Metadata: Jewish Religious Community of Volyně
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:
- 162
- Title:
- Jewish Religious Community of Volyně
- Title (official language):
- Židovská náboženská obec Volyně
- Creator/accumulator:
- Jewish Religious Community of Volyně
- Date(s):
- 1738/1940
- Language:
- German
- Czech
- Hebrew
- Yiddish
- Extent:
- 1.98 linear metres
- Physical condition:
- poor
- Scope and content:
- The fonds contains a ledger (pinkas) (1738–1875), the statutes of the Jewish Religious Community of Volyně (1873–1877, 1896), filing registers, minutes of meetings, election records, personnel files, reports on the community's activities, official memoranda, construction-related documents, financial records, documents relating to property transfers, fragmentary documents relating to the burial society (chevra kadisha) and to a Jewish school.
- 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:
- The earliest reliable record of Jewish settlement in Volyně dates from the first quarter of the 16th century. The Jewish community considerably expanded in size in the first half of the 19th century. A Jewish religious community existed there from the middle of the 17th century at the latest. It incorporated the communities of Hoštice and Dub at the end of the 19th century and in 1906 respectively. The area of the disbanded Jewish Religious Community of Vlachovo Březí was attached to that of the Volyně community in 1924. The Jewish Religious Community of Volyně was disbanded by the Nazis during the Second World War and did not subsequently resume its activities.
- Access points: locations:
- Volyně
- System of arrangement:
- Materials in the fonds are arranged thematically as follows: books/registers and files of the Jewish community, files of the local synagogue, a register and files of the burial society (chevra kadisha), books/registers and files of a Jewish school and files of Jewish associations.
- Finding aids:
- Dolista K, Heřman J: Židovská náboženská obec Volyně, Prozatímní inventární seznam, 1971, 5 s., ev. č. 162.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Prague
- Author of the description:
- JMP Survey, 2015.
