Metadata: Moïse Rahmani 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 Moïse Rahmani
- Title:
- Moïse Rahmani archives
- Title (official language):
- Fonds Moïse Rahmani
- Creator/accumulator:
- Rahmani, Moïse
- Date(s):
- 1944/2016
- Date note:
- precise dates unknown; material continues to be added to this collection.
- Extent:
- 16 moving boxes
- Scope and content:
- This fonds, which at the time of writing has not yet been ordered and for which no finding aid exists, contains correspondence, documentation (i.a. on Sephardic Jews), various working documents, notes and other material related to the life and work of Rahmani.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Moïse Rahmani was born in Cairo in 1944. The Sephardic Rahmani family fled the anti-Jewish climate in Egypt in 1956 and found refuge with relatives in the former Belgian Congo. In the Congo Moïse Rahmani became active in trade and the financial sector. He subsequently moved to Italy (1969) and Luxembourg (1973), and eventually settled in Belgium in the early 1980s. Rahmani was (and still is) very active in the Jewish associational life. He held various functions within i.a. the Cercle Ben Gurion (as administrator, and also within Radio Judaïca), the Comité de Coordination des Organisations juives de Belgique (as administrator), the Jewish Museum of Belgium, the Institut d’Études du Judaïsme, B’nai B’rith Brussel (as president), the Comité Sépharad ’92, as (co-)founder of the magazine Contact J, etc. Rahmani is especially active in the Sephardic community – see i.a. his creation, in 1990, of the Bulletin de la communauté sépharade and the periodical Los Muestros (with Rahmani as editor in chief), as well as the establishment of the Institut Sépharade Européen in Brussels. Rahmani, a member of the Association des Écrivains belges de langue française, also wrote historical works on the Sephardic Jews, on the exodus of Jews from Arab countries, etc. (Testimony of M. Rahmani on his website http://moise.sefarad.org/presse.php/id/2/)
- Access points: locations:
- Belgian Congo
- Brussels
- Cairo
- Access points: persons/families:
- Rahmani, Moïse
- Subject terms:
- Personal records
- Sephardi Jews
- Access, restrictions:
- Access requires the authorisation of the archivist of the Jewish Museum of Belgium.
- Yerusha Network member:
- State Archives of Belgium