Bayonne

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

F-Ba

Type of reference number

Call number

Title (official language of the state)

Bayonne

Language of title

eng

Creator / accumulator

The Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People

Date note

19th century/20th century

Language(s)

fra

Extent

12 storage units

Type of material

Textual Material
Photographic Images

Scope and content

This sub-collection of the France collection of the CAHJP contains various items regarding the Jewish community of Bayonne. Due to the Iberian Jewish background of this community, this sub-collection includes relevant information regarding Portuguese and Spanish Jews.
The items that compose this sub-collection are the following:
F-Ba-1: list of births for which the deaths are not recorded, 1865-1894.
F-Ba-2: list of births from 1865 to 1894.
F-Ba-3: archive documents from the Société de Bienfaisance, including accounts and letters dealing with the status of Portuguese and Spanish Jews at the Paris Assembly.
F-Ba-4-ovs: various censuses of the Jewish population of Saint Esprit and Bayonne, 1921.
F-Ba-5: names of persons not included in the census of Jews in Bayonne in 1808.
F-Ba-6: migration of Jewish population in 1858, 1859 and 1860.
F-Ba-7: list of marriages from 1807 to 1895.
F-Ba-8: list of births from 1893 to 1912.
F-Ba-9: list of deaths from 1891 to 1912.
F-Ba-10: genealogies of various families from Bayonne, 1888.
F-Ba-11: Levi Alvares genealogy and various Levi Alvares family documents, particularly relating to the Dreyfus affair, 1986.
F-Ba-12: photo of a manuscript (1727) showing Bayonne and its Jewish quarter.

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 a reading room and in rooms with microfilm readers.

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Author of the description

Carla Vieira, 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)
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