Metadata: Archives of the Finnish Jewish central organisations
Collection
- Country:
- Finland
- Holding institution:
- National Archives of Finland
- Holding institution (official language):
- Kansallisarkisto
- Postal address:
- Rauhankatu 17, 00171 Helsinki
- Phone number:
- +358 29 533 7000
- Web address:
- https://arkisto.fi/
- Reference number:
- 630:114
- Title:
- Archives of the Finnish Jewish central organisations
- Title (official language):
- Suomen juutalaisten keskusjärjestöt
- Creator/accumulator:
- Jewish Community of Helsinki
- Date(s):
- 1934/1979
- Language:
- Finnish
- Swedish
- Yiddish
- Hebrew
- English
- Extent:
- 7 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
The collection contains the records of five Finnish Zionist associations: Berith Noar Haivri, Finnish Zionist Union Hazohar, Hamerkas hazioni b’Finland, the Finnish Zionist Union and Scandinavian Jewish Youth Association. The collection is part of the Finnish Jewish Archives (Suomen juutalaisten arkisto; 630:114).
The records of Berith Noar Haivri (Joint body of Finnish Jewish youth associations) (files 402 and 476) contain the minutes of the association (1934–1936), correspondence and rules and regulations, as well as correspondence concerning its youth events (1934–1937), the statute of the association (1934) and the official magazine Hatikwah (1935–1936).
The records of the Finnish Zionist Union Hazohar (Finlands Zionistiska Förbund f.r.) (file 477) contain the statute of the union, the official journal Hazohar, various prints and the memoirs of Joseph Trumpeldor (1935–1939).
The records of Hamerkas Hazioni b’Finland (file 403) contain the statute and the minutes of the association (1932–1933, 1948) and its correspondence (1933–1934).
The records of the Finnish Zionist Union (Suomen Sionistiliitto) (file 404) contain minutes and other records (1949–1972), the statute (1952, 1965), minutes (1949, 1955–1966), annual reports (1955–1966), correspondence (1954–1958, 1960–1961, 1963–1968, 1972) and a list of the Digest magazine subscribers.
The records of the Scandinavian Jewish Youth Association (SJUF, Skandinaviska Judiska Ungdomsförbundet) (files 478 and 479) contain the statute of the association (1959, 1973), its minutes (1967–1972), annual reports (1970–1971, 1979), correspondence (1964–1979), circulars (1938–1976) and members’ magazine (1946–1974) as well as minutes and newsletter of the sport department (1970–1977). In addition, there are camp and congress activities (1948–1975) and miscellaneous congress reports, programs, minutes, correspondence and prints.
- Archival history:
- The records were kept in the Jewish Community of Helsinki until the mid-1990s, when they were deposited in the National Archives of Finland. There the collection was sorted and catalogued and opened to the public in 1998. Further additions to the collection were made in 2005–2006.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Finnish Jews founded several Zionist associations after the third Russian Zionist convention had convened in Helsinki in 1906 and especially after the Balfour Declaration in 1917. The Scandinavian Jewish Youth Association (SJUF, established in 1919) organised camps and conferences for the Scandinavian Jewish youth: the Finnish branch organised youth activities and summer and winter camps for the Finnish Jews. Hamerkas Hazioni b’Finland was founded in 1932 as a central organisation to represent all the Finnish Zionist organisations. Berith Noar Haivri, established in 1934 as a joint body of Finnish Jewish youth associations, represented general Zionism promoting practical activism and gradual colonisation of Palestine. The association published the journal Hatikwah in 1935–1936. The Finnish Zionist Union Hazohar, founded in 1934, represented right-wing revisionist Zionism. The union published a trilingual journal Hazohar (in Yiddish, Swedish, and Finnish) in 1934–1939, as well as brochures concerning Zionism and the political situation in Palestine. The Finnish Zionist Union (Suomen Sionistiliitto) was established after the war in 1949 to continue the work of Hamerkas Hazioni b’Finland as a umbrella organisation of Finnish Zionists and functioned until 1972.
- Access points: locations:
- Finland
- Subject terms:
- Jewish press
- Memoirs
- Zionism
- Zionism--Zionist youth movements
- Access, restrictions:
- Use with permission from the Director-General of the National Archives.
- Yerusha Network member:
- National Archives of Finland
