Palestine
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Here are entered works on the region on the eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea that in ancient times was called the Land of Canaan, later the kingdoms of Israel and Judah, and in modern times comprises the entire state of Israel, as well as the various disputed territories. Works on a specific jurisdiction or territory within this region are entered under its respective name.
Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:
Institute for Mediterranean Affairs records
Collection
Call Number: MS 1688
Overview:
The records consist of subject files, correspondence, administrative files, and publications documenting the activities of the Institute for Mediterranean Affairs.
Dates:
1940-1980
North Italy 1867 : Palestine, Philistia, Jerusalem in 1867
Item — Box 1, Folder: 50
Call Number: MSS 59
Scope and Contents:
Two lists. The first, titled "North Italy 1867" (pages 1-6), lists 234 drawings, from May 3 to June 2, 1867.
The second, titled "Palestine, Philistia, Jerusalem in 1867" (page 7), lists 41 drawings (1-5 and 38-41 are blank), April 3-14.
The second, titled "Palestine, Philistia, Jerusalem in 1867" (page 7), lists 41 drawings (1-5 and 38-41 are blank), April 3-14.
Dates:
circa 1880?
Palestine & Syria (no. 1) 1858 : Palestine & Syria (no. 2) 1858
Item — Box 1, Folder: 33
Call Number: MSS 59
Scope and Contents:
No. 1 lists mounts 1-65 (13 are blank), from March 20 to April 27, 1858.
No. 2 lists mounts 66-140 (12 are blank, and 52-65 are duplicated at beginning), from April 27 to June 5, 1858.
No. 2 lists mounts 66-140 (12 are blank, and 52-65 are duplicated at beginning), from April 27 to June 5, 1858.
Dates:
circa 1880?
Palestine 1867
Item — Box 1, Folder: 49
Call Number: MSS 59
Scope and Contents:
Lists mounts 167-179, with an additional 12 unnumbered mounts, from March 22 to April 24, 1867.
Dates:
circa 1880?
Palestine & Syria 1858
Item — Box 1, Folder: 34
Call Number: MSS 59
Scope and Contents:
Lists mounts 1-57, duplicating the same numbers in the "No. 1" list (folder 33), with variations in place names and dates.
Dates:
circa 1880?
Palestine Statehood Committee "Concerning the campaigns for a Jewish Army; to save the Jewish people of Europe and the establishment of a Hebrew Republic in Palestine" papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 690
Overview:
The papers consist of correspondence, memoranda, reports, publications, advertisements, scrapbooks and clippings of five committees active in the United States from 1939-1949 whose goals included the creation of an independent Jewish army to fight the Axis powers, the rescue and repatriation of European Jews in Palestine, and the re-establishment of a Jewish nation in an independent Palestine. The groups were sympathetic to the Revisionist Zionist movement and the Irgun Zvai Leumi and included...
Dates:
1933-1972, bulk 1939-1949