Metadata: Archives of the cabinets of Jean Gol
Collection
- Country:
- Belgium
- Holding institution:
- National Archives of Belgium 2 – Joseph Cuvelier Repository
- Holding institution (official language):
- Archives Générales du Royaume 2 – Dépôt Joseph Cuvelier
- Postal address:
- Hopstraat 26-28 / Rue du Houblon 26-28, 1000 Bruxelles
- Phone number:
- +32 (0)2 274 15 00
- Web address:
- http://www.arch.be/
- Email:
- agr_ar_2@arch.be
- Reference number:
- NAB2-Brussels-545-344
- Title:
- Archives of the cabinets of Jean Gol
- Title (official language):
- Archives des cabinets Jean Gol
- Creator/accumulator:
- Gol, Jean
- Date(s):
- 1981/1988
- Extent:
- 347.4 linear metres
- Scope and content:
- This fonds, for which there was no finding aid at the time of writing, contains thousands of files related to Gol’s tasks and competences as a minister – i.a. as the Minister of Justice. Moving box 285 (titled “Législation – Cultes – Laïcité”) contains for example files (with correspondence, notes, documentation) concerning the organisation, appointments, pensions, subsidies, etc. of the Jewish religion and other matters concerning the Jewish population (e.g. the establishment of a Jewish museum, antisemitism, security, etc.).
- Archival history:
- Donations by Jean Gol in 1988, as well as various supplements after his death.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Jean Gol (1942-1995) was a lawyer and liberal politician. After law school he was inscribed at the Bar in Liège (1964). He combined his work as a lawyer with his function as teacher at the ULG (since 1974). Gol’s political career started with his involvement with the left-Zionist youth movement Hashomer Hatzair. He was the leader of the socialist students, the Belgian representative of the Union Mondiale des Étudiants juifs and the vice president of the Mouvement universitaire belge d’Expression française. Initially a member of the Belgian socialist party (1962-1964), Gol became active in the early 1970s in Walloon-federalist political formations. He was elected, in 1971, for the Rassemblement Wallon (representing Liège). Gol held the function of staatssecretaris for the Walloon economy in the Tindemans government (1974). He left the party in 1976 and joined the liberal Parti de la Liberté et du Progrès Wallon. Gol soon became the president of the Parti Réformateur Libéral (1981). That same year his party was included in the government and he held the function of vice prime minister. He was also appointed Minister of Justice, Institutional Reform and (from 1985) Foreign Trade. In 1992 Gol was appointed Minister of State. He left parliament for the European Parliament in 1994. Gol was an active member of the Centre Communautaire Laïc Juif – he was a frequent contributor to its periodical Regards and also involved in the Comité pour une Paix négociée entre Israël et les Pays arabes. Jean Gol died of a cerebral haemorrhage in 1995. (J.-P. Schreiber , “Gol, Jean”, in J.-P. Schreiber, Dictionnaire biographique des Juifs de Belgique. Figures du judaïsme belge, XIXe-XXe siècles, Brussel, De Boeck, 2002, pp. 126-127.)
- Access points: persons/families:
- Gol, Jean
- Access, restrictions:
- The archives remain closed until 2038.
- Yerusha Network member:
- State Archives of Belgium
