Metadata: Jewish Religious Community of Jevíčko
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:
- 53
- Title:
- Jewish Religious Community of Jevíčko
- Title (official language):
- Židovská náboženská obec Jevíčko
- Creator/accumulator:
- Jewish Religious Community Jevíčko
- Date(s):
- 1732/1942
- Language:
- Czech
- German
- Hebrew
- Yiddish
- Extent:
- 2.86 linear metres
- Scope and content:
- This fonds contains the community's statutes of 1923, meeting minutes (maintained until 1940), protocol registers, election records, personnel records, registry matters, lists of Jewish families, correspondence, financial files, construction records, synagogue seats records, book of hazkarot, and fragmentary files of the burial society and other associations/institutions of the Jewish community. There are also fragmentary personnel and financial files from the period of the Nazi Occupation. The main financial register was maintained until 1942, the Bikur Cholim membership book until 1939, the minutes of meetings held by the local Jewish women's association until 1940.
- 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 in Jevíčko is documented from 16th century. It existed until the the Nazi Occupation and was not re-established after the Second World War.
- Access points: locations:
- Jevíčko
- Finding aids:
- Dolista K, Heřman J: Židovská náboženská obec Jevíčko 1732-1942, Prozatímní inventární seznam, 1971, 5 s., ev. č. 53.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Prague
- Author of the description:
- JMP Survey, 2015.