Metadata: Jakobovits Tobias, Dr.
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:
- 261
- Title:
- Jakobovits Tobias, Dr.
- Title (official language):
- Jakobovits Tobias, Dr.
- Creator/accumulator:
- Tobias Jakobovits
- Date(s):
- 1890/1942
- Language:
- Czech
- German
- Hebrew
- Hungarian
- Extent:
- 0.66 linear metres
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- poor
- Scope and content:
- The fonds contains personal documents and documents relating to family members as well as extracts and studies relating to the history of the Jews in Bohemia and Moravia, genealogical studies and documents relating to the library of the Jewish Religious Community of Prague.
- Archival history:
- The material came to the archives of the Jewish Museum in Prague, along with the records of the wartime Central Jewish Museum.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Dr. Tobias Jakobovits (born 1887 in Lackenbach, Austria, died 1944 in Auschwitz) was a rabbi, teacher of religion and librarian of the Jewish Religious Community Prague. He received a rabbinic education at a yeshivah in Bratislava, attended the rabbinic seminary in Berlin and studied at the Prague German University. He taught religion and served as rabbi in Michle (1917–1928) and in Uhlířské Janovice (from 1930). From 1922 he was the librarian of the Jewish Religious Community of Prague. During the war he worked at the Central Jewish Museum. He is the author of a number of studies on the history of the Jews of Bohemia and Moravia.
- Access points: locations:
- Michle
- Access points: persons/families:
- Jakobovits, Tobias
- Finding aids:
- Hanková M: Tobias Jakobovits, Dr (1887-1944)., Inventář, 2012, 14 s., AP č. 318
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Prague
- Author of the description:
- JMP Survey, 2015.
