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'''Database of Czech Jewish Vital Records''' is a project of the [https://www.hiu.cas.cz/en Institute of History of the Czech Academy of Sciences]. The principal investigator is [https://www.hiu.cas.cz/en/employees/94 Daniel Baránek, Ph.D.]. The database contains records from [https://vademecum.nacr.cz/vademecum/permalink?xid=a4dcbd500d4a5e66a63662159811f28a the registers of Jewish religious communities in the Bohemian lands], which are stored in [https://www.nacr.cz/en/ the National Archives], Czech Republic.

Records can be searched using the [https://matrika.wikibase.cloud/query/ Query Service] in [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:SPARQL_tutorial/en SPARQL]. For now, all records can be viewed using [https://bit.ly/hbma-birth this query]. The user-friendly search interface is still under development.

The database represents a pilot project at the moment. We plan to build additional interfaces to the database, such as map interfaces similar to [https://map.kehillot.eu/ this one]. For now, we are looking for sources of funding to launch the full-scale project.

If you would like to volunteer or support our efforts in any way, we would be grateful if you could complete a [https://www.kehillot.eu/index.php/digitization-survey/ survey] or contact us by email ([mailto:baranek@hiu.cas.cz baranek@hiu.cas.cz]).