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Examples
of the Archives' Holdings
Countries Material at the CAHJP is arranged
geographically, by country (according to the borders in existence between the
two World Wars), and within each country by community. It should be borne in
mind that the following descriptions are selective and general, do not
always indicate the size of any particular collection and do not cite all
of the archives' holdings. The reader should also note that not all of the
collections have been fully catalogued and access to them may therefore be
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Original material A collection of files, ranging from the beginning of the
French colonization to Algerian independence (1830-1962), relating to the
communities of Microfilms Isolated files from the Alliance Israélite
Universelle head office in Paris, relating to Alliance schools in Algeria
and the general situation of the Jews there (1882-1931); material from the
records of the British Foreign Office, held at the Public Record Office in
London; files of the Algerian Consistoire, held at the Jewish
Theological Seminary in New York. Inventories Lists and descriptions of material, held at the Archives
d'Outre-Mer in Aix en
Original material Soprotimis - Sociedad de Protección a los Immigrantes
Israelitas
(1922-1951); correspondence, minutes and personal files of Ezras Noschim -
Sociedad Israelita de Proteccion a Niños y Mujeres (1920-1940’s); files from the The
Jewish Colonization Association (JCA), head office in Paris relating
to Argentina (1893-1970); JCA Argentinian office,
including personal files of colonists (1893-1940‘s); newspaper clippings
relating to Jewish communities and education in Argentina (1969-1974).
Community records from Avellaneda, including minute books of the Caja
Mutual Gemiluth Jasedim (1938-1973); pinkas of the Tiferet
Israel Synagogue (1925), (and) minute books of the Cooperativa
de Creditos Boca y Barracas (1920-1933) and the archives of the “Y. L. Peretz” school in Buenos Aires;
minutes, correspondence and printed material from Moisesville
(1899-1960); cemetery register and correspondence files of the Sephardi
community in Resistencia (1912-1964); diaries of Arturo Bab from Rivera
(1947-1949); minute book of the Ashkenazi community in Rosario,
1960-1969; two registers of the Chaim Nachman Bialik School in San
Fernando (1935-1938). Microfilms Avellaneda, minutes of the
Asociación Israelita de Socorros Mutuos- Ezrah (1912-1977); minutes of
WIZO (1936-1942); files and minutes of the Asociación Mutual Israelita
Argentina (AMIA)
(1894-1957), of the Congregación Israelita de Inventories Lists from various Jewish archives, such as the Museo Judio
and community archives in
A related site: http://www.colonizacionjudia.com.ar Original material Vienna, Jewish community archives (1648-1970),
the largest single record group at the CAHJP, relating to all aspects of
communal activity, such as community leadership, contacts with other communities
and the authorities, legal status, financial affairs, taxes, ritual matters,
civil registry, education and culture, philanthropy and social organizations,
as well as emigration; files on the V. Internationales Komitee fuer
juedische Fluechtlinge und KZler (1947-1951); files from other Austrian
communities, e.g. Baden (1849-1939), Linz (1870-1938), Mistelbach
(1895-1939), Neulengbach (1854-1938). Microfilms The archives of the Jewish communities and schools in Burgenland
(18th-20th centuries); files of the Israelitische
theologische Lehranstalt Wien (1891-1938) and the Union
oesterreichischer Juden (1903-1938); material from the Haus-, Hof- und
Staatsarchiv, Wien, relating to Jews in Austria, and in other parts of
the Holy Roman Empire. Inventories Lists of material relating to Jews from Austrian state and
municipal archives, as well as of Jewish collections at the Center for the
Preservation of Historical Documentary Collections in
Original material Files of the Ashkenazi community in
Original material Files from the Jewish Colonization Association (JCA), head office (Paris, later London), relating to Brazil (1900-1914); community material from Belém, Centro Israelito do Pará (1890-1974); correspondence of the Rabbinical Association in Porto Allegre (20th century); files of the Sephardi and Syrian communities (1928-1942) and correspondence of Enric Fortuna (1946-1964) in São Paulo; statutes of the Syrian community in Rio de Janeiro (1928, 1953). Inventories List of JCA files held at the Arquivo Historico Judaico Brasileiro (1901-1968).
