Metadata: Jewish Religious Community of Sobědruhy
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:
- 132
- Title:
- Jewish Religious Community of Sobědruhy
- Title (official language):
- Židovská náboženská obec Sobědruhy
- Creator/accumulator:
- Jewish Religious Community of Sobědruhy
- Date(s):
- 1671/1929
- Language:
- German
- Hebrew
- Yiddish
- Extent:
- 0.07 linear metres
- Physical condition:
- poor
- Scope and content:
- The fonds contains a death register, the community's salary register and memorial documents from a synagogue tower.
- Archival history:
- It is not exactly known how the records came to the archives of the Jewish Museum in Prague.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Jewish settlement in Sobědruhy probably dates from the middle of the 17th century at the latest. Information relating to a large settlement there in the 18th century points to the existence of a Jewish religious community. The community was disbanded after the annexation of the Sudetenland by Nazi Germany in 1938 and did not resume its activities after the Second World War.
- Access points: locations:
- Sobědruhy
- Finding aids:
- Dolista K, Heřman J: Židovská náboženská obec Sobědruhy 1671-1929, Prozatímní inventární seznam, 1971, 1 s., ev. č. 132.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Prague
- Author of the description:
- JMP Survey, 2015.
