[Poalei Zion archive]
[microform] :
[on microfiche].
Description
- Language(s)
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Yiddish ; Multiple languages
- Published
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Leiden : IDC, <1998- >
- Summary
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writing (e.g, poetry by David Hofstein with illustrations by Marc Chagall)
Documents, papers, correspondence, political literature, newspapers, journals, periodicals, serials, sheets of signatures, lottery tickets, postage stamps, receipt books, pamphlets, leaflets, posters, and publications relating to the activities of various Jewish political parties and organizations, and also concerning Jewish emigration to Palestine. Includes the correspondence of prominent leaders of the World Zionist movement (such as Ben Gurion, Ben Zvi, and B. Borokhov), as well as works of creative
- Note
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Title, notes from 1998 sales brochure.
The Poalei Zion documents, now in the Russian Centre of Conservation and Study of Records for Modern History in Moscow (formerly the Central Party Archive), were acquired from the Archive of Revolution and Foreign Policy, the Kiev Provincial Historical archive, and from the KGB archive in Lubianka (in the 1920s, the NKVD [forerunner of the KGB] had confiscated the documents of Poalei Zion for use as evidence against members of the organization who had been arrested).
- Physical Description
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<5,039 > microfiches +
guides.
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