Metadata: Jewish Religious Community of Písek
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:
- 107
- Title:
- Jewish Religious Community of Písek
- Title (official language):
- Židovská náboženská obec Písek
- Creator/accumulator:
- Jewish Religious Community of Písek
- Date(s):
- 1753/1940
- Language:
- Czech
- German
- Hebrew
- Yiddish
- Extent:
- 1.54 linear metres
- Physical condition:
- poor
- Scope and content:
- The fonds contains the statutes of the Jewish Religious Community of Písek (1896), minute meetings, a marriage register (1854–1858, 1867–1879), correspondence, files arranged by year, financial records, records of the burial society (chevra kadisha), books/registers of a Jewish school, books/registers of a women's association.
- Archival history:
- The records were incorporated into the archives of the Jewish Museum in Prague during the Second World War as part of shipments of material from Jewish religious communities that had been disbanded.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Jewish settlement in Písek probably existed from the end of the 14th century. Jews were expelled from the town in 1424. Another small settlement there is documented from the 17th century, but it was not until the latter half of the 19th century that it expanded. A religious community was in existence there from 1785, probably belonging to the town of Mirotice. A new Jewish community came into being in the middle of the 19th century. It was disbanded by the Nazis during the Second World but subsequently resumed its activities.
- Access points: locations:
- Písek
- System of arrangement:
- Materials in the fonds are arranged thematically as follows: books/registers and files of the Jewish community, books/registers and files of the local synagogue, books/registers and files of the burial society (chevra kadisha), a register of a Jewish school, books/registers and files of a Jewish association.
- Finding aids:
- Dolista K, Heřman J: Židovská náboženská obec Písek, Prozatímní inventární seznam, 1971, 3 s., ev. č. 107.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Prague
- Author of the description:
- JMP Survey, 2015.
