Overview
- Description
- The collection deals with the general situation of Jews in various countries, including relations with the local government, antisemitism, immigration, emigration, proselytizing by Christians and Muslims. Countries represented in order of preponderance of material include North Africa and the Middle East, including the former Ottoman Empire, countries situated in Eastern and Central Europe, and “The Rest of the world and small countries.” Also contains documents of Jonathan Thurz (1895-1976), a Polish-born Zionist leader who settled in Casablanca in 1927, which includes information about Jewish refugees.
- Date
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inclusive:
1860-1976
Physical Details
- Extent
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54,931 digital images : JPEG ; 40.6 GB.
69 microfilm reels ; 35 mm.
13 DVDs ; 4 3/4 in..
2 pages of photocopies.
- System of Arrangement
- Organized in the following order: Reel 1-48, DVD 1: Iraq, No. 4, 5, 6, 50; DVD 2: Iran No. 3,4,5,6. DVD 3: Libyan No 1,2, and Libya No 2; DVD 4: Morocco No. 16,17,18,19,20; DVD 5: Syria: No 3, and Tunisia No. 5,6; DVD 6: Turkey No. 4, 5,6,7, and Bulgaria No. 1, 2; DVD 7: Greece No. 12, 13, 14, and Hungary No. 6: DVD 8: Romania No. 14, 15, 16, 17, 18; DVD 9: Romania No 19, 20, 21, 22, 22, 23, 24; DVD 10: Romania No. 25, 27, 28, 29, 30; Reel 47-57, DVD 11: Morocco, Algeria, England, Austria, Switzerland, Fond Jonathan Thursz; DVD 12: Moscow No. A 1.01 – 2.17, A E 01 – A E 17, A E 18 –A E 35, B 1 – C 06.04, C 06.05 – C 18, E 01.1 – E 05.4; DVD 13: Moscow No. E 06.01 – E 10; ENIO 1.01 – ENIO 1.10, ENIO 2.01 ENIO 2.08, ENIO 2.09 – ENIO 2.14, ENIO 2.15 – ENIO 2.20, M 01.1 – M 05.17.
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- This material can only be accessed in a Museum reading room or other on-campus viewing stations. No other access restrictions apply to this material.
- Conditions on Use
- Authorization from the Director of the Archives of the Alliance Israélite Universelle required to duplicate microfilm reels for other archives. No publication of materials on the Internet, World Wide Web, or similar network without the permission of the Director of the Archives of the Alliance Israélite Universelle.
- Copyright Holder
- Alliance Israélite Universelle, Comite d'Anvers
Keywords & Subjects
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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Alliance Israélite Universelle, Comite d'Anvers
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the collection from the Alliance Israélite Universelle, via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s International Archives Project in October 2009.
- Record last modified:
- 2022-07-28 21:59:31
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