Metadata: Astruc Archives
Collection
- Country:
- Belgium
- Holding institution:
- Central Jewish Consistory of Belgium
- Holding institution (official language):
- Consistoire central israélite de Belgique
- Postal address:
- Joseph Dupontstraat 2 / Rue Joseph Dupont 2, 1000 Bruxelles
- Phone number:
- +32 (0)2 512 21 90
- Web address:
- http://www.jewishcom.be/
- Reference number:
- CJCons-Brussels-Fonds Astruc
- Title:
- Astruc Archives
- Title (official language):
- Fonds Astruc
- Creator/accumulator:
- Astruc, Élie Aristide
- Date(s):
- 1869/1870
- Extent:
- 0.2 linear metres
- Scope and content:
- This fonds contains a file about religious education at the Jewish primary school in Brussels as well as hand written notes by Astruc for his "Histoire abrégée des Juifs et Notes sur leurs croyances", published by Hachette in Paris in 1869. [see 7.324. and 7.3.25]
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Élie Aristide Astruc was born in Bordeaux in 1831. He was elected Chief Rabbi of Belgium in 1866. He resigned in 1879, left Brussels for Paris, but came back in 1891 and stayed until his death in 1905. He was a Freemason, freethinker, liberal, gifted writer and orator. Astruc married Eglé Esther Astruc (1833-1922), with whom he had three children: Lucien, Gabriel and Myriam. (J.-P. Schreiber, "Astruc, Élie Aristide", in J.-P. Schreiber, Dictionnaire biographique des Juifs de Belgique. Figures du judaïsme belge, XIXe-XXe siècles, Bruxelles, De Boeck, 2002, pp. 34-36; J.-P. Schreiber, "Un rabbin dans le siècle : Élie-Aristide Astruc, Grand Rabbin de Belgique de 1866 à 1879", in Bijdragen tijdschrift voor filosofie en theologie, Amsterdam, LIII-1, 1992, pp. 2-22 ; J.-P. Schreiber, "Le grand rabbin de Belgique Élie-Aristide Astruc et l’enseignement du judaïsme, 1866-1879", in A. Despy-Meyer & H. Hasquin (eds.), Libre pensée et pensée libre. Combats et débats. Hommage à A. Uyttebrouck, Bruxelles, éd. de l’ULB, 1996, pp. 139-158 ; J.-P. Schreiber, "Élie-Aristide Astruc", in L. Nefontaine (ed.), Illustres et francs-maçons, Bruxelles, Labor, 2004, pp. 45-51.)
- Access points: locations:
- Brussels
- Access points: persons/families:
- Astruc, Élie Aristide
- Subject terms:
- Education
- Education--Schools and universities
- Historical research
- Rabbis
- Access, restrictions:
- Access requires the authorisation of the President of the Central Jewish Consistory of Belgium.
- Finding aids:
- There is a summary list.
- Yerusha Network member:
- State Archives of Belgium
