Part I
Records of people
Name-bearing records — the genealogical backbone of the person data.
Censuses17
AID — Residents 1823 1911 Jerusalem United Home For The Aged
IGRA AID database: Residents 1823 1911 Jerusalem United Home For The Aged.
ISA — Ottoman nüfus books (Palestine, 1875–1918)
AID — Census Nufus 1886 1918 Palestine
IGRA AID database: Census Nufus 1886 1918 Palestine.
1916 Jerusalem Jewish Census (Palestine Office / Dr. Thon)
Palestine Office. Census of the Jews of Jerusalem, 1916.
AID — Residents 1921 Jerusalem
IGRA AID database: Residents 1921 Jerusalem.
1922 British Mandate Census
Government of Palestine. (1922). Census of Palestine.
1931 British Mandate Census
Mills, E. (1932). Census of Palestine 1931. Government of Palestine.
CZA A611\92 — census of Yemenite children in MY-area quarters (1932)
Central Zionist Archives, A611\92 (1932).
CZA J4 — 1939 Jewish Jerusalem census (household-level, fully scanned, by neighborhood and street)
Central Zionist Archives, series J4 — 1939 Jerusalem Jewish Community census. Vaad HaKehilla.
Jewish Agency census of Jews in Jerusalem, 1939
Jewish Agency census of Jews in Jerusalem (1939), cited in A Survey of Palestine (Government Printer, 1946), Vol. I, p.163
1947 Jerusalem Jewish Residents Census
Mifkad ha-Toshavim ha-Yehudim be-Yerushalayim (Tashaz). Va'ad ha-Kehila, Jerusalem, 1947.
AID — Census 1947 Jerusalem
IGRA AID database: Census 1947 Jerusalem.
AID — Founders 1948
IGRA AID database: Founders 1948.
Mishmar HaAm 1948 (Civil Guard register)
Mishmar HaAm (Civil Guard register), 1948.
AID — Montefiore Censuses Index
IGRA AID database: Montefiore Censuses Index.
AID — Residents Beit Vegan
IGRA AID database: Residents Beit Vegan.
AID — Residents Sephardicgen
IGRA AID database: Residents Sephardicgen.
Voter rolls & membership lists28
AID — Voters Local Authorities 1880 Palestine
IGRA AID database: Voters Local Authorities 1880 Palestine.
AID — 1905 Members Home For The Aged Jerusalem
IGRA AID database: 1905 Members Home For The Aged Jerusalem.
AID — Students 1917 1964 Alliance Morocco
IGRA AID database: Students 1917 1964 Alliance Morocco.
AID — Voters Local Authorities 1923
IGRA AID database: Voters Local Authorities 1923.
AID — Voters 1925 Jerusalem Tel Aviv
IGRA AID database: Voters 1925 Jerusalem Tel Aviv.
AID — Voters Sephardic Committee 1926
IGRA AID database: Voters Sephardic Committee 1926.
AID — Voters Local Authorities 1932
IGRA AID database: Voters Local Authorities 1932.
AID — Voters Local Authorities 1934
IGRA AID database: Voters Local Authorities 1934.
AID — Voters 1935 Zionist Congress
IGRA AID database: Voters 1935 Zionist Congress.
AID — Voters Knesset Israel 1935
IGRA AID database: Voters Knesset Israel 1935.
AID — Voters Knesset Israel 1937
IGRA AID database: Voters Knesset Israel 1937.
AID — Voters Local Authorities 1937
IGRA AID database: Voters Local Authorities 1937.
AID — Voters Local Authorities 1939
IGRA AID database: Voters Local Authorities 1939.
Kofer HaYishuv (community fund register)
Kofer HaYishuv community fund register, 1939-1948.
AID — Voters Knesset Israel 1942
IGRA AID database: Voters Knesset Israel 1942.
AID — Voters Knesset Israel 1945
IGRA AID database: Voters Knesset Israel 1945.
AID — Voters Knesset Israel 1947
IGRA AID database: Voters Knesset Israel 1947.
AID — Voters Sephardic Committees 1947
IGRA AID database: Voters Sephardic Committees 1947.
AID — Voters Local Authorities 1948 1953
IGRA AID database: Voters Local Authorities 1948 1953.
AID — Voters Knesset 1949
IGRA AID database: Voters Knesset 1949.
AID — Assoc Of Homeowners
IGRA AID database: Assoc Of Homeowners.
AID — Community Ransom
IGRA AID database: Community Ransom.
AID — Donors
IGRA AID database: Donors.
AID — Donors Hovevei Zion
IGRA AID database: Donors Hovevei Zion.
AID — Index Of Donors To The Hebrew University Of Jerusalem
IGRA AID database: Index Of Donors To The Hebrew University Of Jerusalem.
AID — Knesset Candidates
IGRA AID database: Knesset Candidates.
AID — Students Jerusalem Tachkemoni
IGRA AID database: Students Jerusalem Tachkemoni.
AID — Voters Knesset Israel
IGRA AID database: Voters Knesset Israel.
Vital records5
JewishGen — Palestine/Yishuv databases + JOWBR cemetery + Family Finder
JewishGen databases (JOWBR, Palestine/Yishuv collections, Family Finder, Sephardic databases).
AID — Kolel 1889 1932
IGRA AID database: Kolel 1889 1932.
AID — Marriages And Divorces 1921 1948 Palestine British
IGRA AID database: Marriages And Divorces 1921 1948 Palestine British.
AID — Deaths 1939 1941 Jerusalem
IGRA AID database: Deaths 1939 1941 Jerusalem.
AID — Burials Sepharadim Jerusalem
IGRA AID database: Burials Sepharadim Jerusalem.
Part II
Government & institutional records
State, municipal and communal paperwork: land, licensing, petitions, minutes.
Government archives54
OpenJerusalem — Sharia Court registers (sijillat)
CZA — Vaad ha-Eda ha-Sefardit / Sephardi Community Council records (1875+ Jerusalem)
Central Zionist Archives, Vaad ha-Eda ha-Sefardit (Sephardi Community Council, Jerusalem) records — exact series TBD.
AIU Paris — Alliance Israélite Universelle Jerusalem network
Alliance Israélite Universelle records — Jerusalem network.
AVPRI — Russian Empire consular records
AVPRI — Foreign Policy Archive of the Russian Empire.
ISA — Ottoman property-tax books (1880–1919)
JCA A14 — Ottoman-era municipal records 1892-1917
Jerusalem City Archives, A14 series — Ottoman-era municipal records, 1892-1917.
Tabu Book 1015 p.4 — Valero MY-area land records
Tabu Book 1015, page 4 — Valero MY-area land Tabu records.
Verko (Ottoman property tax) on the Mahane Yehuda quarter, 1903-04
Werko tax assessment, Mahane Yehuda mahalle, fin. yr 1321 (1903-04). NLI Archives, Old Yishuv collection, ARC. 4* 1203/043.
OpenJerusalem — Ottoman documents, Kudüs section
ISA 67/268H — Haim Aharon Valero letter (1909)
ISA 67/268H — Haim Aharon Valero letter, 31 March 1909.
BOA Istanbul — Ottoman Archive (pre-1917)
Başbakanlık Osmanlı Arşivi (BOA), Istanbul.
TNA Kew — CO 733 + CO 821 (Palestine Mandate)
TNA Kew — CO 733 (Palestine Mandate); CO 821 Blue Book volumes not on Internet Archive.
UK National Archives (Kew) — Discovery catalogue: CO 733 (Palestine), FO 371, WO records
The National Archives (UK), Colonial Office CO 733, Foreign Office FO 371, War Office series. Catalogue via Discovery.
AIY — Vaad HaIr / וועד העיר population lists 1918-1931
AIY — Vaad HaIr population lists, 1918-1931.
ISA — British Mandate / Pro-Jerusalem Council files
Israel State Archives — British Mandate / Pro-Jerusalem Council files.
