Metadata: Archive of the Jewish Community of Uherský Brod
Collection
- Country:
- Czechia
- Holding institution:
- State District Archives Uherské Hradiště
- Holding institution (official language):
- Státní okresní archiv Uherské Hradiště
- Postal address:
- Velehradská 124, Uherské Hradiště, 686 01
- Phone number:
- 00420 572 552 634
- Email:
- soka_uherskehradiste@mza.cz
- Reference number:
- 870
- Title:
- Archive of the Jewish Community of Uherský Brod
- Title (official language):
- Archiv židovské obce Uherský Brod
- Creator/accumulator:
- Jewish Political Community of Uherský Brod
- Date(s):
- 1755/1919
- Language:
- German
- Czech
- Extent:
- 0.25 linear metres
- Scope and content:
- The fonds contains minutes of the meetings of the Municipal Council 1894-1919, register of people belonging to the municipality 1901-1919, book of passports issued 1891-1919, criminal register 1894-1919, files from 1869-1901 including one individual item - list of persons with conscription duty, 2 accounting books 1888-1919 and photos of the gravestone of the martyr Rabbi Nat Aškenázi in the form of a postcard from approx. 1910. The fonds also contains records from the Jewish court, i.e. the council of the Jewish community, 1755-1758.
- Archival history:
- After the dissolution of the Jewish Political Community in 1919, documents in the fonds were taken over by the town of Uherský Brod and together with this were added to the State District Archives Uherské Hradiště. Only a part of the original documents has been preserved. The fonds was arranged in 1976.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Record of Jewish settlement in Uherský Brod dates back to the end of the Middle Ages and during the early modern age one of the largest Jewish communities in Moravia was located here. A Jewish political community was created here after 1848 which was merged in 1919 with the Christian town.The Jewish political community Uherský Brod belonged to the political and judicial district of Uherský Brod in 1850-1919.
- Access points: locations:
- Uherský Brod
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds is arranged as follows: I. Official books, II. Files, III. Accounting dossiers, IV. Miscellaneous.
- Finding aids:
- Čoupková J.: Úřad židovské obce Uherský Brod 1755-1919. Inventář, 1975, s. 5, ev.č. 406.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Prague
- Author of the description:
- JMP Survey, 2015.