Metadata: Miscellaneous
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-Varia
- Title:
- Miscellaneous
- Title (official language):
- Varia
- Creator/accumulator:
- Musée Juif de Belgique; Joods Museum van België
- Date(s):
- 1800/1999
- Date note:
- 19th-20th centuries
- Extent:
- 26 boxes
- Scope and content:
- In this (constructed) ‘collection’ we grouped documents produced by various archival creators in different periods, for which not enough context information was found in order to establish a separate description. In this description we provide a general overview of some of the most relevant archival material, per box. We notably find: inscription forms of the École complémentaire juive de Bruxelles (1941-1942), documents concerning the aid to and emigration of Jewish children during the Second World War, minutes of the Consistory (1939-1940)[see box 71]; invitations, programs of synagogues and of the Jewish communities of Brussels, Maalé, Waterloo [box 73]; a speech by Max Gottschalk (1938), material concerning sham marriages (1924)[box 108]; copies of documents related to various Jewish communities i.a. those of Namur, Lenglentier, Cureghem and Seraing [box 112A]; archival material from Ryvka Cohen and Sarah Passy, Irène Gomberg, Robert Jivotovsky and related individuals primarily consisting of identity papers, photographs, various certificates, membership cards, school reports, etc. (dated ca. 1921-1930)[box 114]; personal archives of Moschko Starodoub including his birth certificate, diplomas, various attestations, identity papers, etc. [box 124]; documents concerning Emmanuel Pollak (incl. certificates, correspondence)[box 124]; personal documents of Hadassa and Bentzion Mitelsback-Galanter incl. passport, certificates, photographs, material from the Union des Femmes Juives (1945-1950), an album with drawings of a trip to Brittany by René Duiveport, etc. [box 216]; personal documents of Samuel Gutowski, notes of Paul M.G. Lévy [box 236]; bookkeeping records of the synagogue Ahavat Haïm located in the rue de Thy in Brussels (1959-1964)[box 251]; the ‘fonds Gretzer’ containing identity papers, passports, various certificates (marriage, divorce, decease, etc,), diplomas, correspondence, photographs etc. concerning Alfred Gretzer (1914-?) and his wife Mirella Merelman (1924-?)[box 289]; archival material (personal documents, photographs) concerning Ida Opal-Bornsztajn, Arié Carel Rosenberg, Mathilde Meurée, Henri Archer, Augusta Waysblum, Victor Matkovic-Ramirez and their relatives [box 300]; the ‘fonds Ajdler’, archival material of Chana Fidelzeit [box 301]; an activity report of the Cuisine populaire juive (1931-1932), copies of the statutes of the AIVG (1944), documents concerning the 14th anniversary of Solidarité Juive (1939-1953), a brochure of the Union des Sionistes (1946), a file concerning Stephan Mandelbaum (1961-1986)[box 302]; copies of documents of the family of Otto Willy Bublon and Erna Dora Beermann, archival material of the boulangerie-pâtisserie Bornstein, including its staff register (1955-1981), correspondence of the youth department of the WZO in Belgium (1948-1949), correspondence of the Comité Anversois pour le Beth Jabotinsky [box 303]; various archival material from/concerning the Goldmann-Kane family, Ruchla Rajzla Michmacher, Viktor Spiegler, Ary Rosenberg, the Provizur-Strauss family, Abraham Geschlider and Hélène Zielona, Jacques Koutchouck, etc. [box 304]; correspondence of rabbi Jacob Sagalowitsch, of the Communauté israélite Orthodoxe de Bruxelles, of the Union Sioniste de Bruxelles, and of Crédit Mutuel Ivria (1935)[box MM173]; correspondence of rabbi Jacob Sagalowitsch [box Y 89]; a card index of hidden children created by Ida Sterno [box MM174]; identity papers, diplomas, passports, correspondence, photographs, plans of the architect David Gassel, a hand written biography of Henri Bibrowski, identity papers of Jetti Giniewski and Chaïm Wulfowicz [box MM 186]; personal archival material concerning the family of Philippe Blondin (dated 1879-1999)[2 boxes]; documents concerning the staff of the leather goods manufacturer Kenigsman (1946-1984), plans of the Orthodox synagogue of Brussels and bookkeeping records related to this synagogue (1929-1933), plans of the synagogue in Uccle in the avenue Messidor, a register containing statistics on foreign Jews aided by the AIVG in view of their emigration (1949)[box XL 1]; anti-Semitic press clippings (1938-1943), various statistics established on the basis of the ‘register of Jews’ (including original material), a list of Jews active in various sectors ordered by professional activity, created by an anti-Semite from Antwerp (36 typed pages in Dutch – 1933-1940) [box 135]; etc. (See boxes 71, 73, 108, 112, 124, 216, 234, 235, 236, 237, 244, 251, 280, 299, 300, 302, 301, 303, 304, MM 173, MM174, MM182, MM184, MM 186, XL1, Y 89, Y 133, Y 134, Y 135, Y 136, Y 138, Y 139]
