Metadata: Woskin-Nahartabi Mojssej, 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:
- 305
- Title:
- Woskin-Nahartabi Mojssej, Dr.
- Title (official language):
- Woskin-Nahartabi Mojssej, Dr.
- Creator/accumulator:
- Mojssej Woskin-Nahartabi
- Date(s):
- 1912/1942
- Language:
- Czech
- German
- Hebrew
- Russian
- Extent:
- 0.88 linear metres
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The fonds contains personal documents and files, personal correspondence, manuscripts on Hebrew and religious studies, newspaper cuttings and reviews.
- 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:
- Dr. Mojssej Woskin-Nahartabi (born 16 February 1884, Nahartav, Cherson district, Ukraine, died 1944, Auschwitz) was an educator and scholar. After studying in Lithuania and at universities in Frankfurt am Main, Berlin and Halle, he was employed as a professor of Semitic languages, Hebrew, Arabic and Arabic literature. In Leipzig he founded and ran a Jewish school (Tchija). When Hitler rose to power, he left Halle for Prague, where he obtained a permit to work for the Supreme Council of the Federations of Jewish Religious Communities in Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia. At the council he founded a seminar for training teachers of religion. During the Second World War, he researched Hebrew books and manuscripts at the Central Jewish Museum in Prague. On 13 July 1943 he was deported with his family on Transport Di to the Terezín ghetto. On 19 October 1944 he was sent on Transport Es to Auschwitz, where he died.
- Access points: persons/families:
- Woskin-Nahartabi, Mojssej
- Finding aids:
- Dolista K, Heřman J: Woskin-Nahartabi Mojssej, Dr., Prozatímní inventární seznam, 1972, 3 s., AP č. 301
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Prague
- Author of the description:
- JMP Survey, 2015.
