Metadata: Jewish Religious Community of Toužim
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:
- 146
- Title:
- Jewish Religious Community of Toužim
- Title (official language):
- Židovská náboženská obec Toužim
- Creator/accumulator:
- Jewish Religious Community of Toužim
- Date(s):
- 1895/1938
- Language:
- German
- Hebrew
- Extent:
- 0.01 linear metres
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The fonds contains a book of the burial society (chevra kadisha).
- Archival history:
- The preserved book was transferred to the archives of the Jewish Museum in Prague in 1964 from the State Archives in Klášterec nad Ohří.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- A small Jewish settlement in Toužim is documented from the first half of the 16th century. It was not until the middle of the 19th century that a larger number of Jewish families were allowed to live in the town. The Jewish religious community was based in Útvin (Uitwa) until it relocated to Toužim in 1870. The community was disbanded after the annexation of the Sudetenland by Nazi Germany in 1938 and did not resume its activities after the Second World War.
- Access points: locations:
- Toužim
- Subject terms:
- Burial
- Hevrah kadisha
- Jewish community
- Finding aids:
- Dolista K, Heřman J: Židovská náboženská obec Toužim 1895-1938, Prozatímní inventární seznam, 1971, 1 s., ev. č. 146.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Prague
- Author of the description:
- JMP Survey, 2015.
