Metadata: Jewish Religious Community of Vimperk
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:
- 159
- Title:
- Jewish Religious Community of Vimperk
- Title (official language):
- Židovská náboženská obec Vimperk
- Creator/accumulator:
- Jewish Religious Community of Vimperk
- Date(s):
- 1818/1944
- Language:
- German
- Czech
- Hebrew
- Extent:
- 0.04 linear metres
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The fonds contains fragmentary files relating to the keeping of registers. It also includes a charitable foundation register and fragmentary files relating to the affiliated community of Čkyně.
- Archival history:
- It is not exactly known how the records came to the archives of the Jewish Museum in Prague.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- A minor Jewish settlement in Vimperk is documented from the 17th century. The Jews of Vimperk belonged to the Jewish Religious Community of Čkyně (Tschkin, Kieselhof). It was only in 1899 that the community's seat was transferred to Vimperk. The Vimperk community was disbanded after the annexation of the Sudetenland by Nazi Germany in 1938. It did not resume its activities after the Second World War.
- Finding aids:
- Dolista K, Heřman J: Židovská náboženská obec Vimperk (1818) 1878-1944, Prozatímní inventární seznam, 1971, 1 s., ev. č. 159.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Prague
- Author of the description:
- JMP Survey, 2015.
