Metadata: Jewish Religious Community of Uherský Ostroh
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:
- 153
- Title:
- Jewish Religious Community of Uherský Ostroh
- Title (official language):
- Židovská náboženská obec Uherský Ostroh
- Creator/accumulator:
- Jewish Religious Community of Uherský Ostroh
- Date(s):
- 1706/1940
- Language:
- German
- Czech
- Hebrew
- Yiddish
- Extent:
- 2.09 linear metres
- Physical condition:
- poor
- Scope and content:
- The fonds contains lists of Jewish families in Uherský Ostroh (1727), registers of Familiants (1798–1832), marriage banns registers (1881–1889), the statutes of the Jewish Religious Community of Uherský Ostroh (1938), minutes of meetings, files concerning the political Jewish community, property-related records, criminal case files, official memoranda, financial records, construction-related documents, a register of synagogue seats, a Hazkara, the statutes (1890) and books/registers of the burial society (chevra kadisha), as well as a Hazkara and charitable foundation files of the associated community of Veselí nad Moravou.
- 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 large Jewish settlement in Uherský Ostroh is documented from the beginning of the 18th century, but must have existed from the 16th century at least. A Jewish religious community probably existed there at the same time; a Jewish cemetery there is documented from 1592. The traditional Jewish name of the community was Steinitz. The community was disbanded by the Nazis during the Second World War and did not subsequently resume its activities.
- Access points: locations:
- Uherský Ostroh
- Veselí nad Moravou
- System of arrangement:
- Materials in the fonds are arranged thematically as follows: books/registers and files of the Jewish community, books/registers of the local synagogue, books/registers of Jewish associations, books/registers and file of the burial society (chevra kadisha) and books/registers and files of an associated community.
- Finding aids:
- Dolista K, Heřman J: Židovská náboženská obec Uherský Ostroh, Prozatímní inventární seznam, 1971, 4 s., ev. č. 153.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Prague
- Author of the description:
- JMP Survey, 2015.
