Metadata: Archives of the Belgian section of Mizrachi
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-Archives de la section belge du Mizrachi
- Title:
- Archives of the Belgian section of Mizrachi
- Title (official language):
- Archives de la section belge du Mizrachi
- Creator/accumulator:
- Mizrachi
- Date(s):
- 1945/1956
- Language:
- French
- Yiddish
- Extent:
- 5 boxes
- Scope and content:
- This fonds contains a rich correspondence (1945-1948), bookkeeping documents, material concerning fundraising, lists of members, press releases, fascicules and pamphlets of the Belgian section of the Mizrachi party. (See boxes 153 to 157)
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Mizrachi is a religious Zionist organisation, created in Vilnius in 1902. It gave rise to a labour movement called Hapoel Ha-Mizrachi in Mandatory Palestine and to the Mizrachi political party. Its objective was to preserve the religious character of the State of Israel. It was an independent party until 1956, when it merged to form the National Religious Party Mafdal. (I. Goldshlag & L. Bernstein, “Mizrachi”, in M. Berenbaum & F. Skolnik (eds.), Encyclopaedia Judaica, 2nd edition, Detroit, Gale, 2007, vol. 14, pp. 389-392.)
- Access, restrictions:
- Access requires the authorisation of the archivist of the Jewish Museum of Belgium.
- Finding aids:
- There is a list and a preliminary inventory at the Jewish Museum of Belgium.
- Yerusha Network member:
- State Archives of Belgium
