History of Israel
Encyclopedia of the Founders
|
|
Abba Khoushi Archive
From the University of Haifa. "Documents and photographs from 1919 to 1969, collected during the period of Abba Khoushi's public and political service as secretary of the Haifa Workers' Union, and as Haifa's mayor from 1951 to 1969."
|
Aerial Photos of Israel, 1917-1919
From the University of Haifa. "Aerial photographs documenting the Land of Israel, photographed by German aircraft pilots who fought alongside the Turks in WWI, and were the first to document the land's views from the air. The images form a unique study of the Holy Land, which aided the topographic mapping of the terrain and its sites."
|
Archaeology of the Land of Israel
From the University of Haifa. "Images of archaeological finds (including maritime archaeology) from excavation sites in the Land of Israel, arranged by site name in alphabetical order."
|
Bitmuna
From the National Library of Israel. The history of the State documented in private albums.
|
Crusader sculpture in Eretz-Israel
From the University of Haifa. "This collection is the fruit of research conducted by Dr. Zehava Jacoby, of blessed memory. It is arranged by site name in alphabetical order, and divided into building types."
|
Haifa and its Surroundings
From the University of Haifa. "Photographic collections of the city and its surroundings since the early 20th century to the present day, depicting different aspects of architecture and everyday life, throughout the different historical periods."
|
Historical Photographs of the Land of Israel
From the University of Haifa. "Photographs documenting Israel's unique landscapes and people, by professional and amateur photographers, from various archives, institutions and private collections."
|
Holy Land Digital Image Collections
From University of Pennsylvania. "Among the most important are the Lenkin Collection of Photography, which consists of over 5,000 early photographs of the Holy Land, dating from 1850-1937 and the Paola and Bertrand Lazard Holy Land Print collections, including hundreds of early printed books, postcards, maps, drawings, and watercolors."
|
Israel Revealed to the Eye
From Yad Yitzchak Ben Zvi. Israeli Identity in personal photo albums.
|
Israel's Foreign Policy - Historical Documents
From Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs. "This series of volumes from the Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs contains documents, many in English translation, relating to Israel's foreign relations from 1947-2004."
|
Israeli Air Force History and Heritage Digital Library
From the Fisher Library of the Israeli Air Force. "Full text free books and movies mostly in Hebrew. Among the publications are research and studies, memoirs, biography and old IAF journals from 1948 till 1998."
|
Jacob Wahrman Collection of Photographs
From the National Library of Israel. "Palestine as captured by the greatest photographers from the advent of photography."
|
Lankin Collection of Photographs
From the National Library of Israel. "Penn Libraries collection of historical photographs of the Holy Land and Middle East."
|
Meitar Photo Collection
From the National Library of Israel. “The photograph collection includes more than 150,000 negatives photographed in the Land of Israel prior to and after the establishment of the State, by photographers working in Israel, among them Boris Carmi, Beno Rothenberg, and Moshe Levine.”
|
Moskowitz Jerusalem Video Archive
From the Moskowitz Jerusalem Video Archive. Videos depicting Jewish life in Jerusalem from 1917 to 1948.
|
National Library Album Collection
From the National Library of Israel.
Highlights from the National Library's photograph collections. |
Navy, Shipping and Ports in Israel
From the University of Haifa. "Historical photographs related to maritime subjects, seaports and shipping in Israel, from the Archive of the Naval Officers School in Acre, the private collections of senior captains, and founders of Israel's navy and seamanship."
|
Pashkevalim
From the National Library of Israel. Digitized images of pashkevilim, posters, that are used in the ultra-Orthodox community as a communication tool. The database, which is in Hebrew, is key word searchable and browsable by subject.
|
Picturesque Palestine, Sinai, and Egypt
From the New York Public Library. “In addition to early photographic pioneers Du Camp, Salzmann, Robertson & Beato, and Frith, the collection includes work by image providers catering to tourist travelers in the last third of the 19th century, such as Arnoux, A. Beato, Bonfils, Lekegian, Sébah, and Zangaki. “
|
Picturing Golda Meir
From the University of Milwaukee. "The 157 images presented in this digital collection were selected from The Golda Meir Collection, 1904-1987."
|
Rudi Weissenstein's PhotoHouse
From the National Library of Israel. 45 years of photographing the Land and State of Israel.
|
The Judaica Division Images Collections
From Harvard University. "Among the collections are historical photographs that document the history of the Zionist movement and the development of the Jewish community in Israel over the past century; images documenting everyday Israeli life over the past 50 years."
|
The Moshe Sharett Israel Labor Party Archives
From the Moshe Sharett Israel Labor Party Archives. This searchable Hebrew language site has a catalog of the archives of Mapai and the Labor Party, along with a virtual museum with many digitized documents.
