Metadata: Jewish Religious Community of Čáslav
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:
- 14
- Title:
- Jewish Religious Community of Čáslav
- Title (official language):
- Židovská náboženská obec Čáslav
- Creator/accumulator:
- Jewish Religious Community of Čáslav
- Date(s):
- 1872/1940
- Language:
- Czech
- German
- Extent:
- 0.13 linear metres
- Scope and content:
- This fonds is fragmentary and consists of meeting minutes (maintained until 1940), a banns registry (1892–1937), a cash book, and fragments of documents relating to the Jewish Women's Charity Association, including its statutes (1922).
- 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 are recorded as living in Čáslav in the 14th century. The Jewish settlement was disbanded in the 15th century. A Jewish community was established there in the second half of the 19th century. It was not re-established after the Second World War.
- Access points: locations:
- Čáslav
- Finding aids:
- Dolista K, Heřman J: Židovská náboženská obec Čáslav 1872-1940, Prozatímní inventární seznam, 1971, 1 s., ev. č. 14.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Prague
- Author of the description:
- JMP Survey, 2015.
