Zvi Locker
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
P258
Type of reference number
Call number
Title (official language of the state)
Zvi Locker
Language of title
eng
Creator / accumulator
Zvi Locker
Date note
17th century/20th century
Language(s)
deu
eng
fra
Extent
79 storage units
Type of material
Cartographic Material
Photographic Images
Textual Material
Scope and content
The Zvi Locker collection comprises Zvi Locker's personal papers and correspondence, research materials and articles, and his master thesis, "Shaping the image of the community in Bordeaux in the 18th century". It includes research on biblical periods and characters; notes and bibliographic records regarding the Habsburg Empire; brochures, maps, and research notes on Jewish figures in Spain; research notes on Yugoslav Jewry, including materials relating to Yugoslav Jews' actions against Nazism, and the immigration of Yugoslav Jews to Israel; articles and research notes on proto-Zionist figures, such as Josef Natonek, Michael Sachs, and the German philosopher Moshe Hess; articles and research notes on messianism and messianic movements and figures in the 17th and 18th centuries, including notes on Shabtai Tzi and his burial place, and the 16th-century false messiahs David Reuveni and Ascher Lämmlein; and research on Jewry, Jewish settlements, and Jewish figures in 17th- and 18th-century America.
Particularly interesting for the study of the Sephardic Diaspora are the research files on the Jews of France, which include notes and bibliographic records regarding Jews and Marranos in Bordeaux and their connection to the French Antilles; copies of letters and protocols regarding the Jews in Bordeaux and their connection to Saint Domingue (modern-day Haiti); articles on Jacob Rodrigues Pereire, Isaac de Pinto; and copies of documents relating to Abraham Gradis, his wife, Suzanne, and daughters, Judith and Rebecca, namely a testament and letters requesting Gradis' help concerning orphans (1738-1739). The collection also includes a section dedicated to research materials on Jews in the French Antilles. There can be found, for instance, Zvi Locker's works on South American and Caribbean Jewry; a list of 17th and 18th-century Jewish settlers in Saint Domingue with details on their former residence in France; copies of 17th-century documents relating to Jewish settlement and commerce in the Caribbean and the French Antilles; copies of 18th-century documents held in French archives concerning David Gradis and his son's commercial activities in Central American colonies; and a letter to the maritime minister in Bordeaux requesting help for the settlement of a Jewish family in Saint Domingue (1781).
Particularly interesting for the study of the Sephardic Diaspora are the research files on the Jews of France, which include notes and bibliographic records regarding Jews and Marranos in Bordeaux and their connection to the French Antilles; copies of letters and protocols regarding the Jews in Bordeaux and their connection to Saint Domingue (modern-day Haiti); articles on Jacob Rodrigues Pereire, Isaac de Pinto; and copies of documents relating to Abraham Gradis, his wife, Suzanne, and daughters, Judith and Rebecca, namely a testament and letters requesting Gradis' help concerning orphans (1738-1739). The collection also includes a section dedicated to research materials on Jews in the French Antilles. There can be found, for instance, Zvi Locker's works on South American and Caribbean Jewry; a list of 17th and 18th-century Jewish settlers in Saint Domingue with details on their former residence in France; copies of 17th-century documents relating to Jewish settlement and commerce in the Caribbean and the French Antilles; copies of 18th-century documents held in French archives concerning David Gradis and his son's commercial activities in Central American colonies; and a letter to the maritime minister in Bordeaux requesting help for the settlement of a Jewish family in Saint Domingue (1781).
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, restrictions
The collection can be accessed in the reading room and in rooms with microfilm readers.
Links to finding aids
Author of the description
Joana Rodrigues, 2023
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