Traces of the Moravian Jewish Political Communities in Archival Sources and in Expert Literature
Traces of the Moravian Jewish Political Communities in Archival Sources and in Expert Literature

Summary/Abstract: Based on the extensive research of archival fonds conducted within the internationalYerusha project, this paper provides a basic overview of the sources on the history of Moravian Jewish political communities. The research was carried out mostly in the Moravian Provincial Archives in Brno and in several Moravian State District Archives, partly also in the Archives of the Jewish Museum in Prague. What is presented is a typology of the sources and their originators. The archival sources contain primarily the minutes of meetings of municipal boards, files and accounting records. The relevant material is to be found in the archival fonds of Jewish political communities, Jewish religious communities, Jewish schools, Christian communities (towns, villages), associations, district and regional institutions. Seal matrices and stamps of the communities, which are kept in various institutions, are singled out as a special type of source. The paper also evaluates the hitherto expert literature on the subject. The Appendix provides an overview of extant archival material and literature entries pertinent to the history of all the 27 Moravian Jewish political communities, as well as an extensive bibliography.

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