Shone Katzenelenbogen archives

Collection

Scope and content:: This fonds notably contains personal documents of Shone Katzenelenbogen, such as his diplomas, membership cards and identity papers but also correspondence, personal documents of his parents (such as their religious marriage act (ketubah)), passports, and student notebooks of Katzenelenbogen. (see boxes 169-170)

Administrative/biographical history:: Born in Warsaw in 1884, Shone Katzenelenbogen moved to Belgium before the First World War to study social and economic science at the École de Commerce and the Université Nouvelle in Brussels. He published his thesis on Jewish emigration at Larcier in 1918. He taught Hebrew and Hebrew literature at the Institut des Hautes Études in Brussels as well as Jewish religion at the Royal Athenaeum in Brussels and worked as translator in the courts. A supporter of the Poale Zion-Zeire Zion movement, he was one of the editors of the newspaper Kadima. During the Second World War, he was involved in the École moyenne juive and the Orphelinat israélite. (J.-P. Schreiber, "Katzenelenbogen, Schone", in J.-P. Schreiber, Dictionnaire biographique des Juifs de Belgique. Figures du judaïsme belge, XIXe-XXe siècles, Bruxelles, De Boeck, 2002, p. 193.)

Subject terms:: Education; Education--Schools and universities; Marriage and divorce; Marriage and divorce--Ketubot; Passports and visas; Personal records; Professions; Professions--Scholars (secular), scientists, and academics

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.