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Country
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FR
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Name of institution (English)
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Universal Israelite Alliance
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Language of name of institution
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fra
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Contact information: postal address
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27 avenue de Ségur, 75007 Paris
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Contact information: phone number
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0033 0153328855
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Contact information: email
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info@aiu.org
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Reference number
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AP 66
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Type of reference number
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Archival reference number
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Title (English)
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Jules Carvallo Collection
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Title (official language of the state)
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Fonds Jules Carvallo
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Language of title
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fra
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Creator / accumulator
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Jules Carvallo
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Sarah Leibovici
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Date note
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18th century/19th century
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Language(s)
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fra
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Extent
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32 storage units
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Type of material
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Textual Material
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Scope and content
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The Jules Carvallo collection comprises six boxes of documents and research notes produced between 1988 and 1990 by the historian Sarah Leibovici with the aim of producing a biography of Jules Carvallo. There is a wide variety of documents, including photocopies of genealogical documents, civil status records, inheritance records, and property transactions, as well as correspondence with town councils or archives concerning records, some of which date back to the 17th century.
Some of these documents specifically refer to Sephardim in France, particularly some comprised in Box E ("Documents d’étude historiques", documents for historical studies), which contains:
E1: "Juifs de Bayonne" (Jews from Bayonne);
E2: "Juifs espagnols et portugais à Bordeaux" (Spanish and Portuguese Jews in Bordeaux);
E3: "Juifs Espagne, Portugal, Maroc" (Jews in Spain, Portugal and Morroco).
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Archival history
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The collection was brought to the archive after the death of Sarah Leibovici in 1990. Marta Redon Carvallo and Laurence Carvallo Thomas, Jules Carvallo's children, entrusted the elaboration of the inventory to the historian Françoise Chapron, under an agreement with the Alliance Israelite Universelle and at the responsibility of Jean-Claude Kuperminc.
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Administrative / Biographical history
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Jules Carvallo was one of the founders of the Alliance Universelle in 1860. He was born in Talence (Gironde) on February 6, 1820, to a family of Sephardic origin living in Southwestern France.
Carvallo graduated from the Ecole Polytechnique, becoming an engineer. He contributed to the construction of railway networks in France, Italy, and Spain.
Besides participating in the foundation of the Alliance Israélite Universelle, he was also a member of the Consistoire de Paris and co-founder of a newspaper, the Opinion Nationale.
His career faced great challenges when he was implicated in a financial affair involving private railway companies. He was struck off the Public Works Corps in 1865, moving to Tortosa, then Amposta, in the Ebre delta, where he kept working on public construction projects.
He died on December 15, 1916, in Tortosa, and his body was transferred to Amposta in 1932.
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System of arrangement
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The collection is organised according to chronology or thematic grouping (D1 to D7). Box D8 contains documents deposited by Marta Redon Carvallo.
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Author of the description
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Kevin Soares, 2023
