Roger Lévi archives

Collection

Scope and content:: This fonds is very rich in material. It contains documents related to the family of Roger and Ida Lévi (identity papers, passports, certificates, marriage contracts, a military booklet, an inventory of furniture, announcements, an authorisation of change of name, school documents, marriage certificates, etc.), correspondence, photos, bookkeeping documents, school notebooks, notes, drawings, poetry collections and recipe notebooks. (See notably the boxes Y120 to Y128 and Y151 to Y159)

Archival history:: The fonds is divided in two parts. 19 boxes are owned by the Fondation de la Mémoire Contemporaine and were deposited with the Jewish Museum of Belgium in 2009. (J.-P. Schreiber, "Lévi, Roger Jean David", in J.-P. Schreiber, Dictionnaire biographique des Juifs de Belgique. Figures du judaïsme belge, XIXe-XXe siècles, Bruxelles, De Boeck, 2002, p. 218.)

Administrative/biographical history:: Roger Lévi (1907-1996), the grandson of Salvador Lévi, the founder of the synagogue in the rue de Copernic in Paris, had a brilliant career as a stockbroker, culminating in his function as president of the rating committee (comité de cote) of the Bourse (stock market) in Brussels. His father Raymond Lévi was the secretary and later vice president of the Central Jewish Consistory of Belgium (CCIB), while his mother Ida held the position of secretary-general in the same institution. Roger Lévi became one of the founders of the Centrale d’Œuvres sociales juives in Brussels. He was the president of the Communauté israélite de Bruxelles from 1963 onwards and was also a member and later vice president of the CCIB. In addition, he was involved in the Amis belges de l’Université hébraïque de Jérusalem and the Fondation Van Buuren. (J.-P. Schreiber, "Lévi, Roger Jean David", in J.-P. Schreiber, Dictionnaire biographique des Juifs de Belgique. Figures du judaïsme belge, XIXe-XXe siècles, Bruxelles, De Boeck, 2002, p. 218.)

Subject terms:: Education; Education--Schools and universities; Marriage and divorce; Marriage and divorce--Ketubot; Personal records; Vital records; Vital records--Marriage records

Access, restrictions:: Access requires the authorisation of the archivist of the Jewish Museum of Belgium.

Finding aids:: There is a deposit list made by the researchers of the Fondation de la Mémoire Contemporaine; a deposit list made by the Jewish Museum of Belgium (dated 2003) also exists.