Metadata: Jewish Religious Community of Velvary
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:
- 172
- Title:
- Jewish Religious Community of Velvary
- Title (official language):
- Židovská náboženská obec Velvary
- Creator/accumulator:
- Jewish Religious Community of Velvary
- Date(s):
- 1932
- Language:
- Czech
- Extent:
- 0.01 linear metres
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The fonds contains a request from the burial society (chevra kadisha) in Blevice for a contribution to repair the cemetery.
- Archival history:
- The record was 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:
- A minor Jewish settlement in Velvary is documented in the 15th and 16th centuries, reappearing at the end of the 18th century. A Jewish prayer association was established there in 1876, becoming a religious community in 1893. The community was disbanded by the Nazis during the Second World War and did not subsequently resume its activities.
- Access points: locations:
- Blevice
- Subject terms:
- Burial
- Cemeteries
- Hevrah kadisha
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds is arranged as follows: books/registers and files of the Jewish community, books/registers and files of the local synagogue, books/registers and files of the burial society (chevra kadisha), books/registers and files of Jewish associations.
- Finding aids:
- Dolista K, Heřman J: Židovská náboženská obec Velvary, Prozatímní inventární seznam, 1971, 1 s., ev. č. 172.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Prague
- Author of the description:
- JMP Survey, 2015.
