Metadata: Jewish Religious Community of Přerov
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:
- 120
- Title:
- Jewish Religious Community of Přerov
- Title (official language):
- Židovská náboženská obec Přerov
- Creator/accumulator:
- Jewish Religious Community of Přerov
- Date(s):
- 1780/1942
- Language:
- German
- Czech
- Hebrew
- Yiddish
- Extent:
- 5.83 linear metres
- Physical condition:
- poor
- Scope and content:
- The fonds contains the statutes of the Jewish Religious Community of Přerov (1895–1926), filing registers, minutes of meetings, election records, personnel files, a community membership register, registry records, material concerning the relationship between the Jewish political and religious communities, documents relating to household property management, business records, official memoranda, financial and tax records, charitable foundation files, registers of synagogue seats, Hazkarot, records of a Jewish school, records of the burial society (chevra kadisha), a graves register, and fragmentary records of Jewish associations and institutions. Correspondence, financial records, entries in the graves register and Hazkarot date from up to the early 1940s.
- 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:
- The first reference to a Jewish settlement in Přerov is from 1447. A religious community existed there from, at the latest, the 16th century. The community was disbanded by the Nazis during the Second World War and did not subsequently resume its activities.
- Access points: locations:
- Přerov
- 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 a Jewish school, books/registers and files of the burial society (chevra kadisha) and books/registers and files of Jewish associations
- Finding aids:
- Dolista K, Heřman J: Židovská náboženská obec Přerov, Prozatímní inventární seznam, 1971, 7 s., ev. č. 120.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Prague
- Author of the description:
- JMP Survey, 2015.