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The project to create a Jewish museum in Belgium was born in the late 1970s, in the context of the 150th anniversary of Belgium. A group linked to the Central Jewish Consistory of Belgium, led by Baron Jean Bloch, was at the initiative of an exhibition presenting 150 years of Belgian Judaism. The success of this exhibition led the organisers to create a museum about the art and history of Belgian Judaism. The primary objective of the association Pro Museo Judaico created in 1981 was the preservation and valorisation of the socio-cultural heritage of the Jewish community of Belgium and the collection of evidence of its past. In 1989, a team of researchers settled at avenue de Stalingrad 74, above the Beth Israel synagogue. They presented about thirty temporary exhibitions in addition to a permanent exhibition. In 1999, the Belgian State ceded a complex of buildings near the Sablon to the Jewish Museum. Since 2005 the Musée Juif de Belgique – Joods Museum van België (MJB) is located in this spacious building at rue des Minimes 21, in the heart of the historical district of the capital. The MJB publishes, since 2009, an art and history journal titled MuséOn, to valorise and introduce the collections of the museum to both a specialised and general public. A quarterly newsletter is also published in several thousand copies, containing announcements of past and future activities, presentations of new acquisitions and projects of the museum. The MJB was successively run by Freddy Estenne, Marc Goldberg, Georges Schnek and Philippe Blondin. Although the principal activities of the museum consist of presenting Jewish art and culture as well as the Jewish contribution to and relations with Belgian society to a wide audience through a permanent exhibition and numerous temporary exhibitions, the museum is also active in other domains. We note for example its involvement in the organisation of the European Day of Jewish Culture since 2000, its cooperation with the association Aktion Sühnezeichen Friedensdienste which sends young volunteers to renovate Jewish graves, the momentum around the Cercle de généalogie juive de Belgique and others. The museum also organises monthly lectures, numerous guided tours, and various educational activities. On 24 May 2014 the Jewish Museum of Belgium was hit by a terrorist attack in which four victims lost their lives: a couple of Israeli tourists (Emmanuel and Myriam Riva), one French volunteer (Dominique Sabrier), and one Belgian employee of the museum (Alexandre Strens). The museum reopened its doors on 14 September 2014. (http://www.new.mjb-jmb.org/; D. Dratwa, “Élements pour servir l’histoire du Musée Juif de Belgique. Mémoires pour un lieu de Mémoire”, in MuséOn, no. 1, 2009, pp. 14-27.)
- Access points: locations:
- Belgium
- Access points: persons/families:
- Gottschalk, Max
- Lévy, Paul M. G
- Sagalovits, Yaʻaḳov Meʼir 1879-1944
- Subject terms:
- Aid and relief
- Architectural drawings
- Architecture
- Children
- Education
- Education--Schools and universities
- Feminism
- Holocaust
- Holocaust--Hiding
- Jewish community
- Jewish community records
- Jewish cuisine
- Manufacturing
- Marriage and divorce
- Migration
- Migration--Emigration
- Orthodox Judaism
- Passports and visas
- Personal records
- Photographs
- Rabbis
- Statistics
- Synagogues
- Trade and commerce
- Trade and commerce--Clothing and textile trade
- Vital records
- Vital records--Marriage records
- World War II
- Zionism
- Zionism--World Zionist Organization
- Zionism--Zionist organisations and parties
- Zionism--Zionist youth movements
- Access, restrictions:
- Access requires the authorisation of the archivist of the Jewish Museum of Belgium.
- Finding aids:
- There is a preliminary inventory of the Jewish Museum of Belgium.
- Yerusha Network member:
- State Archives of Belgium
