אוסף משפחת זמרן - דנון

Thanks to the fact that David Chaim was a discharged soldier and had a large family, in early 1949 he received an apartment in the German Colony in Jerusalem, in the framework of the "abandoned property" program and later from Amidar. This apartment was about 140 square meters, but it was hard for him to convince his wife to leave the rented room of about 20 square meters in Nahalat Zion and move to a "remote" neighborhood not near the family. The fact that in July 1949 their fifth child Uri was about to be born, after Sara, Ora, Rivka, and Yaakov -eventually convinced her. Their sixth child, Shmuel was also born in this apartment. It is worthy of mention that at that time most of the people living in the German Colony were new immigrants from all over the world which was evident in the geographical origin of the childrenin the kindergartens and schools in the neighborhood in those years. There were hardly any children born in Israel! In addition, it should be noted that David Chaim was the first of the" Haredi" family, based on today's terms,that became secular. Later he was a prominent activist in the Mapai Political Party in Jerusaelm. He died in 1989. It is quite possible that the good relationship he had with his brother-in-law Pinchas Zimran, was, in part, due to their common socialand anti-religious ideology in "haredi" surroundings. The son of David Chaim was, among other things, in charge of wages in the Ministry of Finance and the Director General of the Bank of Israel between the years 2005-2008. The photographic collection was given to the Yad Ben Zvi Archives as part of a joint project with the Lev Ha'ir Community Center in Jerusalem to document families from the Nachlaot neighborhood. Written by: Yaakov Danon and Itai Zimran اقرأ أكثر