Metadata: Sicher Gustav, 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:
- 293
- Title:
- Sicher Gustav, Dr.
- Title (official language):
- Sicher Gustav, Dr.
- Creator/accumulator:
- Gustav Sicher
- Date(s):
- 1871/1960
- Language:
- Czech
- German
- Hebrew
- Extent:
- 293 linear metres
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The fonds contains personal records (mainly diplomas) and a hand-written dissertation (1905–1955).
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Dr. Gustav Sicher was a rabbi. He was born in Klatovy, Bohemia, on 21 August 1880 and attended the Jewish school and gymnasium there. He later studied at the Vienna Rabbinical Seminary (Israelitisch-theologische Lehranstalt) and gained a doctorate of philosophy from the Charles-Ferdinand University in Prague. He served as rabbi in Náchod between 1906 and 1928 and in Prague-Vinohrady from 1928. At the end of 1939 he made it to Palestine. He was active in Jerusalem, where he founded a synagogue for Czechoslovak Jews, held lectures and taught religion to Czechoslovak children. He also worked as a chaplain at Hadassah Hospital. In 1947, at the invitation of Jewish Religious Community of Prague, he returned to Prague, where he became chief rabbi. He died in Prague on 6 October 1960.
- Access points: persons/families:
- Sicher, Gustav
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds is arranged as follows: personal records, correspondence, specialist work, diplomas, varia, photographs.
- Finding aids:
- Hanková M: Gustav Sicher, Dr. (1880-1960), Inventář, 2012, 8 s., AP č. 321
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Prague
- Author of the description:
- JMP Survey, 2015.