CZA A46\25-18t — 1920 Technical-Dept report incl. house repairs in Mahane Yehuda + engineers/salaries list
Central Zionist Archives, A46\25-18t (1920).
Palestine Gazette (Mandate)
The Palestine Gazette, Government of Palestine, 1920-1948.
CZA A417/370 — 2.7.1922 land purchase contract MY (Valero→Persian merchant coop)
Central Zionist Archives, file A417/370 — Mordechai Eliash personal papers, Mahane Yehuda land purchase 2.7.1922.
ISA — Mandate building/construction files
Israel State Archives Mandate building/construction files (MY-area).
ISA — Mandate markets/economic files (Jerusalem)
Israel State Archives Mandate markets/economic-affairs files (Jerusalem).
Blue Book of Palestine
Blue Book of Palestine. UK Colonial Office, annual, 1926-1938.
CZA A399\1133-21kru — 1928 Edah-Charedit Beit-Din poster naming MY-market shochtim Yehuda Hazan & Mendel Dichter Cohen
Central Zionist Archives, A399\1133-21kru (poster, 1928).
CZA — 1929 Western Wall Commission ("ועדת הכותל המערבי") Jewish-side submissions
Central Zionist Archives, 1929 Western Wall Commission ("ועדת הכותל המערבי") Jewish-side documentation.
ISA ISA (DC Jerusalem 12/64) — MY primary file (OCR-mined)
ISA ISA (DC Jerusalem 12/64, 5.2.47) — MY primary file (OCR-mined)
ISA ISA Lands & Surveys (Ain Fara + MY acquisition) — MY primary file (OCR-mined)
ISA ISA Lands & Surveys — MY primary file (OCR-mined)
ISA ISA מ-6546/9 — MY primary file (OCR-mined)
ISA ISA מ-852/35 — MY primary file (OCR-mined)
ISA Israel State Archives (Mandate police + legal files re: MY) — MY primary file (OCR-mined)
ISA M-4161/29 — 1929 Town Planning approval of the Valero MY commercial-block scheme
ISA M-4161/29 (Gov't of Palestine Registry 18/189, 1st Jacket), 1929.
CZA A417/451 — 1934 MY land court testimony
CZA A417/451 — 1934 MY land court case testimony.
ISA M-6546-9 — Municipal Sanitary / Health Dept
ISA M-6546-9 — Jerusalem Municipal Sanitary / Health Department files.
ISA — Mandate police + legal files (MY persons)
Israel State Archives Mandate-era police + legal files re: MY persons.
AID — Deportation 1939 1945 Sephardicgen
IGRA AID database: Deportation 1939 1945 Sephardicgen.
AID — Military British 1939 1947
IGRA AID database: Military British 1939 1947.
JCA JM-AIY/6203-6335 — Sephardi Kofer HaYishuv 1939-1941
JM-AIY/6203-6335 — Sephardi-Community Kofer HaYishuv 1939-1941.
AID — Immigration 1940 1948
IGRA AID database: Immigration 1940 1948.
ISA — Mandate business licenses + Defence Control
Israel State Archives Mandate business licenses + Defence Control of Establishments files.
bjpa.org - Free full PDF of A Survey of Palestine Vol I (Dec 1945-
CZA A156/87 — pre-state property/community records
CZA A156/87 — pre-state property/community records.
CZA J12/69 — pre-state period records
CZA J12/69 — pre-state period records.
JCA File 4920: Machane Yehuda (Jerusalem City Archives)
File 4920: Machane Yehuda. Jerusalem City Archives.
CZA S1\4120-1t — 30/05/1949 JA+Halvaa-veHisachon+Tnuva loan contract for MY market warehouses/booths
Central Zionist Archives, S1\4120-1t (Finance Dept), contract dated 30 May 1949.
AID — Holocaust Survivors Bricha Movement
IGRA AID database: Holocaust Survivors Bricha Movement.
AID — Home Guard
IGRA AID database: Home Guard.
AID — Notrim Jewish Police Force British Mandate
IGRA AID database: Notrim Jewish Police Force British Mandate.
CZA A153/175 — Pax Lodge invitation
CZA A153/175 — "Pax" Lodge invitation.
CZA A402/68 — Ein Karim land transactions (Valero share)
CZA A402/68 — Ein Karim land transactions; Valero share 693/6336.
CZA KRU\9716 — tender notice for sewer (biyuv) construction in the MY market, Neve Bezalel & Nachalat Tzadok
Central Zionist Archives, KRU\9716 (poster).
CZA S21\331-1t — correspondence re building the MY wholesale market
Central Zionist Archives, S21\331-1t (JA Dept for the Development of Jerusalem).
IDFA — IDF & Defence Establishment Archive
IDF & Defence Establishment Archive (IDFA), Tel HaShomer.
ISA — Etz Haim Street files
Israel State Archives — Etz Haim Street files (MY western edge).
JDC Archives (Joint Distribution Committee)
JDC Archives (Joint Distribution Committee).
Municipal records23
Jerusalem Conservation Committee #13/2024
Jerusalem Municipality Conservation Sites Committee, Meeting #13/2024 agenda + decisions, 10 Nov 2024.
Conservation dossier — Shaarei Yerushalayim / Abu Basel 5 (תיק תיעוד ראשוני)
Shaarei Yerushalayim project, 5 Abu Basel St, Jerusalem — preliminary conservation documentation file (November 2017); site-in-formation no. 3011
Conservation dossier — Nachlat Zvi (תיק תיעוד מתחמי)
Jerusalem Municipality / Drachim-Sviva, Conservation Documentation File: Nachlat Zvi, Oct 2011 (53 pp).
OpenJerusalem — Jerusalem Municipal Council registers (1892–1917)
Conservation dossier — Zichron Moshe & daughters (תיק תיעוד)
Jerusalem Municipality / Jerusalem Institute, Conservation Documentation File: Zichron Moshe and its daughters, Jul 2011 (111 pp).
JMA Minutes vol.9 p.1 — 4 May 1904 MY residents sewer petition
Jerusalem Municipal Archives (JMA), Minutes of Jerusalem Municipality, vol. 9, 1. Cited in: Avci, Lemire, and Yazici-Ozdemir, 'Collective Petitions ('arz-i mahzar) as a Reflective Archival Source for Jerusalem's Networks of Citadinité in the late 19th Century,' in Dalachanis & Lemire eds., Ordinary Jerusalem 1840-1940 (Brill 2018), 170 fn 30.
Conservation dossier — Beit HaKerem (Giora Solar, 2020)
תיק תיעוד מתחמי שכונת בית הכרם, אדר' גיורא סולר, 16.02.2020
Conservation dossier — Geula (תיק תיעוד מתחמי)
Jerusalem Municipality / Drachim-Sviva, Conservation Documentation File: Geula, Oct 2011 (55 pp).
Jerusalem Conservation Committee #4/2019 — MY Market spatial directive
Jerusalem Municipality Conservation Sites Committee, Meeting #4/2019: spatial directive (הנחיה מרחבית) for Mahane Yehuda Market roofs & first-floor façades, 5 Mar 2019. Gush 30045 helka 5001.
OpenJerusalem — Jerusalem municipal markets context files (Jaffa Gate, Mea Shearim, Bukharian) (Mandate AIY)
Record group of the Municipal Archives of Jerusalem during the British Mandate (JM-AIY/B832-854), Jerusalem City Archives; inventory by H. Rigaud, ERC Open Jerusalem, 2016.
OpenJerusalem — Mahne Yehuda market construction & operation files (Mandate AIY)
Record group of the Municipal Archives of Jerusalem during the British Mandate (JM-AIY/B832-854), Jerusalem City Archives; inventory by H. Rigaud, ERC Open Jerusalem, 2016.
OpenJerusalem — Mahne Yehuda Market land-expropriation files, Yaacov Quarter (Mandate AIY)
Record group of the Municipal Archives of Jerusalem during the British Mandate (JM-AIY/B832-854), Jerusalem City Archives; inventory by H. Rigaud, ERC Open Jerusalem, 2016.
