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As the Correspondence Office of Imperial Treasury is a unit that acts as the secretary of the ministry, this fonds includes official letters written by the ministry to the state offices in İstanbul and in the country.
The starting and ending Hijri dates for this fonds are: 1266-1342.

The Central Zionist Archives – the official archives of the institutions of the Zionist Movement (the World Zionist Organization, the Jewish Agency, the Jewish National Fund, and the United Israel Appeal) and the numerous institutions that were established by, or alongside, these bodies – permanently preserves the files that were created during the activity of these institutions.

In addition, the Zionist Archives holds the files of the institutions of the Jewish population in Palestine before the establishment of the State (the Archives of the National Council, the Archives of the Palestine Jewish Colonization Association (PICA), the Archives of the Hadassah Medical Organization, etc.), of the offices of the World Jewish Congress in various countries, the remainder of the Archives of the Hovevei Zion and of some of the Zionist Federations around the world.

Language of registration of the record group names: Hebrew and English (See the Record Group Guide)

Language of registration of the files: The descriptions of most of the files in the various record groups are in Hebrew. However, if most of the original documents in the files of the record group are in English, the file descriptions are in English. Most of the file titles (about 80%) are in Hebrew.

This catalogue includes the majority of the archive materials of the Ministry of Police; correspondence from other ministries, state offices and provinces; the Correspondence Office, which includes the replies to these writings and letters, and the drafts from the Accounting Office; receipts for the transactions of the Office of Public Accounting and the bills returned.
The starting and ending Hijri dates for this fonds are: 1262-1341.

This fonds includes documents from the Palestinian Commission and Palestinian Comittee about schools, journeys of the imperial family, hospitals and every other issue dealt with by the institution.

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: 107 files; 11 June 1843 - 2004; [1798]
Series A, Regulations and provisions. Global extent: 6 files; 11 June 1843 - 1981; [1798]
Series B, Correspondence. Global extent: 28 files; 23 Nov. 1870 - 24 Nov. 2003
B-I, Social Welfare Office. Global extent: 6 files; 1960- 1st Sept. 1989
B-II, United Nations Relief and Works Agency. Global extent: 3 files; 23 July 1949 - 2 Dec. 1986
B-III, Thematic arrangement. Global extent: 16 files; 16 May 1922 - 24 Nov. 2003
B-IV, Chronological arrangement. Global extent: 3 files; 23 Nov. 1870 - 4 Feb. 2000
Series C, Administration. Global extent: 17 files; 5 Jan. 1901 - 31 Dec. 2003
C-I, Inventories and accounting notes. Global extent: 4 files; Apr. 1959 - 31 Dec. 2003
C-II, Revenues and expenditure, Minutes. Global extent: 3 files; March 1969 - 5 May 1998
C-III, Revenues and expenditure. Global extent: 10 files; 5 Jan. 1901 - 1st Sept. 2002
Series D, Orphans. Global extent: 23 files; 1877-2004
D-I, Personal files. Global extent: 7 files; 1896-2000
D-II, Medical files. Global extent: 3 files; 16 Feb. 1970 - 10 Oct. 2003
D-III, Registers. Global extent: 9 files; 1877-2004
D-IV, Miscellanea. Global extent: 4 files; 1944-2000
Series E, Teaching staff. Global extent: 8 files; 10 July 1932 - 1995
E-I, Correspondence. Global extent: 7 files; 10 July 1932 - 31 July 1989
E-II, Personal files. Global extent: 1 file; 20 July 1932 - 1995
Series F, School. Global extent: 22 files; Oct. 1889 - 2003
F-I, Attendance registers. Global extent: 5 files; Sept. 1963 - May 1969
F-II, Marks. Global extent: 7 files; 1925-2001
F-III, Marks registers. Global extent: 10 files; Oct. 1889 - 2003
Series G, Chronicles. Global extent: 3 files; 28 May 1929 - 1st Dec. 1981

