Metadata: Jewish Religious Community of Nové Strašecí
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:
- 97
- Title:
- Jewish Religious Community of Nové Strašecí
- Title (official language):
- Židovská náboženská obec Nové Strašecí
- Creator/accumulator:
- Jewish Religious Community of Nové Strašecí
- Date(s):
- 1850/1942
- Language:
- Czech
- German
- Hebrew
- Extent:
- 0.14 linear metres
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The fonds contains documents of the burial society (chevra kadisha): statutes (1937-1938), meeting minutes, cash books (up to 1941), membership list, financial files, a graves register (up to 1942) and property return forms (1939-1941).
- 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 in Nové Strašecí is documented from the mid-17th century. A Jewish religious community probably existed there from the latter half of the 17th century. The community came to an end in 1937 and its area was allocated to the the Jewish Religious Community of Kladno.
- Access points: locations:
- Nové Strašecí
- Finding aids:
- Dolista K, Heřman J: Židovská náboženská obec Nové Strašecí, Prozatímní inventární seznam, 1971, 1 s., ev. č. 97.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Prague
- Author of the description:
- JMP Survey, 2015.
