Mordechai Shenhabi personal archives, Mishmar ha-ʻEmeḳ (Israel) (RG-95-3) מרדכי שנהבי - ארכיון אישי

Identifier
irn84802
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2014.134
  • RG-68.183
Dates
1 Jan 1913 - 31 Dec 1994
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Hebrew
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn84802

Extent and Medium

41,079 digital images, JPEG

Creator(s)

  • Mordechai Shenhabi

Biographical History

Mordechai Shenhabi (1900-1983) was a Zionist activist and one of the founders of the Hashomer Hatzair and its educational institute in Europe. On January 2, 1919, Shenhabi, as the first member of the Hashomer Hatzair, reached Palestine. He initiated the first Ḳibuts ha-artsi ha-shomer ha-tsaʻir (Israel) industrial enterprise and edited the movement’s newspaper "Hamitspe" in Palestine. He initiated the Yad Vashem Remembrance Authority Law in 1953, and was one of the founders and planners of the Yad Vashem.

Archival History

Shomer ha-tsaʻir (Organization : Israel). Merkaz tiʻud ṿa-ḥeḳer

Acquisition

Source of acquisition is the Hashomer Hatzair Archives, Yad Yaari, Israel, Records Group 95-3. The reproduction was completed as a joint project with Yad Vashem. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received this collection via the United States Holocaust Museum International Archives Project in July 2014.

Scope and Content

The collection contains plans, maps, records related to creation and construction of Yad Vashem, and minutes of meetings of the first Directorate of Yad Vashem (1943-1954). Additional records of Mordechai Shenhabi contain personal documents, artifacts, photographs of Kibbutz Mishmar ha-ʻEmeḳ (Israel), articles, letters, correspondence with Efraim Barzelai in Warsaw (1926-1932), correspondence with representatives of the Hashomer Hatzair in Czechoslovakia, England, Switzerland, Germany, Austria (1933-1938), correspondence with Haim Weizman (1940-1962). Also includes an interview of Mordechai Shenhabi conducted by Reuven Shapiro in Kibbutz Beit Alfa (1991).

System of Arrangement

The system of arrangement of the source repository has been preserved in digital images.

Conditions Governing Reproduction

Copyright Holder: Shomer ha-tsaʻir (Organization : Israel). Merkaz tiʻud ṿa-ḥeḳer

People

  • Weizman, Haim.
  • Shapiro, Reuven.
  • Barzelai, Efraim.
  • Shenhabi, Mordechai, 1900-1983.

Corporate Bodies

  • Yad Vashem (Jerusalem)
  • World Hashomer Hatzair

Subjects

  • Holocaust memorials--Jerusalem--Israel.
  • Kibbutzim--History--20th century.
  • Austria
  • Bet Alfa (Israel)
  • Germany
  • Mishmar ha-ʻEmeḳ (Israel)
  • Czechoslovakia
  • Jews--Legal status, laws, etc.--Europe--History--20th century.
  • Switzerland
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Europe.
  • England
  • Zionism--Europe--History--20th century.
  • Zionists--Israel--History--20th century.

Genre

This description is derived directly from structured data provided to EHRI by a partner institution. This collection holding institution considers this description as an accurate reflection of the archival holdings to which it refers at the moment of data transfer.

Copies

  • Yad Ya'Ar/יד יערי

    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum holds copies of Holocaust-relevant archives from Shomer ha-tsaʻir (Organization : Israel). Merkaz tiʻud ṿa-ḥeḳer

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