Metadata: Jewish Religious Community of Opava
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:
- 102
- Title:
- Jewish Religious Community of Opava
- Title (official language):
- Židovská náboženská obec Opava
- Creator/accumulator:
- Jewish Religious Community of Opava
- Date(s):
- 1849/1952
- Language:
- Czech
- German
- Hebrew
- Extent:
- 11.66 linear metres
- Physical condition:
- poor
- Scope and content:
- The fonds contains the statutes of the Jewish Religious Community of Opava, minutes of meetings, election records, personnel files, a community membership register, material relating to registry matters, construction matters (including plans for a local synagogue), financial records, a register of synagogue seats, graves registers, books/registers of a Jewish school, books/registers of several Jewish associations, and fragmentary records dating from after 1945.
- Archival history:
- The records were transferred to the archives of the Jewish Museum in Prague from the District Archives in Opava in September 1966.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- A medieval Jewish settlement in Opava is documented from the end of the 13th century. It came to an end during the 16th century, when the Jews were expelled from the town. A new Jewish prayer association was established there in the middle of the 19th century, becoming a religious community in 1864. The community was disbanded after the annexation of the Sudetenland by Nazi Germany in 1938 but resumed its activities after the Second World War.
- Access points: locations:
- Opava
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds is arranged as follows: books/registers and files of the Jewish community, books/registers and files of a local synagogue, books/registers of a Jewish school, books/registers and files of Jewish associations, books/registers and files from the period after the Liberation in the 1945.
- Finding aids:
- Dolista K, Heřman J: Židovská náboženská obec Opava, Prozatímní inventární seznam, 1971, 7 s., ev. č. 102.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Prague
- Author of the description:
- JMP Survey, 2015.
