Metadata: Jewish Religious Community of Rokycany
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:
- 125
- Title:
- Jewish Religious Community of Rokycany
- Title (official language):
- Židovská náboženská obec Rokycany
- Creator/accumulator:
- Jewish Religious Community of Rokycany
- Date(s):
- 1701/1941
- Language:
- German
- Hebrew
- Czech
- Yiddish
- Extent:
- 2.05 linear metres
- Physical condition:
- poor
- Scope and content:
- The fonds contains the statutes of the Jewish Religious Community of Rokycany (1896), minutes of meetings, election records, registry records, official memoranda, financial records, and the statutes (1883–1884) and records of the burial society (chevra kadisha). It also contains material relating to the associated communities of Osek (a book of statutes from 1810–1819 and a burial society register from 1795–1864), Prašný Újezd (a book of statutes from 1701 and fragmentary files), Radnice (financial registers) and Terešov (a burial society register from 1798–1933 and fragmentary records, mostly from the latter half of the 19th century). The financial records 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 small Jewish settlement in Rokycany grew in size after the middle of the 19th century. A religious community was established there in 1871. The neighbouring community of Osek was attached to that of Rokycany in 1872. The area of the disbanded Jewish religious communities of Terešov and Radnice was annexed to the Rokycany community in 1932. The community was disbanded by the Nazis during the Second World War and did not subsequently resume its activities.
- Subject terms:
- Burial
- Hevrah kadisha
- Jewish community
- Jewish community records
- System of arrangement:
- Materials in the fonds are arranged thematically as follows: books/registers and files of the Jewish community, books/registers, files and plans of the local synagogue, books/registers and files of the burial society (chevra kadisha), books/registers and files of associated communities.
- Finding aids:
- Dolista K, Heřman J: Židovská náboženská obec Rokycany, Prozatímní inventární seznam, 1971, 4 s., ev. č. 125.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Prague
- Author of the description:
- JMP Survey, 2015.
