Metadata: Jewish Religious Community of Kašperské Hory
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:
- 60
- Title:
- Jewish Religious Community of Kašperské Hory
- Title (official language):
- Židovská náboženská obec Kašperské Hory
- Creator/accumulator:
- Jewish Religious Community of Kašperské Hory
- Date(s):
- 1924
- Language:
- German
- Hebrew
- Extent:
- 0.01 linear metres
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The fonds contains only a file on the sale of a synagogue in the village of Dlouhá Ves.
- Archival history:
- The record was 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. (It came from a shipment of material from the Jewish Religious Community of Sušice).
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The earliest references to a Jewish settlement in Kašperské Hory date from the period after the middle of the 19th century. A Jewish prayer association was gradually established there, becoming a religious community in 1893. The community was disbanded after the annexation of the Sudetenland by Nazi Germany in 1938 and did not resume its activities after the Second World War.
- Subject terms:
- Jewish community
- Real estate
- Synagogues
- Finding aids:
- Dolista K, Heřman J: Židovská náboženská obec Kašperské Hory, Prozatímní inventární seznam, 1971, 1 s., ev. č. 60.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Prague
- Author of the description:
- JMP Survey, 2015.