Original material
A collection of documents, files, books and video tapes
relating to Jews in Microfilms and photocopies Files of the Bulgarian Central Jewish Consistory (1944-1956)
and the communities of Burgas (1919-1944), Dupnitsa
(1918-1944), Kiustendil (1942-1983), Pazardjik (1902-1957), Pleven
(1922-1960), Plovdiv (1929-1957), Russe (1875-1948), Samokov
(1942-1944), Sofia (1903-2000) and Varna (1902-1956);
photocopies of volumes registering Jewish families from Jambol,
Kiustendil, Pazardjik and Plovdiv, compiled in the 1930’s and 1940’s and
containing information dating back to the late 19th century; files
from the collection of Haim Keschales, containing copies of documents on
Bulgarian Jewry (1939-1954); letters from Bulgarian communities to the Chacham
Bashi [Chief Rabbi] in Turkey (20th century); files from the
German Foreign Office on Bulgarian Jewry (1879-1916).
Original material A birth register and a
death register from
Original material Community files from Concepcion (1934-1962); community,
minutes and statutes from
Original material Files from the archives of the Jewish community in Tientsin
(1920-1957); documents and photographs relating to the activity of Rabbi
Aaron Moshe Kiseleff (1938-1950), the last rabbi of Harbin, all
deposited at the CAHJP by Igud
Yotzei Sin in Israel; additional documents and
photographs of Jewish institutions and prominent commu-nity members in
Tientsin (predominantly in Russian, with some Yiddish and Hebrew); the
collection of the Far Eastern Jewish Central Information Bureau for
Emigrants (Daljewcib), covering the organization’s activity, first
in Harbin and then in Shanghai (1918-1947), (in English, German
and Yiddish).
Original material Community and Jewish school files from Baranquilla (1960-1970);
Ashkenazi community, WIZO and Hashomer Hatzair in
Original material The Jewish school minute book (1954-1956).
Microfilms Community minute books from
The Czechoslovakian collection at the Central Archives contains
material from all of the areas which comprised the Czechoslovakian republic
between the two World Wars, i.e. Original material The
majority of files relate to Microfilms and photocopies Files and documents held by the Jewish Museum in Prague, among the
communities are Kroměříž (1629-1936), Lostice (1793-1868),
Mikulov (1369, 1609-1938), Mlada Boleslav (1595-1938), Praha
(1302-1943), Prostējov (1784-1942),
and Velke Mezirici (1691-1794); material of the Bohemian Landesjudenschaft
(1637-1844); remnants of the Bratislava community archives (18th-19th
centuries) and 19 circumcision registers from Bratislava and the
environs (1748-1883); and two financial registers from the community of Jemnice
(1787-1845), filmed at the library of the University of Manchester; a
small number of films of non-Jewish provenance from Czech archives, such as a
register relating to the affairs of a Jewish merchant in the 15th
century, from the district archives at Olomouc and a number of files relating
to Jews in Slavkov [Austerlitz] (1725-1881) and Rousinov (1701-1930)
from the district archives at Brno; A microfilmed version of the card
catalogue prepared by the late Professor Ruth Kestenberg-Gladstein from the
1724 census of countryside Jews prepared by the Bohemian government. Inventories Detailed lists of the archival material held by the Jewish Museum in Prague, as well as a list of files from the Jewish community in Prague, which are held by the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw; partial surveys from the state archives at Bratislava, the district archives at Berehovo, the municipal archives at Munkacs, the district archives at Nitra and the state and municipal archives at Prague; a number of general guides to archives in Czechoslovakia, some of which contain references to Jews. Private collections Papers
of Franz Komiati, containing documentation on the Jews of Slovakia (18th-20th
centuries); papers of Rabbi Gustav Sicher, Chief Rabbi of Prague until
1939, who spent the World War II in Jerusalem, corresponded with survivors in
Czechoslovakia and returned to Prague in 1946 at their request to serve once
again as Chief Rabbi. Original
material Files of
five communities, Altschottland (1720-1883), Langfuhr (1765-1883),
Mattenbuden (1727-1883), Weinberg (1843-1883), Danzig in der
Breitgasse (1839-1883), which were united into the community of Danzig
(1883-1939); files from the
community of Tiegenhof (1858-1936), which was absorbed by the community of Danzig in
1935. Microfilms Community
files filmed at the Centrum Judaicum in Inventories Regesta
and lists of documents and files from 26 record groups at the state archives
in Original material Community files from
Original material Documents dealing with education and community matters in
Egypt in general and Cairo and Alexandria in particular (19th-20th
centuries), including two registers from the rabbinical court in Alexandria
(1864-1866); reports on the Alliance Israélite Universelle
schools; a survey on the state of Egyptian Jewry in 1957, files of the Society
for Historical Investigation of Egyptian Jewry (1920's-1930's); letters
from the Chief Rabbinate in Cairo to the rabbinate of Alexandria, marriage
lists from Cairo (including Karaites) and posters of the Ashkenazi community
in Cairo. Microfilms and photocopies The Ben Zeev collection (10th-20th centuries), relating to the Jewish community of Cairo, its institutions and dignitaries, and its relations with the authorities; among the material, documents on Rabbi David, the grandson of Maimonides, on the Cairo ghetto, on various synagogues and on land endowment (Hekdesh) for the poor; letters from Egyptian communities to the Chacham Bashi [Chief Rabbi] in Turkey (19th-20th centuries); files from the German Foreign Office on Egyptian Jewry (1898-1919). Inventories A list of material from the A related site: http://www.nebidaniel.org
Original material Assorted letters and statistical data from censuses taken
in the USSR in 1941, 1943 and 1949/50 on schools, universities, nationalities
and religions; statistical data from a census taken in Estonia in 1959
about marriage and divorce among Jews; a list of students at the University
of Tartu between 1918 and 1944. Microfilms Material from archives in St. Petersburg and Moscow,
including records from the years 1558-1561, regarding rented property in the
city of Narva, as well as documents from the Russian Ministry of
Internal Affairs about communal registration in Estonia (1868), and reports
of attendance at Jewish schools in the Derpt district; statistical
data on synagogues and rabbinical matters in Estonia from the early 20th
century, as well as documents concerning Jews, from the Russian Army
headquarters during World War I; files from the German Foreign Office on
Baltic Jewry (1879-1884).
Microfilms and
photocopies
Microfilms and photocopies of registers and documents from
the communities of
Original material Material of the Consistoire Central and local
consistories of Algeria, Bordeaux, Lyon, Marseille, Moselle,
Bas-Rhin, Haut-Rhin, Paris and Vesoul, concerning relations with the
authorities, elections and censuses, finances, ritual matters, cemeteries,
education and charitable organizations; assorted documents concerning the
reorganization of the Jewish community structure under Napoleon (1806),
documents and newspapers concerning the Damascus and Dreyfus Affairs;
community collections from Avignon, Bayonne, Biesheim, Bordeaux,
Carpentras, Cavaillon, Metz, Nancy, Paris and Strasbourg, as well
as individual documents from other communities; the Bureau de Spoliations
Mobilières (BSM) archives, containing personal files regarding compensation claims for
movable property stolen by the Germans in France during World War II. Microfilms Consistory material; Rabbi Zadoc Kahn’s correspondence
with the French authorities regarding North African Jews, as well as material
on the Algerian Consistoire; documents concerning Jews in Alsace
(1376); documents on Joseph of Rosheim and the status of the Jews in North
Alsace (15th-16th centuries); documents on the
legal status of Jews in Avignon (16th-18th
centuries); Inquisition documents (1489) and community minutes from Bordeaux
(1710-1787); material from Private collections Papers of Werner
Epstein (1941-1944), including material about the Union Générale
des Juifs de France (UGIF); letters of Rabbi Eli Bloch, Poitiers (1933-1942); correspondence and press
