Metadata: Jewish Religious Community of Jičín
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:
- 54
- Title:
- Jewish Religious Community of Jičín
- Title (official language):
- Židovská náboženská obec Jičín
- Creator/accumulator:
- Jewish Religious Community of Jičín
- Date(s):
- 1785/1940
- Language:
- German
- Hebrew
- Extent:
- 2.09 linear metres
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The fonds contains the statutes of the Jewish Religious Community of Jičín (1894–1897, 1902–1903), records related to the merging of communities, meeting minutes, personnel records, correspondence, financial records, registers of synagogue seats, registers of a Jewish school, and documents of the burial society (chevra kadisha). It also contains the minutes of burial society meetings, which were kept 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:
- Jewish settlement in Jičín is documented in the latter half of the 14th century. A Jewish religious community existed there from the first half of the 17th century. The community was disbanded by the Nazis during the Second World War and did not subsequently resume its activities.
- Access points: locations:
- Jičín
- System of arrangement:
- Materials in the fonds are arranged thematically as follows: registers and files of the Jewish community, registers and files of the local synagogue, registers and files of a Jewish school, registers and files of the burial society (chevra kadisha), files of Jewish associations.
- Finding aids:
- Dolista K, Heřman J: Židovská náboženská obec Jičín, Prozatímní inventární seznam, 1971, 5 s., ev. č. 54.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Prague
- Author of the description:
- JMP Survey, 2015.