Correspondence with Jewish Agency for Palestine/ Israel
Extent and Medium
173 letters
Creator(s)
- Jewish Agency for Israel
- Jewish Agency for Palestine
Biographical History
The Jewish Agency for Palestine (now Jewish Agency for Israel) is a Zionist non-profit organisation. Established as representative Jewish body for the British administration in Palestine in 1929, it was soon tasked with fostering and administering Jewish immigration.
Scope and Content
The correspondence centres on three main subjects: a potential relocation of The Wiener Library from London to Palestine/Israel (1947-50); a restitution related enquiry on an overall value of Jewish assets in Germany in 1933 (1950-54); monetary support for the Library by the Jewish Agency and the involvement of the chairman of the latter’s executive committee in mediating a dispute the Library had with the Claims Conference and Yad Vashem over financial promises not kept (1954-57).
Aside from correspondents from the Jewish Agency, the correspondence contains numerous letters to and by other individuals. This includes, among others, several former representatives of Jewish communities in Germany from the pre-Nazi period. Furthermore, several internal Wiener Library memos are contained.
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People
- Shragai, Shlomo Zalman
- Goldmann, Nahum
- Landauer, Georg
- Kreutzberger, Max
- Cohn, Josef
Subjects
- Restitution
- Libraries and Archives
- Jewish organisations