Metadata: Jewish Religious Community of Rychnov nad Kněžnou
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:
- 128
- Title:
- Jewish Religious Community of Rychnov nad Kněžnou
- Title (official language):
- Židovská náboženská obec Rychnov nad Kněžnou
- Creator/accumulator:
- Jewish Religious Community of Rychnov nad Kněžnou
- Date(s):
- 1856/1939
- Language:
- Czech
- German
- Hebrew
- Extent:
- 0.59 linear metres
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The fonds contains the statutes of the Jewish Religious Community of Rychnov nad Kněžnou (1895), minutes of meetings, correspondence, financial records, a Hazkara, a register of synagogue seats, and fragmentary material relating to a women's association.
- 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 Rychnov nad Kněžnou existed as early as the first half of the 16th century. A religious community there is documented from the beginning of the 17th century. The community was disbanded by the Nazis during the Second World War and did not subsequently resume its activities.
- Access points: locations:
- Rychnov nad Kněžnou
- Subject terms:
- Correspondence
- Jewish community
- Jewish community records
- Synagogues
- System of arrangement:
- Materials in the fonds are arranged thematically as follows: books/registers and files of the Jewish community, books/registers of the local synagogue, a register and files of a Jewish association.
- Finding aids:
- Dolista K, Heřman J: Židovská náboženská obec Rychnov nad Kněžnou, Prozatímní inventární seznam, 1971, 2 s., ev. č. 128.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Prague
- Author of the description:
- JMP Survey, 2015.
