Metadata: Jewish Religious Community of Česká Lípa
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:
- 16
- Title:
- Jewish Religious Community of Česká Lípa
- Title (official language):
- Židovská náboženská obec Česká Lípa
- Creator/accumulator:
- Jewish Religious Community of Česká Lípa
- Date(s):
- 1896
- Language:
- German
- Extent:
- 0.01 linear metres
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The fonds contains only the statutes of the Jewish Religious Community of Česká Lípa.
- 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 Česká Lípa is documented from the 16th century. According to information from tombstones, there was probably a Jewish religious community in existence there from the middle of the 17th century. A major pogrom occurred in in Česká Lípa in 1744 during the Second Silesian War. The religious community was disbanded after the annexation of the Sudetenland by Nazi Germany in 1938 but resumed its activities after the Second World War.
- Access points: locations:
- Česká Lípa
- Subject terms:
- Jewish community
- Jewish community records
- Finding aids:
- Dolista K, Heřman J: Židovská náboženská obec Česká Lípa, Prozatímní inventární seznam, 1971, 1 s., ev.č. 16.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Prague
- Author of the description:
- JMP Survey, 2015.
