Jewish collections guided tour
Jewish collections guided tour
The Erasmus house
Sunday 18.10.2020
Come and discover the riches of Anderlecht’s Jewish past at the Erasmus House!
Visit the Jewish collections of Anderlecht, the museum and the garden of the Erasmus House in the company of Zahava Seewald, curator.
Daniel Van Damme (1893-1967), curator and founder of the Erasmus House, decided to devote space to Jewish history and culture when the Museum was set up. The Jewish collection comprises several hundred documents, books and religious items.
Included among these numerous documents, dating mainly from the 1920s and 1930s, relating to the social, cultural and economic life of Jews in Belgium, are: texts, posters, invitations, brochures, membership cards for various associations such the Arbeter Ring, the Alliance Israélite universelle, the Action Group for the Defence of Jews in Germany, the Poale Tsion-Tseire Tsion, the YIVO (Institute for Jewish Research), the JASK, the Bund, the Yidisher Hantverker Farband, the Prokor organisation and documents relating to the Spanish civil war. Another part of the collection, much less abundant, comprises religious books, historical works and periodica.
Sunday 18.10.2020 – 2pm > 3.30pm
Practical information
Reservation is required: maisondelaculturejuive@hotmail.com or +32 (0)475 38 69 44
