Metadata: Jewish Religious Community of Telč
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:
- 144
- Title:
- Jewish Religious Community of Telč
- Title (official language):
- Židovská náboženská obec Telč
- Creator/accumulator:
- Jewish Religious Community of Telč
- Date(s):
- 1850/1942
- Language:
- German
- Czech
- Hebrew
- Extent:
- 0.88 linear metres
- Physical condition:
- poor
- Scope and content:
- The fonds contains the statutes of the Jewish Religious Community of Telč (1897–1936), minutes of meetings, election records, personnel files, registry records, social welfare records, correspondence, financial records, documents relating to the construction of the local synagogue, a Hazkara, fragmentary documents relating to a Jewish school, of the burial society (chevra kadisha) and other Jewish associations.
- 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:
- Jewish settlement in Telč is documented from the first half of the 17th century. A Jewish religious community already existed there in the 17th century. It was disbanded by the Nazis during the Second World War and did not subsequently resume its activities.
- Access points: locations:
- Telč
- System of arrangement:
- Materials in the fonds are arranged thematically as follows: books/registers and files of the Jewish community, books/registers, files and plans of the local synagogue, books/registers and files of the burial society (chevra kadisha), books/registers and files of Jewish associations, books/registers and files of a Jewish school, a register of an associated community.
- Finding aids:
- Dolista K, Heřman J: Židovská náboženská obec Telč, Prozatímní inventární seznam, 1971, 3 s., ev. č. 144.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Prague
- Author of the description:
- JMP Survey, 2015.
