Metadata: Jewish Religious Community of Dvůr Králové
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:
- 26
- Title:
- Jewish Religious Community of Dvůr Králové
- Title (official language):
- Židovská náboženská obec Dvůr Králové
- Creator/accumulator:
- Jewish Religious Community of Dvůr Králové
- Date(s):
- 1862/1942
- Language:
- Czech
- German
- Hebrew
- Extent:
- 0.77 linear metres
- Scope and content:
- This fonds contains the community's statutes including amendments (1862–1897, 1932), meeting minutes, a memorial book, rules of procedure, a community membership list, financial files, documents and accounts for the construction of a synagogue and cemetery, and a community photograph album from the early 1940s.
- 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 prayer association was founded in Dvůr Králové in 1862. An independent Jewish community was founded there in 1890 and existed until the Nazi Occupation. It was not re-established after the Second World War.
- Access points: locations:
- Dvůr Králové nad Labem
- Finding aids:
- Dolista K, Heřman, J: Židovská náboženská obec Dvůr králové nad Labem 1862 - [1942], Prozatímní inventární seznam, 1971, 2 s., ev. č. 26.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Prague
- Author of the description:
- JMP Survey, 2015.