Conservation dossier — Mekor Baruch (תיק תיעוד מתחמי)
Jerusalem Municipality / Shapira Architects, Conservation Documentation File: Mekor Baruch, Nov 2011 (189 pp).
Conservation Committee minutes 2011-2019 (uploaded8 corpus)
Jerusalem Municipality, Sites Conservation Committee, protocols/transcripts 2011-2019.
Jerusalem approved building documentation-files DB (תיקי תיעוד)
Jerusalem Municipality, Approved Documentation Files (תיקי תיעוד מאושרים) search database, accessed 2026-06-10.
Jerusalem conservation card-index (כרטסת ישנה, 5407 sites)
Jerusalem Municipality, רשימת שימור אתרים (legacy ASP card index), 5,407 records.
Conservation Committee minutes 2020-2026 (Azure blob)
Jerusalem Municipality, Sites Conservation Committee, minutes 2020-2026 (Azure blob).
Jerusalem DataCity open-data portal (CKAN)
Jerusalem Municipality / Hasadna. Jerusalem DataCity open-data portal (CKAN), 165 datasets, accessed 2026-06-10.
MY market + Beit Yaakov conservation-list declaration (Dec 2024)
Jerusalem Municipality conservation-list addition of ~40 Mahane Yehuda market + Beit Yaakov buildings, announced 10 Dec 2024.
JCA — Mahane Yehuda police station records (Mandate)
Jerusalem GIS — City Conservation List
Jerusalem Municipality GIS Department. City Conservation List, ArcGIS BaseLayers/MapServer Layer 1.
Jerusalem Municipal Archive sweep
Internal Jerusalem Municipal Archive sweep.
Yedion Iriya — Jerusalem municipal gazette
Yedion Iriya — Jerusalem Municipal Gazette. Various Mandate-era issues.
Individual archival files — CZA & JCA57
File-level items identified in the CZA and JCA catalogs. Most are queued for ordering and reading; they are listed so the file references are not lost.
Israel Film Archive — Jerusalem Cinematheque
Israel Film Archive, Jerusalem Cinematheque.
Steven Spielberg Jewish Film Archive (HUJI)
Steven Spielberg Jewish Film Archive, HUJI.
Bezalel Archive / Catalog (Bezalel Academy, Jerusalem) — institutional digital archive
Bezalel Archive / Bezalel Catalog, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem.
Samuel Salant Collection (Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem, d.1909)
NLI Archives, Samuel Salant Collection (Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem, d.1909) (AL990027002430205171).
Collection of German Aerial Photographs of Palestine (WWI, ~1917)
NLI Archives, Collection of German Aerial Photographs of Palestine (WWI, ~1917) (AL990038634420205171).
Ashbee (ed.) — Pro-Jerusalem Society Records Vol. I, 1918-1920 — HOLDS THE MY MARKET DESIGN PLATE (p.27)
C. R. Ashbee (ed.), Jerusalem 1918-1920: Being the Records of the Pro-Jerusalem Council during the Period of the British Military Administration (London: John Murray, 1921)
IAA British Mandate Archive — Dept of Antiquities records (Israel Antiquities Authority)
IAA British Mandate Archive (Dept of Antiquities), Israel Antiquities Authority.
JCA / Pro-Jerusalem Society — Ashbee market-redesign files
Pro-Jerusalem Society I (pp.26-28) + II (p.21)
Ashbee (ed.) — Pro-Jerusalem Society Records Vol. II, Jerusalem 1920-1922 (1924) — CONFIRMS THE MY MARKET SCHEME
C. R. Ashbee (ed.), Jerusalem 1920-1922: Being the Records of the Pro-Jerusalem Council during the First Two Years of the Civil Administration (London: John Murray, for the Council of the Pro-Jerusalem Society, 1924)
JCA file 833/A 18-6 — Jerusalem street-naming committee records (Mandate)
JCA 833/A 18-6 (Street Naming Committee minutes)
Lavon Institute — Histadrut / labour-movement archive (Tel Aviv)
Lavon Institute for Labour Movement Research (Histadrut archive), Tel Aviv.
JCA 4536-12 — National Council to the Va'ad, 25 Jan 1924
Chenya 2025 fn.22. JCA 4536-12.
JCA 4561-25 — a group of traders to the Va'ad, 10 Nov 1929 (post-riot market)
Chenya 2025 fn.28. JCA 4561-25.
JCA 4572-5 — District Relief Committee Jerusalem activity overview, 23 Sep 1929
Chenya 2025 fn.34. JCA 4572-5.
JCA 4596-9 — Va'ad executive committee minutes, 15 Apr 1929
Chenya 2025 fn.51. JCA 4596-9.
JCA 4624-8 — merchants of the three markets to the Va'ad re vegetable supply, 5 Nov 1929 (+ Mosheioff agreement)
Chenya 2025 fnn.35-37. JCA 4624-8.
CZA A417/330 — MY vegetable-market establishment correspondence 1930-1933
CZA A417/330
CZA A417/331 — MY vegetable-market establishment correspondence 1930-1931
CZA A417/331
JCA 4560-7 — MY market regulation signed by traders (undated)
Chenya 2025 fn.38. JCA 4560-7.
JCA 4622-25 — Association of Hebrew Milk Sellers to the Va'ad, 4 Jun 1930
Chenya 2025 fn.32. JCA 4622-25.
JCA 4624-8 — Va'ad ha-Kehila / Mosheioff MY-market establishment
JCA 4624-8
JCA 4560-11 — 1931 traders petition to allocate shops to the Arab women vegetable-sellers (MY)
JCA 4560-11 (19 Jul 1931)
JCA 4563-7 — burial committee memorandum to the Va'ad ha-Kehila, 6 Jul 1932
Chenya 2025 fn.50. JCA 4563-7.
JCA 4623-40 — factory owner to HCC, 19 Mar 1933
Chenya 2025 fn.61. JCA 4623-40.
JCA 673-1 — Israel Bardaki to Shlomo Eisenberg (JA secretary), 3 Sep 1939
Chenya 2025 fn.53. JCA 673-1.
CZA A199/40 — Hevra/Even-company society correspondence (economic/segregation)
CZA A199/40
CZA K14/461 — Jerusalem kindergarten children name+address lists (incl. MY) 1944-45
CZA K14/461
JCA 4577-6 — Society executive committee minutes, 31 Dec 1946 (Arab-workers name dispute)
Chenya 2025 fn.57. JCA 4577-6.
JCA 673-4 — National Council exec to municipalities/local authorities, 20 Dec 1946
Chenya 2025 fn.54. JCA 673-4.
CZA J17/6489 — David Kokia (MY resident) visa-request letter 1947
CZA J17/6489
ASAI / Israel Folktale Archives (IFA, Dov Noy) — Univ. of Haifa
Israel Folktale Archives (IFA / ASAI), University of Haifa.
Amnon Netzer Archive (Persian/Iranian Jewry scholar)
NLI Archives, Amnon Netzer Archive (Persian/Iranian Jewry scholar) (AL990050703510205171).
Aryeh Leib Frumkin Archive
NLI Archives, Aryeh Leib Frumkin Archive (AL990027065430205171).
Bibliothèques d'Orient (BnF) — Franco-Levantine heritage
BnF, Bibliothèques d'Orient.
Center for Jewish History — Digital Collections (incl. American Sephardi Federation, AJHS)
Center for Jewish History Digital Collections, New York.
Collection of documents from the Old Yishuv in Jerusalem
NLI Archives, Collection of documents from the Old Yishuv in Jerusalem (AL990032513190205171).
Collection of documents — Old and New Yishuv
NLI Archives, Collection of documents — Old and New Yishuv (AL990033606610205171).
Collection of Eliyahu Elyashar
NLI Archives, Collection of Eliyahu Elyashar (AL990027886080205171).
