Metadata: Jewish Religious Community of Náchod
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:
- 93
- Title:
- Jewish Religious Community of Náchod
- Title (official language):
- Židovská náboženská obec Náchod
- Creator/accumulator:
- Jewish Religious Community of Náchod
- Date(s):
- 1802/1941
- Language:
- Czech
- German
- Hebrew
- Extent:
- 0.77 linear metres
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The fonds contains the statutes of the Jewish Religious Community of Náchod (1928), meeting minutes, official memoranda, financial records, registers of synagogue seats, documents of the burial society (chevra kadisha), and registers of a Jewish school.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- A religious community in Náchod probably existed from the 15th century onwards. Náchod was the headquarters of the regional rabbi in the 19th century. The community was disbanded by the Nazis during the Second World War but subsequently resumed its activities.
- Access points: locations:
- Náchod
- System of arrangement:
- Materials in the fonds are arranged thematically as follows: registers and files of the Jewish community, registers and files of the local synagogue and registers of the burial society (chevra kadisha), files of a Jewish association, registers and files of a Jewish school.
- Finding aids:
- Dolista K, Heřman J: Židovská náboženská obec Náchod, Prozatímní inventární seznam, 1971, 4 s., ev. č. 93.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Prague
- Author of the description:
- JMP Survey, 2015.
