Metadata: Jewish Religious Community of Žatec
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:
- 169
- Title:
- Jewish Religious Community of Žatec
- Title (official language):
- Židovská náboženská obec Žatec
- Creator/accumulator:
- Jewish Religious Community of Žatec
- Date(s):
- 1871/1938
- Language:
- German
- Extent:
- 0.11 linear metres
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The fonds contains charitable foundation files, the 1871 statutes of the burial society (chevra kadisha), and the 1880 statutes of a Jewish women's association.
- Archival history:
- The records came to 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 Jewish presence in Žatec is documented from the second half of the 15th century. In the wake of two expulsions in the 16th and 17th centuries, it was not until the middle of the 19th century that the number of Jewish families there rapidly increased. A Jewish religious community was probably established there in 1864. In 1931 it incorporated the area of the disbanded communities of Měcholupy (Michelob) and Liběšice (Liebeschitz). The 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:
- Zatec
- Finding aids:
- Dolista K, Heřman J: Židovská náboženská obec Žatec 1871-1938, Prozatímní inventární seznam, 1971, 1 s., ev. č. 169.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Prague
- Author of the description:
- JMP Survey, 2015.
