Metadata: Lederer Eduard
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:
- 322
- Title:
- Lederer Eduard
- Title (official language):
- Lederer Eduard
- Creator/accumulator:
- Eduard Lederer
- Date(s):
- 1875/1930
- Language:
- Czech
- German
- Extent:
- 0.11 linear metres
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Photographic images
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The fonds contains a small amount of correspondence, two published works and photographs (mainly of Eduard Lederer).
- Archival history:
- The material was donated to the Jewish Museum in Prague in 1995.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Eduard Lederer (literary pseudonym Leda) was a lawyer, journalist, dramatist, one of the leading figures in the Czech-Jewish movement. He was born in the village of Chotoviny near Tábor in 1859. In 1890, after completing a law degree in Prague, he opened a legal practice in Jindřichův Hradec, where he was active until the founding of Czechoslovakia. He later held the post of departmental councillor at the Ministry of Education. He was active in the Czech-Jewish movement from as early as the 1890s, when he was the editor of the Czech-Jewish Calendar. He was a regular contributor to the main Czech-Jewish periodicals of the day and wrote a number of studies and articles on the topic of Czech Jewishness. His literary output is thematic and extensive in terms of genre; he wrote psychological stories, tales about small-town life, fairy stories, comedies and dramas. He gave a number of lectures against antisemitism and promoted the Czech and Slovak national movements. In 1942 was deported to the Terezín ghetto, where in died in 1944.
- Access points: persons/families:
- Lederer, Eduard
- Finding aids:
- Hanková M: Eduard Lederer (1859-1944), Inventář, 2016, 7 s., AP č. 313
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Prague
- Author of the description:
- JMP Survey, 2015.
