Kubowitzki family archives

Collection description

Scope and content:: This fonds contain identity papers, birth certificates, high school and university diplomas, photos, etc. These documents primarily concern Isaac Kubowitzki, his wife Perla Telschitz-Kubowitzki and their daughter Louise Deborah Kubowitzki. (see box 245)

Administrative/biographical history:: Isaac (Itzko) Kubowitzki was born in Slonim (Poland) in 1889. He died in Tel Aviv in 1973. He was a businessman in the glass industry and was one of the driving forces behind the right wing Zionist movement in Brussels. He played a key role in the reorganisation of Belgian Judaism during the first months of the German occupation. After the war, he became responsible for the economic reconstruction department of the AIVG (1945-1946). He also was the president of the Fédération sioniste belge (1946-1948). Afterwards he moved to Israel. He married Perla Telschitz. The couple had a daughter, Louise Déborah, in 1918. (J.-P. Schreiber, "Kubowitzki, Abraham Hirsch ou Tsvi", in J.-P. Schreiber, Dictionnaire biographique des Juifs de Belgique. Figures du judaïsme belge, XIXe-XXe siècles, Bruxelles, De Boeck, 2002, pp. 203-206.)

Access points: persons/families:: Kubowitzki, Isaac; Kubowitzki, Louise Deborah; Telschitz-Kubowitzki, Perla

Subject terms:: Personal records; Vital records; Vital records--Birth records; Zionism; Zionism--Zionists

Access, restrictions:: Access requires the authorisation of the archivist of the Jewish Museum of Belgium.

Finding aids:: There is a preliminary inventory of the Jewish Museum of Belgium.