Metadata: Foreign Policy
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/2.5.1.1.1.2
- Title:
- Foreign Policy
- Title (official language):
- Politica exterior
- Creator/accumulator:
- Spanish Ministry of State
- Date(s):
- 1947/1967
- Language:
- Spanish; Castilian
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- Good
- Scope and content:
-
This collection contains documentation produced and received by the Spanish Ministry of State and is related to the foreign policy of the Spanish government.
Concerning Jews, it includes information regarding the Arab-Israeli conflict; emigration to Israel; consequences of WWII; antisemitism; congresses and conferences on Jewish History and Jewish Studies; the situation of the Jews in North Africa, especially in Morocco; the situation of the Jews in Spain; and the relationship between Jews and the Catholic Church.
1) The Arab-Israeli conflict: Iraq’s attitude on the conflict and its troops in Jordan (1956); the attitudes of Egypt, Spain, the United States, Russia, Lebanon, and Syria on the conflict (1956-1957); Israeli policy towards the conflict (1957); information regarding the armistice arranged by the United Nations during the Suez crisis (1956-1957); the armistice arranged by the United Nations (1958-1959); news about the situation in the Middle East (1956); speech of Louis Saint Laurent (1956); mediation of Spain in the conflict (1957); mission of the United Nations’s General Secretary; arms smuggling (1957, 1959); Israeli armed aggression against Arab countries; official publications on the conflict; policy regarding the Aqaba gulf; economic blockade of Israel by Arab countries; properties of Jews expelled from Egypt (1956-1958); imprisonment of Sephardic Jews in Egypt (1956); press news on the conflict (1958); difficulties for Jews to access East Jerusalem (1960); situation of the Jewish communities in Arab countries (1967).
2) Emigration of Sephardic Jews from France, Belgium, and the Netherlands to Spain (1943); reports and notes about Jews during WWII (1947); situation of the Jews in Greece (1959); Jewish worship in West Germany (1959); information about the domestic policy of the Soviet Union and its allies on Jews (1955); activities of Jews in different countries (1960); financial compensation to Jews by Germany and Austria (1962-1965); reports of the protection of Slovakian Jews during WWII (1961); Irish Jews’ protest due to the absolution of a persecutor-of-Jews during WWII (1966); Jewish War Veterans Association of the United States (1967); assets of Sephardim in Greece and claims against Germany (1960, 1962).
3) News and reports on activities of the Jewish community in North Africa (1955-1962); Jewish community in Morocco (1959); situation of Jews in Morocco, Tunisia and Libya (1959); Soviet Jewish community; Jews in Gibraltar (1967); Jewish community in Greece (1968); situation of Jews in Arab countries (1970); Jews in the Soviet Union (1970); activities of Sephardic Jews (1956-1958, 1963, 1964); Sephardic Jews in the United Kingdom (1958); Sephardic Jews’ attitudes in Israel (1960); Sephardic community in Mexico (1968); Sephardic community in Syria (1970); activities of the Sephardim in Turkey (1964).
4) Jewish emigration and population: Jews in the United States (1956); Jews in Argentina (1956); Jewish penetration in Latin America; repatriation of Jews to Israel (1959-1961, 1968); Egoz (Pisces) shipwreck that transported Jews from Morocco to Israel (1961); repatriation of Jewish residents of Spain (1968).
5) Campaign against Jews (1960); financial compensation to Jews by Germany and Austria; Jews in the Soviet Union and their persecution (1960, 1967); World Antisemitic Campaign and disturbances in Mar del Plata (1961); persecution of Jews in Poland (1961); Latin-America Conference on the situation of Jews in the Soviet Union; antisemitism in Russia (1963); anti-Semitic World Campaign (1965); persecution of Jews in the Soviet Union (1965).
