Metadata: Szaja Zandberg 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 Szaja Zandberg
- Title:
- Szaja Zandberg archives
- Title (official language):
- Fonds Szaja Zandberg
- Creator/accumulator:
- Zandberg, Yeshayah
- Date(s):
- 1962/1968
- Language:
- French
- Yiddish
- Extent:
- 2 boxes
- Scope and content:
- This fonds contains notes, correspondence, and various documents related to the theatre ensemble Yikult. We also find poems and novellas written by Yeshayah Zandberg. (See boxes 167 and 168)
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Yeshayah Zandberg was a Yiddish author of Polish origin, who settled in Belgium in 1919. Before the Second World War he was the director of a press agency and during the Occupation he operated a clandestine Yiddish library. He published many essays, articles and poems in Yiddish, mainly after the war. Zandberg was the president of the Cercle culturel Emmanuel Ringelblum and of the Association de Littérature yiddish de Bruxelles. He was also the co-founder of the theatre ensemble Yikult. Throughout his life he was committed to the preservation and dissemination of Yiddish as a language and culture. (J.-P. Schreiber, "Zandberg, Yeshayah", in J.-P. Schreiber, Dictionnaire biographique des Juifs de Belgique. Figures du judaïsme belge, XIXe-XXe siècles, Bruxelles, De Boeck, 2002, p. 370.)
- Access points: persons/families:
- Zandberg, Yeshayah
- 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.
- Yerusha Network member:
- State Archives of Belgium
