Metadata: Community of Jews of Occidental Rite of Caransebeş
Collection
- Country:
- Romania
- Holding institution:
- Romanian National Archives, Directorate of Caraş-Severin County
- Holding institution (official language):
- Arhivele Naţionale Române, Direcţia judeţeană Caraş-Severin
- Postal address:
- Şesul Nou Str. No. 12, Caransebeş 325400, Caraş-Severin county, Romania
- Phone number:
- 0040-255-512981
- Reference number:
- Fond 575
- Title:
- Community of Jews of Occidental Rite of Caransebeş
- Title (official language):
- Comunitatea evreilor de rit occidental Caransebeş
- Creator/accumulator:
- Community of Jews of Occidental Rite of Caransebeş
- Date(s):
- 1939/1948
- Language:
- Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan
- Extent:
- 4 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- Good
- Scope and content:
- The fonds contains the archive of the Caransebeş Jewish Community of Occidental Rite, including a 1947 list of members, registers of income and expenditure, the convention for the payment of the rabbi, records of community council meetings and election of community leaders and documents on taxes and other obligations of the members. From the Holocaust period there is information about forced labour detachments, expropriation of Jewish property, support for those deported to Transnistria and the social and cultural life maintained in these difficult conditions. Records from after the Second World War reflect the social assistance efforts of the community for its members in need and the political changes which eventually resulted in the community’s loss of autonomy under the communist regime (files 1/1939, 2/1939, 3/1942 and 4/1947).
- Archival history:
- The fonds was transferred from the custody of the local Jewish community to the Romanian National Archives, Directorate of Caraş-Severin County, in 1990.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The Caransebeş Jewish Community of Occidental Rite was organised after the 1869 Hungary Jewish Congress and the resulting schism between the Orthodox, Neolog (Occidental) and Status Quo communities. The community had 330 members in 1930 and 143 in 1941. After the Second World War and Aliyah (emigration of Jews to Israel), the community had just 10 members. The community built a monumental synagogue in 1893–94 and had rabbis until 1970, when it came under the spiritual leadership of the chief rabbi of Timişoara.
- Access points: locations:
- Caransebeş
- System of arrangement:
- The collection is arranged in chronological order.
- Finding aids:
- Inventory No. 770 of the Romanian National Archives, Directorate of Caraş-Severin County.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Romanian Institute for the Research of National Minorities
- Author of the description:
- Attila Gidó (Institutul pentru Studierea Problemelor Minorităţilor Naţionale, Cluj-Napoca), Ladislau Gyémánt (emeritus professor, Cluj-Napoca), 2016