clippings from the Committee for the Defence of Shalom Schwartzbard (1926-1927). Inventories
Original material The largest record group at the CAHJP, containing archival
material from over 1000 communities, societies and institutions. For some,
only several files remained, for others, many more. However, the size of some
of these collections at the Central Archives does not necessarily correspond
to the size and prominence of those communities before World War II. Some of
the German material dates from the 16th and 17th centuries,
however, the majority of the files date from the 18th to the 20th
centuries. They relate to all aspects of communal activities, such as community
leadership, relations with other communities and with the authorities, legal
status, financial affairs, taxes, ritual matters, civil registry, education,
culture and philanthropy. Until the first half of the 19th century
most of the documents are in Yiddish or Hebrew and sometimes in German with
Hebrew characters. By 1850 most records were conducted in German. The
material arrived at the Central Archives from a variety of sources, among
them files relating to 400 communities from the Gesamtarchiv der deutschen
Juden. In the mid 1980’s the CAHJP initiated a major project to
recatalogue the German communal material according to a uniform scheme, in
order to unite all the material from each community in one single collection
and facilitate thematic searches. Over 250
communal archives have been recatalogued to date. New inventories are
available for the communities of Upper and Lower Franconia in Microfilms and photocopies A large collection of microfilms, copied in Jewish, state
and municipal archives and in archives of aristocratic families, such as Centrum
Judaicum Berlin, Landesverband Muenchen, Żydowski Instytut Historyczny
[ŻIH] Warsaw, Deutsches Zentralarchiv Merseburg, German
Foreign Office, German Ministry of the Interior, state archives Hamburg, on Breslau,
Emden, Frankfurt/M., Halberstadt, Hannover, Karlsruhe, Koblenz,
Koenigsberg/Prussia, Mainz, Marburg, Munich, Stettin, Worms, Wuerzburg etc.
Recently the entire collection of the Centralverein
deutscher Staatsbuerger juedischen Glaubens (CV) was microfilmed at the Center for the
Preservation of Historical Documentary Collections in Private Collections A third of the private collections in the CAHJP are in
German. Among them are the papers of Yitzhak
F. Baer, Theodore Harburger, Louis Lamm, Josef Meisl and Moritz Stern. The latter contains valuable
sources on German-Jewish history in the Middle Ages. Inventories 600 lists from 160 state, district and municipal archives,
as well as from archives of aristocratic families (11th-20th
centuries). 1Click
to open list of German communities Original material Pinkassim and documents from communities
and organizations (18th-20th centuries). Microfilms Files from the Public Record Office, several pinkassim
from the Spanish and Portuguese synagogue in Private Collections Josua Podro collection of newspaper clippings
(1930-1970's); the Cecil Roth collection of copied documents (12th-19th
centuries). Inventories Lists of Jewish collections at the Greater London Public
Record Office (18th-20th centuries); a guide to the
collections of the Hartley Library at the University South-hampton, as well
as assorted other inventories.
Original material Files from the community archives of Athens
(1916-1941), Cavalla (1897-1938), Comotini (1914-1941), Thessalonika
(1700, 1908-1943), Volos (1910-1958), Xante (1913-1958) and Yanina
(1814-1944), together with a number of files from other collections referring
to the Jews of Rhodes (19th-20th centuries). The
largest of the above collections is from Thessalonika. Microfilms Correspondence files of the Alliance Israélite
Universelle head office in Paris relating to Alliance schools in Greece
and the general situation of the Jews there (1863-1940); letters from Greek
communities to the Chacham Bashi [Chief Rabbi] in Turkey (19th-20th
centuries); isolated microfilms from the records of the British Foreign
Office, held at the Public Record Office in London; files from the German
Foreign Office (1914-1919) and the Russian State Archives in Moscow (19th
century).
