Metadata: Azario Dobruszkes 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 Azario Dobruszkes
- Title:
- Azario Dobruszkes archives
- Title (official language):
- Fonds Azario Dobruszkes
- Creator/accumulator:
- Dobruszkes, Azario
- Date(s):
- 1950/1996
- Language:
- French
- Yiddish
- Extent:
- 3 linear metres
- Scope and content:
- This fonds notably contains the typescript of the three volumes of the collected works of Azario Dobruszkes. We also find advertisements and press clippings on the occasion of the release of this work, documents concerning the Radio Judaïca broadcasts and audiocassettes with the recordings of these broadcasts, correspondence of Dobruszkes with i.a. Osher Schuchinsky and Noémie Mervin Galton (daughter of Max Erik). We also note copies of articles, various documentation, notes and postcards.
- Archival history:
- Donated by Jacques Dobruszkes, son of Azario Dobruszkes (2002).
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Azarius “Azario” Dobruszkes (1912-2002) was born in Vilnius in 1912. He obtained a civil engineering degree at Caen University in 1934. Called back for his military service in Poland that same year, he was in charge of various military worksites. He married in Luniniec (Poland) in 1939. Azario Dobruszkes and his wife survived the war in Bachkiria, bordering Siberia. After the war, Azario joined his brother, who had been living in Belgium since 1928. He entered the study bureau of Abraham Lipski. From 1953 to 1983, Dobruszkes worked as an engineer for the firm Preflex; he was appointed technical director in 1961 and deputy general director in 1979. Alongside this brilliant career in engineering, Azario Dobruszkes was heavily involved in Yiddish cultural life in Brussels. He notably was a zamler for YIVO. (A. Dobruszkes, "Note biographique". Fonds Azario Dobruszkes (BE / MJB / Fonds Azario Dobruszkes); J. Deom, "Une voix du yiddish : Azario Dobruszkes", in Les Cahiers de la Mémoire contemporaine-Bijdragen tot de eigentijdse Herinnering, no. 8, 2008, pp. 219-231.)
- Access points: persons/families:
- Dobruszkes, Azario
- Mervin Galton, Noémie
- Schuchinsky, Osher
- Access, restrictions:
- Access requires the authorisation of the archivist of the Jewish Museum of Belgium.
- Finding aids:
- There is a deposit list made by J. Déom (2009).
- Yerusha Network member:
- State Archives of Belgium
