Metadata: European Union of Jewish Students 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 European Union of Jewish Students
- Title:
- European Union of Jewish Students archives
- Title (official language):
- Fonds European Union of Jewish Students
- Creator/accumulator:
- European Union of Jewish Students
- Date(s):
- 1958/1999
- Date note:
- ca. 1960s-1990s
- Extent:
- ca. 40 moving boxes
- Scope and content:
- This fonds consists of incoming and outgoing correspondence, bookkeeping documents, press files, leaflets and programs of activities organised by the European Union of Jewish Students.
- Archival history:
- The material was donated by Maram Stern, European secretary of the World Jewish Congress.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The European Union of Jewish Students was founded in February 1978 in Grenoble. Its headquarters was transferred to Brussels in 1982. The objective of this association is to encourage Jewish student activism. The EUJS is concerned with the challenges faced by the Jewish communities. It also establishes many intercultural and interfaith links and partnerships, and tries to intervene on several fronts and current topics related to the life of Jewish students around the world. (http://www.eujs.org/; J. Voloj, “Einstein’s children: chapters in the history of the European Union of Jewish Students”, in European Judaism, vol. 40, no. 2, 2007, pp. 75-89.)
- 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
