Metadata: Jewish Religious Community of Domažlice
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:
- 25
- Title:
- Jewish Religious Community of Domažlice
- Title (official language):
- Židovská náboženská obec Domažlice
- Creator/accumulator:
- Jewish Religious Community of Domažlice
- Date(s):
- 1814/1941
- Language:
- Hebrew
- Czech
- German
- Extent:
- 0.66 linear metres
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The fonds contains the statutes of the Jewish Religious Community of Domažlice (1920), meeting minutes, correspondence, financial records, minutes of meetings held by the burial society (chevra kadisha), graves registers, and fragmentary records of an association of Jewish women and girls. A book of donations for the poor fund was kept until 1941. The fonds also includes books/registers from the 19th century and fragmentary files of the associated community of Puclice.
- 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 Domažlice is documented from the mid-14th century, but individual Jewish families were not allowed to live there until the mid-19th century. A prayer association was established after 1850, becoming a religious community in 1873. In 1931 the community incorporated the area of the disbanded Jewish Religious Community of Staňkov. The Jewish Religious Community of Domažlice was disbanded by the Nazis during the Second World War and did not subsequently resume its activities.
- System of arrangement:
- Materials in the fonds are arranged thematically as follows: books/registers and files of the Jewish community, books/registers of the burial society (chevra kadisha), books/registers and files of a Jewish association, books/registers and files of associated communities.
- Finding aids:
- Dolista K, Heřman J: Židovská náboženská obec Domažlice, Prozatímní inventární seznam, 1971, 2 s., ev. č. 25.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Prague
- Author of the description:
- JMP Survey, 2015.