6) Jewish World Congress convened in Scheveningen and London (1955); Zionist world conferences (such as Montevideo Jewish Congress, Latin America pro-Israel Congress) (1956); Jewish Congress in Geneva; IV Assembly of the Jewish World Congress convened in Stockholm (1959-1961); meeting of the Committee of the Jewish World Congress (1961); Jewish World Congress in Rome (1962); seminar on Judaism in Caracas (1963); Jewish World Congress (1970); Zionist Congress in Israel (1963) and Zionist World Congress (1956-1965); Zionist Latin-American Convention in Buenos Aires (1963).
7) Jews in Spain: request to build a synagogue in Madrid; report of Agudas Israel World Organization (1957); Jews living in Spain; tribute to Angel Pulido Fernandez; request of Iosi Barrionuevo to be the designated representative of Israel in Spain (1957); event organized by the American Jewish Historical Society (1959); inauguration of a synagogue (1959); eventual existence of a Jewish clandestine agency in Madrid for emigration to Israel (1959); World Sephardic Bibliographic Exhibition (1959-1961); Jews and Spain: problems (1960); Jewish community in Spain (1960, 1962, 1968); activities of Behar Passy, delegate in Spain and Portugal (1961); speech of the president of the Jewish community of Madrid (1962); activities of the B'nai B'rith Association in Spain in defense of Jews (1963); transfer of Sephardic communities from Algeria and Morocco to Spain (1963); grant of nationality to Sephardim born in Melilla (1963); Spanish policy regarding Sephardic Jews (1961, 1964); entry of Jews in Spain (1964); relations between the Jewish community of Madrid and Sephardim (1965); audience of the head of the Spanish State with Jewish leaders in Madrid and Barcelona (1965); Jews living in Spain (1965); Spanish policy regarding Sephardic Jews (1962, 1967, 1968); Spanish legislation about Jews (1970); issues of granting nationality to Sephardic Jews (1955-1957, 1969) and Sephardic Jews from Morocco (1957); negotiations of a North American Jew, Mister Besso, regarding Spanish language teaching at the Sephardic Studies Institute in Jerusalem (1961); Abrahan Banon Bentolila’s case (1955-1956); Sephardic community in Madrid (1957); protection to Aron Abiznahi (1959).
8) Information about Biblical texts and the Pope and the Jews (1959); the problem of the Jews and the Second Ecumenical Council of the Vatican (1963).
- Archival history:
- The collection was kept within the documentary fonds of the Spanish Ministry of State (= the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs) up to the foundation of the General Archive of the Administration in 1972.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The Bourbon dynasty initiated an administrative reform in Spain. The instrument used for this purpose was the Office Secretary. In 1705, the Universal Office Secretary was divided in two parts: one would be responsible for War-Financial matters and another for the rest. In 1714, these Secretaries (Ministries) became four: State, War, Navy-Indies, and Justice. The Secretary of State and the Office of State Affairs were in charge of foreign affairs. During the 18th century up to the administrative reforms by Javier de Burgos in 1834, the Secretary of State (also known as First Secretary) presided over the Supreme Board of State (Junta Suprema de Estado), created by Floridablanca. At the beginning of the nineteenth century, the Central Administration was composed of five departments: State, War, Navy, Justice, and Finance. In 1830, the Ministry of State was subdivided into Undersecretary, Policy, Correspondence and Accounting. Its responsibilities were increased during this century, and in 1901 it had ten sections. In November 1928, Primo de Rivera eliminated the Ministry, but in 1930, it recovered its administrative independence. Franco’s regime changed the organic structure of the Ministry of State, as well as its traditional name, to Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
- Subject terms:
- Aliyah
- Antisemitism
- Arab-Israeli conflict
- Christianity
- Christianity--Churches (institution)
- Citizenship
- Education
- Holocaust
- Jewish community
- Migration
- Migration--Emigration
- Migration--Immigration
- Mizrahi Jews
- Restitution and compensation
- Sephardi Jews
- Zionism
- Zionism--Zionist Congress
- Access, restrictions:
- Free access regulated by the current legal environment on access to Spanish historical archives (law 16/1985 of Spanish Historical Patrimony).
- Finding aids:
- Data on the collection are 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
