Metadata: Jewish Religious Community of Sedlčany
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:
- 129
- Title:
- Jewish Religious Community of Sedlčany
- Title (official language):
- Židovská náboženská obec Sedlčany
- Creator/accumulator:
- Jewish Religious Community of Sedlčany
- Date(s):
- 1741/1938
- Language:
- German
- Czech
- Hebrew
- Extent:
- 0.77 linear metres
- Physical condition:
- poor
- Scope and content:
- The fonds contains the statutes of the Jewish Religious Community of Sedlčany (1910), minutes of meetings and fragmentary files. It also contains material relating to the associated community of Kosova Hora-a charter of 1741 issued by the manorial authority that granted Jews in Kosova Hora the right to built a new synagogue on the site of the previous one that had burned down, community statutes of 1871, election records, personnel files, financial records, construction-related documents, and fragmentary files of a Jewish school.
- 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 fonds contains the statutes of the Jewish Religious Community of Sedlčany (1910), minutes of meetings and fragmentary files. It also contains material relating to the associated community of Kosova Hora-a charter of 1741 issued by the manorial authority that granted Jews in Kosova Hora the right to built a new synagogue on the site of the previous one that had burned down, community statutes of 1871, election records, personnel files, financial records, construction-related documents, and fragmentary files of a Jewish school.
- Access points: locations:
- Kosova Hora
- Sedlčany
- System of arrangement:
- Materials in the fonds are mostly from the associated community of Kosová Hora and are arranged thematically as follows: books/registers and files of the Jewish community, files of the local synagogue, files of a Jewish school and files of a Jewish association.
- Finding aids:
- Dolista K, Heřman J: Židovská náboženská obec Sedlčany, Prozatímní inventární seznam, 1971, 2 s., ev. č. 129.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Prague
- Author of the description:
- JMP Survey, 2015.
