Metadata: Jewish Religious Community of Strážnice
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:
- 137
- Title:
- Jewish Religious Community of Strážnice
- Title (official language):
- Židovská náboženská obec Strážnice
- Creator/accumulator:
- Jewish Religious Community of Strážnice
- Date(s):
- 1828/1938
- Language:
- German
- Czech
- Hebrew
- Extent:
- 0.37 linear metres
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The fonds contains minutes of meetings, a register of charitable foundations, fragmentary files, registers of synagogue seats, a Hazkara, and the minutes of meetings held by a local Maccabi 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:
- Jews lived in Strážnice from the latter half of the 15th century, from which time the number of Jewish families continued to rise. A religious community existed, at the latest, from the 16th century. The community was disbanded by the Nazis during the Second World War and did not subsequently resume its activities.
- Access points: locations:
- Strážnice
- System of arrangement:
- Materials in the fonds are arranged thematically as follows: books/registers and files of the Jewish community, registers and a file of the local synagogue, books/registers of the burial society (chevra kadisha), a register of a Jewish association.
- Finding aids:
- Dolista K, Heřman J: Židovská náboženská obec Strážnice, Prozatímní inventární seznam, 1971, 1 s., ev. č. 137.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Prague
- Author of the description:
- JMP Survey, 2015.
