IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 1556 WL 1132
Held at: Wiener Library
Title: Hebrew Committee of National Liberation: Settlement in Palestine
Date(s): 1945
Level of description: collection
Extent: 1 folder
Name of creator(s): Hebrew Committee of National Liberation
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
The Hebrew Committee of National Liberation was launched in May 1944. Its origins were in the Emergency Committee to save the Jewish People of Europe, which itself had been formed at an Emergency Conference in July 1943. The founder was Hillel Kook (Peter Bergson). The new committee's aims were to continue to agitate for the rescue of Jews in Europe and to struggle against the British in Palestine. It aspired to be something of an alternative to the Jewish Agency.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Papers of Hebrew Committee of National Liberation, 1945, comprise a letter from Hillel Kook (Peter Bergson), Chairman of the Hebrew Committee of National Liberation, to Chaim Weizmann, President of the Jewish Agency for Palestine, in which he explains in some detail his ideas for the settlement of Palestine.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
1 item.
Conditions governing access:
Conditions governing reproduction:
Open
Finding aids:
A description exists on the Wiener Library's online catalogue www.wienerlibrary.co.uk.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Accruals:
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Jewish Central Information Office
ALLIED MATERIALS
Existence and location of originals:
Bergson File can be located at Weizmann Archives, Rehovot and the HNCL File at the Jabotinsky Institute, Tel Aviv.
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Archivist's note: Compiled by Samantha Velumyl.
Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.
Date(s) of descriptions: March 2008