Metadata: Jewish Religious Community of Sušice
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:
- 138
- Title:
- Jewish Religious Community of Sušice
- Title (official language):
- Židovská náboženská obec Sušice
- Creator/accumulator:
- Jewish Religious Community of Sušice
- Date(s):
- 1759/1941
- Language:
- Czech
- Hebrew
- German
- Yiddish
- Extent:
- 0.07 linear metres
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The fonds contains the statutes of the Jewish Religious Community of Sušice (1873–1908), minutes of meetings, election records, personnel files, official memoranda, correspondence, construction-related documents, financial records, social welfare records, a Hazkara, a register of synagogue seats, the statutes (1862–1863) and records of the burial society (chevra kadisha), fragmentary material relating to Jewish associations, and a register of the synagogue in Velhartice.
- 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:
- A small Jewish settlement in Sušice is documented after the middle of the 16th century. It grew in size from the middle of the 17th century. A religious community existed there, at the latest, from the middle 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:
- Sušice
- Velhartice
- System of arrangement:
- Materials in the fonds are arranged thematically as follows: books/registers and files of the Jewish community, books/registers and files of the local synagogue, books/registers of the burial society (chevra kadisha), books/registers and files of Jewish associations, files of a Jewish school, a register of an associated community.
- Finding aids:
- Dolista K, Heřman J: Židovská náboženská obec Sušice, Prozatímní inventární seznam, 1971, 7 s., ev. č. 138.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Prague
- Author of the description:
- JMP Survey, 2015.