Collection of Jerusalem Municipality printed matter
NLI Archives, Collection of Jerusalem Municipality printed matter (AL990036327090205171).
Collection of letters and documents in Ladino
NLI Archives, Collection of letters and documents in Ladino (AL990033614500205171).
Collection of the Amzalak Family
NLI Archives, Collection of the Amzalak Family (AL990027892070205171).
Collection of the Jewish Sephardic Committee in Jerusalem (ועד עדת הספרדים)
NLI Archives, Collection of the Jewish Sephardic Committee in Jerusalem (ועד עדת הספרדים) (AL990036501740205171).
Collection — history of Yemenite Jews in pre-state Israel
NLI Archives, Collection — history of Yemenite Jews in pre-state Israel (AL990032500630205171).
David Yellin Collection
NLI Archives, David Yellin Collection (AL990025900470205171).
Habshush family archive
NLI Archives, Habshush family archive (AL990031536010205171).
Israel Goor Theatre Archive & Museum (Jerusalem)
Israel Goor Theatre Archives and Museum, Jerusalem.
İSAM Kadı Sicilleri / Şer'iyye court registers (incl. Jerusalem/Kudüs)
İSAM Kadı Sicilleri Kataloğu (Istanbul).
İSAM Osmanlı Salnameleri (Ottoman provincial yearbooks DB)
İSAM Osmanlı Salnameleri Veritabanı.
Mazkeret Moshe (Montefiore) central committee documents
NLI Archives, Mazkeret Moshe (Montefiore) central committee documents (AL990033626300205171).
Mordecai Ben Hillel Ha-Cohen Archive
NLI Archives, Mordecai Ben Hillel Ha-Cohen Archive (AL990026566380205171).
Moshe David Gaon archive
NLI Archives, Moshe David Gaon archive (AL990028167510205171).
Moshe Hai Cohen-Yazdi Aharoni Archive
NLI Archives, Moshe Hai Cohen-Yazdi Aharoni Archive (AL990044015400205171).
Sassoon Family Archive
NLI Archives, Sassoon Family Archive (AL990031595530205171).
Sephardic Studies Digital Collection (Univ. of Washington Stroum)
UW Stroum Sephardic Studies Digital Collection.
St Saviour Monastery (Old Jerusalem) manuscripts — EAP823 (BL Endangered Archives)
EAP823, St Saviour Monastery, Old Jerusalem (British Library EAP).
The British Consulate in Jerusalem Collection
NLI Archives, The British Consulate in Jerusalem Collection (AL990033632080205171).
Yaakov Shaul Elyashar Archive (Rishon LeZion / Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem)
NLI Archives, Yaakov Shaul Elyashar Archive (Rishon LeZion / Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem) (AL990027886170205171).
Trademarks, business directories & registries5
Palestine Directory (general / multi-year)
Palestine Directory (multi-year).
Palestine Directory 1920
Palestine Directory (1920).
Palestine Directory & Handbook 1932
The Palestine Directory and Handbook (Jerusalem, 1932).
Rehavia Business Directory 1937
Rehavia Business Directory (Jerusalem, 1937).
AID — Importers
IGRA AID database: Importers.
Part III
The press
Newspapers & press29
Press coverage is rolled up by title — each entry is a newspaper the research drew on, not an individual article.
al-Difa' الدفاع
IntegratedBustenai בוסתנאי
IntegratedDavar דבר
IntegratedDo'ar ha-Yom דואר היום
IntegratedFilastin فلسطين
IntegratedHa-Olam העולם
IntegratedHa-Shiloaḥ השילוח
IntegratedHaaretz הארץ
IntegratedHaBoker הבוקר
IntegratedHaDoar (New York) הדאר
IntegratedHaMashkif המשקיף
IntegratedHaTzfira הצפירה
IntegratedHaTzofe הצופה
IntegratedHaYarden הירדן
IntegratedHaYesod היסוד
IntegratedIton Meyuhad עתון מיוחד
IntegratedKol Yisrael (Jerusalem) קול ישראל
IntegratedMoriyah מוריה
IntegratedMoznaim מאזנים
IntegratedThe Hebrew Standard
IntegratedThe Jewish Voice
IntegratedThe Palestine Bulletin
IntegratedThe Palestine Post / Jerusalem Post
Integratedal-Hayat الحياة
Discovered / queuedha-Tsevi / ha-Or הצבי
Discovered / queuedha-Ḥerut החרות
Discovered / queuedHashkafah השקפה
Discovered / queuedMir'at al-Sharq مرآة الشرق
Discovered / queuedḤavatselet חבצלת
Discovered / queuedPlus 9 multi-paper press sweeps, mostly through NLI JPress / Jrayed (470 attestations); these are counted under the National Library of Israel above.
Part IV
Scholarship
Academic monographs, dissertations and journal articles.
Books & dissertations84
Ben-Arieh — Yerushalayim haHadasha (Ottoman) (Kotar 21584635)
Ben-Arieh, Y. Yerushalayim haHadasha beReshitah (Ottoman). Yad Ben-Zvi.
Lunz 1890 — Moreh Derekh be-Eretz Yisrael
Lunz, A.M. (1890). Moreh Derekh be-Eretz Yisrael ve-Suryah. Vienna.
Ninyo 1893 — Jerusalem's Sun and Shield
Ninyo, R.S.Y. (1893). Jerusalem's Sun and Shield. Frumkin Press.
Ben-Arieh — Jerusalem in 19C: The Old City (Kotar 51400016)
Ben-Arieh, Y. Jerusalem in the 19th Century: The Old City.
Jerusalem in the 19th Century (Kotar 16766935)
Jerusalem in the 19th Century. (Edited volume.)
IA milhemethatehiya00doli — DECLINED false positive
IA milhemethatehiya00doli.
Cohen-Reiss Festschrift 1912 (זמרת הארץ) — DECLINED
Zimrat ha-Aretz (1912). Festschrift for Ephraim Cohen-Reiss. Jerusalem.
The Sephardi Settlement in Jerusalem 1893-1914 (Kotar 25196464)
The Sephardi Settlement in Jerusalem in the Late Ottoman Period 1893-1914.
Luach Eretz Yisrael (annual)
Luach Eretz Yisrael, annual, 1896-1915.
Kark & Ben-Yaakov — Sephardi/Mizrahi entrepreneurship building Jerusalem neighborhoods (chapter)
Kark, R. & Ben-Yaakov, M. (2001). Sephardi and Mizrahi entrepreneurship in building Jerusalem neighborhoods, late Ottoman period. In Yazamut Yehudit ba-Et ha-Hadasha, Magnes.
Sefer Yerushalayim — Late Ottoman 1800-1917 (Kotar 104966168)
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Kidron — A National Place in a "Mixed" Environment (Cathedra 173)
A. Kidron, Cathedra 173 (2019)
Talbot, Caldwell & Emmott 2020 — Perceiving Palestine: British Visions of the Holy Land
Michael Talbot, Anne Caldwell and Chloe Emmott, 'Perceiving Palestine: British Visions of the Holy Land', Jerusalem Quarterly 82 (2020), pp.50-73
Wallach 2020 — Jerusalem's Lost Heart: Rise & Fall of the Late Ottoman City Centre
Y. Wallach, 'Jerusalem's Lost Heart: The Rise and Fall of the Late Ottoman City Centre', in Urban Neighbourhood Formations (Routledge, 2020).
