Zone d'identification
Cote
Titre
Date(s)
- 1912-01-01-1950-05-31 (Production)
Niveau de description
Fonds
Étendue matérielle et support
Global extent: 8 linear meter (22 boxes, n°832 to 854), 593 items; Box number 842 does not exist.
Zone du contexte
Nom du producteur
Histoire administrative
Ottoman period:
Jerusalem municipal council (majlis baladiyya, meclis-i belediye) came into existence in the early 1860s. Jerusalem was, in fact, one of the very first cities within the Ottoman Empire to form a municipality, which was further consolidated after the Ottoman law on municipalities in 1877. From the 1880s onward, the municipal council was composed of nine to twelve members, elected for a renewable mandate of four years: there were generally six Muslims, two Christians, and one or two Jews on the council (depending on the period), in addition to a maximum of four ex officio members.
Mandate period:
Construction of the historical city hall building in 1930 (used until 1993)
From 1948: to be completed.
Histoire archivistique
The services of the Municipality have been relocated several times, causing the archives to be kept in different premises. This could explain why the archives are identified with box numbers, instead of a codification and the name of the service.
Moreover, this record group has been filed and inventoried at least twice in the past. In fact, the files present three different codifications:
The number of the box (ex. B 832)
The original codification, done during the first work of inventory (ex. A/13/40)
The present codification, done by the last work of inventory (ex. 1-1-1).
In order to keep all information about this record group and the work of filing done, it has been decided to mention these three codifications in the inventory.
Finally, it appeared during this work of inventory that a lot of files weren’t in the right box : the inventory (written during the first work of classification) classified them in a box but, during the second work of inventory, they were removed in another box, without modifying the inventory. With the authorisation of the director of the archives office, it has been decided to put them back in the box mentioned in the inventory.
The Jerusalem City Archives usually includes in each file a list of its records. Thus, each file includes a list and all the documents listed. The file n° B837/1-61/11/3 is an exception because it includes a list of 253 documents that are actually missing.
The box 842 doesn't exist.
Source immédiate d'acquisition ou de transfert
Transfer from the creator services.
Zone du contenu et de la structure
Portée et contenu
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.
Évaluation, élimination et calendrier de conservation
Accroissements
The collection is closed.
Mode de classement
Zone des conditions d'accès et d'utilisation
Conditions d’accès
Subject to the authorization of the head of the Archives office of Jerusalem City Archives.
Conditions de reproduction
Langue des documents
Écriture des documents
Notes de langue et graphie
Caractéristiques matérielle et contraintes techniques
Instruments de recherche
Zone des sources complémentaires
Existence et lieu de conservation des originaux
Existence et lieu de conservation des copies
Unités de description associées
Note de publication
To be completed.
Zone des notes
Identifiant(s) alternatif(s)
Mots-clés
Mots-clés - Sujets
Mots-clés - Lieux
Mots-clés - Noms
Mots-clés - Genre
Zone du contrôle de la description
Identifiant de la description
Identifiant du service d'archives
Règles et/ou conventions utilisées
ISAD(G): Second Edition, Ottawa 2000.
Statut
Niveau de détail
Dates de production, de révision, de suppression
Catalogue prepared on March 2016
Langue(s)
Écriture(s)
Sources
Note de l'archiviste
Inventory of the Record group of the Municipal Archives of Jerusalem during the British Mandate
(1912-1950, 593 items) held by Jerusalem municipal Archives, first made by Menachem Levin, previous head of the Archives office, and Michael Mahler, actual head of the Archives office, then modified by Héléna Rigaud within the framework of the ERC Open Jerusalem Project, directed by Dr Vincent Lemire, 2016.