Jewish Religious Community of Hranice

This fonds contains 18th-century book of takkanot, the community's statutes, meeting minutes, banns registers (1891–1940), financial files, synagogue seats records, documents relating to the local Jewish school, the 1876 statutes and other records of the burial society (including graves register/ register of graves), and documents relating to the local Jewish women's association. The burial society and women's association files were kept until 1942. The Jewish community of Hranice existed from the 17th century until the Second World War. A synagogue congregation was founded after the Second World War (part of the Jewish Religious Community of Olomouc, after 1961 part of the the Jewish Religious Community of Ostrava), which was active until 1969. Dolista, K. – Heřman, J., Židovská náboženská obec Hranice 1675 – 1942, Prozatímní inventární seznam, 1971, 3 s., ev. č. 43. The fonds is accessible with no restriction.