Metadata: Archive of the Jewish Community Agudas Achim
Collection
- Country:
- Switzerland
- Holding institution:
- Jewish Community Agudas Achim
- Holding institution (official language):
- Jüdische Gemeinde Agudas Achim
- Postal address:
- PO Box, CH-8036 Zurich
- Phone number:
- +41 44 463 80 33
- Email:
- agudas-achim@gmx.ch
- Title:
- Archive of the Jewish Community Agudas Achim
- Title (official language):
- Archiv der Jüdischen Gemeinde Agudas Achim
- Creator/accumulator:
- Jewish Community Agudas Achim
- Language:
- German
- Extent:
- 50 to 60 folders
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The archive of the Jewish Community Agudas Achim contains documents from the 1940s to the present. They include lists of members, minutes and correspondence such as various applications from rabbis for vacant positions in the community.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Around 1890, Eastern European Jews who had moved to the area formed their own prayer community because of their basic religious Orthodox attitude, but the Orthodox community “Agudas Achim“ was not officially founded until the mid 1920s. Its prayer room was first located in Bertastraße, then in Erikastraße. The community maintained its own cemetery in Zurich-Albisrieden.
- Access points: locations:
- Zurich
- Subject terms:
- Jewish community
- Rabbis
- Access, restrictions:
- No open access. Subject to application.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Hohenems
- Author of the description:
- Severin Holzknecht; Jewish Museum of Hohenems; 2020
