1 Guide to the Archival Record Groups and Collections Notation Record group / Collection Dates Scanning Quantity 1. Central Offices of the World Zionist Organization and of the Jewish Agency for Palestine/Israel abroad Z1 Central Zionist Office, Vienna 1897-1905 scanned 13.6 Z2 Central Zionist Office, Cologne 1905-1911 scanned 11.8 not Z3 Central Zionist Office, Berlin 1911-1920 31 scanned The Zionist Organization/The Jewish Agency for partially Z4 1917-1955 215.2 Palestine/Israel - Central Office, London scanned The Jewish Agency for Palestine/Israel - American Section 1939 not Z5 (including Palestine Office and Zionist Emergency 137.2 onwards scanned Council), New York Nahum Goldmann's offices in New York and Geneva. See Z6 1936-1982 scanned 33.2 also Office of Nahum Goldmann, S80 not Z7 Mordecai Kirshenbloom's Office 1957-1968 7.8 scanned 2. Departments of the Executive of the World Zionist Organization and the Jewish Agency for Palestine/Israel in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and Haifa not S1 Treasury Department 1918-1978 147.7 scanned not S33 Treasury Department, Budget Section 1947-1965 12.5 scanned not S105 Treasury Department, Section for Financial Information 1930-1959 12.8 scanned partially S6 Immigration Department 1919-1980 167.5 scanned S3 Immigration Department, Immigration Office, Haifa 1921-1949 scanned 10.6 S4 Immigration Department, Immigration Office, Tel Aviv 1920-1948 scanned 21.5 not S120 Absorption Department, Section for Yemenite Immigrants 1950-1957 1.7 scanned S84 Absorption Department, Jerusalem Regional Section 1948-1960 scanned 8.3 2 Guide to the Archival Record Groups and Collections not S112 Absorption Department, Housing Division 1951-1967 4 scanned not S9 Department of Labour 1921-1948 25.7 scanned Department of Labour, Section for the Supervision of not S10 1935-1947 3.5 Labour Exchanges scanned Agricultural Settlement Department. See also S15M, Maps partially S15 and Settlement Plans of the Department for Agricultural 1918-1987 270 scanned Settlement Agricultural Settlement Department, Security Section, Tel not S92 1951-1960 4.7 Aviv scanned not S99 Agricultural Settlement Department, Ashkelon Area 1950-1963 8 scanned not S17 Economic Department 1931-1933 1.3 scanned not S39 Economic Department 1948-1972 38 scanned not S40 Economic Bureau, Tel Aviv 1936-1948 14.7 scanned not S11 Maritime and Fisheries Department 1935-1948 0.8 scanned not S74 Maritime and Fisheries Department, Haifa 1936-1948 6.8 scanned Youth Aliyah Department. See also Youth Aliyah S75 Department, Continental/European Office, Geneva - Paris, 1933-1972 scanned 247.8 L58 not S119 The Henrietta Szold Documentation Center of Youth Aliyah 1950-1993 34.7 scanned Education Department (including Education Department of S2 1913-1932 scanned 27.3 the Palestine Office and of the Zionist Commission) 1933 not S5 Organization Department 123 onwards scanned Central Bureau for the Settlement of German Jews in S7 1933-1955 scanned 44.3 Palestine 3 Guide to the Archival Record Groups and Collections not S8 Department for Trade and Industry 1922-1948 42.3 scanned not S12 Department for the Settlement of Ex-Servicemen 1944-1948 15.7 scanned not S13 Housing Section 1944-1948 0.5 scanned not S14 Technical Department 1926-1948 14.3 scanned Agricultural Settlement Department, Section for Middle not S16 1941-1942 0.7 Class Settlement scanned not S18 Department for Artisans and Small Trade 1937-1948 4 scanned not S19 Statistical Department 1926-1948 8.7 scanned not S20 Department for Middle East Jewry 1948-1952 7.3 scanned S21 Department for the Development of Jerusalem 1948-1952 scanned 2.2 not S22 Press Office 1924-1927 3.8 scanned not S23 Information Office 1938-1951 21.3 scanned S25 Political Department 1921-1948 scanned 36 S26 Rescue Committee 1939-1948 scanned 15.5 not S28 Committee for the Care of Sufferers from Chronic Diseases 1924-1927 1.2 scanned not S29 Section for the Organization of Non-Zionists 1929-1941 2.3 scanned not S30 General Secretariat 1920-1968 68.8 scanned not S31 Outgoing letters of various departments 1928-1948 13 scanned not S32 Youth and Hechalutz Department 1939-1965 34.3 scanned not S34 Institute for Youth Leaders from Abroad 1946-2001 2.3 scanned 4 Guide to the Archival Record Groups and Collections not S35 Department for the Restitution of German Jewish Property 1939-1954 6.8 scanned not S36 Kol Zion LaGolah - Broadcasting Service 1949-1959 10.3 scanned Recruiting and Demobilization Offices, Jerusalem, Tel Aviv not S37 1940-1947 44.5 and Haifa scanned not S38 External Relations Department 1956-1980 27.8 scanned not S73 Committee for Distribution of Parcels 1949-1952 0.2 scanned not S71 Collection of Press Cuttings 1939-1961 118.5 scanned Bureau for Jewish Communities and Organizations, Tel not S76 1956-1974 5.2 Aviv scanned not S77 Folk Und Zion, Editorial Office 1948-1970 2.3 scanned not S78 World Zionism Quiz for Jewish Youth 1978-1979 0.8 scanned not S83 Bialik Foundation 1935-1970 17.7 scanned S86 Emissaries Section 1946-1964 scanned 4.2 not S89 Department for Education and Culture in