Metadata: Ernest Gorbitz 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 Ernest Gorbitz
- Title:
- Ernest Gorbitz archives
- Title (official language):
- Fonds Ernest Gorbitz
- Creator/accumulator:
- Gorbitz, Ernest Berel
- Date(s):
- 1936/1995
- Extent:
- 1 linear metre
- Scope and content:
- This fonds contains a rich correspondence, various handwritten and typed texts by Ernest Berel Gorbitz, photos, notebooks and drawings.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Ernest Gorbitz (1922-1995), born in Frankfurt am Main to parents originating from Odessa, arrived in Belgium in 1924-1925. Although he was trained in jewellery making, etching and crimping, Gorbitz proved himself especially through his literary talents. An autodidact, he met many authors and was influenced by them – i.a. Albert Ayguesparse, Henri Bosquet, René Kalisky, Paul Fierens and Hélène Beer. He was a prolific author, publishing many novels, poems, chronicles and testimonies. Judaism, the Shoah, human misery and the fear of dying were central motifs of his work. He died in Brussels in 1995. (E. Wulliger, "Gorbitz, Ernest Berel", in J.-P. Schreiber, Dictionnaire biographique des Juifs de Belgique. Figures du judaïsme belge, XIXe-XXe siècles, Bruxelles, De Boeck, 2002, pp. 136-137.)
- Access points: persons/families:
- Gorbitz, Ernest Berel
- Access, restrictions:
- Access requires the authorisation of the archivist of the Jewish Museum of Belgium.
- Finding aids:
- There is a deposit list.
- Yerusha Network member:
- State Archives of Belgium
