Metadata: Jewish Religious Community of Krnov
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:
- 68
- Title:
- Jewish Religious Community of Krnov
- Title (official language):
- Židovská náboženská obec Krnov
- Creator/accumulator:
- Jewish Religious Community of Krnov
- Date(s):
- 1807/1920
- Language:
- German
- Extent:
- 0.08 linear metres
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The fonds contains the statutes and filing register of the Jewish Religious Community of Krnov (1895, 1907), as well as records of the associated community of Osoblaha (two registers/books and lists of payers of the religious tax.
- Archival history:
- The records were sent to the archives of the Jewish Museum in Prague from Brno during the Second World War as part of shipments of material from Jewish religious communities that had been disbanded. A book of standards was kept at the Jewish Museum in Mikulov before the war. Two registers/books and files were transferred to the Jewish Museum in Prague from the District Archives in Bruntál in May 1985. The 1804 memorial book of the Jewish Religious Community of Osoblaha was transferred to the Jewish Museum in Prague from the Krnov-based State District Archives in February 2015.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- There may have been a medieval Jewish community in Krnov in the 14th century, but there is no reliable documentation for this. Jews were expelled from the principality of Krnov in the 16th century. It was not until the middle of the 19th century that a more prominent Jewish settlement started to emerge in Krnov. A Jewish prayer association was established there in 1853 as part of the Jewish Religious Community of Osoblaha. A separate Jewish religious community was founded in Krnov in 1877. It incorporated part of the area of the disbanded Jewish Religious Community of Osoblaha in 1928. The Krnov community was disbanded after the annexation of the Sudetenland by Nazi Germany in 1938 community but resumed its activities after the Second World War.
- Subject terms:
- Jewish community
- Jewish community records
- Finding aids:
- Dolista K, Heřman J: Židovská náboženská obec Krnov, Prozatímní inventární seznam, 1971, 1 s., ev. č. 68.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Prague
- Author of the description:
- JMP Survey, 2015.