عرض نتائج٪ 1٪

This record group is supposed to be the documents created by the service of the town clerk during the British Mandate. However, most of the documents have been created between the end of the 1920s and the beginning of the 1950s. The gap into the records for the first years of the Mandate remains unexplained.
This record group mainly consists of correspondence and reports which show the organisation of the Municipality. Moreover, a section of this record group deals with the security of the City during the 1930s and 1940s.

The documents sent by the communities of the Ottoman Empire are either in "ancient Hebrew" (pre-modern Hebrew) or "Ladino". There are sometimes letters in French. Only between 10% and 20% of the archives would be written in "Ladino".

The oldest documents are pinkasim from 1750 and 1759, difficult to understand, very damaged in 1948. Many are uncommunicable (circa 1850). There is a gap between 1820 and 1830. There are gaps, the community almost disappeared. After that, for the period 1890-1920 which represents many documents of which a part is a little damaged.

The writings represented are mainly the "half-calamus" or handwritten Sephardic rabbinic script (documents in "ancient" Hebrew = rabbinic and/or in "ladino" = Judeo-Spanish) and the writing called "letras de karta" or "solitreo" in the correspondence in Judeo-Spanish. Much of these documents have been transcribed according to the modern Hebrew ms alphabet.

Collection of personal archives of leaders and activists of the Zionist Movement and the Yishuv.

Most of the original documents in the files of the record group are in English, German or another language

List 1 : Administrative, local and foreign dioceses, private sections

List 1: Personnel of the Armenian National delegation, committees, private representations, private missions, informational agencies, correspondence, notes.

In the Waqf Inheritance section, the number of documents approaches a million and a half; as well there are 2,500 manuscripts covering various subjects, including religion, philosophy, Arabic language, history and so on. Among them, the Open Jerusalem team selected a body of 41 files (totalizing 668 pages) issued by the Jerusalem Awqâf administration and related to Moghrabi neighborhood in Jerusalem.
Note : the spelling is “Mograbi” from Arabic to English, and “Maghariba” from Ottoman Turkish to English.

This fonds is part of the Archives of Religious Houses (or Archives of convents) held by the Historical Archive of the Custody of the Holy Land.

The Monastery of Saint Saviour is a Catholic Franciscan monastery located on 1 Saint Francis Street, east of the New Gate in the Old City of Jerusalem. The site was purchased from the Georgian Orthodox Church in 1560 with permission by Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent of the Ottoman Empire, and the monastery was constructed in stages. The church building was erected in 1885, with renovation in 1985. The site includes a printing press, an organ workshop, a library and a Catholic school.

Besides from the Franciscan convent, Saint Saviour shelters also the “Parish of Saint Saviour” and a Casa Nova (a Franciscan house for pilgrims).
Convent of Terra Sancta College is a succursal of Saint Saviour’s Latin parish, and a cultural centre of the Custody of the Holy Land.

Structure of the fonds: global extent: 209 files; Apr. 1801 - 30 Oct. 2001
Series A, Regulations. Global extent: 3 files; 1884-[mid XXth century]
Series B, Correspondence. Global extent: 5 files; 1902 - 30 Oct. 2001
Series C, Assets and administration. Global extent: 15 files; Oct. 1885 - 1996
C-I, Inventories. Global extent: 4 files; 1906 - Sept. 1927
C-II, Receipts and accounting notes. Global extent: 1 file; 1986 - 1996
C-III, Daily expenses. Global extent: 9 files; Oct. 1885 - Sept. 1945
C-IV, Revenues and expenditure. Global extent: 1 file; Sept. 1977 - May 1996
Series D, Holy Masses. Global extent: 183 files; Apr. 1801 - 31 Dec. 1976
D-I, Hebdomadal offices. Global extent: 54 files; 31 July 1870 - 1st Jan. 1969
D-II, Masses “pro rege et pontifice”. Global extent: 13 files; Apr. 1801 - 21 July 1974
D-III, Masses dedicated to benefactors (“pro benefactoribus”). Global extent: 35 files; 12 May 1815 - 31 Dec. 1976
D-IV, Masses dedicated to the clergymen’s relatives (“ad intentionem religiosorum de familia”). Global extent: 18 files; 1st June 1822 - 31 Dec. 1976
D-V, Masses “pro eleemosyna”. Global extent: 22 files; 8 Feb. 1833 - 31 Dec. 1976
D-VI, Pious legates. Global extent: 7 files; 2 Jan. 1859 - 20 Apr. 1958
D-VII, Masses “pro defunctis fratribus, pro parentibus religiosorum et iuxta kalendarium”. Global extent: 28 files; 18 Jan. 1861 - 29 Aug. 1976
D-VIII, Offices celebrated by pilgrim priests. Global extent: 1 file; 18 Sept. 1903 - 24 July 1927
D-IX, Masses celebrated at the Austrian Hospice. Global extent: 1 file; 1st Oct. 1941 - 4 Aug. 1943
D-X, Masses dedicated to the Basilica [of the Annunciation in] Nazareth. Global extent: 1 file; 25 Apr. 1959 - 2 Jan. 1968
D-XI, Masses “ad mentem ministri generalis”. Global extent: 2 files; 16 May 1960 - 4 Dec. 1976
D-XII, Summaries of masses. Global extent: 1 file; Jan. 1909 - July 1927
Series E, Chronicles and memoirs. Global extent: 3 files; Jan. 1913 - 30 Dec. 1976
E-I, Various memoirs. Global extent: 1 file; Jan. 1913 - Dec. 1922
E-II, Registers of the pilgrim priests. Global extent: 2 files; 5 Jan. 1963 - 30 Dec. 1976

This fonds is part of the external collections (“archivi aggregati”) incorporated in the Archives of the Custodial Curia (general administration) held by the Historical Archive of the Custody of the Holy Land.

Structure of the fonds - Global extent: 52 files; 13 Nov. 1881 - 30 Nov. 1987
Series A, Regulations and programmes. Global extent: 4 files; 1924-1947
Series B, Correspondence. Global extent: 6 files; 15 Oct. 1929 - 10 June 1959
Series C, Personal files of the students. Global extent: 2 files; 1936-1947
Series D, Class registers. Global extent: 26 files; 1923-1947
Series E, Students registers. Global extent: 2 files; 1924-1948
Series F, Administration. Global extent: 9 files; 1929-1943
Series G, Various memoirs. Global extent: 3 files; 13 Nov. 1881 - 30 Nov. 1987

This fonds is part of the Archives of Training Houses held by the Historical Archive of the Custody of the Holy Land.

Structure of the fonds - Global extent: 3 files; 1932 set. 10 – 1946 set. 17
Series A, Correspondence. Global extent: 1 file; 1932 set. 10 – 1946 set. 17
Series B, Chronicles. Global extent: 2 files; 1943 ago. 11 - 1944 ago. 14