Metadata: Jewish Religious Community of Bechyně
Collection
- Country:
- Czechia
- Holding institution:
- Archives of the Jewish Museum in Prague
- Holding institution (official language):
- Archiv Židovského muzea v Praze
- Postal address:
- Stroupežnického 32, Praha 5, 150 00
- Phone number:
- 00420222749111
- Web address:
- http://www.jewishmuseum.cz/
- Email:
- office@jewishmuseum.cz
- Reference number:
- 1
- Title:
- Jewish Religious Community of Bechyně
- Title (official language):
- Židovská náboženská obec Bechyně
- Creator/accumulator:
- Jewish Religious Community of Bechyně
- Date(s):
- 1820/1940
- Language:
- Czech
- German
- Hebrew
- Extent:
- 0.55 linear metres
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The fonds includes minutes of meetings, fragments of community files, financial files, a synagogue seats register and a book of Hazkarot. Most of the preserved documents come from the end of the 19th and from the beginning of the 20th century; the synagogue seats register only includes records from the first half of the 19th century. The book of Hazkarot was kept to 1940 (only one commemorative record).
- Archival history:
- The documents were taken to the Jewish Museum as part of the wartime shipment of artefacts and documents from Jewish Religious Communities destroyed during WWII.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The Jewish settlement in Bechyně is documented from the 16th century. The Jewish Community was founded in the 17th century and destroyed during WWII.
- Access points: locations:
- Bechyně
- Subject terms:
- Jewish community
- Jewish community records
- Synagogues
- Finding aids:
- Dolista K, Heřman J: Židovská náboženská obec Bechyně 1820-1940, Prozatímní inventární seznam, 1971, 1 s., ev. č. 1.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Prague
- Author of the description:
- JMP Survey, 2015.
