Metadata: Jewish Religious Community of Jemnice
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:
- 52
- Title:
- Jewish Religious Community of Jemnice
- Title (official language):
- Židovská náboženská obec Jemnice
- Creator/accumulator:
- Jewish Religious Community of Jemnice
- Date(s):
- 1723/1938
- Language:
- Czech
- German
- Hebrew
- Yiddish
- Extent:
- 0.44 linear metres
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The fonds contains the statutes of the Jewish Religious Community of Jemnice, charitable foundation files, a register of synagogue seats, a Hazkara, fragmentary records of the burial society (chevra kadisha) and of several support associations, as well as a Hazkara and individual records of the affiliated community of Police.
- 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:
- Jewish settlement in Jemnice is documented from the first half of the 14th century. A Jewish religious community undoubtedly existed there in the 15th century. It was disbanded by the Nazis during the Second World War and did not subsequently resume its activities.
- System of arrangement:
- Materials in the fonds are arranged thematically as follows: registers and files of the Jewish community, registers of the local synagogue, registers of the burial society (chevra kadisha), registers of Jewish associations, files of an affiliated community.
- Finding aids:
- Dolista K, Heřman J: Židovská náboženská obec Jemnice, Prozatímní inventární seznam, 1971, 2 s., ev. č. 52.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Prague
- Author of the description:
- JMP Survey, 2015.