Kollel Chibat Yerushalaim (KKY)

Identity area

Identifier

JM-KKY

Authorized form of name

Kollel Chibat Yerushalaim (KKY)

Parallel form(s) of name

  • Kollel Galicia

Other form(s) of name

    Type

    • Community

    Contact area

    Rabbi Shlomo Fruchthandler (Director)

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    Address

    Street address

    120 Mea Shearim Street

    Locality

    Jerusalem

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    Telephone

    + 972 (0)2-6288016

    Faks çek

    + 972 (0)2-6285575

    E-mail

    Not

    Description area

    History

    Founded in 1855 by migrants from Galicia, that is West and South Poland and other parts: communities of Belz, Ruzin, Tzanz and more.

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    The archive contains about 100 folders. It has lists of Galician Jews before the holocaust as well as the lists of all the cities and towns in which they lived. The folders contain many historical letters, postcards and other documents most of which are related to fund-raising travels or the exchange of letters between rabbis and other community leaders. It also contains letters with relating to attempts to secure permits for Jews to migrate to Palestine and escape Galicia before and shortly after the beginning of the Nazi occupation of Poland. A part of the collection was digitised two years ago with enhancement of keywords. The material is kept on 10 CDs. The oldest material is from the years after WWI, 1917 onward.

    A large part of the material has not been digitised yet, including all photo albums (3) and glass negatives (20 boxes with approx. 20 glasses in each, a total of 400 pieces). These contain photos of members of the community, men, women and children, taken at unknown date in the beginning of the 20th century.

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    Researchers are welcome to use the archive but any of the materia can bel taken out of the building in digital or physical format.

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    Entry prepared on November 2018.

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        Sources

        http://hjerusalem.com/
        Jerusalem historical libraries and archives revisited, Revised report prepared for Open Jerusalem, October 2014, Merav Mack

        Maintenance notes

        Author : Open Jerusalem http://www.openjerusalem.org/

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