Metadata: Jewish Religious Community of Žamberk
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:
- 168
- Title:
- Jewish Religious Community of Žamberk
- Title (official language):
- Židovská náboženská obec Žamberk
- Creator/accumulator:
- Jewish Religious Community of Žamberk
- Date(s):
- 1863/1938
- Language:
- German
- Czech
- Hebrew
- Extent:
- 0.17 linear metres
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The fonds contains minutes of meetings, files from 1930–1938, a religious tax register, fragmentary records of a Jewish school and a cash book of the associated community of Rokytnice in the Orlické Mountains.
- 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 Žamberk is documented from the middle of the 17th century. A Jewish religious community existed there from the latter half of the 17th century at the latest. It was disbanded by the Nazis during the Second World War and did not subsequently resume its activities.
- Access points: locations:
- Žamberk
- System of arrangement:
- Materials in the fragmentary fonds are arranged thematically as follows: books/registers and files of the Jewish community, books/registers and files of a Jewish school, a register and file of an associated community.
- Finding aids:
- Dolista K, Heřman J: Židovská náboženská obec Žamberk, Prozatímní inventární seznam, 1971, 1 s., ev. č. 168.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Prague
- Author of the description:
- JMP Survey, 2015.
