Metadata: Archives of the European Union of Jewish Students
Collection
- Country:
- Belgium
- Holding institution:
- European Union of Jewish Students
- Holding institution (official language):
- European Union of Jewish Students
- Postal address:
- Avenue Antoine Depage 3 / Antoine Depagelaan 3, 1000 Bruxelles
- Web address:
- http://www.eujs.org/
- Reference number:
- EUJewSt-Brussels-Archives de l’European Union of Jewish Students
- Title:
- Archives of the European Union of Jewish Students
- Title (official language):
- Archives de l’European Union of Jewish Students
- Creator/accumulator:
- European Union of Jewish Students
- Date(s):
- 1991/2005
- Extent:
- ca. 10 linear metres
- Scope and content:
- This fonds contains correspondence, bookkeeping documents, reports, files concerning activities organised by the EUJS such as the ball and summer school (Summer U), and lists of participants to these activities.
- 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 president of the EUJS.
- Yerusha Network member:
- State Archives of Belgium
