Lounsky-Kac archives

Collection description

Scope and content:: This fonds contains correspondence, identity papers of Myriam Kac and her husband Jacob Lounsky (such as a laisser-passer, identity cards), photos, notes and texts written for conferences, documents related to the cultural and pedagogical activities in the holiday camps and the Yiddish complementary school, material related to the Yiddish courses (notebooks and drawings of children, log of the holiday camps, lists of pupils, correspondence, bookkeeping records, teaching materials), minutes of the meetings of the board and the commissions of the Centre des Jeunes, etc. (See the boxes A1 to A13 (donation of 1999), 7 supplementary boxes (donation of 2007) and the boxes Y195 to Y 205)

Administrative/biographical history:: Born in Vilnius in 1904, Marjam (Myriam) Lounsky-Kac (1904-1995) migrated to Belgium in 1929 to pursue university studies. She was an educator and teacher at the Yiddishe Shule, a Bundist Yiddish complementary school. As the virtual incarnation of Yiddish education in Brussels after the war, she made a profound impression on her contemporaries. (J.-P. Schreiber, "Lounsky-Kac, Marjam dite Myriam", in J.-P. Schreiber, Dictionnaire biographique des Juifs de Belgique. Figures du judaïsme belge, XIXe-XXe siècles, Bruxelles, De Boeck, 2002, p. 231.)

Subject terms:: Children; Correspondence; Education; Education--Schools and universities; Education--Teachers and professors; Jewish languages; Jewish languages--Yiddish; Personal records

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.