Comunidade Israelita de Lisboa
Item
Country
IL
Name of institution (English)
The Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People
Name of institution (official language of the state)
Language of name of institution
heb
Contact information: postal address
Edmond J. Safra Campus, Givat Ram, Jerusalem 91010
Contact information: phone number
00972 2-6586249
Contact information: web address
Contact information: email
cahjp@nli.org.il
Title (English)
Jewish Community of Lisbon
Title (official language of the state)
Comunidade Israelita de Lisboa
Language of title
heb
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por
Creator / accumulator
Comunidade Israelita de Lisboa
Date(s)
1804/1994
Language(s)
por
Extent
c. 600 storage units
Type of material
Photographic Images
Textual Material
Scope and content
This collection gathers documents produced by the Jewish community of Lisbon. It is subdivided into 9 major sections, namely: Comité da Comunidade (Community Committee); Documentação diverse (Miscellaneous documentation); Atividades da Comunidade Israelita de Lisboa 1966-1994 (Activities of the Jewish Community of Lisbon 1966-1994); Sionismo (Zionism); Arquivos Privados (Private Archives); Diversos (Miscellany); Outras Associações (Other Associations); Associações de Beneficiência (Charitable Associations); and Colónia Israelita de Lisboa (Israeli Colony of Lisbon). It includes several types of documents, such as community statutes, administrative records, books of minutes, correspondence, newspaper clippings, ledgers, account reports, census, and speeches, among many others. Particular interesting is a manuscript entitled "Memoria de todos os autos da Fé que setem feito em Lisboa" registering the "autos-de-fé" that took place in Lisbon between the years 1540-1669. The document includes the date and location of the "auto da fé", the name of the inquisitor, as well as the number of convicts.
Archival history
The CAHJP holds papers of numerous international, national and local organizations and over 300 private collections from the 16th to the 20th centuries from all over the world. It contains about 6,000 linear metres of documents, records and files (60,000,000 pages of documentation); 1,600 archives of communities, organizations and individuals; 18,000,000 frames of microfilmed documents; 2000 lists and inventories of documents and files concerning Jews, held in other archives; 15,000 photographs of Jewish personalities and sites; 8,000 printed statutes, reports, leaflets, posters and handbills; 1,200,000 newspaper clippings on various subjects; 15,000 books and publications on Jewish history.
Administrative / Biographical history
The Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People (CAHJP) were established in 1939. They hold the archives of hundreds of Jewish communities, as well as of local, national and international Jewish organizations and the private collections of many outstanding Jewish personalities. The Archives now hold the most extensive collection of documents, pinkassim (registers) and other records of Jewish history from the Middle Ages to the present day. The Board of Directors is composed of representatives of the Government of Israel, The Historical Society of Israel, The Jewish Agency for Israel, The Israeli Academy of Sciences and Humanities, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Tel-Aviv University and Bar-Ilan University. On January 30 2013. The Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People and the National Library of Israel (NLI) signed an agreement to implement a merger between the Archives and the Library. By joining the Library the Archives will be able to avail themselves of the Library’s resources and facilities to gain access to more and more repositories of Jewish archival material and to make the contents of their vast holdings more available to a wider public.
Access points: locations
Access points: subject terms
Access points: document types
Access, restrictions
Digital copies of some documents are available online:
Links to finding aids
Author of the description
Joana Rodrigues 2023
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| Title | Alternate label | Class |
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| הארכיון המרכזי לתולדות העם היהודי (The Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People) | Collections (official language of the state) |