Overview
- Description
- Contains records of various Jewish communities and Jewish organizations in Ecuador. Includes records of the laws and constitution of Ecuador mainly dealing with immigration regulations, minutes and reports of the Board of Directors, correspondence with and between community members and Jewish organizations such as the World Jewish Congress and other organizations, lists of community members, commemoration books, circulars, photographs of various festivities, reports and invitations from the B'nai B'rith Lodges in Asuncion, Bogota, Caracas, Havana, La Paz, Mexico City, Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, and Santiago de Chile, records on Zionists activities in all Jewish communities in Ecuador, documents regarding restitution from Germany to the community members, and various materials like Hebrew poems written in Siberia, German theater manuscripts, the Ecuadorian painting exhibition catalog, newspaper clippings dealing with Arab-Jewish-British conflict in Palestine, and other newspaper clippings in German.
- Date
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inclusive:
1939-1972
Physical Details
- Genre/Form
- Circular letters. Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.) Correspondence. Photographs. Poems. Registers. Reports.
- Extent
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61,811 digital files.
56 microfilm reels (partially digitized) ; 35 mm.
digital images.
- System of Arrangement
- Arranged in 19 series: 1. Status and laws; 2 Minutes and reports of the Board of Directors; 3. Correspondence and lists of memebers; 4. Bookkeeping, Finance; 5. New community building, 6. Community members; 7. Education Commission and Youth Activities, 8. Library; 9. Welfare; 10.Old Age Home (Hogar de Ancianos); 11. Jewish Association in Quito (Cumunidad de Culto Israelita); 12. B'nai B'rith, Quito, 13. World Jewish Congress; 14. KKL (Keren Kayemet Leisrael) Jewish National Fund; 15. Zionist Federation Ecuador (federation Sionista Del Ecuador); 16. Consulate Israel, Quito; 17. Quito, Personal materials; 18. Jewish Association in Guyaquil (Cumunidad de Culto Israelita); 19. Miscellaneous materials.
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- This material can only be accessed in a Museum reading room or other on-campus viewing stations. Users are required to complete a User Declaration in order to gain access to the collection.
- Conditions on Use
- Fair use only. Publication and reproduction of records for commercial purposes for third parties require the written permission of the Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People (CAHJP).
- Copyright Holder
- Arkhiyon ha-merkazi le-toldot ha-ʻam ha-Yehudi
Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- World War, 1939-1945--Ecuador--History--Sources. Jewish refugees--Ecuador--History--20th century--Registers. Jews--Ecuador--History--20th century--Registers. Jewish diaspora. Zionism--History--20th century. Holocaust survivors--Ecuador--History--20th century. Jewish communities (ushmm) Associations, institutions, etc. Jewish Women -- Associations, institutions, etc.
- Geographic Name
- Ecuador--Emigration and immigration--History--20th century. Ecuador--Politics and government--1895-1944--Sources. Quito (Ecuador)--History--20th century. Ecuador. Quito (Ecuador)
- Corporate Name
- B'nai B'rith World Jewish Congress
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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Arkhiyon ha-merkazi le-toldot ha-ʻam ha-Yehudi
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Source of acquisition is the Arkhiyon ha-merkazi le-toldot ha-ʻam ha-Yehudi (Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People (CAHJP)). The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received this collection via the United States Holocaust Museum International Archives Project in Sept. 2014.
- Record last modified:
- 2023-08-28 09:13:56
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn85718
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