Metadata: Jewish Religious Community of Sokolov
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:
- 134
- Title:
- Jewish Religious Community of Sokolov
- Title (official language):
- Židovská náboženská obec Sokolov
- Creator/accumulator:
- Jewish Religious Community of Falknov nad Ohří
- Date(s):
- 1924/1938
- Language:
- German
- Extent:
- 0.06 linear metres
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The fonds contains minutes of meetings and fragmentary files.
- 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 Sokolov existed from the 16th century, but it was not until the middle of the 19th century that it significantly increased in size. A prayer association (part of the Jewish Religious Community of Krásná Lípa–Kostelní Bříza) was probably established there in 1861, becoming a separate community before 1873. The community was disbanded after the annexation of the Sudetenland by Nazi Germany in 1938. It resumed its activities after the Second World War with its seat in Kraslice.
- Access points: locations:
- Sokolov
- Subject terms:
- Jewish community
- Jewish community records
- Finding aids:
- Dolista K, Heřman J: Židovská náboženská obec Sokolov 1924-1938, Prozatímní inventární seznam, 1971, 1 s., ev. č. 134.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Prague
- Author of the description:
- JMP Survey, 2015.
