Metadata: Ministry of Education, Prague
Collection
- Country:
- Czechia
- Holding institution:
- National Archives of the Czech Republic
- Holding institution (official language):
- Národní archiv
- Postal address:
- Archivní 2257/4, 149 00 Praha 4
- Phone number:
- +420 974 847 240
- Web address:
- https://www.nacr.cz
- Email:
- posta@nacr.cz
- Reference number:
- 371
- Title:
- Ministry of Education, Prague
- Title (official language):
- Ministerstvo školství, Praha
- Creator/accumulator:
- Ministry of Education
- Date(s):
- 1918/1949
- Date note:
- (1911)1918/1949(1950)
- Language:
- Czech
- German
- Extent:
- 612 linear metres
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
The fonds contains extensive file material concerning Czechoslovak education, libraries, cultural heritage, religious affairs, and many other things. Information on Jews can be found especially in numerous materials on the ‘Jewish Church’, its bodies and Jewish religious communities in Czechoslovakia, including Slovakia and Carpathian Ruthenia: e.g. organisation of religious communities, modification of their districts, their property, election regulations, personnel matters of their employees, qualifications of rabbis, Zionism, affairs of individual religious communities, statutes of some communities (inv. no. 1344, 1355, 2082-2089); materials on the Supreme Jewish Council, organisational and financial affairs, in particular (2085); matters of rabbinical schools (1597); numerous other individual affairs: permission for a rival religious Jewish community in Khust, Carpathian Ruthenia (1379), kosher animals (2082), lists of Jewish residences according to the 1921 census (2086), inquiry of the Czechoslovak consul in Jerusalem about the establishment of a Jewish office in Carpathian Ruthenia (2274), plans of house no. 729 in Prague I belonging to the Israelite Confraternity and photographs from its restoration (2300), correspondence on the organisation of orthodox Jewish religious communities in Carpathian Ruthenia (2315) and on the establishment of the Czechoslovak Higher School for Rabbi Education in Prague (2410). For the period after 1939, there are regulations on the legal status of Jews, etc.
Due to the fact that the factual register does not contain the entry "Jews" or similar, specific inventory numbers are given. Other documents concerning Jews can be assumed to present in other material, e.g. in general files on individual types of education (national, secondary, etc.), care of monuments, and individual fields of culture.
- Archival history:
- The fonds was clearly arranged already in the originator's registry; however, some materials were lost. The first part was taken over by the then State Central Archives in 1953, the remaining parts of the fonds followed gradually in the following years. In 1964, the fonds was organised, including additions from previous years. Appraisal of the materials took place several times during their storage with the originator. During archival organisation, due to the importance of the fonds, it was carried out only minimally. In 1965, the two-part inventory of the fonds was completed. In the following years, there were other additions to the fonds, so in 1985, an additional inventory list was made. Other minor additions from 1986 and 1989 remained unprocessed.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- On the basis of Act No. 2 of 2 November 1918, the Ministry of Education and National Enlightenment was established. Its competences included education at all levels, with the exception of agricultural education, as well as libraries and various scientific institutes, protection of monuments and care for art and culture in general, language care and contact with foreign countries in the field of culture and education. The Ministry was in charge of matters of churches and religion. In Slovakia, the Ministry had a special department in Bratislava. In 1942, care for all education without exception was vested in the Ministry of Education and National Enlightenment, while the entire area of culture was transferred to the new Ministry of Popular Enlightenment.
- Access points: locations:
- Czechoslovakia
- Prague
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds is divided as follows: 1) registry finding aids (protocols,) 2) files: I. presidium files until 1949 (files sorted according to the original registry groups of the so-called File Key, annexes separated out, sorted by reference numbers, and circulars), II. general registry, i.e. files of individual departments until 1944 (also individual registry groups and separate annexes to files, unsigned material and material from the Action for the Support of Unemployed Intelligence). Additions: A) a set of deeds, B) files.
- Finding aids:
- Malá I.: Ministerstvo školství 1918–1949. Inventory, 1965, Vol. I.-II., 658 p., Inv. No. 587/1-2; Malá I.: Ministerstvo školství – dodatky 1919–1946. Inventory, 1985, 6 p., Inv. No. 1157.
- Links to finding aids:
- https://vademecum.nacr.cz/vademecum/
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Prague
- Author of the description:
- JMP survey
