Metadata: Spanish Consulate in Jerusalem
Collection
- Country:
- Spain
- Holding institution:
- General Archive of the Administration
- Holding institution (official language):
- Archivo General de la Administracion
- Postal address:
- Calle Paseo de Aguadores 2. 28871 - Alcala de Henares
- Phone number:
- +34 918 892 950
- Email:
- aga@cultura.gob.es
- Reference number:
- ES.28005.AGA/5.5.1.1.2
- Title:
- Spanish Consulate in Jerusalem
- Title (official language):
- Consulado de España en Jerusalen
- Creator/accumulator:
- Spanish Consulate in Jerusalem
- Date(s):
- 1852/1966
- Language:
- Spanish; Castilian
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- Good
- Scope and content:
-
This collection is made up of documents produced and received by the Spanish Consulate in Jerusalem before and after the creation of the State of Israel. The documentary fonds contains several sections:
1) Chronological Collection: correspondence and interior and foreign policy of Israel. In this section, repatriation requests are preserved (1948-50).
2) Pious Work: religious associations, holy places.
3) Record Books: telegrams, correspondence, holy places.
4) Protection of Foreign Interests (from 1900 to 1950): correspondence books. The documentation of this section is related to Greece, Germany, Romania, Italy, and France, including information on the two World Wars.
5) Protection of Foreign Interests. Correspondence and Accounting: lawsuits and judicial affairs.
6) General and Notarial Affairs: certificates, notarial records, proof of life certificates, chancery records, death records, birth certificates, citizenship section, civil registration, certified copies (1895-1960). In this section, we find a marriage license granted to Ignacio Bauer, a certificate at the request of Samuel Almosnino Bensusan, and nationality certificates.
7) Correspondence: with foreign consulates, other Spanish consulates, individuals (Jaime Garcia Martinez Abrisqueta, Juan Duran Loriga, Mariano de Madrazo, Francisco Utray Sarda, Pedro Cuyas, Duke of Terranova, Carlos Martinez de Orense, Ramon Saenz de Heredia, Alberto Pascual Villas, Joaquin Cervino), the Polytechnic School, and political and administrative entities of Israel (1948-1962); about consular activities, the Holy Land, and Meir Benjamin Eliezer Shlonim (1925-1935); and International Brigades volunteer applications for the Spanish Civil War (1936-1937).
8) Education and Culture: activities, art center, Hebrew University, etc. (after the establishment of the State of Israel).
9) Administration and Accounting: correspondence, accounting, receipts, exhibition expenses, companies.
10) Administration and Accounting: correspondence with banking entities and charitable funds, expenses, properties, entities, passports, etc. (after the establishment of the State of Israel).
11) Protocol: Parties, invitations, visit of the Pope after the establishment of the State of Israel (1948)
12) Economy and Commerce: correspondence among ministries (after the establishment of the State of Israel).
13) Staff: honorary Vice-consuls in Jaffa, the Consulate deanery of Jerusalem. 14) Foreign Policy. Israel: foreign policy, press, Israeli politics (after the establishment of the State of Israel).
15) Registration and Notarial Affairs: registration books, chancery documents, nationality. This section preserves nationality certificates, renewals of nationality certificates, safe-conduct registration and naturalization of protected Jews (1930-1965).
16) Emigration: repatriation of Spanish citizens (after the establishment of the State of Israel).
17) Judicial affairs: correspondence and minutes books.
18) Consular action: correspondence of consular activity.
19) Consular action. Military Affairs: recruitment files, correspondence.
20) Consular action. Passports: visas, passports, affairs related to the mobility of people.
21) Consular action.
- Archival history:
- This documentary fonds was transferred from the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs to the Spanish General Archive of Administration in 2002.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The Spanish Consulate in Jerusalem was founded in the nineteenth century.
- Subject terms:
- Citizenship
- Correspondence
- Financial records
- International Brigades (Spain)
- Legal matters
- Mandatory Palestine
- Migration
- Passports and visas
- State of Israel
- Trade and commerce
- Vital records
- Vital records--Birth records
- Vital records--Death records
- Vital records--Marriage records
- World War I
- World War II
- System of arrangement:
- This documentary fonds is classified in the following sections: Chronological Collection; Pious Work; Record Books; Protection of Foreign Interests; Protection of Foreign Interests. Correspondence and Accounting; General and Notarial Affairs; Correspondence; Education and Culture; Administration and Accounting; Protocol; Economy and Commerce; Staff; Foreign policy. Israel; Registration and Notarial Affairs; Emigration; Judicial Affairs; Consular Action; Consular Action. Military Affairs; Consular Action. Passports; Consular Action. Navigation.
- Access, restrictions:
- An index for the documentary fonds is available at the archive [(10)118-001]. Free access regulated by the current legal environment on access to Spanish historical archives (law 16/1985 of Spanish Historical Patrimony).
- Finding aids:
- In the archive there is available an inventory of this documentary fonds [(10)118.001]. Data on the collection are also available at the website of the Spanish National Archives (PARES).
- Links to finding aids:
- https://pares.culturaydeporte.gob.es/inicio.html
- Yerusha Network member:
- Spanish National Research Council
- Author of the description:
- Marina Girona Berenguer; ILC, CSIC; October 2019
