Our online photo library comprises a collection of more than 6000 photographs and is constantly expanding thanks to gifts and purchases. The images relate to most aspects of the Jewish community of Belgium.
Among the many themes displayed, you can find family photographs, pictures of Belgian and foreign Jewish personalities, the different Jewish political movements, synagogal and religious life, Zionism, the main global conflicts, the history of Jews before 1830 in the future Belgium, the large Jewish social organisations (Bnei Brit, Naamat), sports associations, the Jewish Secular Community Centre, homes, schools and youth centres, the Jewish scouts, Art, professions, theatre and music, film industry, cemeteries and Post-Shoah memorials, etc.

Photograph of the Great Synagogue in Rue de la Régence in Brussels, end of the 1890s.
Celebration of a collective Bat Mitzvah in the presence of the Rabbi Pinchas Kahlenberg, at the Great Synagogue in Rue de la Régence in Brussels, end of the 1970s.
Picture of the chess player Akiba Rubinstien, 1920-1930.
Celebration of the first Yom-Ha-Atsmaout, Israel Independence Day, Centre for Fine Arts of Brussels, May 1949.
National Monument to the Jewish Martyrs of Belgium, Anderlecht, 1970.
German Jewish refugees debarking from the Saint-Louis ship in the port of Antwerp on June 17th, 1932.
Photograph of HM King Albert 1st with Albert Einstein in the gardens of the Royal Castle of Laeken in 1932.
Photograph of Dr René Duivepart, doctor during World War I.
“Jewish Scouting” section: group from Hashomer Hatzair in Houffalize, during summer 1938.
Parade of the Dror members in Brussels on May 1st, 1974.
“Jewish Youth Movement” section: Group of young people of the Dror and one of its member, Henri Bibrowski, in the foreground on the left.

You can order digital or paper photographs (with exceptions*) mentioning our copyright below the image (© Collections Musée Juif de Belgique, or © Collections MJB). You can consult the different applicable fees below.

* reproduction of photographs with recognizable persons is prohibited without the express and prior consent of the persons featured on the photographs .

Copyright Fees

Colour printed copy40 € per publication
Black and white printed copy20 € per publication
Printed copy used for book cover or magazine…150 € per publication
Please contact us for large quantities or special requests

Digital Copy Fees

Digitised copy for private use5 € per unit
Digitised copy for commercial use10 € per unit
Unzipped digitised copy (Tiff 360dpi)12 € /CD-ROM
No additional fee for sending photographs in JPEG (zip) by email.

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For photographs enquiry or research, please contact Olivier Hottois, head of the photographic library.

Téléphone: 00 32 (0)2 500 88 38
Email : o.hottois@mjb-jmb.org