CZA Blog (Hanya 2022) — "HaAgas 1: Laying the Cornerstone for MY" (100-yr anniversary)
Hanya, Tal (30.6.2022). "האגס 1": מניחים אבן פינה לשוק מחנה יהודה ["HaAgas 1": Laying the Cornerstone for the Mahane Yehuda Market]. Central Zionist Archives blog. http://www.zionistarchives.org.il/Pages/Blog_Tal.aspx
Jacobson 2022 — Contested Public Space in Downtown Jerusalem: Jaffa Gate & Municipal Garden
A. Jacobson, 'Contested Public Space in Downtown Jerusalem...', in From the Household to the Wider World (Tübingen UP, 2022).
academic.oup.com - Peer-reviewed Past & Present article on Jewish trade/mi
Kvindesland, Eirik. “Jewish Networks Between the Persian Gulf and Palestine, 1820–1914.” Past & Present 267, no. 1 (May 2025): 115–153. https://academic.oup.com/past/article/267/1/115/7762954
CZA Blog (Goren) — Sheikh Jarrah / Sephardi-Committee Hekdesh land structure for Mizrahi housing
Goren, D. (n.d.). שיכון עממי בבתי שמעון הצדיק. Central Zionist Archives blog.
CZA Blog — Bikur Holim Hospital
Central Zionist Archives blog. "בית החולים ביקור חולים" ([uncredited], n.d.). http://www.zionistarchives.org.il/AttheCZA/AdditionalArticles/Pages/BikurCholim.aspx
CZA Blog — Ezrat Nashim Hospital
Central Zionist Archives blog. "בית חולים עזרת נשים" ([uncredited], n.d.). http://www.zionistarchives.org.il/AttheCZA/AdditionalArticles/Pages/EzratNashim.aspx
CZA Blog — Hadassah Hospital (1913–today)
Central Zionist Archives blog. ""הדסה" מאז ועד היום" ([uncredited], n.d.). http://www.zionistarchives.org.il/AttheCZA/AdditionalArticles/Pages/Hadassah.aspx
CZA Blog — Palace Hotel (Mandate Jerusalem hospitality)
Central Zionist Archives blog. "סיפורו של מלון — מלון פאלאס" ([uncredited], n.d.). http://www.zionistarchives.org.il/AttheCZA/AdditionalArticles/Pages/PalaceHotel.aspx
CZA Blog — Rivlin (Old Yishuv Ashkenazi council)
Central Zionist Archives blog. "בית הנשיא" ([uncredited], n.d.). http://www.zionistarchives.org.il/AttheCZA/Pages/Rivlin.aspx
ajlpublishing.org - AJL's Judaica Librarianship journal PDF on the UCLA Sep
Daniel, Max Modiano. “The UCLA Sephardic Archive Initiative: Finding the Keys to an Untold History.” Judaica Librarianship 21 (2020): 38–48. https://ajlpublishing.org/index.php/jl/article/download/533/513/535
archaeologybulletin.org - Peer-reviewed CC-BY article (Bulletin of the History of
Rosner, Chloé. “Tracking Local Employees of the British Mandate Department of Antiquities in Palestine.” Bulletin of the History of Archaeology 34, no. 1 (2024). https://doi.org/10.5334/bha-710
avotaynuonline.com - IIJG/Kark-Glass study of Sephardi elite families (Amzal
Kark, Ruth, and Joseph B. Glass. “The Role of Sephardi and Mizrahi Elite Families in the Landscape Development of Eretz Israel in the Late Ottoman and British Mandate Periods, 1800–1948: A Genealogical and Social-Networking Approach.” Avotaynu Online, 2011. https://avotaynuonline.com/2011/02/the-role-of-sephardi-and-mizrahi-elite-families-in-landscape-development-of-eretz-israel-in-the-late-ottoman-and-british-mandate-periods-1800-1948-a-genealogical-and-social-networking-approach-fina/
bloodandfrogs.com - Serious 14-yr Jewish-genealogy research blog; author pu
Trauring, Philip. Blood and Frogs: Jewish Genealogy and More (research blog), incl. the digitized U.S. Consul Jerusalem dispatches, 1856–1906. https://www.bloodandfrogs.com/ ; https://consul.quintbooks.com/
cris.unibo.it - University of Bologna IRIS repository hosting a full Je
Jerusalem Quarterly 93 (Spring 2023), special issue on the UNRWA archives and refugee-relief history, guest-ed. Francesca Biancani and Maria Chiara Rioli (Institute for Palestine Studies). Open-access copy via University of Bologna (IRIS): https://cris.unibo.it/
CZA Blog — Hemda Ben Yehuda
Central Zionist Archives blog. "חמדה בן יהודה והמלחמה עם השטן" ([uncredited], n.d.). http://www.zionistarchives.org.il/AttheCZA/AdditionalArticles/Pages/Hemda.aspx
CZA Blog — Jerusalem Medical Issue
Central Zionist Archives blog. "ירושלים: גיליון רפואי" ([uncredited], n.d.). http://www.zionistarchives.org.il/AttheCZA/AdditionalArticles/Pages/Refuah.aspx
CZA Blog — Zvi Barsky / first Jerusalem bookstores
Central Zionist Archives blog. "ספרים למכירה! — צבי ברסקי" (Zvi Barsky, n.d.). http://www.zionistarchives.org.il/AttheCZA/Pages/Books_ZviBarsky.aspx
dergipark.org.tr - Peer-reviewed open article on public security in Jerusa
Gemici, Eser. “Public Security in Jerusalem under Ottoman (19th–20th Century) and British Rule (1917–1948).” Tarih İncelemeleri Dergisi [Journal of Historical Studies] 40, no. 2 (2025): 641–674. https://doi.org/10.18513/egetid.1697968
history.ucla.edu - UCLA-hosted scholarly paper on the 'Jerusalem School' o
Myers, David N. “Was There a ‘Jerusalem School’?: An Inquiry into the First Generation of Historical Researchers at the Hebrew University.” Studies in Contemporary Jewry 10 (1994): 66–92. https://history.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/was_there_a_jerusalem_school.pdf
hypotheses.org - Open Jerusalem project homepage (same ERC connected-his
Open Jerusalem Project (ERC, dir. Vincent Lemire). Project homepage. https://openjlem.hypotheses.org/ (see also the volume Ordinary Jerusalem, 1840–1940, Brill 2018).
iijg.org - Kark & Glass scholarly presentation on Sephardi entrepr
Glass, Joseph B., and Ruth Kark. “Jewish Genealogical Research and Historical Geography of the Land of Israel: Lessons from the Study of the Sephardi Entrepreneurial Elite” (WUJS conference presentation). International Institute for Jewish Genealogy (IIJG). https://www.iijg.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/WUJS_Kark_And_Glass.pdf
ir.library.illinoisstate.edu - Scrape hit a transient 502 but URL is an institutional-
Nassar, Issam. “Early Local Photography in Jerusalem.” Illinois State University, ReD (Faculty Publications — History). https://ir.library.illinoisstate.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1001&context=fph (year unconfirmed).
iris.unive.it - Open-access chapter from Brill's Ordinary Jerusalem 184
Rioli, Maria Chiara. “Introducing Jerusalem: Visiting Cards, Advertisements and Urban Identities at the Turn of the 20th Century.” Chap. 2 in Ordinary Jerusalem, 1840–1940: Opening New Archives, Revisiting a Global City, ed. Angelos Dalachanis and Vincent Lemire. Leiden: Brill, 2018. OA copy: https://iris.unive.it/
ismi.emory.edu - Emory ISMI hosting Kenneth Stein's 'Palestine's Rural E
Stein, Kenneth W. “Palestine’s Rural Economy, 1917–1939.” Studies in Zionism 8, no. 1 (1987): 25–49. Emory Institute for the Study of Modern Israel. https://ismi.emory.edu/documents/stein-publications/siz87.pdf
isragen.org.il - Israel Genealogy Research Association journal (Sharsher
Sharsheret Hadorot: Journal of the Israel Genealogy Research Association 18, no. 1. Incl. Shmuel Shamir on late-Ottoman Eretz-Yisrael censuses and M. Tagger on Jerusalem cemeteries. https://isragen.org.il/sd/Vol-18-1-E.pdf
jerusalemstory.com - A genuine, heavily-footnoted scholarly place-history pu
Caridi, Paola. “Musrara, the Center of the World.” Jerusalem Story (Institute for Palestine Studies). https://www.jerusalemstory.com/en/article/musrara-center-world
jjar.huji.ac.il - JJAR is a genuine, live, free open-access peer-reviewed
Hysler Rubin, Noah. “Digitizing Urban Heritage: The Digitization of Jerusalem’s Architectural Archives.” Jerusalem Journal of Archaeology 5 (2023): 101–120. https://doi.org/10.52486/01.00005.7
journal.equinoxpub.com - Marom & Taxel rigorous Ottoman/Mandate Palestinian loca
Marom, Roy, and Itamar Taxel. “Ḥamama: The Palestinian Countryside in Bloom (1750–1948).” Journal of Islamic Archaeology 11, no. 1 (2024): 83–110. https://journal.equinoxpub.com/JIA/article/view/26586
journals.openedition.org - Confirmed: Vincent Lemire, 'Water in Jerusalem at End o
Lemire, Vincent. “Water in Jerusalem at the End of the Ottoman Period (1850–1920).” Bulletin du Centre de recherche français à Jérusalem (BCRFJ), 2000. https://journals.openedition.org/bcrfj/2572
Kathedra journal — MY-relevant articles
Kathedra journal articles re: MY history.
