Metadata: Jewish Religious Community of Dobruška
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:
- 21
- Title:
- Jewish Religious Community of Dobruška
- Title (official language):
- Židovská náboženská obec Dobruška
- Creator/accumulator:
- Jewish Religious Community of Dobruška
- Date(s):
- 1822/1941
- Language:
- Czech
- German
- Hebrew
- Yiddish
- Extent:
- 0.12 linear metres
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The fonds is fragmentary. It contains meeting minutes, registers of income and expenditure, and fragmentary registry files.
- 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:
- The first written reference to Jewish settlement in Dobrušla dates from 1618. It is assumed that a Jewish religious community existed there from the latter half of the 17th century, at the latest. The community was disbanded by the Nazis during the Second World War and did not subsequently resume its activities.
- Access points: locations:
- Dobruška
- Subject terms:
- Jewish community
- Jewish community records
- Finding aids:
- Dolista K, Heřman J: Židovská náboženská obec Dobruška, Prozatímní inventární seznam, 1971, 1 s., ev. č. 21.
- Links to finding aids:
- https://www.jewishmuseum.cz/en/collection-research/collections-funds/archives-collections/
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Prague
- Author of the description:
- JMP Survey, 2015.
