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    <eadid>il-002782-il_cza_z4</eadid>
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      <titlestmt>
        <titleproper>The Zionist Organization / The Jewish Agency for Palestine/Israel – Central Office, London.</titleproper>
      </titlestmt>
      <publicationstmt>
        <publisher>The Central Zionist Archives/ הארכיון הציוני המרכזי</publisher>
        <address>
          <addressline>4 Zalman Shazar Avenue , PO Box 92</addressline>
          <addressline>91920</addressline>
          <addressline>Jerusalem</addressline>
          <addressline>IL</addressline>
          <addressline>972-2- 6204800</addressline>
          <addressline>972-2 620 4837</addressline>
          <addressline>http://www.zionistarchives.org.il/ZA/pMainE.aspx</addressline>
          <addressline>cza@wzo.org.il</addressline>
          <addressline>Israel</addressline>
        </address>
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        <note>
          <p>This encoded description is derived from structured data provided to EHRI by a partner institution but may differ in structure and/or content from its source. The collection holding institution considers this description as an accurate reflection of the archival holdings to which it refers at the moment of data transfer.</p>
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      </notestmt>
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    <profiledesc>
      <creation>This file was exported automatically from the EHRI database administration tool and represents a work-in-progress.
        <date normal="20210102">2021-01-02T20:46:21.343Z</date>
      </creation>
      <langusage>
        <language langcode="eng">English</language>
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      <unitid>IL / CZA / Z4</unitid>
      <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">The Zionist Organization / The Jewish Agency for Palestine/Israel – Central Office, London.</unittitle>
      <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">215,2 l.m.</physdesc>
      <repository>
        <corpname>The Central Zionist Archives/ הארכיון הציוני המרכזי</corpname>
      </repository>
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      <p><![CDATA[Firstly, we note in this fonds several series of correspondence which are of interest to this guide. Files Z4/30867 - Z4/30870 contain correspondence regarding “Zionist work” in Belgium (for the years 1927-1946). Correspondence on immigration from Belgium (often with lists of immigrants) and family research can be found in the files Z4/32408 to Z4/32412 (1943-1947). Various correspondence (regarding i.a. immigration, the Golden Shekel, donations, Zionism in Belgium, …) with the Belgian Zionist Federation and the Zionist Organisation in Belgium is found in files Z4/40030 (1920), Z4/40342 (1919-1925), Z4/42376 (1919-1923), Z4/42433 (1919-1926), Z4/42639 (1923-1925) and Z4/42640 (1926). Subsection “Upbuilding of the national home” contains two interesting files, resp. with correspondence regarding i.a. the import of Belgian products to Palestine (Z4/40325; 1919-1924) and regarding the application of Joseph Gold from Antwerp for a post as a dentist in Palestine (Z4/42132; 1920). The fonds finally also contains other relevant files on the Jewish population in Belgium. See the files Z4/30871 (correspondence and reports on the persecution of Jews in Belgium; 1945), Z4/30872 (correspondence and printed materials on Zionism and the situation of the Belgian Jews; 1939-1945), Z4/31111 (correspondence on the situation of the Jews in Belgium; 1939-1946), Z4/41229 (correspondence regarding passports for persons travelling to Belgium; 1919-1920), Z4/30353 (annual report of the Federation of Zionist Youth in Belgium; 1938), Z4/40618 (correspondence regarding the “employment of Polish Jewish refugees in Germany in reconstruction work in France and Belgium”; 1919), Z4/30354 (i.a. memoranda of the Federation of Zionist Youth in Belgium), Z4/33052 (correspondence on the situation of the Jews in i.a. Belgium; 1944-1947), Z4/33332 (correspondence on Keren Hayesod in i.a. Belgium; 1939-1940) and Z4/40019 (correspondence with the Zionist Offices in i.a. Brussels; 1918-1919).]]></p>
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      <p><![CDATA[The database available online at http://www.zionistarchives.org.il/ serves as a finding aid. The descriptions of this fonds are in English.]]></p>
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      <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="866">aliyah</subject>
      <subject>migration</subject>
      <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="957">political organisations</subject>
      <subject>Shoah</subject>
      <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="906">Zionism</subject>
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