Suriname
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
Reference number
SME
Type of reference number
Call number
Title (official language of the state)
Suriname
Language of title
eng
Creator / accumulator
The Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People
Date note
18th century/20th century
Language(s)
dut
eng
por
spa
Extent
6 storage units
Type of material
Photographic Images
Textual Material
Scope and content
This collection gathers materials relating to the Jews in Suriname. The materials date from the 18th century up to the 20th century and include two photographs of the synagogue in Paramaribo dated 1981. The collection contains the regulations of the Dutch Jewish community in Suriname, with a 19th-century map of Suriname and a plan of Paramaribo. There is also a 20th-century preliminary report on the possibility of Jewish colonisation of Suriname, dated February 1948.
Included in the collection are also other materials such as regulations for the colonies and privileges for the Jews, an order from the High Court to pray for the government, a document referring to the collection of money to build a teacher's training school, and an announcement against indecent clothing in the synagogue. Particularly interesting for the study of the Sephardic Diaspora is a photocopy of an 18th-century letter from the Jewish physician David Nassi in Paramaribo to the Portuguese king.
Included in the collection are also other materials such as regulations for the colonies and privileges for the Jews, an order from the High Court to pray for the government, a document referring to the collection of money to build a teacher's training school, and an announcement against indecent clothing in the synagogue. Particularly interesting for the study of the Sephardic Diaspora is a photocopy of an 18th-century letter from the Jewish physician David Nassi in Paramaribo to the Portuguese king.
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.
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Access points: document types
Access, restrictions
The collection can be accessed in a reading room and in rooms with microfilm readers.
Links to finding aids
Author of the description
Joana Rodrigues, 2023
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