Metadata: Archives of the École Maïmonide
Collection
- Country:
- Belgium
- Holding institution:
- Athénée Maïmonide – École S.B. Bamberger
- Holding institution (official language):
- Athénée Maïmonide – École S.B. Bamberger
- Postal address:
- Boulevard Poincaré 67 / Poincarélaan 67, 1070 Bruxelles (Anderlecht)
- Phone number:
- +32 (0)2 523 63 36
- Web address:
- http://www.maimo.be
- Email:
- maimorambam@gmail.com
- Reference number:
- AthM-Brussels-Archives de l’École Maïmonide
- Title:
- Archives of the École Maïmonide
- Title (official language):
- Archives de l’École Maïmonide
- Creator/accumulator:
- Athénée Maïmonide – École S.B. Bamberger
- Date(s):
- 1949/1997
- Extent:
- 2 linear metres
- Scope and content:
- This fonds contains files concerning the statutes of the asbl École Maïmonide, a file concerning the mission of the school, minutes of meetings of the board, as well as files concerning the schedules, lists of holidays, the cafeteria, gala dinners organised by the school (1995-1997), etc.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The École israélite de Bruxelles was founded on 1 September 1947. It was first located in the rue des Patriotes, moved to rue du Canal 65 in September 1950 and finally to boulevard Poincaré 67 in March 1966. The school accommodated 80 students at its creation in 1947. Three years later, it had 5 classes and 130 children aged 4 to 14. From September 1959 the Jewish school organised high school classes. The first ‘retorica’ class graduated in 1965. The schools was the only Jewish school in the capital, while in Antwerp the two Jewish schools accommodated over a thousand children. The school cafeteria, funded in part by the Centrale d’Œuvres sociales juives, offers hot kosher meals to about a hundred children. The goals of the non-profit association École israélite de Bruxelles are the maintenance of management of a primary and secondary school as well as a kindergarten in accordance with the regulations and curricula of the Ministry of Public Education, the organisation of religious education based on traditional Judaism, and the teaching of Hebrew and of the history of the Jewish people. Today, the school is called Athénée Maïmonide – école S.B. Bamberger, after its founder and long-time principal. New buildings were inaugurated in 1993. The school currently includes a nursery, preschool, primary and secondary classes. The number of pupils at the school is declining. In 2013 a partial relocation of the school was organised to new premises in the rue du Beau Site in Ixelles. (Annexes au Moniteur belge, May 12, 1966. "Statuts de l’école israélite de Bruxelles asbl", Archives de l’école israélite de Bruxelles, École Maïmonide.)
- Access, restrictions:
- Access requires the authorisation of the president of the Athénée Maïmonide.
- Yerusha Network member:
- State Archives of Belgium
