Metadata: CCOJB 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 CCOJB
- Title:
- CCOJB archives
- Title (official language):
- Fonds CCOJB
- Creator/accumulator:
- Comité de Coordination des Organisations juives de Belgique; Coördinatiecomité van de Joodse Organisaties van België
- Date(s):
- 1967/1981
- Extent:
- 22 boxes
- Scope and content:
- This fonds consists of correspondence, administrative documents, activity reports, notes and bookkeeping documents produced by the CCOJB. We note documents concerning Soviet Jewry (1971-1972), regarding the campaign for the liberation of Israeli prisoners in Syria (1974), files concerning the Association des Universitaires pour Israël (1974), minutes of meetings, files concerning the organisation of fundraising dinners and raffles, the organisation of various activities and ceremonies such as the celebration of the independence day of the State of Israel (Yom Haatzmaut) or the uprising of the Warsaw Ghetto. We also note numerous press files and press clippings. (See boxes Y9 to Y31)
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The Comité de Coordination des Organisations juives de Belgique / Coördinatiecomité van de Joodse Organisaties van België (‘coordination committee of the Jewish organisations of Belgium’)(CCOJB) is a federation of political, cultural, social, educational, religious and sports organisations from the Jewish community of Belgium, mainly based in Brussels. Today there are 39 affiliated organisations. Each association is represented on the CCOJB board by one delegate, also charged with electing a new president every two years. The delegates and members meet in several thematic commissions. The principal missions of the CCOJB are: fighting for the defence, study and development of Jewish values in Belgium, fighting against antisemitism, racism and xenophobia, stimulating remembrance of the Shoah, defending the moral and material rights of the members of the Jewish community in Belgium and their right holders, and lastly, support for the State of Israel. The CCOJB is a member of the European Jewish Congress and the World Jewish Congress. The federation was created by David Susskind and Markus Pardès in 1970, in the context of the campaign undertaken in favour of the Jews in the Soviet Union. Its notable presidents were Alexis Goldschmidt, David Susskind, Markus Pardès (1974-1976, 1980-1983 and 1984-1988, and ad interim after the assassination of Joseph Wybran), Joseph Wybran (1988-1989), Lazar Perez, Maurice Pioro, Viviane Teitelbaum, Philippe Markiewicz, Joël Rubinfeld, Norbert Cigé and Maurice Sosnowski. (http://www.ccojb.be; J.-P. Schreiber, Dictionnaire biographique des Juifs de Belgique. Figures du judaïsme belge, XIXe-XXe siècles, Bruxelles, De Boeck, 2002.)
- Access, restrictions:
- Access requires the authorisation of the archivist of the Jewish Museum of Belgium.
- Finding aids:
- There is a preliminary inventory (dated 2012).
- Yerusha Network member:
- State Archives of Belgium
