The history of Belgium’s Jewish community and its experience of the First World War has yet to be written. While during the last few years some articles have been published on Jews and the First World War in Belgium, a few notable ones in this journal, a detailed and exhaustive study of how the Jewish communities in Belgium fared during the war is still inexistent. In this introductory article I do not intend to offer such an exhaustive overview, nor present radically new information regardin...