Metadata: Marriages
Collection
- Country:
- Belgium
- Holding institution:
- Communauté israélite orthodoxe de Bruxelles
- Holding institution (official language):
- Communauté israélite orthodoxe de Bruxelles
- Postal address:
- Rue de la Clinique 67a / Kliniekstraat 67a, 1070 Bruxelles (Anderlecht)
- Phone number:
- +32 (0)2 345 45 18
- Reference number:
- ComIsrOr-Brussels-Mariages
- Title:
- Marriages
- Title (official language):
- Mariages
- Creator/accumulator:
- Communauté israélite orthodoxe de Bruxelles
- Date(s):
- 1946/2016
- Date note:
- Material continues to be added to this collection.
- Language:
- Hebrew
- Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE); Imperial Aramaic (700-300 BCE)
- French
- English
- Extent:
- 1 linear metre
- Scope and content:
- This fonds contains files regarding the marriages concluded within the CIOB. The first marriage entered in the register (pinkas) started after the war dates from 22 December 1946. This register lists 805 entries, mentioning for each couple getting married at the CIOB the Hebrew first and last name of the spouses, their date of birth, the names of their parents, the date of marriage and the names of the witnesses. Only their family name and address in Belgium are in French. The last marriage in this register was concluded on 25 November 1982. Information on the marriages between 1983 and 2004 can be found in a series of individual files (of variable size), containing various attestations (including certificates of celibacy), copies of identity papers, etc. In the individual files of the third series, formed by the marriages concluded between 2004 and 2013, we find a copy of the marriage contracts (ketubot) of the parents, photographs, correspondence, certificates of Jewishness (attestations de judaïcité) and various other documents.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The Communauté israélite orthodoxe de Bruxelles (CIOB) was established at the end of the 19th century, following the influx of Jews from Central and Eastern Europe and the Russian empire. Over 200 families gathered to celebrate Simhat Torah in 1904, in a rented place of worship (oratoire) in the rue Van Artevelde in Anderlecht. Two years later the congregation moved to rue de Lenglentier 18. Rabbi Salomon Bamberger officiated there from 1907 until 1913. Rabbi Bamberger and Meir Polazinzki, president of the community, applied for official recognition by the Consistory and the Ministry of Justice; it was recognised by royal decree of 20 June 1910. The community was recognised under the official name of Communauté israélite orthodoxe de Bruxelles in August 1912 (royal decree of 11 August 1912). Given the influx of faithful, the community soon wished to erect its own synagogue. Construction was not begun until 1928; its design was entrusted to the architect Joseph De Lange. Located in the rue de la Clinique, in the heart of the Jewish quarter, the synagogue was inaugurated on 6 April 1933. Rabbi Sagalowitch was appointed the spiritual leader of the CIOB. He was primarily to address the financial difficulties that had struck many of the members of the community. The Shoah particularly affected the members of the CIOB, who were less integrated into Belgian society than other, less strictly religious Jews. In the aftermath of the Second World War, rabbi Steinberg devoted himself to the spiritual reconstruction of the community and to the interior decoration of the synagogue. A Jewish school was created. The Athénée Maïmonide was founded thanks to the initiative and commitment of the members of the CIOB, notably rabbi Steinberg and Seligman Beer Bamberger. This school gradually became a central element in the life of the Jewish community in Brussels. The CIOB manages the kashrut supervisory committee for the city of Brussels, it provides its members with access to a mikveh and a rabbinical court (beth din). Rabbi Chaïkin was its minister for several decades. At the dawn of the 21st century, rabbi Serfaty has taken up this task. The number of faithful is nevertheless in decline. (La Communauté Israélite Orthodoxe de Bruxelles http://www.jewishcom.be/wordpress/nl/2009/03/01/la-communaute-israelite-orthodoxe-de-bruxelles/; J.-P. Schreiber, Politique et religion. Le Consistoire central israélite de Belgique au XIXe siècle, Bruxelles, éd. de l’Université de Bruxelles, 1995, pp. 372-381.)
- Access points: locations:
- Brussels
- System of arrangement:
- The files are ordered chronologically.
- Access, restrictions:
- Consultation requires the authorisation of the Chief Rabbi of the Communauté israélite orthodoxe de Bruxelles.
- Yerusha Network member:
- State Archives of Belgium
