Metadata: Jewish Religious Community of Prčice
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:
- 118
- Title:
- Jewish Religious Community of Prčice
- Title (official language):
- Židovská náboženská obec Prčice
- Creator/accumulator:
- Jewish Religious Community of Prčice
- Date(s):
- 1848/1937
- Language:
- German
- Czech
- Hebrew
- Extent:
- 0.55 linear metres
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The fonds contains the statutes of the Jewish Religious Community of Prčice (1861–1862, 1896, 1906), filing registers, minute meetings, election records, personnel files, a community membership register, a marriage register (1894–1919), official memoranda, construction-related documents, a document relating to the sale of the synagogue in Nadějkov, financial records, and a register of synagogue seats.
- 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:
- A small Jewish settlement in Prčice is documented from the end of the 17th century. A religious community was probably established there in the 18th century. The community was disbanded by the Nazis during the Second World War and did not subsequently resume its activities.
- 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, files of a Jewish school.
- Finding aids:
- Dolista K, Heřman J: Židovská náboženská obec Prčice, Prozatímní inventární seznam, 1971, 2 s., ev. č. 118.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Prague
- Author of the description:
- JMP Survey, 2015.
