Metadata: Jewish Religious Community of Divišov
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:
- 20
- Title:
- Jewish Religious Community of Divišov
- Title (official language):
- Židovská náboženská obec Divišov
- Creator/accumulator:
- Jewish Religious Community of Divišov
- Date(s):
- 1776/1942
- Language:
- Czech
- German
- Hebrew
- Extent:
- 0.22 linear metres
- Scope and content:
- This fonds contains meeting minutes, cash books, fragmentary files, and financial registers (maintained until 1942). There is also a collection of circulars from 1940–1942.
- 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 Divišov is documented from the 17th century. A Jewish community was founded there in the second half of the 18th century. In 1930 it became affiliated to the Jewish Religious Community of Benešov due to a decline in membership.
- Access points: locations:
- Divišov
- Subject terms:
- Financial records
- Jewish community
- Jewish community records
- Finding aids:
- Dolista K, Heřman, J: Židovská náboženská obec 1776-1942, Prozatímní inventární seznam, 1971, 1 s., ev. č. 20.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Prague
- Author of the description:
- JMP Survey, 2015.