Kfir — Jerusalem-Love podcast catalog
Kfir, Rafi. Ahavat Yerushalayim (Jerusalem-Love) — audio-lecture / podcast catalog, 311 episodes. https://www.jerusalem-love.co.il/?page_id=18982
Kfir — nahlaot.co.il site articles
Kfir, Rafi. Naḥlaot with Rafi Kfir (website), 75 article pages incl. the Mahane Yehuda neighborhood, synagogues, and sites. https://www.nahlaot.co.il/
mdpi.com - Peer-reviewed OA analysis of the Montefiore censuses (1
Levy-Toledano, Raquel, Wim Penninx, and Sergio DellaPergola. “Jewish Presence in the Land of Israel in the 19th Century: Insights from the Montefiore Censuses.” Genealogy 9, no. 3 (2025): art. 72. https://www.mdpi.com/2313-5778/9/3/72
muse.jhu.edu - Peer-reviewed JHU Press article on travel/tourism vocab
Irving, Sarah, Karène Sanchez-Summerer, and Sary Zananiri. “Introduction: Vocabularies of Travel and Tourism in the ‘Holy Lands,’ 1870–1950.” Mashriq & Mahjar: Journal of Middle East & North African Migration Studies 10, no. 2 (2023). https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/353/article/914201
openjlem.hypotheses.org - Open Jerusalem (Vincent Lemire ERC) project blog, urban
Open Jerusalem Project (ERC, dir. Vincent Lemire). Project blog, urban-history tag. https://openjlem.hypotheses.org/tag/urban-history
osmanlipostatarihi.org - Ottoman postal-history scholarly site; article on the J
Glass, Joseph B., and Ruth Kark. “The Jerusalem Chamber of Commerce, Industry, and Agriculture, 1909–1910: An Early Attempt at Inter-Communal Cooperation.” British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies (2016). https://doi.org/10.1080/13530194.2016.1258541 (reprint hosted at osmanlipostatarihi.org).
sciencedirect.com - Open-access Political Geography article on Jerusalem ne
Razin, Eran, and Anna Hazan. “Toponyms and Political Control in Divided Cities: The Case of Jerusalem’s Neighborhood Names.” Political Geography 119 (2025): art. 103319. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0962629825000514
semanticscholar.org - Open-access scholarly PDF on the American Colony's Chri
Jacobson, Abigail. “‘Little Orphans of Jerusalem’: The American Colony’s Christian Herald Orphanage in Photographs and Negatives” (book chapter, c. 2021). OA PDF via Semantic Scholar. https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/d1dd/d1aba8ab4998ae992f125e1205e09cfabb1e.pdf (year unconfirmed).
shimur.org - Council for Conservation of Heritage Sites in Israel ho
Ben-Arieh, Yehoshua. “The New Jewish Jerusalem during the British Mandate of Palestine — Neighborhoods, Houses and People: Aspects of Conservation and Planning.” Council for Conservation of Heritage Sites in Israel. https://shimur.org/?lang=en (title/attribution from search index; year unconfirmed).
sites.duke.edu - Annabel Wharton scholarly PDF on the American Colony an
Amiri, Avner, and Annabel Jane Wharton. “Home in Jerusalem: The American Colony and Palestinian Suburban Architecture.” Post-Medieval Archaeology 45, no. 2 (2011): 237–265. https://sites.duke.edu/annabelwharton/files/2015/08/WhartonHomeJerusalemFinalPdf.pdf
soas-repository.worktribe.com - Open-access Yair Wallach chapter 'Reading the City... A
Wallach, Yair. “Reading the City, Writing the Self: Arabic and Hebrew Urban Texts in Jerusalem, 1840–1940.” Chap. 14 in Ordinary Jerusalem, 1840–1940: Opening New Archives, Revisiting a Global City, ed. Angelos Dalachanis and Vincent Lemire, 287–304. Leiden: Brill, 2018. https://soas-repository.worktribe.com/output/387421
Tzo'ar-Zauberman & Aharonson — Jaffa Road article
Tzo'ar-Zauberman & Aharonson, "מדרך היסטורי לרחוב ראשי: עיצובו ופיתוחו של רחוב יפו".
מפה ציונית מפתיעה — Yair Paz
Central Zionist Archives blog. "על גילוי מפה ציונית מפתיעה" (Yair Paz, n.d.). http://www.zionistarchives.org.il/Pages/Blog_YairPaz.aspx
Part V
Memory & image
Memoirs, family papers and photographs.
Memoirs & oral histories29
gevaryahu.com - Full English memoir of Eliyahu Shwartz (b.1915), a 6th-
Shwartz, Eliyahu. Memoir of Eliyahu Shwartz (b. 1915), annotated English translation. http://www.gevaryahu.com/shwartz/EliyahuShwartz-English.pdf
IA nybc210171 — Yiddish religious/Torah text (DECLINED)
IA nybc210171.
Storrs 1937 — The Memoirs of Sir Ronald Storrs (MENTIONS_MY: NO)
Ronald Storrs, The Memoirs of Sir Ronald Storrs (New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1937)
Cohen-Reiss memoirs — מזכרונות איש ירושלים
Cohen-Reiss, E. From Memoirs of a Man of Jerusalem. Sifriyat Ha-Yishuv, Jerusalem.
Spafford Vester — Our Jerusalem: An American Family in the Holy City 1881-1949
Bertha Spafford Vester, Our Jerusalem (New York: Doubleday, 1950)
IA nybc200439 — In geslekh fun Yerushalayim (1968)
In geslekh fun Yerushalayim (1968). Yiddish stories.
IA nybc207714 — Oyf randn fun ṭeg minyaṭurn (1969)
Oyf randn fun ṭeg minyaṭurn (1969). Yiddish miniatures.
IA nybc201939 — In oysgebenḳṭn land (1976)
In oysgebenḳṭn land (1976). Yiddish memoir.
Valero, Victoria Vida — Memories (Tel Aviv, 1981)
Valero, V.V. (1981). Memories. Tel Aviv: Nahar.
Tannous — The Palestinians (memoir w/ Jerusalem detail)
Izzat Tannous, The Palestinians (New York: IGT, 1988)
IA nybc204054 — Dayne geslekh-- Yerusholayim (1989)
Dayne geslekh — Yerusholayim (1989). Yiddish micro-stories.
Yiddish attestations review (8 IA Yiddish books)
Aggregate review of 8 IA Yiddish memoirs covering 1900s-1948 vignettes.
Moskona-Valero, Karin — Reali term paper (1991)
Moskona-Valero, K. (1991). Valero Family in Jerusalem. Reali High School term paper, Haifa, ~102 pp.
Schwartzburg (Valero), Simha — handwritten memoir (1992)
Schwartzburg-Valero, S. (1992). Hand-written memoir, delivered Oct 1992 at Temple Beth Shalom, San Juan, Puerto Rico [English].
