Metadata: Collection of posters and leaflets of Jewish associations
Collection
- Country:
- Belgium
- Holding institution:
- FelixArchief – City archives of Antwerp
- Holding institution (official language):
- FelixArchief - Stadsarchief Antwerpen
- Postal address:
- Oude Leeuwenrui 29, 2000 Antwerpen
- Phone number:
- +32 (0)3 338 94 11
- Reference number:
- FelixArCity-Antwerp-Verzameling affiches en pamfletten van Joodse verenigingen
- Title:
- Collection of posters and leaflets of Jewish associations
- Title (official language):
- Verzameling affiches en pamfletten van Joodse verenigingen
- Creator/accumulator:
- Prins, Izak
- Date(s):
- 1932/1934
- Language:
- Dutch; Flemish
- French
- German
- Yiddish
- Hebrew
- Extent:
- 144 pieces
- Scope and content:
- This collection contains posters, pamphlets and leaflets concerning various political, religious, social and cultural activities organised by Jewish organisations in Antwerp in the years 1932-1934. We note political meetings and debates as well as exhibitions, concerts, film screenings, balls, dances, theatre (i.a. Yiddish theatre by the Vilna group), lectures, excursions and voyages, etc. Among the organisations mentioned we find: B’rith Trumpeldor, Vereniging van Joodse Handwerkers, KKL, Agudath Zion, Agoedas Jisroel, Comité tot verdediging van de rechten der Joden, Heatid, Poale Zion-Zeire Zion, Mizrachistische vrouwenvereniging, Verbond der Zionisten Revisionisten, Jiddische Volksbibliotheek “Sholem-Aleykhem”, Zeirei Misrachi, Zionistische Federatie van België and the Zionistische vrouwenvereniging.
- Archival history:
- Donation by Izak Prins (1934).
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Izak Prins (1887-1968) was a historian, writer and art expert born in the Netherlands. He initially worked as a lawyer in Amsterdam (1918-1932). A convinced Zionist from an early age, he was very active in Jewish organisations in the Netherlands. He was commissioner of the KKL and (co-)founder of i.a. the Genootschap voor de Joodse Wetenschap, the youth movement Macbi (in Haarlem) and the Zionistische Raad. Prins had also founded, with J.S. da Silva and rabbi Justus Tal from Utrecht the literary magazine De Vrijdagavond (1924-1932). In 1930 he moved to Belgium to complete his historical research on the Marranos. Around 1935 Prins started to collect archival material concerning the Jewish population in Brussels. Together with David Trocki he was the initiator of the exhibition on Belgian Jewry held in the Koninginnegalerij in Brussels (1938), for which Prins had assembled the material. He never got the chance to process his own research documentation due to the outbreak of the Second World War. Prins succeeded in fleeing to Switzerland and emigrated to Jerusalem after the war, where he continued his research. Izak Prins is best known for his historical work on the Jews in Belgium and the Netherlands – see his De vestiging der Marranen in Noord-Nederland in de XVIde eeuw (1927) and various articles in i.a. the Belgian periodical Tribune juive. (“Prins, Izak 1887-1968”, in Database Joods Biografisch Woordenboek. Joden in Nederland in de twintigste eeuw, available on http://www.jodeninnederland.nl/id/P-1026; J.-P. Schreiber, “Prins, Izak”, in J.-P. Schreiber, Dictionnaire biographique des Juifs de Belgique. Figures du judaïsme belge, XIXe-XXe siècles, Bruxelles, De Boeck, 2002, pp. 285-286.)
- Access points: locations:
- Antwerp
- Finding aids:
- The fonds is described in the database of the Felixarchief.
- Links to finding aids:
- http://zoeken.felixarchief.be
- Yerusha Network member:
- State Archives of Belgium
