Metadata: Sylvain Salomon Brachfeld archives
Collection
- Country:
- Belgium
- Holding institution:
- House of Literature
- Holding institution (official language):
- Letterenhuis
- Postal address:
- Minderbroedersstraat 22, 2000 Antwerpen
- Phone number:
- +32 (0)3 222 93 20
- Web address:
- http://www.letterenhuis.be/
- Reference number:
- HLit-Antwerp-BB 11
- Title:
- Sylvain Salomon Brachfeld archives
- Title (official language):
- Archief van Sylvain Salomon Brachfeld
- Creator/accumulator:
- Brachfeld, Sylvain
- Date(s):
- 1958/1972
- Date note:
- ca. 1960s
- Extent:
- 0.36 linear metres
- Scope and content:
- At the time of writing this fonds was only superficially described. It mainly contains correspondence, notes and documentation collected by Brachfeld.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Sylvain Brachfeld (born in 1932) started his career as a diamond cutter (1950-1989). In the 1960s he became active as a journalist i.a. with the Volksgazet (1967-1974), the press agency Belga (1970-1974), as a correspondent in Israel of De Nieuwe Gazet (1974-1993) and the Evangelische Omroep Hilversum (1979) but also as a journalist and collaborator for many Jewish periodicals and magazines such as the Belgisch Israëlitisch Weekblad (1962-200), Tribune-Juive-T.J. Hebdo, Le Journal d’Israël, Revue Centrale-Bruxelles, De Centrale-Antwerpen, Aleh, Meda, Le Lien etc. Brachfeld also wrote, apart from journalistic articles, popular and historical works on the Belgian Jewish community and the rescue of Jewish children during the Second World War. He was (and is) very active (often as a founding member) in Jewish associational life in Belgium and Israel – i.a. in the Club der Jonge Talenten (1960-1962), B’nai B’rith (1963-1968), Belgische immigranten in Israël (1983-1987), the Instituut voor de studie van het Belgisch Jodendom (since 1987), Joodse ondergedoken kinderen in België - in Israël (1991-1998), the Vereniging van Voormalige Belgen in Israël (since 2001), etc. Brachfeld also was the representative of the Jewish community Shomre Hadas in the Consistory (1972-1974). He assembled an impressive collection of archival material and documentation about the Jewish communities in Antwerp. Sylvain Brachfeld was decorated for his work, i.a. with an appointment of Knight in the Order of Leopold (1993).
- Access points: persons/families:
- Brachfeld
- Access, restrictions:
- Access requires the authorisation of Sylvain Brachfeld; contact the Letterenhuis for more information.
- Finding aids:
- The fonds is partially described in the Agrippa database of the Letterenhuis.
- Links to finding aids:
- https://letterenhuis.be/nl/pagina/collectie-online
- Yerusha Network member:
- State Archives of Belgium
