Metadata: Brandeis family
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:
- 236
- Title:
- Brandeis family
- Title (official language):
- Brandeis, rodina
- Creator/accumulator:
- Jakob B. Brandeis
- Date(s):
- 1815/1939
- Language:
- Czech
- German
- Extent:
- 0.22 linear metres
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The fonds contains family records-personal documents, confirmation speeches, condolence messages, correspondence, newspaper clippings, publication-related matters (contracts with authors, etc.).
- Archival history:
- The documents came to 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 Brandeis family was based in Prague. Jakob B. Brandeis (1835–1912), publisher was the father of Richard Brandeis (1865–1944). The latter was the owner of a printing press and publishing house and head of a group of book printers.
- Access points: locations:
- Prague
- Access points: persons/families:
- Brandeis family
- Subject terms:
- Correspondence
- Personal records
- Printing
- Publishing
- Finding aids:
- Dolista K, Heřman J: Brandeis, rodina, Prozatímní inventární seznam, 1972, 2 s., AP č. 232
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Prague
- Author of the description:
- JMP Survey, 2015.