Metadata: Jewish Religious Community of Tachov
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:
- 143
- Title:
- Jewish Religious Community of Tachov
- Title (official language):
- Židovská náboženská obec Tachov
- Creator/accumulator:
- Jewish Religious Community of Tachov
- Date(s):
- 1752/1939
- Language:
- German
- Hebrew
- Yiddish
- Extent:
- 0.22 linear metres
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The fonds contains the statutes of the Jewish Religious Community of Tachov (1932), fragmentary files and a synagogue construction plan (1911). It also includes the pinkasim of the affiliated community of Nové Sedliště.
- Archival history:
- The records came to 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 Jewish settlement in Tachov is referred to as early as the second half of the 15th century. A Jewish religious community existed there from the second half of the 16th century. The legal status of the community was set out in the 1605 statutes of the manorial authority. Most of the Jewish families left the town during the Thirty Years’ War. Jewish settlement once again expanded during the 18th century settlement, with the number of Jewish families increasing until the middle of the 19th century. Tachov was the seat of the regional rabbinate for a temporary period in the first half of the 19th century. In 1914 the Tachov community was attached to that of Nové Sedliště (Neu-Zedlisch). The Jewish Religious Community of Tachov was disbanded after the annexation of the Sudetenland by Nazi Germany in 1938. It did not resume its activities after the Second World War.
- Access points: locations:
- Neu-Zedlisch
- Nové Sedliště
- Tachov
- System of arrangement:
- The fragmentary fonds contains books/registers and files of the Jewish community, files of the burial society (chevra kadisha) and two books of the affiliated community of Nové Sedliště.
- Finding aids:
- Dolista K, Heřman J: Židovská náboženská obec Brandýs nad Labem 1847-1940, Prozatímní inventární seznam, 1971, 1 s., ev. č. 143.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Prague
- Author of the description:
- JMP Survey, 2015.
