Record group of the Municipal Archives of Jerusalem during the British Mandate
Held by Jerusalem City Archives (AIY)
Reference | JM-AIY/S1-42/B835/A/18/5/1-42/7 |
Title | Town planning commissions, about roads construction and changes, “parcellation schemes”, meetings |
Dates | 1927-01-01-1948-02-28 |
Dates Start | 1927-01-01 |
Dates End | 1948-02-28 |
Level of description | File |
Extend and medium | 1 file, 11 subfiles |
Repository | Jerusalem City Archives (AIY) |
Name of creator(s) | Jerusalem Municipality (IY) |
Description | Minutes, correspondence, agenda, lists (commission’s decisions after owners’ objections), list of documents (English). - (A) Jerusalem town planning commission, meetings and extraordinary meetings: minutes (72nd meeting of the 20th January 1927 to the 133rd meeting of the 25th February 1932) (English, Arabic). - (A/18/4) Central town planning commission, meetings: minutes, agenda, correspondence, list of documents (112th meeting of the 29th January 1935 to the 130th meeting of the 16th July 1936). - (A): District town planning commissions (DTPC): minutes (16th meeting of the 16th December 1937 to the 21st meeting of the 19th May 1938). Jerusalem municipal council sitting at the local building and town planning commission: minutes (32nd meeting of the 30th December 1937 to the 40th meeting of the 24th May 1938). - (A/18/5): DTPC: minutes (22nd meeting of the 2nd June 1938 to the 28th meeting of the 20th December 1938). Jerusalem municipal council sitting at the local building and town planning commission: minutes (41st meeting of the 21st June 1938 to the 47th meeting of the 14th December 1938). - (A/18/2) DTPC: minutes, agenda of the 28th meeting (20th December 1938). Finance committee, meeting: report (1943). - (A/18/5): DTPC: 42nd meeting of the 11th April 1940 to the 55th meeting of the 28th March 1941. - (-): DTPC: 39th meeting of the 11th January 1940 to the 79th meeting of the 27th January 1943). Jerusalem municipal council sitting at the local building and town planning commission: 107th meeting of the 24th March 1942. - (A/18/5): DTPC: 56th meeting of the 25th April 1941 to the 68th meeting of the 12th March 1942. - (A/18/5): DTPC: 69th meeting of the 14th April 1942 to the 81st meeting of the 19th March 1943. - (A/18/5): DTPC: 82nd meeting of the 8th April 1943 to the 93rd meeting of the 9th March 1944). - (A/18/5): DTPC: 94th meeting of the 13th April 1944 to the 102nd meeting of the 21st December 1944. District building and town planning commissions: 103rd of the 8th February 1945 and 104th meetings of the 08th March 1945. - (A/18/5): DTPC: 117th meeting of the 11th April 1946 to the 128th meeting of the 21st February 1947. Jerusalem municipal council sitting at the local building and town planning commission: 201st meeting of the 10th July 1946. - (A/18/5): DTPC: 129th meeting of the 25th March 1947 to the 134th meeting of the 21st August 1947. District building and town planning commissions: 135th meeting of the 23rd September 1947 to the 137th meeting of the 04th February 1948. |
Sources | http://www.archives.openjerusalem.org/index.php/town-planning-commissions-about-roads-construction-and-changes-parcellation-schemes-meetings?sf_culture=en |
Reference | JM-AIY/B832-854 |
Title | Record group of the Municipal Archives of Jerusalem during the British Mandate |
Covering dates | 1912-01-01-1950-05-31 |
Dates Start | 1912-01-01 |
Dates End | 1950-05-31 |
Level of description | Fonds |
Extend and medium | Global extent: 8 linear meter (22 boxes, n°832 to 854), 593 items; Box number 842 does not exist. |
Repository | Jerusalem City Archives (AIY) |
Name of creator(s) | Jerusalem Municipality (IY) |
Archival history | The services of the Municipality have been relocated several times, causing the archives to be kept in different premises. This could explain why the archives are identified with box numbers, instead of a codification and the name of the service. Moreover, this record group has been filed and inventoried at least twice in the past. In fact, the files present three different codifications: The number of the box (ex. B 832) The original codification, done during the first work of inventory (ex. A/13/40) The present codification, done by the last work of inventory (ex. 1-1-1). In order to keep all information about this record group and the work of filing done, it has been decided to mention these three codifications in the inventory. Finally, it appeared during this work of inventory that a lot of files weren’t in the right box : the inventory (written during the first work of classification) classified them in a box but, during the second work of inventory, they were removed in another box, without modifying the inventory. With the authorisation of the director of the archives office, it has been decided to put them back in the box mentioned in the inventory. The Jerusalem City Archives usually includes in each file a list of its records. Thus, each file includes a list and all the documents listed. The file n° B837/1-61/11/3 is an exception because it includes a list of 253 documents that are actually missing. The box 842 doesn't exist. |
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer | Transfer from the creator services. |
Description | This record group is supposed to be the documents created by the service of the town clerk during the British Mandate. However, most of the documents have been created between the end of the 1920s and the beginning of the 1950s. The gap into the records for the first years of the Mandate remains unexplained. This record group mainly consists of correspondence and reports which show the organisation of the Municipality. Moreover, a section of this record group deals with the security of the City during the 1930s and 1940s. |
Accruals | The collection is closed. |
Conditions governing access | Subject to the authorization of Jerusalem City Archives (AIY) |
Publication notes | To be completed. |
Related descriptions | Registers of Jerusalem Municipality Council during the Ottoman period |
Rules or conventions | International standard for archival description, General, etc. |
Date of the catalogue | Catalogue prepared on March 2016 |
Archivist's notes | Inventory of the Record group of the Municipal Archives of Jerusalem during the British Mandate (1912-1950, 593 items) held by Jerusalem municipal Archives, first made by Menachem Levin, previous head of the Archives office, and Michael Mahler, actual head of the Archives office, then modified by Héléna Rigaud within the framework of the ERC Open Jerusalem Project, directed by Dr Vincent Lemire, 2016. |
Sources | http://www.archives.openjerusalem.org/index.php/record-group-of-the-municipal-archives-of-jerusalem-during-the-british-mandate?sf_culture=en |