Great Britain
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
GB
Type of reference number
Call number
Title (official language of the state)
Great Britain
Language of title
eng
Creator / accumulator
The Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People
Date note
16th century/20th century
Language(s)
eng
spa
Extent
268 storage units
Type of material
Photographic Images
Textual Material
Scope and content
The Great Britain collection gathers documentation relating to Jews in several cities of the United Kingdom, such as Newcastle Upon-Tyne, Penzance; Glasgow, Birmingham, Oxford, Pontypridd, Liverpool, Bradford, Manchester, Cardiff, London, Gateshead, Londonderry, and Merthyr Tydfil, among others. The collection contains different types of documents, including laws and regulations, lists of community members and their families, burial records, school registers, ketubot, minute books, account books, financial reports, balance sheets, newspaper articles, correspondence, pamphlets, sermons, synagogue photographs, and Jewish cemetery drawings, among others. Most materials date from the 20th century. However, there are a few documents dating from the 19th century and earlier. Included in the collection is a 17th-century manuscript list of the members of the Spanish and Portuguese Jewish congregation of London, stating their donations. The collection contains other materials concerning that congregation, such as the Ascamot (1831; 1906) and regulations regarding the Orphan Society, among others.
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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System of arrangement
The collection is arranged according to geographical criteria.
Access, restrictions
The collection can be accessed in the reading room and in rooms with microfilm readers.
Links to finding aids
Existence and location of originals
Author of the description
Joana Rodrigues, 2023
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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) |