Metadata: Archives of rabbi Y.Z. Pollak
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-Archives du rabbin Y. Z. Pollak
- Title:
- Archives of rabbi Y.Z. Pollak
- Title (official language):
- Archives du rabbin Y. Z. Pollak
- Creator/accumulator:
- Pollak, Yitzhok Zekel
- Date(s):
- 1987
- Language:
- French
- Yiddish
- Hebrew
- Extent:
- 1 box
- Scope and content:
- This fonds contains the personal archives of Y.Z. Pollak, including notably invitations to marriages and bar mitzvoth in Antwerp (1987), thank you cards, various documents related to conferences and events organised within the Jewish community in Antwerp, publicity for kosher products and attestations of donations made by Y.Z. Pollak. (See box 123)
- Archival history:
- Donation by Y.Z. Pollak (1987).
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Yitzhok Zekel Pollak (also known as Edgard, or Sichel) was born in Brussels. He is an Orthodox diamond trader and in 1987 lived at Mercatorstraat 96 in Antwerp. In 1993 he was appointed Chief Rabbi of the Machsike Hadass community in Antwerp. Rabbi Yitzhok Zekel Pollak is currently the dayan of the Machsike Hadass community. (Interview of D. Dratwa (Jewish Museum of Belgium) with S. Pollak, 1987)
- Access points: locations:
- Antwerp
- Access points: persons/families:
- Pollak, Y Z
- 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. D. Dratwa, Bordereau de versement, Bruxelles, 1987.
- Yerusha Network member:
- State Archives of Belgium
