Metadata: Binem Cukier archives
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-Fonds Binem Cukier
- Title:
- Binem Cukier archives
- Title (official language):
- Fonds Binem Cukier
- Creator/accumulator:
- Cukier, Binem
- Date(s):
- 1919/1987
- Language:
- French
- Hebrew
- Extent:
- 6 boxes
- Scope and content:
- This fonds contains private correspondence of Binem Cukier and correspondence from the Zionist movement, minutes of meetings of this movement, documents related to the bookkeeping of the Zionist Federation of Brussels and a membership list of the socialist Zionist movement. (see boxes 173-178).
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Binem Cukier was born in Radom (Poland) in 1907 and migrated to Belgium in 1930. He was a militant of the Poale Zion movement, and later became its honorary president. His poems in Yiddish were published by the Literarische Bletter in Warsaw; he also edited the periodical Unzer Tribune in Yiddish and was one of the Belgian correspondents of the Parisian Yiddish daily newspaper Unzer Vort. (J.-P. Schreiber, "Cukier, Binem", in J.-P. Schreiber, Dictionnaire biographique des Juifs de Belgique. Figures du judaïsme belge, XIXe-XXe siècles, Bruxelles, De Boeck, 2002, p. 82.)
- Access points: locations:
- Brussels
- Access points: persons/families:
- Cukier, Binem
- 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
