Metadata: Beth Zion 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 Beth Zion
- Title:
- Beth Zion archives
- Title (official language):
- Fonds Beth Zion
- Creator/accumulator:
- Beth Zion
- Date(s):
- 1947/1952
- Language:
- French
- Dutch; Flemish
- Yiddish
- Hebrew
- English
- Extent:
- 5 boxes
- Scope and content:
- This fonds contains correspondence, administrative documents, reports, lists of boards members, lists of members, lists of donors and people who bought shekalim, membership cards, files concerning clothing drives and regarding the elections for the Zionist Congress. This material originates from i.a. the Fédération Sioniste de Belgique and its section in Antwerp, Agudath Zion – Organisation des Sionistes Généraux, Keren Hayesod, the Organisations de jeunesse des Sionistes Généraux, the Organisation de Pionniers Juifs pour la Palestine (Histadrut Hekhalutz in Belgium), the Comité Central du Shekel pour la Belgique and Mapam. (See boxes Y 68 to Y 72).
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Beth Zion (“the house of Zion”, in Hebrew), located at Grétrystraat 12 in Antwerp, accommodated several Zionist associations. It was a veritable centre of Zionist activity in Antwerp during the interwar period and the first decades after the war. The association was founded in Antwerp in 1909, notably by Moïse Bletterman (1863-1912), Jean Fischer (1871-1929), Maurice Tolkowsky (1862-1949), Maurice Lewin (1872-1934) and David Weinberg (1873-1907). The association also opened a branch in Brussels. In the 1950s it housed, among others, Agudat Zion, the Organisation of General Zionists of Belgium, “Kadimah” Mouvement de Jeunes des Sionistes Généraux, the central office for Belgium of the KKL, and the Antwerp section of ORT. Many activities and meetings of associations were organised there, as well as the planning of the shekel campaigns (owning a shekel was necessary to obtain the right to vote in the Zionist Congress) and of the elections to the Zionist Congress. (Fonds Beth Zion (BE / MJB / Fonds Beth Zion).)
- Access points: locations:
- Belgium
- Access, restrictions:
- Access requires the authorisation of the archivist of the Jewish Museum of Belgium.
- Yerusha Network member:
- State Archives of Belgium