|
The Ze'ev (Wilhelm) Aleksandrowicz Collection of Photographs
From the National Library of Israel. 16,000 photographs, most of which were taken in the early 1930s.
|
Time Travel: Israeli Ephemera
From the National Library of Israel. 600 objects in the Jewish Heritage Collection in the Special Collections Library at the University of Michigan.
|
Zefat archive
From the University of Haifa. "Documents from the early 50's to the late 70's, concerning the Safed's development, culture, education, art, finance, military, religion."
|
Hebrew Literature Out Loud
From the Israeli Center for Libraries. "The archive is the first project of its kind in Hebrew: recording prose and poetry works written in Modern and Classical Hebrew."
|
The Nathan Axelrod Newsreel Collection
From the Israel Film Archive. "“Between 1927 and 1958. Axelrod enthusiastically documented, in approximately 450 newsreels, with an average length of 10 minutes per newsreel.“ Many of these newsreels are now available on YouTube.
|
Audio Tour of Israel
From Masbiran. Hebrew language explanations of sites throughout the country that is searchable and browsable.
|
The Druck Collection of Kibbutz and Secular Haggadot
From the University of Toronto. "Collection of kibbutz and secular haggadot dating from the mid-1930s to the mid-1990s. Most of this material was produced in-house by various kibbutzim, youth movements, and army units for use at seder celebrations."
|
Historic Sites in Israel
From Shimur: The Council for Restoration and Preservation of Historic Sites in Israel. Searchable archive of the buildings the organization has restored.
|
Jews Lived in Israel before the State
From the Israel State Archives. Search in Hebrew for documents about over 206,000 Jews who lived in the country before the founding of the State of Israel. The archive spans 10 years, from 1937 to 1947, and is made up of about 67,000 requests for citizenship in British Mandatory Palestine.
|
A People Remembers: Documenting Terror Victims' Commemoration Sites
From Yossi Zur. Created by Yossi Zur, father of Assaf who was killed in a terrorist bombing of a bus in Haifa, this searchable site in English and Hebrew documents the locations of sites dedicated to remembering the victims of terror attacks in Israel.
|
Shelby White and Leon Levy Center for National Treasures
From the Israel Antiquities Authority. Digitized collection of artifacts documenting life in Eretz Yisrael from prehistoric periods to the end of the Ottoman period. You can browse by period or search by a variety of parameters.
|
|
Bintivey Ha’apala – Clandestine Jewish Immigration Information and Research Center
From the Atlit Detention Camp. The information Center’s mission is to document the personal story of each and every person who came by sea, overland or by air, whether they were captured by the British or not. The period documented in the Information Center is the whole British Mandate period – from the early 1920’s until the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948. The information, which includes biographical information about the Ma’apill or activist and digital media such as pictures, films and documents, comes from the people themselves and their families and from records in various archives.
|
Jabotinsky Institute
Searchable collection in English and Hebrew of materials designed to “foster and disseminate the legacy of Vladimir (Ze'ev) Jabotinsky and the National Movement.” Included are materials related to Betar, Etzel and the Revisionist Movement.
|
Peres Center
Searchable collection in English and Hebrew of materials related to the life and work of Shimon Peres.
|
Yad Yaari Research & Documentation Center
From Kibbutz Givat Haviva. “Yad Yaari is a research and documentation center established to preserve and promote the intellectual assets of two key movements in Israel's history:HaShomer HaTzair – the first Zionist youth movement founded in 1911, and Kibbutz Artzi – a federation of 85 kibbutzim throughout Israel founded in 1927 (today, part of the United Kibbutz Movement).“
|
|
Palmach Archive
From the Palmach Museum. Browsable and searchable collection in Hebrew and English of photographs, movies, maps and songs related to the history of the elite fighting force of the Haganah.
|
Israel Film Archive
From the Jerusalem Cinematheque.
Searchable collection in English and Hebrew of 120 years of Israeli documentary and artistic films that you can watch online. |
The Alexander Museum of Postal History & Philately
From the Eretz Israel Museum.
The collection created by Zvi Alexander is composed of unique philatelic items such as stamps and postcards and covers 600 years of the history of Eretz Israel. |
From the Jewish National Fund. Hebrew-language database of photographs from Keren Kayemet covering its work and key episodes in the history of Jewish settlement and life in the land of Israel.
|
From the Israeli Ministry of Defense. A collection of 20,000 items related to the Yom Kippur War in 1973. The Hebrew language site contains 15,301 photographs, 6,085 documents, 215 videos, 40 audio recordings and 169 maps. You can browse by topic or search by keyword.
|