Middle East
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Here are entered works on the region consisting of Asia west of Pakistan, northeastern Africa, and occasionally Greece and Pakistan. Works treating collectively the Arabic-speaking countries of Asia and Africa, or of Asia only, are entered under Arab countries.
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Institute for Mediterranean Affairs records
Collection
Call Number: MS 1688
Abstract:
The records consist of subject files, correspondence, administrative files, and publications documenting the activities of the Institute for Mediterranean Affairs.
Dates:
1940-1980
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
Abstract:
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...
Dates:
1933-1972, bulk 1939-1949