Avitov 1995 — When Jimmy Asked to Be Buried Standing Up (MY + Orfalim)
Avitov, Yaron (1995). כשג'ימי ביקש שיקברו אותו בעמידה: 'מחנה יהודה' וסמטאות אחרות [When Jimmy Asked to Be Buried Standing Up: Mahane Yehuda and Other Alleys]. Jerusalem: Carmel. 167 pp., illustrations + portraits, 25x24 cm.
Michaeli 2006 — 'Native' of Jerusalem in the Health and Defence Systems
D. Michaeli, 'Native' of Jerusalem in the Health and Defence Systems (Ministry of Defence, 2006).
Shrem 2008/9 — Jerusalem: Shuk (Bazaar) Mahane Yehuda 1929
Shrem, N. (2008/2009 [תשס"ט]). ירושלים: שוק (הבזר) מחנה יהודה 1929 [Jerusalem: The Shuk (Bazaar) Mahane Yehuda 1929]. Jerusalem: HaSifria HaTzionit (publishing arm of the World Zionist Organization). 143 pp., hardback, 24.5x17.5 cm.
Jerusalem: Chronicles from the Holy City
Delisle, Guy. Jerusalem: Chronicles from the Holy City. Trans. Helge Dascher. Montreal: Drawn & Quarterly, 2012. Orig. Chroniques de Jerusalem (Delcourt, 2011).
Tamari & Nassar (eds) 2013 — The Storyteller of Jerusalem: Wasif Jawhariyyeh 1904-1948
S. Tamari and I. Nassar (eds), The Storyteller of Jerusalem: The Life and Times of Wasif Jawhariyyeh, 1904-1948 (Northampton, Mass.: Olive Branch Press, 2013).
Kinneret 2018 — Mineged (Jerusalem→NY personal-tragedy memoir)
(2018). מנגד. Kinneret Zmora Dvir. May 2018.
Gurevitch 2019 — Haya Hayta Yalda (Rivka Gur biography, MY childhood)
Gurevitch, E. (2019). היה הייתה ילדה. (e-vrit).
Baruch 2021 §71 — Sharvit Ohel Moshe Mandate testimony
Sharvit, M. "Ze mizman ha-Mandat" [This Is From Mandate Times], in: Baruch, I. (2021), מסיפוריך, ירושלים [Strolling Through Jerusalem's Past: A Memoir], Niv Books, §71.
Baruch 2021 — מסיפוריך, ירושלים (memoir)
Baruch, Itzik (2021). מסיפוריך, ירושלים [Strolling Through Jerusalem's Past: A Memoir]. Niv Books, ספרי ניב.
Engel 2025 — The Boy from Nahla'ot
Engel, Y. (2025). הילד מנחלאות. (e-vrit).
Ben-Zvi Sephardi oral history collection
Ben-Zvi Institute Sephardi oral-history collection.
Cohen, Gabriel — Beit Avinu (memoir of MY market c. early 20c)
Cohen, Gabriel. Beit Avinu: Michtavei Gabriel Cohen leYadid. n.d. Quoted in Nirit Shalev-Khalifa, Nahla'ot be-lev 'ir, 140. (Per Feinberg 2010 fn 28.)
IA nybc207822 — Yiddish text
IA nybc207822.
IA nybc209311 — Yiddish text
IA nybc209311.
ruthcorman.wordpress.com - FALSE NEGATIVE. Researched Nachlaot walking essay trans
Corman, Ruth. “The Urban Village of Nachlaot” (research essay), 20 January 2017. https://ruthcorman.wordpress.com/2017/01/20/the-urban-village-of-nachlaot/
Personal archives & collections45
Palestinian Museum Digital Archive — Ottoman land/tax/sharia samples
NLI — Shoshana Halevi personal archive
NLI Archive: Shoshana Halevi personal archive (1820-1975 span).
Yehuda Zrachia Azulai Archive
NLI — Yaakov Shaul Elyachar archive (master finding aid)
NLI Archive: Yaakov Shaul Elyachar archive — master finding aid.
CZA A153 — David Yellin (1864-1941) personal archive (incl. youth newspaper "הר ציון" 21-issue MS)
Central Zionist Archives, file series A153 — David Yellin (1864-1941) personal archive.
CZA A58 — Yosef Meyuhas (1868-1942) personal archive (Sephardi-Council leader, Shaarei Hesed founder)
Central Zionist Archives, file series A58 — Yosef Meyuhas (1868-1942) personal archive.
Alphabetical index of chalukah recipients in Jerusalem (CAHJP IL-J-Pin-292)
Alphabetical index of chalukah recipients in Jerusalem by surname. CAHJP IL-J-Pin-292.
Chalukah recipients-by-kollel pinkas, neighborhood-tagged (CAHJP 288105171)
Pinkas of chalukah recipients by kollel (Volhynia, Hod, Slonim, Zhitomir). CAHJP IL-J-Pin series.
NLI — Nahalot Avot society formation (1881)
NLI Archive: "Nahalot Avot" society formation for capital management, 1881.
OpenJerusalem — Yosef Navon Bey founder archives (CZA personal papers + Ottoman railway concession)
Central Zionist Archives personal papers A152 (Joseph Navon) and AK20 (Yitzhak Navon); Ottoman Prime Ministry Archives (BOA) railway-concession decrees; via OpenJerusalem catalog.
Archive of Ben-Zion Alkalai
NLI — Elyachar correspondence (1895-04-13)
NLI Archive: Yaakov Shaul Elyachar correspondence, 1895-04-13.
NLI — Ashkenazi family archive (1900)
NLI Archive: Ashkenazi family archive, 1900-07-27.
Hanania Habib Azoulay Collection
NLI — Haim Aharon Valero to AIU re: Antébi (1909)
NLI Archive: Haim Aharon Valero to AIU re: Antébi, 1909.
NLI — Yosef Moshe Valero to Yahuda (1911)
NLI Archive: Yosef Moshe Valero to Yahuda, 1911.
NLI — Valero ↔ Knesset Yisrael ledger (1915)
NLI Archive: Va'ad HaKlali / Knesset Yisrael ↔ Bank Valero ledger, 1915.
Kollel Hod income & expense pinkas 1918/19, 355pp (CAHJP IL-J-Pin-523)
Income & expense pinkas, chiefly chalukah, Tishrei-Av 5679 (1918/19). CAHJP IL-J-Pin-523.
NLI — Yitzhak Levi collection (Lev Ha-Ir) (1922)
NLI Archive: Yitzhak Levi collection (Minhal Kehilati Lev Ha-Ir, Jerusalem).
CZA A419 — Guggenheimer Playgrounds archive (incl. 1929 MY playground photo)
Central Zionist Archives, file series A419 — Bertha Guggenheimer Playground Foundation papers, 1925-1948.
NLI — Moshe Valero ↔ Eliahu Elyachar correspondence (1930)
NLI Archive: Moshe Valero ↔ Eliahu Elyachar correspondence, 1930.
Kollel Hod / Vaad HaKlali income pinkas 1931/32 (CAHJP IL-J-Pin-91)
Income pinkas, Vaad HaKlali Knesset Yisrael, 5692 (1931/32). CAHJP IL-J-Pin-91.
Moshe Valero Papers — High Commissioner correspondence (1937)
Moshe Valero Papers — S. Mizrachi to High Commissioner correspondence 3 Oct 1937 + Chief Secretary reply 31 Oct 1937.
NLI — Elyachar Series 1 First Deposit (1937)
NLI Archive: Elyachar archive Series 1 First Deposit, 1937.
NLI — Haim Aharon Valero papers (1937)
NLI Archive: Haim Aharon Valero papers, 1937.
Zvi Shamir Archive — Valero 1941 Zones A/B application
Zvi Shamir Archive — Moshe Valero 1941 application to High Commissioner re: Zones A and B land transfer.
NLI — Ihud policy correspondence (1944)
NLI Archive: Ihud policy correspondence, 1944.
