Metadata: Jewish Burial Society-Chevra Kadisha
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:
- 195
- Title:
- Jewish Burial Society-Chevra Kadisha
- Title (official language):
- Židovské pohřební bratrstvo Chevra kadiša
- Creator/accumulator:
- Jewish Burial Society-Chevra Kadisha
- Date(s):
- 1751/1943
- Language:
- German
- Czech
- Hebrew
- Yiddish
- Extent:
- 11 linear metres
- Physical condition:
- poor
- Scope and content:
- The fonds contains records relating to the activities of the Jewish Burial Society (minutes of meetings, correspondence, lists of members, financial records), death registers, burial registers, copies of epitaphs.
- 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.
- Access points: locations:
- Czech Republic
- Subject terms:
- Burial
- Hevrah kadisha
- Vital records
- Vital records--Death records
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds is arranged thematically.
- Access, restrictions:
- Partly accessible
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Prague
- Author of the description:
- JMP Survey, 2015.
