Jewish Religious Community of Kladno

This fonds contains the community's statutes (1895, 1897, 1900, 1923), records on a merger with the surrounding Jewish communities, meeting minutes, election records, personnel records, correspondence, financial files, synagogue seats records, documents relating to the local Jewish school and burial society, registers of aid organizations for Jewish refugees (1914–1918), and registers of the community and of the burial society of the affiliated community in Hostouň. Election records, personnel records and financial registers of the burial society and women's association were kept until 1939. Meeting minutes were kept until 1940. Dolista, K. – Heřman, J., Židovská náboženská obec Kladno (1684) 1859 - 1940, Prozatímní inventární seznam, 1971, 7 s., ev. č. 61. Jewish settlement in Kladno was founded as late as the 19th century. A Jewish prayer association there is documented from 1864, becoming an independent religious community in 1893 at the latest. In 1932 the Jewish Religious Community of Hostouň was affiliated to the Kladno community. The latter was re-established after the Second World War and became a synagogue congregation (part of the Jewish Religious Community of Prague) in the 1950s. The congregation was disbanded in the 1970s. The fonds is accessible with no restriction.