Metadata: Jewish Religious Community of Postřižín
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:
- 117
- Title:
- Jewish Religious Community of Postřižín
- Title (official language):
- Židovská náboženská obec Postřižín
- Creator/accumulator:
- Jewish Religious Community Postřižín
- Date(s):
- 1870/1942
- Language:
- Czech
- German
- Hebrew
- Extent:
- 0.33 linear metres
- Scope and content:
- This fonds is fragmentary and contains a graves registers and other burial society registers. It also contains the burial society's financial registers (maintained until 1940) and fragmentary files relating to the community from 1941–1942.
- 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 Postřižín is recorded from the mid-19th century. The Jewish community was not re-established after the Second World War.
- Access points: locations:
- Postřižín
- Subject terms:
- Burial
- Hevrah kadisha
- Jewish community
- Finding aids:
- Dolista, K.-Heřman, J., Židovská náboženská obec Postřižín 1870 - 1942, Prozatímní inventární seznam, 1971, 1 s., ev. č. 117
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Prague
- Author of the description:
- JMP Survey, 2015.
