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Israel Halperin (1910 Bialystok – 1971 Jerusalem) was an Israeli historian who specialized in the study of the history of East European Jewry. In 1934 he emigrated to Eretz Israel and started studying at the Hebrew University. In 1949 Israel Halperin began his teaching career at the Hebrew University. One of his first publications was Pinkas Va'ad Arba Araẓot (Minutes of the Council of the Four Lands, 1945). In 1952 he published Moravian Community Enactments (Takkanot Medinat Mehrin). Israel Halperin was an active member of the Israel Historical Society, and co-editor of the Zion journal. He also edited Sefer ha-Gevurah (3 vols., 1941, 1951), an anthology of Jewish self-defense and martyrdom, and Beit Yisrael be-Polin (2 vols., 1948–54), a collection of essays on Polish-Jewish history. The private collection of Israel Halperin includes historical sources and information about the history of the Jews in Europe in more than ten languages, correspondence regarding various historical materials and their collection, and correspondence concerning public affairs which also accentuates his participation in the work of many research institutions and projects in Israel: Yad Vashem, Department of Jewish History in the Hebrew University, The Encyclopedia Hebraica, The Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People and more --

Reference Code
P127
Dates
1264-1976
Languages
Russian; Yiddish; Hebrew; French; German; English; lat; Polish; ita; ukr; Dutch; swe;
Description
Israel Halperin's private collection consists of historical sources and information about the history of the Jews in Europe, personal correspondence referring to the collection of historical materials, and correspondence concerning public affairs. For instance, historical sources in the collection include data on the first privileges for Polish Jews from the 13th-14th centuries, pinkasim (communities’ registers) from Poland, materials on the expulsion of Jews from Russia and Lithuania in the late 15th-early 16th century and the Cossack riots in Ukraine (1648), on the Jewish Enlightenment in Europe and early Hasidic Immigration to the land of Israel in the 18th century, history of the Jews in Principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia (and later in Romania) in the 15th-19th centuries, and the Jewish press. There are also numerous materials on the Jews in Russia including referring to the decree of conscription into the Russian army (1827), the participation of the Jews in the Russian revolutionary movement and Jewish Russian labor movement, the Hibat Zion movement, the Kishinev pogrom (1903), Rothschild House's economic ties with the Russian government and more. Halperin’s personal correspondence include: a letter to historian Bernard Mark from Warsaw (12.8.1963) with a request to collect archival materials related to the history of Jews in Lvov in the 17th-18th centuries; excerpt from a letter by Shmuel Etinger (19.06.1958) regarding the municipal banks in Germany and their possible impact on the actions of the kahal in Poland; a letter from Evyatar Friesel regarding the Jewish press in the 19th century in the USA. Materials on Israel Halperin's participation in public life and affairs include: papers regarding his activities at the Bialystok Jewish History Association in New York (1948-1952); Protocols and letters relating to the day-to-day operations of the Israeli Historical Society (1949-1954); minutes of the meetings of the joint committee "Yad Vashem-YIVO" regarding of regulation of collaboration in the collection of archival materials in Europe (1954); correspondence and protos head of the Department of Jewish History at the Hebrew University (1951-1962); letters in Yiddish regarding work of the cols regarding the establishment of Yad Vashem and its activities; correspondence with prof. Benzion Netanyahu (1958-1957); correspondence with Salo Baron (1957-1959); correspondence with the Jewish Publication Society of America; correspondence with Mosad Bialik (1944-1955); correspondence with the Masada publishing house regarding the publication of The Encyclopedia Hebraica (1946-1964). The collection also contains drafts and summaries of Israel Halperin’s lectures, Hebrew drafts of encyclopedic entries he wrote for "Encyclopaedia Judaica;" seminar papers and dissertations of students.
Title Halperin, Israel.
Additional Titles Encyclopaedia Judaica
ha-entsiḳlopedyah ha-ʻIvrit
Contributors Bernard,Mark 1908-1966
Salo W.Baron (Salo Wittmayer), 1895-1989
SamuelEttinger
EvyatarFriesel
B.Netanyahu (Benzion), 1910-2012
Jewish Publication Society of America
Mosad Byaliḳ
Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People
ha-Ḥevrah ha-hisṭorit ha-Yiśreʼelit
Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Department of Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry
Yad ṿa-shem, rashut ha-zikaron la-Shoʼah ṿela-gevurah
Yivo Institute for Jewish Research
Ḥibat Tsiyon
Host Item Halperin, Israel - Private Collection
Level of Description Fonds Record
Biographical summary Israel Halperin was born in Bialystok in 1910. In 1934 he emigrated to Eretz Israel and started studying at the Hebrew University. His dissertation focused on Early Ḥasidic Immigration to Eretz Israel. In 1949 he began his teaching career at the Hebrew University. He specialized in the study of the history of East European Jewry and particularly pinkasim ("registers.") His publications include: “Minutes of the Council of the Four Lands” (Pinkas Va'ad Arba Araẓot, 1945) and “Moravian Community Enactments” (Takkanot Medinat Mehrin, 1952). He was active in the establishment of Yad Vashem memorial, The Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People, and in the preparation of The Encyclopedia Hebraica. Halperin was also an active member of the Israel Historical Society, and co-editor of the Zion journal. He edited Sefer ha-Gevurah (3 vols., 1941, 1951), an anthology of Jewish self-defense and martyrdom, and Beit Yisrael be-Polin (2 vols., 1948–54), a collection of essays on Polish-Jewish history. Israel Halperin died in 1971 in Jerusalem.
Language Note Russian
Yiddish
Hebrew
French
German
English
Latin
Polish
Italian
Ukrainian
Dutch
Swedish
National Library system number 990043436020205171
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