Metadata: Jewish Religious Community of Kroměříž
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:
- 69
- Title:
- Jewish Religious Community of Kroměříž
- Title (official language):
- Židovská náboženská obec Kroměříž
- Creator/accumulator:
- Jewish Religious Community of Kroměříž
- Date(s):
- 1629/1941
- Language:
- Czech
- German
- Hebrew
- Yiddish
- Extent:
- 10.27 linear metres
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The fonds contains a confirmation of the privileges granted to the Jews of Kroměříž (1657, 1665), Perdon Tax ledgers, statutes of the Jewish Religious Community of Kroměříž (1916, 1926), meeting minutes, personnel records, registry records, official memoranda, correspondence, financial and tax records, charitable foundation files, registers of synagogue seats, Hazkarot, records relating to the construction of the local synagogue, files of a Jewish school, cemetery registers, statutes (1860) and documents of the burial society (chevra kadisha), fragmentary records of various Jewish associations. The fonds also contains a register of invitations to meetings and a Hazkara, which were kept until until the period of Nazi Occupation.
- 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:
- The earliest written report about Jewish settlement in Kroměříž dates from 1322. It is assumed that a Jewish religious community was in existence there by the first quarter of the 15th century. The community was disbanded by the Nazis during the Second World War and did not subsequently resume its activities.
- Access points: locations:
- Kroměříž
- System of arrangement:
- Materials in the fonds are arranged thematically as follows: registers and files of the Jewish community, charitable foundation files, registers and files of the local synagogue, registers and files of a Jewish school, registers, files and plans of the burial society (chevra kadisha), registers and files of Jewish associations.
- Finding aids:
- Dolista K, Heřman J: Židovská náboženská obec Kromeříž, Prozatímní inventární seznam, 1971, 19 s., ev. č. 69. Dostupné na:
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Prague
- Author of the description:
- JMP Survey, 2015.