Metadata: Aaron Dorf 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 Aaron Dorf
- Title:
- Aaron Dorf Archives
- Title (official language):
- Fonds Aaron Dorf
- Creator/accumulator:
- Dorf, Aaron
- Date(s):
- 1945/1978
- Language:
- French
- Yiddish
- Extent:
- 1 box
- Scope and content:
- This fonds contains correspondence, typescripts of articles in Yiddish, press clippings of programs of the Cercle Culturel Emmanuel Ringelblum. (see box 231)
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Aaron Dorf (1904-1979) was born in Poland in 1904. He migrated to Belgium at the age of 21. He was active in the resistance but is mostly known for his publications in Yiddish on the resistance and Linke Poale Zion. (J.-P. Schreiber, "Dorf, Aaron", in J.-P. Schreiber, Dictionnaire biographique des Juifs de Belgique. Figures du judaïsme belge, XIXe-XXe siècles, Bruxelles, De Boeck, 2002, p. 89.)
- Access points: persons/families:
- Dorf, Aaron
- 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
