Metadata: Arbeter Ring archives
Collection
- Country:
- Belgium
- Holding institution:
- Jewish Museum of Belgium
- Holding institution (official language):
- Musée Juif de Belgique
- Postal address:
- Miniemenstraat 21 / Rue des Minimes 21, 1000 Bruxelles
- Phone number:
- +32 (0)2 512 19 63
- Web address:
- http://www.new.mjb-jmb.org
- Email:
- info@mjb-jmb.org
- Reference number:
- JM-Brussels-Fonds Arbeter Ring
- Title:
- Arbeter Ring archives
- Title (official language):
- Fonds Arbeter Ring
- Creator/accumulator:
- Arbeter Ring
- Date(s):
- 1945/1975
- Language:
- French
- Yiddish
- Hebrew
- Extent:
- 17 boxes
- Scope and content:
- This fonds contains correspondence, bookkeeping documents, notes, pamphlets, posters and announcements for activities of the Arbeter Ring, the Bund and the Amis des Enfants de l’Arbeter Ring (1950s). We also find photographs. (See boxes MM 156 to MM 172).
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The Arbeter Ring exists in different countries; in the United States it is called Workmen’s Circle. The organisation was created in 1929 by militants of the Bund. The Arbeter Ring was active in the domain of mutual societies, social, cultural and educational societies, while the Bund was devoted to politics. The association promoted values associated with Yiddish culture, and was committed to social justice and the defence of the rights of immigrants. In Belgium, this Bundist association founded the holiday camp Les Amis des Enfants (Kinderfraynd), affiliated with the Centrale d’Œuvres sociales juives since 1955. Les Amis des Enfants organised Yiddish classes as well as courses of Jewish history and literature. The children were sent to Villa Johanna in Middelkerke on the Belgian coast. (Fonds Arbeter Ring (BE / MJB / Fonds Arbeter Ring).)
- Access, restrictions:
- Access requires the authorisation of the archivist of the Jewish Museum of Belgium.
- Finding aids:
- There is a preliminary inventory at the Jewish Museum of Belgium.
- Yerusha Network member:
- State Archives of Belgium
