Metadata: Jewish Religious Community of Valašské Meziříčí
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:
- 157
- Title:
- Jewish Religious Community of Valašské Meziříčí
- Title (official language):
- Židovská náboženská obec Valašské Meziříčí
- Creator/accumulator:
- Jewish Religious Community of Valašské Meziříčí
- Date(s):
- 1790/1940
- Language:
- German
- Czech
- Hebrew
- Yiddish
- Extent:
- 0.66 linear metres
- Physical condition:
- poor
- Scope and content:
- The fonds contains the statutes of the Jewish Religious Community of Valašské Meziříčí (1894), minutes of meetings, official memoranda, correspondence, financial records, a Hazkara, minutes of meetings and fragmentary records of the burial society (chevra kadisha) and statutes of a Jewish women's association (1892). It also contains the statutes (1886, 1934) and fragmentary files of the associated community of Vsetín.
- 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 minor Jewish settlement in Valašské Meziříčí is documented from the 18th century. It increased in size from the middle of the 19th century onwards. A Jewish prayer association was established in the 1860s, becoming a religious community in 1891. The community was based in the neighbouring town of Krásno nad Bečvou (from 1924, part of Valašské Meziříčí). It was disbanded by the Nazis during the Second World War but subsequently resumed its activities as the Jewish Religious Community of Valašské Meziříčí, which was based in Vsetín.
- Access points: locations:
- Valašské Meziříčí
- Vsetín
- System of arrangement:
- Materials in the fonds are arranged thematically as follows: books/registers and files of the Jewish community, books/registers and files of the burial society (chevra kadisha), file of a local Jewish association, files of an associated community.
- Finding aids:
- Dolista K, Heřman J: Židovská náboženská obec Valašské Meziříčí, Prozatímní inventární seznam, 1971, 2 s., ev. č. 157.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Prague
- Author of the description:
- JMP Survey, 2015.