Luckily, the archives of Porphyry are now in a good condition and conserved in the St. Petersburg Department of the Archives of the Russian Academy of Sciences (fond 118). The Imperial Academy of Sciences acquired them after his death on April 19, 1885, as it was stated in the Porphyry’s testament.
Porphyry left the Academy a capital, the interest of which would fund the publication of his scientific works. In 1886 two members of the Russian Imperial Academy, Bychkov and Büler, reported about their preliminary work on systematization of the archives. At the same meeting of the Academy it was decided that Polychrony Syrku, a specialist in Byzantine and Old Slavonic studies would undertake the work of further systematization and description of Porphyry’s archive. The outcome of this work was impressive. Already in 1891 a printed catalogue of Porphyry’s papers appeared. Between 1894 and 1901 the Academy of Sciences published eight volumes of the Porphyry’s Journals. Finally, another important publication of
the “Porphyry’s Commission” are the two volumes of documents and official correspondence, prepared by the byzantinologist P. Bezobrazov. Based on both the published and unpublished archival material several research studies on Porphyry’s activities were made.
The fonds 118: an overlap between official documentation and personal papers:
The first set of documents, concerning Porphyry’s appointment to Jerusalem, refers to the official papers of the Holy Synod and to the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Most of them are preserved in at least two copies—one or more in Porphyry’s archive, and the other in the archive of the Holy Synod. A third copy may be found in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Among them are the following: Porphyry’s letters to the over-prosecutor [ober-procuror] of the Holy Synod Count Nikolay Protasov (16), and to directors of the departments of the Synod (Serbinovich (85), Voitsehovich (2), Karasevsky (8). The next file (45) also contains official letters of Porphyry addressed to the Russian Ambassador at Constantinople Vladimir Titov (74) and to the Asian department of the Ministry of Foreign affairs. Many of them represent detailed
reports on the state of affairs in the Near East. Dossiers 46 and 47 contain 143 letters (from the 1848-53 period), addressed by Porphyry to the Russian Consul general at Beirut Constantine Basili, as well as one report about the Holy Sepulcre written for Emperor Nicolas I. The official answers of these persons form a separate file (49). Another group of interesting letters are addressed to Porphyry by the Russian consuls in Jaffa (G. Mostras) and in Beirut (C. Basili, file 50). Porphyry also corresponded with Boris Mansurov, the founder of the Palestine Committee. Most of the letters are focusing on Mount Athos, but one of them concerns the new head of the Russian mission in Jerusalem after the Crimean war, bishop Cyril Naumov. Porphyry found the appointment of a Russian bishop to Jerusalem completely wrong: first of all because the presence of two bishops in one town was against the church canons, and second, because the Cyril’s behavior was in his opinion “inappropriate”. Among the letters written by Porphyry to Russian high ecclesiastics, his correspondence with Metropolitan Filaret of Moscow should be specially pointed.
The papers of the Russian mission eo ipso are conserved in two big files (238 and 352 ff.), containing official correspondence of Porphyry with different persons in Russia and abroad, dating from the period 1842-54. Apart of letters by Basili and Titov, one can find here financial papers of the mission and also an architectural plan of the future house of the Russian mission, which was built in 1853. Of special importance is also a summary of the activities of Porphyry in Jerusalem, written by himself. During Porphyry’s absence from Jerusalem he was informed about the state of affairs by his assistant and member of the mission, hieromonk Theophan (8 letters dated 1851-52). Of course information on Jerusalem is dispersed in all his private correspondence from the period of his stay there. 19 letters are addressed to Greek high ecclesiastics, among them 11 to Patriarch of Jerusalem Cyril (1848-1854, 40 ff.). During his stay in Jerusalem, Porphyry wrote detailed notes on the history, geography, ethnography and statistics of Palestine. In a separate file he collected copies and translations of descriptions of the Holy Land by other persons, as well as journals of pilgrims of different countries and centuries. Among the copies of documents written by other persons, most important is the printed report of Boris Mansurov (the founder of the Palestine Commission, dated 1858), written after his visit to Jerusalem, followed by a letter of the Grand Duke Constantine Nikolaevich to Porphyry, and Porphyry’s opinion on Mansurov’s proposals.
Another note, which was also published later, belongs to Consul Basili (on the statistics of Syria and Palestine).20 The collection of Porphyry is rich in illustrative materials—gravures, sketches, drawings, and photos. Some of them are related to the Holy Land and Jerusalem.

The oldest documents in the Consulate fonds date back to 1843, to the foundation of the Consulate of Palestine during the Kingdom of Sardinia. According to the papers the Consulate closed in 1849 leaving the defence of the citizens to the Consulate of France.

The Royal Decree dated November 17th, 1871 establishes the Italian Consulate in Palestine. The papers cover the history of the Consulate until its closure, in June 10th, 1940. At that date the protection of Italian interests was entrusted to the Spanish Consulate. The activity of Consul Quinto Mazzolini and his Bureau in Rome (Ufficio Stralcio) lasted during 1943.

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.