Original
material Files
containing general information on Hungarian Jewry and on various communities,
such as Budapest, Sopron and Szeged (19th-20th
centuries), containing decrees and instructions for Hungarian Jews,
announcements, printed material etc. (in Ger-man, Hungarian and
Yiddish-Deutsch). Microfilms and photocopies Records
from the State Archives in Budapest on a variety of subjects, such as
conscription lists of Jews; documents from the Jewish department of the
Hungarian Statthalterei (18th-19th century);
documents concerning Jews from the Ministries of the Interior, Religion and
Education (mid 19th century), from the Hungarian Chancellery in
Vienna (1770-1848), the municipal archives of Budapest etc.; a marriage
register from Miskolc (1895-1924). Inventories A
list of documents from the archives of the Jewish community of Original material and photocopies Registers, documents and photographs from communities, synagogues and
schools in Alibag (1907-1960), Bombay (1884-1975), Cochin
(18th-20th centuries), Nangon (1920-1946), Panvel
(1920-1971), Parur, Poinad (1930-1965), Poona
(1923-1927), Revdanda (1873-1937) and Thana (1884-1975), mostly
in English, Malaiali and Maharati. Original material Files of the Alliance Israélite Universelle
schools in Microfilms Correspondence files of the Alliance Israélite
Universelle head office in Paris relating to Alliance schools in Iran and
the general situation of the Jews there (1888-1940); a file on Ozar Hatora
activities in Teheran (1943-1962); letters from Persian commu-nities
to the Chacham Bashi [Chief Rabbi] in Turkey (19th-20th
centuries); files from the German Foreign Office on Iranian Jewry
(1911-1917). Original material Assorted personal documents, such as ketubot. Microfilms Correspondence files of the Alliance Israélite
Universelle head office in Paris relating to Alliance schools in Iraq and
the general situation of the Jews there (1864-1939); letters from
Iraqi communities to the Chacham Bashi [Chief Rabbi] in Turkey (19th-20th
centuries), including letters from Rabbi Yosef Chaim (Ben Ish Chai). Original
material A minute
book of the Jewish community of Original material Files from Akko, Hebron, Jaffa,
Jerusalem, Safed (largest collection) and Tiberias (17th-20th
centuries), among them, pinkassim of rabbinical courts and kollels,
correspondence, statutes and private documents (predominantly Hebrew,
with some documents in Ladino and in Yiddish); files of the Alliance
Israélite Universelle office in Jerusalem, relating to
Alliance schools in Jerusalem and the general situation of the Jews in
Palestine (1882-1948); files of the Alliance Israélite Universelle
school for the deaf in Jerusalem (1960-1975) and files of the Alliance
school in Haifa; files of the head office in Paris of the Jewish
Colonization Association (JCA) relating to colonies in Palestine, among them Ekron,
Gedera, Hedera, Hartuv, Kfar Saba, Kfar Tavor, Mishmar Hayarden, Motza, Nes
Tsiona, Petach Tikva, Rehovot, Rosh Pinah and Yavne’el (1897-1919). Microfilms Correspondence of the Alliance Israélite
Universelle in Paris with the Hilfsverein der deutschen Juden
regarding the Jews of Palestine (1895-1932); pinkassim of the Maghreb
Jewish community in Jerusalem (19th-20th centuries);
letters from Palestinian communities to the Chacham Bashi [Chief
Rabbi] in Turkey, including letters from Rabbi Ben Zion Meir Chai Ouziel (19th-20th
centuries); files from government archives in Germany, Great Britain, Italy,
Poland, Russia, Switzerland and the Ukraine relating to the Jews in Palestine
(16th-20th centuries); files from the German Foreign
Office on Jews in Palestine (1880-1918).
