Metadata: Jewish Religious Community of Františkovy Lázně
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:
- 27
- Title:
- Jewish Religious Community of Františkovy Lázně
- Title (official language):
- Židovská náboženská obec Františkovy Lázně
- Creator/accumulator:
- Jewish Religious Community of Františkovy Lázně
- Date(s):
- 1897/1938
- Language:
- Czech
- German
- Extent:
- 0.02 linear metres
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- A book of donations for a Jewish hospital.
- Archival history:
- The record was incorporated into the archives of the Jewish Museum in Prague after the Second World War.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Jewish settlement in Františkovy Lázně dates from the middle of the 19th century. A Jewish prayer association was established there in 1863, becoming a religious community in 1875. The community was disbanded after the annexation of the Sudetenland by Nazi Germany in 1938 but resumed its activities for a while after the Second World War, with its base in the town of Aš.
- Access points: locations:
- Františkovy Lázně
- Finding aids:
- Dolista K, Heřman J: Židovská náboženská obec Františkovy Lázně, Prozatímní inventární seznam, 1971, 1 s., ev. č. 27.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Prague
- Author of the description:
- JMP Survey, 2015.
