Metadata: Jewish Community of Bzenec
Collection
- Country:
- Czechia
- Holding institution:
- State District Archives of Hodonín
- Holding institution (official language):
- Státní okresní archiv Hodonín
- Postal address:
- Koupelní 809/10, Hodonín, 695 01
- Phone number:
- 00420 518 343 306
- Email:
- soka_hodonin@mza.cz
- Reference number:
- 583
- Title:
- Jewish Community of Bzenec
- Title (official language):
- Židovská městská obec Bzenec
- Creator/accumulator:
- Jewish Political Community of Bzenec
- Date(s):
- 1783/1943
- Language:
- German
- Hebrew
- Extent:
- 3 linear metres
- Scope and content:
- The fonds contains a relatively abundant, though not complete, set of written materials regarding the political administration of the Jewish community in Bzenec, including written documents dating to before 1848 and documents that should form a separate fonds (such as documents from the local school board) or should be part of another fonds. These are: minutes of meetings of the community administration (apparently the religious community) 1843-1860, minutes of meetings from the town council and assembly 1850-1852, 1853, 1856, 1861, 1864-1870, 1909-1919, including the cash journal 1854-1867, minutes of meetings of the poor fund from 1871 to 1892, minutes of meetings of the local school board of the Jewish community from 1870 to 1885, records of new community members from 1811 to 1818, records of issued domicile certificates from 1867-1919, lists of foundations from 1816 to 1837, 1890, book of concepts and transcripts from 1840-1869, instructions from the municipal police from 1858, a list of voters from 1864, 1870, incremental registers from 1862-1919, chronologically ordered files from 1851, 1853-1854, 1856, 1858, 1861-1863, 1868, 1871, 1873-1874, 1880, 1882-1883, 1894, 1903, 1909, 1914; files sorted by relevance - religion (synagogue construction 1861-1864, election of rabbi N. Brüll, testament of F. Fuchsová 1840), population (settlements, weddings, deaths 1876), military records (supplementary lists 1860-1876, routine agendas 1876-1877, list of payers of military tax 1881-1901), building permits 1859-1913, trade licences 1876; accounting dossiers - book of income and expenses 1783-1864, including a list of town officials 1783-1809, book of income and expenses 1885-1890, budget 1903, accounting book of foundations 1857-1858 with an incremental register 1851, a diary of income and expenses of the poor fund 1881, including materials from an earlier period: a cash journal maintained in Hebrew from 1823, reports and assessments of tax from 1792-1814. From the Holocaust period, an overview of accounts with Jewish owners is included inorganically in fonds in 1943.
- Archival history:
- Documents were originally stored by the creator in the municipal house. Following the merger with the Christian community in 1919 the documents were taken over by the town of Bzenec, which in 1966 and 1980 transferred them to the State District Archives in Hodonín. There the documents of the Jewish political committee in 1998 were sorted from the fonds of the Bzenec Municipal Archive and the Municipal National Committee in Bzenec.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Confirmed Jewish settlement in Bzenec (Bisenz in German) dates from the 16th century. After 1848 a Jewish political community was established, which carried out political administration of the Jewish quarter. In 1919 it was merged with the Christian community by the town of Bzenec. The Jewish political community in Bzenec fell in 1850-1919 under the district court in Uherský Ostroh and under the political districts of Uherské Hradiště in 1850-1855, 1868-1919 and of Uherský Ostroh in 1855-1868.
- Access points: locations:
- Bzenec
- Access points: persons/families:
- Brüll, N
- Fuchsová, F
- Subject terms:
- Aid and relief
- Aid and relief--Philanthropy and charity
- Architecture
- Education
- Education--Schools and universities
- Financial records
- Holocaust
- Jewish community
- Jewish community records
- Jewish political activity
- Law enforcement
- Law enforcement--Police
- Marriage and divorce
- Military
- Residency issues of Jews
- Synagogues
- Trade and commerce
- Vital records
- Vital records--Death records
- Vital records--Marriage records
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds is arranged as follows: official books, assisting books, files, accounting books.
- Finding aids:
- Špičková, M.: Židovská městská obec Bzenec, 1783 - 1919 (1943). Inventář, 1998, s. 9, ev.č. 712.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Prague
- Author of the description:
- JMP Survey, 2015.