Original
material, microfilms, photocopies, lists and regesta concerning the history
of Jews and Jewish communities, from the 13th to the 20th
centuries, in many Italian regions and cities, such as Ancona, Ferrara,
Firenze, Gorizia, Mantova, Milano, Modena, Padova, Parma, Roma, San Nicandro,
Siena, Trieste, Venezia; surveys from archives ranging from Venice in the
North to Palermo in the South. In the archives of Northern and Inventories, regesta and microfilms of archival material from many state archives, libraries, notarial archives, ecclesiastical archives, e.g. state archives in Firenze, Gorizia, Modena, Perugia, Pisa, Siena, Trieste, Udine, Verona, Biblioteca Ariostea (Ferrara), Biblioteca Marciana (Venezia); microfilms of selected files in Jewish community archives, e.g. Ancona, Ferrara, Firenze, Livorno, Mantova, Modena, Padova, Pisa, Roma and Siena; documents (original or microfilmed) of Italian Jewish organizations, e.g. the Unione delle Comunità Israelitiche Italiane, the Alliance Israélite Universelle of Northern Italy, the Comitato Italiano di Assistenza agli Emigranti Ebrei; the archives of Irgun Olei Italia in Israel; private and family papers of Italian Jews, mainly relating to the 19th and 20th centuries, e.g. Artom, Carpi, Grassini-Morpurgo and Viterbi families, as well as papers of Gualtiero Cividalli, Angelo Fano, Alfonso Pacifici, David Prato, Isacco Pardo and others.
Original and copied files concerning Jews in the Courland
and Livland regions of the former Russian Empire, in independent Original material Letters of the American Jewish Joint Distribution
Committee (JDC) and Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS), of
the historian, Simon Dubnow, as well as announcements, leaflets and statutes
of Latvian Jewish parties and public organizations; files referring to the
Jewish community of Riga (1867-1959), containing documents on ritual
matters, philanthropic activities, social and political organizations,
educational institutions, community activities etc., notably the illuminated
pinkas of the chevra kadisha (1869-1959). Microfilms Files from historical archives in St. Petersburg and
Moscow, Kiev and Odessa, con-cerning the legal status of the Jews, migrations
to agricultural colonies, taxes and debts, education and philanthropy, military
service, the situation of Jews and refugees during World War I, Jewish
workers and political movements (end of the 18th century up to the
period of Latvian independence); files from the German Foreign Office on
Baltic Jewry (1879-1884).
Original material
Various documents and registers (19th-20th
centuries); letters from Lebanese communities to the Chacham Bashi [Chief
Rabbi] in Turkey (19th-20th centuries).
Microfilms,
photocopies and inventories
Lists and photocopies of material concerning the Jews in
Libya under Italian colonial rule, kept at the central state archives in
Rome; material from the archives of the Unione delle Comunità Israelitiche Italiane in Rome; letters from Libyan
communities to the Chacham Bashi [Chief Rabbi] in Turkey (19th-20th
centuries); microfilms from the German Foreign Office on Libyan Jewry
(1915-1917).
Original
material
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Microfilms
Archives of the Jewish community of Lisbon (1874-1974),
containing statutes, minute books, correspondence etc.; archives of the
Jewish communities in Braganca, Faro and Oporto
(1915-1948) which were established by conversos who returned to
Judaism; letters from Portuguese communities to the Chacham Bashi [Chief
Rabbi] in Turkey (19th-20th centuries); material of
non-Jewish provenance relating to Jews from the Arquivo Nacional do Torre
do Tombo in Lisbon, from the Royal chancery (13th-16th
centuries) and of Inquisition trial files from Lisbon, Evora and Coimbra (16th-18th
centuries).
