Metadata: Jewish Religious Community of Dobříš
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:
- 22
- Title:
- Jewish Religious Community of Dobříš
- Title (official language):
- Židovská náboženská obec Dobříš
- Creator/accumulator:
- Jewish Religious Community of Dobříš
- Date(s):
- 1799/1942
- Language:
- Czech
- German
- Hebrew
- Extent:
- 3.9 linear metres
- Scope and content:
- This fonds contains the community's statutes (1855–1906), meeting minutes, election records, Familiantenbuch (register of Familiants) from 1799–1827, personnel records, registry documents, official correspondence, financial files, documents on the construction of a synagogue, documents relating to the local Jewish school, burial society and women's charity association, minutes of meetings held by the Jewish community (maintained until 1939), community protocol registers, minutes of meetings held by the burial society, financial registers (maintained until 1942), and a travel permit register from 1940–1942. The fonds also includes fragmentary materials relating to the affiliated communities of Nový Knín, Čelina and Mníšek pod Brdy.
- 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:
- A Jewish community was probably in existence in Dobříš in the 17th century. It was disbanded during the Nazi Occupation and was not re-established after the Second World War.
- Access points: locations:
- Dobříš
- Mníšek pod Brdy
- Nový Knín
- Finding aids:
- Dolista K, Heřman, J: Židovská náboženská obec Dobříš 1799-1942, Prozatímní inventární seznam, 1971, 6 s., ev. č. 22.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Prague
- Author of the description:
- JMP Survey, 2015.
