Metadata: Jewish Religious Community of Jindřichův Hradec
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:
- 56
- Title:
- Jewish Religious Community of Jindřichův Hradec
- Title (official language):
- Židovská náboženská obec Jindřichův Hradec
- Creator/accumulator:
- Jewish Religious Community of Jindřichův Hradec
- Date(s):
- 1956
- Language:
- Czech
- German
- Extent:
- 0.99 linear metres
- Physical condition:
- poor
- Scope and content:
- The fonds contains the statutes of the Jewish Religious Community of Jindřichův Hradec (1868, 1896, 1923), meeting minutes, correspondence, financial records, files of a Jewish school, documents of the burial society (chevra kadisha), records of meetings held by the Committee for the Assistance of War Refugees (1916–1918). It also contains community correspondence, rabbinate files, a donation book of the burial society, and records relating to the construction of a ceremonial hall at the cemetery (1939). There are also fragmentary records of a Jewish women's charity association from this period.
- 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 Jindřichův Hradec existed from the the first half of the 14th century. A Jewish religious community with a prayer house is documented from the 16th century. The community was re-established in 1877. It was disbanded by the Nazis during the Second World War and did not subsequently resume its activities.
- Access points: locations:
- Jindřichův Hradec
- System of arrangement:
- Materials in the fonds are arranged thematically as follows: registers and files of the Jewish community, registers and files of a Jewish school, registers and files of the burial society (chevra kadisha), registers and files of Jewish associations.
- Finding aids:
- Dolista K, Heřman J: Židovská náboženská obec Jindřichův Hradec, Prozatímní inventární seznam, 1971, 3 s., ev. č. 56.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Prague
- Author of the description:
- JMP Survey, 2015.