Inventories
List of materials relating to Jewish matters in the Arquivo
Nacional do Torre do Tombo in
Original
material
Files of the Central African Board of Deputies and of the
Jewish communities in
Romania
The holdings regarding Romanian Jewry comprise material
from all of the regions which belonged to Greater Romania between the two
World Wars, i.e. the areas of the Old Kingdom (
Original material
Most of the files relate to communities from the Old
Kingdom and Transylvania, and a few to communities from Bukovina and
Microfilms and photocopies
Files from the Romanian Jewish Federation in Bucharest
relating to individual Jewish communities and to the national organizations
of Romanian Jewry (19th-20th centuries); files from the
Alliance Israélite Universelle head office in Paris, relating
to Alliance schools in Romania and the general situation of the Jews there
(1861-1938); material of non-Jewish provenance from state and municipal
archives in Romania, Ukraine, Russia, Austria, etc. such as files from the
Foreign Ministries of Austria, Germany and Italy concerning the “Jewish
problem”, containing information about Jews throughout Romania, about
internal community life, as well as about anti-Semitic legislation in the Old
Kingdom and later in Greater Romania (19th-20th
centuries). Systematic reports about the Romanian legislation on Jews, sent
to these European countries beginning with the 1860’s until World War I,
explain the ideological and political background of the inter-ethnical
tensions in
Inventories
Lists
of material of Jewish and non-Jewish provenance held in government archives
in Cluj and Arad
The Russian collection relates to
the
Original material
Individual files and documents from various parts of
Russia (19th-20th centuries); files from the papers of the head office in Paris of
the Jewish Colonization Association (JCA), relating to Russia
(19th and early 20th centuries) which provide important
information about the Jewish schools and community life of communities for
some of which little other information has survived; private collections such
as Simon Dubnow, Solomon Mikhoels, David Movshovich, Leo Motzkin and Aaron
Steinberg.
Microfilms and photocopies
Material of Jewish and non-Jewish provenance
relating to Jews in over 950 communities from over 40 archives in the former
Soviet States, including (approximately) over 2,000,000 microfilm frames and
photocopies of documents (16th-20th centuries);
material of Jewish provenance, such as two pinkassim from Uman
(1774-1837), files from the Jewish communities of Odessa and St.
Petersburg, letters to Baron David Guenzburg from rabbis, public figures and
private individuals, among them Simon Dubnov and material on such
Russian-Jewish organizations as the Society for Promotion of Enlightenment
among the Jews of Russia (OPE), the Alliance for Attainment of Full
Rights for Russian Jews, the Jewish Literary Association, the Society for the
Study of Jewry, the Central Jewish Committee for the Relief of Pogrom
Victims; the All-Russian Jewish Congress, Hechalutz, the Society for
the Resettlements of Jews in the USSR (OZET), the Jewish Section of
the Association of Former Political Prisoners and Exiles; Jewish political
parties, such as the All-Russian Jewish Workers Union (BUND), the
Jewish Socialist Workers’ Party (SERP), Poalei Zion, Zeirei
Zion, the Talmud Torah in Odessa, the Rabbinical Seminary in Zhitomir,
the Jewish Historical-Archeographical Commission in Kiev, as well as
private papers of such individuals as Arkadii Gornfeld, David and Horace
Guenzburg, Samuel Kamenetskij, Pesach Marek, and a few members of the Duma;
material of non-Jewish provenance from the archives of the Russian Interior,
Finance, Military, Commerce and Education Ministries, high and local courts,
magistrates in the territory of Belarus and the Ukraine, as well as private
archives of Polish noble families, such as Landskorunskij, Lubomirskij,
Potockij, Radziwil, Sapeha, Tarlo, Treter, Zamojskij; files from central
government organs (14th-20th centuries), central and local
military administrations, such as the Office of the Military Ministry and the
Supreme Commander’s Staff of the Russian Army; from regional and city
administrations, from private papers of higher Tsarist officials, as well as
from Soviet government institutions; files from the German Foreign Office on
Russian Jewry (1879-1920).
Inventories
Lists of Jewish record groups and of files
and documents relating to Jews from over 70 archives in
Original material
Monthly
immigration reports of the South African Jewish Board of
Deputies (1924-1929) and stencilled minutes of meetings; excerpts relating to
Jews from minutes of the South African Parliament (1945-1969); minute books
of the Rakishker Sick-Benefit and Loan Society in Johannesburg
(1912-1950).
Microfilms
Minutes, press clippings and statements of various
components of the South African Jewish Board of Deputies (1892-1991);
minutes and correspondence files of the Jewish community in Johannesburg
(1891-1968); files of the Arcadia Jewish orphanage in Johannesburg
(1921-1950); minutes and correspondence files of the Witwatersrand
congregation (1890-1915); papers of Morris Alexander, Capetown,
(1899-1942).
