Metadata: Jewish Religious Community of Libochovice
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:
- 76
- Title:
- Jewish Religious Community of Libochovice
- Title (official language):
- Židovská náboženská obec Libochovice
- Creator/accumulator:
- Jewish Religious Community of Libochovice
- Date(s):
- 1880/1940
- Language:
- Czech
- German
- Extent:
- 0.12 linear metres
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The fonds contains registers of Jewish associations and a chronicle of a Jewish school. It also contains a cash book of a women's association.
- 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 is documented in Libochovice from the first half of the 16th century. The existence of a Jewish religious community there is documented from the end of the 16th century. It was disbanded by the Nazis during the Second World War and did not subsequently resume its activities.
- Access points: locations:
- Libochovice
- Finding aids:
- Dolista K, Heřman J: Židovská náboženská obec Libochovice, Prozatímní inventární seznam, 1971, 1 s., ev. č. 76.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Prague
- Author of the description:
- JMP Survey, 2015.
