Ephemera

Collection description

Scope and content:: This enormous collection of ephemera contains a number of relevant items – mainly publications, press cuttings, leaflets, publicity and other isolated documents. We rarely find archival material in the true sense of the word. The documents often relate to France. The folder ‘Israélites’ (BIB.VLBL.FI.I.017) contains i.a. a letter of Chief Rabbi Emmanuel Deutz to the Arch-Chancellor of the Empire (1813), concerning the legislation on the Police des Juifs. A brochure related to the inauguration of the synagogue in the Regentschapsstraat in Brussels (1878) can be found in file BIB.VLBL.HFI.B.103.24. In file BIB.VLBL.HFI.J.009.07 we note, apart from press cuttings and publicity, also a brochure of the Comité de secours pours les israélites de Russie (1882) and correspondence related to allowing Jews to become burgers in Ostend (1781). Furthermore, the collection also contains many items (dated ca. 1896-1906) related to the Dreyfus affair, although mostly (French) press cuttings, posters and notebooks containing notes and press articles about the affair. See: BIB.VLBL.HFI.D.042.13, BIB.VLBL.HFI.D.042.14, BIB.VLBL.HFI.D.042.15, BIB.VLBL.HFI.D.042.16, BIB.VLBL.HFI.D.042.17, BIB.VLBL.HFI.D.043.01, BIB.VLBL.HFI.PGD.006.11, BIB.VLBL.FII.D.010, BIB.VLBL.HFI.PKD.012.05 en BIB.VLBL.HF.II.D.012.06. Lastly, the folder ‘antisémitisme’ (BIB.VLBL.HFI.A.041.21) contains a manifesto of the Comité de la Ligue Nationale Anti-Sémitique de France (1890s).

Archival history:: The collection was originally initiated by Ferdinand vander Haeghen (1830-1913), librarian of Ghent University.

Subject terms:: Antisemitism; Citizenship; Civil rights; Correspondence; Dreyfus affair; Jewish self-defence and resistance; Legal matters; Newspaper clippings; Posters; Synagogues

Finding aids:: The collection is made accessible through the catalogue of the Universiteitsbibliotheek.