Еврейская религиозная община (г. Вена)

Еврейская религиозная община (г. Вена) 

Israelitische Kultusgemeinde (Wien); Jewish Religious Communit), of Vienna  

Evreiskaia religioznaia obshchina (g. Vena) 

Еврейская религиозная община (г. Вена) 

Israelitische Kultusgemeinde (Wien); Jewish Religious Communit), of Vienna  

Evreiskaia religioznaia obshchina (g. Vena) 

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The collection's contents are catalogued in three inventories. The inventories are arranged by structure and document type. The collection has charters of the Jewish religious community of Vienna — and of affiliated organizations: the Union to Aid Jewish Students, the Union for the Care of Orphans, Jewish Literary Association, the Mendelssohn Jewish Literary Union, and others. It contains the minutes of meetings of the community board for 1891-1938 as well as community financial documents — statements, estimates, summaries, income statements, cashbooks for 1928-37, and tax tables. The collection contains reports on communal election preparations, and on auditing the community's finances; a historical survey, composed by Biedermann, of the activities of the Jewish religious community of Vienna for fifty eight years; and lists of Vienna synagogues. Among the documents found in the collection, there is an agreement between the Jewish religious community of Vienna and the Orthodox Jewish religious party Agudath Israel on dividing responsibilities between them; documents on the structure of the community board; a report by the community board presidium on the conduct of the winter 1935-36 charity drive initiated by the Austrian government; a report by community vice president B. Rappaport and the architect J. Gartner on the construction of a Jewish cemetery (with plans enclosed); an announcement by the community denying Hitler's statements connecting Jewish and communist organizations; and congratulatory letters, addresses, and telegrams from the Jewish religious community of Vienna to the Jewish religious communities of Graz, Fünfkirchen, Gross-Kanischa, and Ehrendorf. The collection also contains materials on Jewish emigration; these documents may originate from the archive of HICEM (see Fond 740,"HIASJCA Emigration Association, HICE"). These include lists of Jewish emigres from Austria, Poland, Latvia, and the Soviet Union; personal documents of émigrés; bulletins on emigration conditions for Jews from Austria, Switzerland, Luxembourg, and Poland; queries from Jewish organizations on the whereabouts of Jewish migrants from Belgium, the Netherlands, the United States, and other countries; and maps and statistical surveys of the Jewish population and of Jewish emigration from Austria and from Vienna.