Metadata: Târgu Mureș Jewish Community Collection
Collection
- Country:
- Romania
- Holding institution:
- Târgu Mureș Jewish Community
- Holding institution (official language):
- Comunitatea Evreilor din Târgu Mureș
- Postal address:
- Str. Aurel Filimon 23, 547333 Târgu Mureș
- Phone number:
- +40 (0) 0265 261 810
- Web address:
- http://izraelsarokms.ro/
- Email:
- comev_tgm@yahoo.com
- Title:
- Târgu Mureș Jewish Community Collection
- Title (official language):
- Colecția Comunității Evreilor din Târgu Mureș
- Creator/accumulator:
- Târgu Mureș Jewish Community
- Date(s):
- 1892/2020
- Date note:
- 1892-present
- Language:
- Hungarian
- Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan
- Yiddish
- German
- Extent:
- 3 linear metres
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- This collection is relatively extensive for a Transylvanian community that fell under the Horthy regime during World War II. Series I contains numerous register books of member dues, through which details on the community make-up can be gleaned. Series II is of significant interest to researchers, containing the interwar- and war-time board meeting minutes from the Orthodox community, which appear to be complete from 1926-1948, presumably with a gap after deportations, and then of the Unified community from 1948-1962. Presumably, the minutes will reflect the changing fate of this important Transylvanian community, spanning as they do interwar Romanian rule, Horthy fascist rule, the deportation period, reestablishment of the community by survivors, communist rule, and the waves of mass migration that began in the late 1940s. Series III contains only four items, yet they are directly related to the persecutions and deportations during the war and measures taken by the reestablished community in the initial post-war years. Series IV contains several Orthodox Chevra Kadisha statutes and two civil record books from the interwar and even pre-World War I period. Series V contains correspondence logs (registers of incoming and outgoing correspondence) and Series VI contains material related to the two main local cemeteries as well as the cemetery in Sighișoara, which is now within the county of Mureș. Finally, Series VII contains three items that were identified in 2015 but not able to be located in 2017. Please see the scope and content notes for the respective series for more information.
- Archival history:
- The documents within this collection were kept by the Târgu Mureș Jewish community. In summer 2017 they were reorganised and repackaged. Like all community collections that have survived to the 21st century, we have no information as to how or why certain documents survived while others did not. The current community offices are on the premises of the former Status Quo community property, including the synagogue and connected buildings. However, there is a significant portion of material that originated with the former Orthodox community, so the material was transferred at some point in time in the post-war period to the Status Quo offices. The former Orthodox synagogue building still exists nearby but is now used as office space.
- Access points: locations:
- Sighișoara
- Târgu Mureș
- Subject terms:
- Cemeteries
- Hevrah kadisha
- Holocaust
- Jewish community
- Synagogues
- Access, restrictions:
- Please contact the Târgu Mureș Jewish community for access.
- Finding aids:
- The complete finding aid is available on the project website of the Leo Baeck Institute.
- Links to finding aids:
- https://jbat.lbi.org/items/show/2760
- Yerusha Network member:
- Leo Baeck Institute
