Metadata: Jewish Religious Community of Brandýs nad Labem
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:
- 7
- Title:
- Jewish Religious Community of Brandýs nad Labem
- Title (official language):
- Židovská náboženská obec Brandýs nad Labem
- Creator/accumulator:
- Jewish Religious Community of Brandýs nad Labem
- Date(s):
- 1847/1940
- Language:
- Czech
- German
- Hebrew
- Extent:
- 0.99 linear metres
- Scope and content:
- This fonds contains meeting minutes, election records, personnel records, documents relating to registry matters and to the teaching of religion, financial files, and burial society documents: statutes (1892–1906), meeting minutes, and fragmentary files. It also includes the financial register of the local Jewish women's association and book of hazkarat. The documents from 1938–1940 are mainly accounting records and related correspondence (following on from the pre-war accounting files). There are also several documents relating to social welfare for refugees.
- 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 Jewish community of Brandýs nad Labem is documented from the beginning of the 16th century. It existed until the Nazi Occupation. It was not re-established after the Second World War.
- Access points: locations:
- Brandýs nad Labem
- Finding aids:
- Dolista K, Heřman, J: Židovská náboženská obec Brandýs nad Labem 1847-1940, Prozatímní inventární seznam, 1971, 2 s., ev. č. 7.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Prague
- Author of the description:
- JMP Survey, 2015.
