Metadata: Jewish Religious Community of Heřmanův Městec
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:
- 34
- Title:
- Jewish Religious Community of Heřmanův Městec
- Title (official language):
- Židovská náboženská obec Heřmanův Městec
- Creator/accumulator:
- Jewish Religious Community of Heřmanův Městec
- Date(s):
- 1860/1940
- Language:
- Czech
- Hebrew
- Yiddish
- Extent:
- 4.07 linear metres
- Scope and content:
- This fonds contains the community's statutes (1877, 1896, 1900), meeting minutes (maintained until 1940), election records, personnel records, circumcision records (1817–1839), correspondence, records concerning Jewish houses, financial files, synagogue seats records, the statutes and records of the burial society, and fragments of documents relating to Jewish associations and institutions. The fonds also includes fragmentary files relating to the affiliated communities of Hroubovice, Chrudim, Přestavlky and Zájezdec.
- 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:
- A Jewish community was probably founded in Heřmanův Městec in the 16th century. The Jewish population did not increase in size until the middle of the 19th century. The community was disbanded during the Nazi Occupation and was not re-established after the Second World War.
- Access points: locations:
- Chrudim
- Heřmanův Městec
- Hroubovice
- Přestavlky
- Zájezdec
- Finding aids:
- Dolista K, Heřman J: Židovská náboženská obec Heřmanův Městec (1643) 1782-1940, Prozatímní inventární seznam, 1971, 5 s., ev. č. 34.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Prague
- Author of the description:
- JMP Survey, 2015.