Metadata: Jewish Religious Community of Polička
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:
- 115
- Title:
- Jewish Religious Community of Polička
- Title (official language):
- Židovská náboženská obec Polička
- Creator/accumulator:
- Jewish Religious Community of Polička
- Date(s):
- 1881/1941
- Language:
- Czech
- German
- Extent:
- 0.22 linear metres
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The fonds contains financial registers and fragmentary files (including lists of the buried). The cash book of the burial society (chevra kadisha) dates from up to 1941.
- 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:
- Individual families were allowed to live in Polička from the latter half of the 18th century, but it was not until the latter half of the 19th century that a more substantial settlement was able to take shape. A prayer association was probably established there after 1860, becoming a separate religious community in 1872. The community was disbanded by the Nazis during the Second World War and did not subsequently resume its activities.
- Access points: locations:
- Polička
- Subject terms:
- Burial
- Financial records
- Hevrah kadisha
- Jewish community
- System of arrangement:
- Materials in the fonds are arranged thematically as follows: books/registers and files of the Jewish community, a register of the burial society (chevra kadisha), files of a Jewish association.
- Finding aids:
- Dolista K, Heřman J: Židovská náboženská obec Polička, Prozatímní inventární seznam, 1971, 1 s., ev. č. 115.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Prague
- Author of the description:
- JMP Survey, 2015.
