Metadata: Jewish Religious Community of Poběžovice
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:
- 109
- Title:
- Jewish Religious Community of Poběžovice
- Title (official language):
- Židovská náboženská obec Poběžovice
- Creator/accumulator:
- Jewish Religious Community of Poběžovice
- Date(s):
- 1882
- Language:
- Hebrew
- Yiddish
- Extent:
- 0.02 linear metres
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The fonds contains only a book of Hazkarot.
- Archival history:
- It is not exactly known how the book came to be in the archives of the Jewish Museum in Prague.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Jewish settlement in Poběžovice is documented from the 16th century. A Jewish religious community existed there from the 17th century and a prominent yeshivah was active in the town from the end of the 18th century. Poběžovice was the seat of the regional rabbinate in the first half of the 19th century. The community was disbanded after the annexation of the Sudetenland by Nazi Germany in 1938. It did not resume its activities after the Second World War.
- Access points: locations:
- Poběžovice
- Subject terms:
- Jewish community
- Jewish community records
- Finding aids:
- Dolista K, Heřman J: Židovská náboženská obec Poběžovice, Prozatímní inventární seznam, 1971, 1 s., ev. č. 109.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Prague
- Author of the description:
- JMP Survey, 2015.