Original material
A list of
Jewish property in
Microfilms and inventories
Documents concerning Jews in government, municipal and
ecclesiastical archives in Barcelona (Archivo de
Syria
Original material
Private documents (19th-20th
centuries).
Microfilms
Correspondence files from the Alliance Israélite
Universelle (AIU) head office in Paris, relating to
Alliance schools and the general situation of the Jews there (1863-1940);
letters from Syrian communities to the Chacham Bashi [Chief Rabbi] in
Turkey (19th-20th centuries); files from the German
Foreign Office on Syrian Jewry (1914-1919).
Tunisia
Original material
Archives of the Alliance Israélite Universelle
schools in
Microfilms
Correspondence files of the Alliance Israélite
Universelle head office in Paris, relating to Alliance schools in Tunisia
and the general situation of the Jews there (1865-1940); letters from
Tunisian communities to the Chacham Bashi [Chief Rabbi] in Turkey (19th-20th
centuries).
Inventories
Lists of files relating to Tunisian Jews from the
Archives Diplomatiques at
Private collections
The papers of Rabbi
Khalfon Cohen from Djerba (1902-1959), containing files on his
communal and rabbinical activities, as well as responsa.
Original material
Archives of the Jewish community of Izmir
(1760-1970); material on the Jews of Izmir in the papers of the Levy family
(1804-1950); material on the Jews of Istanbul in the papers of the
historian, Abraham Galante (1895-1961); files and references to the communities
of Edirne, Manisa, Ourla, Tekirdag, Tire (19th-20th
centuries); files from the papers of the head office in Paris of the Jewish
Colonization Association (JCA) relating to the Messila Chadasha
and Or Yehuda colonies in Turkey (1899-1904).
Microfilms
Pinkassim from the community and rabbinical court of Istanbul
(1835-1971); incoming letters to the office of the Chacham Bashi
[Chief Rabbi] in Istanbul, from all over the Jewish world, as well as from
Turkey (1837-1919); correspondence files of the Alliance Israélite
Universelle head office in Paris, relating to Alliance schools in Turkey
and the general situation of the Jews there (1860-1940); files from the
German Foreign Office on Turkish Jewry (1880-1920).
(See Russia)
United
States of America
Original material
Files of the Kehillah in New York in the
Judah L. Magnes papers (1908-1920); papers of S. Broches on the Jews of New
England; assorted files from various American institutions and
organizations, chiefly those which assisted immigrants and Jews in Eastern
Europe (18th-20th centuries).
Microfilms
Letters from several American communities to the Chacham
Bashi [Chief Rabbi] in
Original material and photocopies
Files of the Comité Central Israelita del Uruguay
(1956-1965); files of the community and of Jewish schools in
(see Russia)
Yemen
Original material
Several private documents (19th-20th
centuries).
Microfilms
Letters from Yemenite communities to the Chacham Bashi [Chief
Rabbi] in
Yugoslavia
(The Eventov Archives)
Open to the public every Tuesday morning; E-Mail: Zvi_Loker@hotmail.com
This collection of documents and
data about Jews and Jewish life in the territories which constituted the
state of
The Archives consist of 115 indexed archival boxes, a
library and a collection of photographs. They also hold a set of
pre-Holocaust Jewish periodicals published in
Present and prospective activities
The archives are currently collaborating in two research
projects initiated in Dalmatia, Croatia – one regarding Dubrovnik and the
other Opatija/Rijeka's Jewry, respectively; a project on Jewish artists is
under preparation; a study based on testimonies of the survivors of the
Holocaust is contemplated.
Microfilms
The CAHJP hold microfilms of the
archives of the Jewish community in Belgrade (20th century)
and pinkassim from various communities in Dubrovnik (Ragusa), Križewci,
Varaždin, Vinkovci, Karlovac, Bijeljina, Djakovo
etc.; microfilms from the German Foreign Office on Yugoslavian Jewry
(1879-1919) and of the British Foreign Office, held at the Public Record
Office in London; records from the Haus-, Hof- und Staatsarchiv Wien.