the Diaspora 1965-1972 0.6 scanned not S90 Economic Research Institute 1936-1952 28.7 scanned Department for Torah Education and Culture in the not S93 1965-1976 1.2 Diaspora scanned not S98 The Zionist Library (Hasifria Hazionit) 1948-1986 3.1 scanned Minutes of the Palestine Zionist Executive and of the 1921 not S100 Executive of the Jewish Agency for Palestine/Israel, 20.8 onwards scanned Jerusalem Unit for dealing with material damages caused during the not S103 1936-1939 2.8 1936 disturbances scanned 5 Guide to the Archival Record Groups and Collections not S104 Search Bureau for Missing Relatives 1944-1970 5.7 scanned not S109 Project Renewal plans 1982-1989 2 scanned not S114 Press Division, Office of the Spokesman 1989-2002 5 scanned not S121 The Jewish Agency Publishing Department 1947-1950 0.2 scanned not S133 The Office of the Comptroller 1970-2001 10.5 scanned not S134 The Sephardi Communities Departent/The World Sephardic Federation1990-2005 33.3 scanned Contracts, Securities and Land Devision/Assets Management Division. See also S136M, Maps and not S136 1970-2004 122.7 Settlement Plans of the Contracts Section, Securities and scanned Land - the Section for the Management of Assets not S137 Immigration Department, Melilot Project 1995-2005 11 scanned not S138 Bureau for Cultural Services to Communities 1954-1985 0.3 scanned S140 Series of Passports from Jewish Agency Records Center 1947-1970 3. Offices of the Chairmen, Members of the Executive and Senior Office-Holders of the World Zionist Organization and the Jewish Agency A. Chairmen of the Executives of the World Zionist Organization and the Jewish Agency (chronological order) Office of Arthur Ruppin (Head of the Department of Agricultural Settlement, 1929-1931; Chairman of the Executive, 1933-1935; Co-head of the Bureau for the not S55 Settlement of Jews from Germany, 1933-1942; Head of 1929-1940 2.5 scanned the Economic Research Institute, 1935-1942; Head of the Department of Agricultural Settlement, 1938-1942). See also Arthur Ruppin Private Papers, A107 6 Guide to the Archival Record Groups and Collections Office of David Ben-Gurion (Chairman of the Executive, S44 1935-1948; Co-head of the Organization Department, 1934-1948 scanned 6.2 1936) Office of Berl Locker (including Department of Public not S41 Relations, Chairman of the Executive, 1948-1956). See 1948-1956 11.3 scanned also Berl Locker Private Papers, A263 Office of Shelomo Zalman Shazar (Head of the Information Office, 1951-1956; Head of the Department of Education not S61 1951-1963 6.5 and Culture in the Diaspora, 1953-1963; Chairman of the scanned Executive, 1956-1960) Office of Louis Arieh Pincus (including the office of Ariyeh Leon Dultzin as acting Chairman of the Executive, 1973- 1975; Treasurer, 1961-1968; Chairman of the Executive, not S62 1960-1974 22.5 1965-1973; Head of the Department of Immigration, 1968- scanned 1973). See also Office of Dov Joseph and Louis Arieh Pincus, S60 Office of Moshe Sharett (Chairman of the Executive, 1961- not S65 1965). See also Moshe Sharett (Shertok) Private Papers, 1961-1965 8.8 scanned A245 Office of Pinhas Sapir (Chairman of the Executive, 1974- not S82 1974-1975 4.7 1975) scanned Office of Josef Almogi (Chairman of the Executive, 1975- not S85 1975-1978 5.8 1978) scanned Office of Ariyeh Leon Dultzin, Jerusalem (Chairman of the not S67 1974-1987 41.8 Executive, 1978-1987) scanned Office of Ariyeh Leon Dultzin, Tel Aviv (Chairman of the not S101 1968-1987 19.3 Executive, 1978-1987) scanned Office of Simcha Dinitz (including the office of Yehiel Leket not S111 as acting Chairman of the Executive, 1993-1995) 1987-1995 46.5 scanned (Chairman of the Executive, 1987-1993) Office of Avraham Burg, (Chairman of the Executive, 1995- not S122 1995-1999 43.6 1999) scanned Office of Salai Meridor, (Chairman of the Executive, 1999- not S131 1999-2005 44.7 2005) scanned 7 Guide to the Archival Record Groups and Collections Office of Zeev Bielski, (Chairman of the Executive, 2005- not S139 2005-2009 25.7 2009) scanned B. Members of the Executive and Senior office-holders of the World Zionist Organization and the Jewish Agency (Alphabetical order) not S43 Office of Levi Eshkol, Jerusalem 1948-1953 4 scanned Office of Levi Eshkol, Tel Aviv (Treasurer, 1949-1951; not S63 Head of the Department of Agricultural Settlement, 1948- 1949-1952 1.3 scanned 1963) not S106 Office of Mordechai Baron 1968-1981 1.2 scanned Bar Joseph, Avinoam (Assistant to the Chairman, Salai 1999 not S132 1.3 Meridor) onwards scanned not S69 Office of Sydney Berg 1968-1978 1 scanned not S45 Office of Rabbi Meyer Berlin 1929-1930 0.3 scanned Office of Zvi Barak (General Director of the Finance not S116 1963-1992 0.5 Department, 1987-1996) scanned Office of Rabbi Ze’ev Gold (Head of the Department for the Development of Jerusalem, 1948-1951; Head of the S58 1948-1951 scanned 0.7 Department for Torah Education and Culture in the Diaspora, 1951) Office of Nahum Goldmann (Chairman of the Executive in New York, 1949-1956; President of the World Zionist not S80 1953-1968 4.7 Organization, 1956-1968).