeitsgemeinschaft Solothurn, and lists of members from 1990 (11 men and 6 women) and 1992 (11 men and 6 women).
- Archival history:
- The collection was transferred to the State Archive of the Canton Solothurn in the 2000s.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The State Archives hold the documents of parliament, government and administration of the canton of Solothurn. In addition, there are documents of independent corporations, institutions subject to cantonal public law and of natural or legal persons, as long as they fulfil public tasks of the canton. The holdings of the State Archives comprise around 8,500 linear metres. The oldest fragment of a text dates from the end of the 8th century. The oldest completely preserved document dates from 1147. In terms of quantity, the focus is clearly on more recent administrative documents. The holdings of the Jewish Community were transferred to the State Archive in 2013.
- Access points: locations:
- Braunschweig
- Solothurn
- Subject terms:
- Jewish community
- Access, restrictions:
- No open access. Subject to application.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Hohenems
- Author of the description:
- Severin Holzknecht; Jewish Museum of Hohenems; 2021
