Metadata: Estate of Saly Weil
Collection
- Country:
- Switzerland
- Holding institution:
- Archives of Contemporary History at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich
- Holding institution (official language):
- Archiv für Zeitgeschichte der ETH Zürich
- Postal address:
- Hirschengraben 62, CH-8092 Zurich
- Phone number:
- +41 44 632 40 03
- Web address:
- https://www.afz.ethz.ch/
- Email:
- afz@history.gess.ethz.ch
- Reference number:
- NL Saly Weil
- Title:
- Estate of Saly Weil
- Title (official language):
- Nachlass Saly Weil
- Creator/accumulator:
- Weil, Saly
- Date(s):
- 1915/2004
- Language:
- German
- Japanese
- Extent:
- 0.25 shelf metres
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Photographic images
- Moving images
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The collection comprises the estate of Saly Weil. It contains personal identification cards, a diary from the time of Weil's deployment on the ship "Rotterdam", documents about Weil's time in Japan, medals and orders (among others, Japanese imperial orders), photos and films.
- Archival history:
- The collection was transferred to the AfZ (Archives of Contemporary History) in 2017 and 2018.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Saly Weil was born on 27 December 1897 in Bonfol (JU) and died on 27 June 1976 in Bern. He was a chef and pioneer of Japanese gastronomy. He was the son of Max Elias Weil and Jeanette Weil, née Bernheim. After his apprenticeship as a chef at the Hotel National in Bern, he moved to Paris in 1926. From 1927, he was head chef at the Hotel "New Grand" in Yokohama (Japan) for almost 20 years. In 1944, he was interned in Karuizawa and after the end of the war, he worked for the ICRC food procurement programme in Japan. In 1946, he returned to Bern where he worked for a Basel-based Comestibles company, among others. He was the founder of the Japanese Cooking Association and permanent advisor to the "International Cooking School" in Tokyo, which also awards the "Saly Weil Prize". In 1973, he was awarded the Japanese imperial "Order of the Holy Treasure" fifth class.
- Access points: locations:
- Japan
- Switzerland
- Subject terms:
- Personal records
- Access, restrictions:
- No open access. Subject to application.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Hohenems
- Author of the description:
- Severin Holzknecht; Jewish Museum of Hohenems; 2020
