Metadata: Jewish Religious Community of Chomutov
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:
- 47
- Title:
- Jewish Religious Community of Chomutov
- Title (official language):
- Židovská náboženská obec Chomutov
- Creator/accumulator:
- Jewish Religious Community of Chomutov
- Date(s):
- 1694/1938
- Language:
- Czech
- German
- Hebrew
- Extent:
- 0.18 linear metres
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The fonds contains the statues of the local burial society (chevrakadisha), a graves register (1892–1938), a Hazkara, several files of the associated community of Údlice (Eidlitz) and a ledger (pinkas) of the associated community of Jirkov (Görkau).
- 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. Individual files of an earlier date were already part of the pre-war collections of the Jewish Museum in Prague. The pinkas of the Jewish Religious Community of Jirkov was transferred to the Archives of the Jewish Museum in Prague from the Kadaň-based District Archives in Chomutov in April 1985.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- A large Jewish religious community in Chomutov is documented from the end of the 15th century. It came to an end after the expulsion of Jews in 1517. It is probable that Jews mainly settled in the neighbouring village of Údlice. The influx of Jewish settlers to Chomutov is not documented until after the middle of the 19th century. At that time, there were two Jewish prayer associations, which fused together in 1872 to form a religious community. The Údlice community was turned into a prayer association in 1893, becoming part of the Jewish Religious Community of Chomutov. The Chomutov community was disbanded after the annexation of the Sudetenland by Nazi Germany in 1938 but resumed its activities after the Second World War.
- Finding aids:
- Dolista K, Heřman J: Židovská náboženská obec Chomutov, Prozatímní inventární seznam, 1971, 1 s., ev. č. 47.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Prague
- Author of the description:
- JMP Survey, 2015.
