Metadata: Regional Palestine Bureau, Lwów Branch
Collection
- Country:
- Ukraine
- Holding institution:
- Central State Historical Archive of Ukraine, Lviv
- Holding institution (official language):
- Центральний державний історичний архів України, м. Львів
- Postal address:
- pl. Soborna, 3-а, 79008, L’viv
- Phone number:
- + 38 (032) 235-40-63
- Web address:
- archives.gov.ua/Eng/Archives/ca04.php
- Email:
- tsdial@arch.gov.ua
- Reference number:
- F. 332
- Title:
- Regional Palestine Bureau, Lwów Branch
- Title (official language):
- Крайове Палестинське бюро. Львівське відділення
- Creator/accumulator:
- Regional Palestine Bureau, Lwów Branch
- Date(s):
- 1924/1939
- Language:
- Hebrew
- Polish
- Yiddish
- German
- Extent:
- 128 archival storage units
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Photographic images
- Scope and content:
-
The fonds contains correspondence on emigration issues with the Central Zionist Committee and the British Consulate in Warsaw (1924-39); with the Palestine bureaus in Amsterdam, Berlin, Buenos Aires, London, Melbourne, New York, and other cities (1925-38); with local Zionist committees in Lwów, Przemyśl, Kołomyja, and other population centres of Galicia; with local representative offices of such organisations as Keren Kayemet le-Yisrael, Maccabi, and branches of such Zionist parties and movements as Po’ale Tsiyon, Ha-Mizrahi, and others (1924-39); with organisations involved in the training of youth traveling to Palestine: Hehaluts, an agricultural-educational farm for girls in Stanisławów, etc.; with various Jewish organisations in Palestine: the Jewish Agency for Palestine (“Sokhnut”), labour unions, institutions of higher education (the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Technion in Haifa); and with local authorities in Palestine, including the municipality of Tel Aviv and the local council Petah Tikva (1924-39).
The fonds also includes correspondence with private individuals containing information about persons wishing to go to Palestine and their family members; questionnaires containing these persons’ personal and professional data; medical certificates; diplomas; documentation of their admission to study in Palestine; etc.
There are also lists of members of Zionist organisations in several localities; lists of persons traveling to Palestine (in some cases, with photos), and statistical information about them (1924-39). There is a card index of members of Zionist organisations traveling to Palestine (1932-39).
There are also materials on the activities of the Palestinian Bureau in Lwów: budget reports; materials pertaining to an internal investigation on the improper issuance of Palestine entry certificates (1937); correspondence with the editorial offices of the newspapers Chwila, Folk un land, and others on publishing announcements and articles on the activities of the bureau (1924-38); individual reports on the activities of the Joint Jewish Emigration Committee (HIAS-ICA-Emigdirect [HICEM]); 1931-32, 1936); an appeal of the Lwów branch of Keren Kayemet le-Yisrael regarding the situation in Palestine after the riots of 1929 (1930); etc.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Bureaus for organising emigration to Palestine – the so-called Palestine bureaus (Misrad Eretz-Yisrael) – were established by the World Zionist Organisation in various cities around the world beginning in the late 1910s. The Lwów bureau was established no later than 1924 and, being responsible for activities throughout Eastern Galicia, was directly subordinate to the Central Palestine Office in Warsaw. The regional bureau processed entry permits (“certificates”) for Palestine issued by the British Administration, helped to coordinate the emigration movement, performed middleman services in the purchase of real estate in Palestine, organised trips to Palestine, and disseminated information on Zionist settlement activities. It ceased operations in 1939.
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds is arranged thematically and comprises three sections: 1) Correspondence and other materials about relations between the Lwów bureau and various organisations in Poland and abroad; 2) Materials on the bureau’s activities; 3) Documents pertaining to the registration of emigrants: correspondence, lists of emigrants, etc.
- Finding aids:
- An inventory is available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary