Metadata: Jacob Mansdorf 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 Jacob Mansdorf
- Title:
- Jacob Mansdorf archives
- Title (official language):
- Fonds Jacob Mansdorf
- Creator/accumulator:
- Mansdorf, Jacob
- Date(s):
- 1952/1958
- Language:
- French
- Yiddish
- Extent:
- 1 box
- Scope and content:
- This fonds contains photos (mainly of theatre performers), as well as the manuscript of an adaptation of a play by Mansdorf (A Hulem fun a Baron. Le faux Napoléon by Georges Kaizer), and printed material such as his biography, published in 1958. (See box 165)
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Jacob Mansdorf was born in Balitz, in the Kielce region in Poland, in 1902. He studied drama which then became his profession; he acted and also directed theatrical productions. After graduating from a theatre school in Warsaw in 1925, he worked for the studio of David Herman in the Polish capital and in the provinces; later he would act in the Azazel troupe, before joining the Vilna Troupe (in 1927). He married Marische (Myriam); the couple had a son, Michael. Myriam Mansdorf lived in Brussels after the war and moved to Tel Aviv around 1950. She designed sets and costumes. (Fonds Jacob Mansdorf (BE / MJB / Fonds Jacob Mansdorf))
- Access points: persons/families:
- Mansdorf, Jacob
- Subject terms:
- Jewish languages
- Jewish languages--Yiddish
- Theatre
- 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. There is also a deposit list (1985).
- Yerusha Network member:
- State Archives of Belgium
