Metadata: Jewish Religious Community of Radouň
Collection
- Country:
- Czechia
- Holding institution:
- State District Archives Litoměřice located in Lovosice
- Holding institution (official language):
- Státní okresní archiv Litoměřice se sídlem v Lovosicích
- Postal address:
- Terezínská 909/59, Lovosice, 410 02
- Phone number:
- 00420 477 755 922
- Reference number:
- 1358
- Title:
- Jewish Religious Community of Radouň
- Title (official language):
- Židovská náboženská obec Radouň
- Creator/accumulator:
- Jewish Religious Community of Radouň
- Date(s):
- 1825/1938
- Language:
- Czech
- German
- Extent:
- 0.1 linear metres
- Physical condition:
- poor
- Scope and content:
- The fonds comprises the following: register of synagogue seats, 1825-73 (inv. 1); material relating to the Jewish religious community in Czechoslovakia, 1934 - circulars, appointments of supervisory rabbis (inv. 2); birth, marriage and death registry matters, 1922-38 (inv. 3). Not included in the inventory is a list of members of the Jewish religious community of Radouň dating from 1920.
- Archival history:
- It is not known how the fonds was acquired or when it was handed over to the archives. It was inventoried in 2003.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The earliest record of the Jewish religious community of Radouň dates from the 18th century. There is a record of the construction in 1825 of a new synagogue (house 94), which replaced an earlier one that had fallen into disrepair. In Bernau's 1888 Account of the Political District of Dubá, the Jewish house of prayer in Radouň is referred to as the only one in the entire political district of Dubá. There was also a Jewish cemetery in Radouň: the collection of Jewish registers of birth, marriage and death in the national archives in Prague contains a map as well as a burial register and the statutes of the Jewish burial society in Radouň. In the 1830s there were 103 houses and 538 residents, including 15 Jewish families, in the village of Radouň. By 1888 the population had risen to 900, including 117 Jews. In 1900, based on census data, there were only 25 Jewish residents out of a population of 564, with this number dropping to 15 of 519 by 1921. The Jewish religious community of Radouň also included Jewish families from outlying areas.
- Access points: locations:
- Radouň
- Finding aids:
- Kotyzová I., Židovská náboženská obec Radouň 1825 - 1938, Inventář, 2003, 3 s., ev. č. 516.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Prague
- Author of the description:
- JMP Survey, 2015.