NLI — Yehuda Ziv collection (1949)
NLI Archive: Yehuda Ziv collection, 1949-07-06.
NLI — Avraham Tehomi ↔ Shlomo Moussaieff (1962)
NLI Archive: Avraham Tehomi ↔ Shlomo Moussaieff, 1962.
NLI — Casino de Paris building (Bibas + Molcho families)
NLI Archive: Casino de Paris building, MY quarter — Bibas + Molcho families.
Alfred Montefiore Hyamson Collection
Collection de la Confederation Universelle des Juifs Sephardim
CZA — Yehoshua Yellin (Motza founder) MS of "זכרונות לבן ירושלים"
Central Zionist Archives, Yehoshua Yellin manuscript "זכרונות לבן ירושלים" — exact call-number TBD.
David Amiran archive
Kroyanker private architecture archive
NLI archive — MY (English, arc_MY_en)
NLI Archive: Mahane Yehuda (English) collection.
NLI archive — MY (Hebrew, arc_MY_heb)
NLI Archive: Mahane Yehuda (Hebrew) collection.
NLI archive — Vaad Mahane Yehuda (arc_VaadMY)
NLI Archive: Vaad Mahane Yehuda (MY market committee) records.
NLI archives sweep (cross-collection)
Internal NLI archives sweep across multiple collections.
NLI manuscript — MY Hebrew (mss_MY_heb)
NLI Manuscript: Mahane Yehuda Hebrew manuscript file.
NLI — Elmaleh / Rafael Abu correspondence (250 items)
NLI Archive: Elmaleh/Rafael Abu correspondence (Jerusalem/Casablanca/Morocco).
NLI — MOUSSAIEFF, Aharon, Paris address
NLI Archive: MOUSSAIEFF, Aharon — Paris address record.
Ruth Kark personal archive (HUJI Geography)
Ruth Kark personal archive (HUJI Geography Dept., Jerusalem).
Shlomo Valero Papers, London
Shlomo Valero Papers, London.
Zeev Smilansky archive
Photo archives34
LoC — American Colony in Jerusalem collection
American Colony in Jerusalem collection. Library of Congress, Manuscript Division + Prints and Photographs Division.
publicdomainreview.org - Curated public-domain collection of ca.1896-1919 Palest
Library of Congress — American Colony / Matson Photo Service Collection
American Colony (Jerusalem), Photo Department / Matson Photo Service photograph collection, Prints & Photographs Division, Library of Congress (LC-DIG-matpc).
Harvard HOLLIS Images — Mahane Yehuda photo holdings (PD)
Harvard Library, HOLLIS Images (Visual Information Access)
Harvard HOLLIS Images — Mahaneh/Mahane Yehuda photo corpus (incl. Israel Sun fond)
Harvard Library, HOLLIS Images (Widener/Judaica Division holdings)
Imperial War Museum (UK) — Palestine campaign / Mandate-era photographs, film, documents
Imperial War Museum collections (Q-series and WW2 Palestine series), London.
Australian War Memorial — Light Horse Palestine 1917-18 photographs and diaries
Australian War Memorial collection, Canberra (photograph and diary series).
British Mandate Jerusalemites (BMJ) Photo Library
British Mandate Jerusalemites Photo Library (Facebook community photo archive).
Yad Ben-Zvi — Halevy-Buenos / Beit Aharon TT (1930-1940)
Yad Ben-Zvi Israel Album: ybz.0029.011 — Halevy-Buenos / Beit Aharon Talmud Torah on Valero land.
Yad Ben-Zvi — Banai family photos (Agas St 1935-1948)
Yad Ben-Zvi Israel Album: YBZ.0026.001 — Banai family.
Yad Ben-Zvi — Kohe family (Gordonchik grocery 1940s)
Yad Ben-Zvi Israel Album: 9700.0002.000 — Kohe family.
Yad Ben-Zvi — Batat-Amir family (Menashe Batat meat shop 1942+)
Yad Ben-Zvi Israel Album: 9998.0707.001 — Batat-Amir family.
NLI photo — Orion Cinema, Jerusalem (dated c.1949-50 from its film hoardings)
Photograph, Orion Cinema, Jerusalem, National Library of Israel, sys. no. 997008136563605171
Beit HaModel IL-JMoCo-001-032 (table 17C) — Map: Lev HaIr (Yafo / Ben Yehuda / HaNeviim)
Beit HaModel, table 17C measurement map, IL-JMoCo-001-032, [1970-1990].
Beit HaModel IL-JMoCo-001-094 (table 16B) — Measurement Map of Zikhron Moshe + MY + Lev HaIr
Beit HaModel (House of the Model), Jerusalem Municipality. "מפת מדידה — מפה של השכונות זכרון משה, מחנה יהודה (לב העיר) ומרכז העיר" [Measurement map of Zikhron Moshe, Mahane Yehuda, and city center, with photo-position annotations]. [c. 1970-1990]. Container 3, Folder 111241; archive ID IL-JMoCo-001-094, item 16B. Available via NLI record NNL_MAPS_JER997012195399705171 (IIIF).
Beit HaModel IL-JMoCo-002-067 (batch 17A-A) — 35 photos: Hakham Shalom + Nissim Bachar + Yarmukh
Beit HaModel, photo batch 17A-A, IL-JMoCo-002-067, [1970-1990]. 35 photos.
Beit HaModel IL-JMoCo-002-068 (batch 17A-B) — 35 photos: Agripas + Nahla'ot + 3 named synagogues
Beit HaModel, photo batch 17A-B, IL-JMoCo-002-068, [1970-1990]. 35 photos.
Beit HaModel IL-JMoCo-002-079 (batch 17A aerials) — 13 aerial photos: Nahla'ot+center+Rehavia+Talbia+Mamilla+Kiryat HaLeom
Beit HaModel, photo batch 17A aerials, IL-JMoCo-002-079, [1970-1990]. 13 aerial photos.
Beit HaModel IL-JMoCo-002-457 (batch 16B-L) — paired with existing registry map 16B (Zikhron Moshe + MY)
Beit HaModel, photo batch 16B-L, IL-JMoCo-002-457, [1970-1990]. 16 photos.
Beit HaModel master collection (IL-JMoCo) — 127 maps + ~20K photos of Jerusalem 1970-2010
Beit HaModel collection (Jerusalem Municipality / IL-JMoCo). Model creators: Dick & Ethel Harvey, [1970-2010]. Digitised by Bezalel et al. 2021-2022. Available via NLI.
Beit HaModel IL-JMoCo-001-042 (table 16A) — Map: MY core (Beit Yaakov / HaDekel / HaEshkol / HaShakma / Agripas / Valero)
Beit HaModel, table 16A measurement map, IL-JMoCo-001-042, [1990-2010].
Beit HaModel IL-JMoCo-001-101 (table 14A) — Map: Mekor Baruch + Romema + Tel Arza + Ezrat Torah
Beit HaModel, table 14A measurement map, IL-JMoCo-001-101, [1990-2010].
Beit HaModel IL-JMoCo-002-002 (batch 18A-B) — 23 photos: Nahla'ot + Gerard Behar + Ussishkin
Beit HaModel, photo batch 18A-B, IL-JMoCo-002-002, [1990-2010]. 23 photos.
Beit HaModel IL-JMoCo-001-083 (table 13Y) — Map: Hassidic Quarters + Romema (Beit Yaakov-Matarsdorf, 4 synagogues)
Beit HaModel, table 13Y measurement map, IL-JMoCo-001-083, 2005-2012.
Kroyanker — Jerusalem Design (Multicultural Design Identities)
Kroyanker, David. Jerusalem Design: God is in the Details — Multicultural Design Identities. 4 vols. Private edition (50 copies), 2016; abridged Hebrew ed., Keter, 2017. Online: jerudesign.org
CZA — Yosef Meyuhas photo collection (newsletter Issue 16, 2019)
Central Zionist Archives, Yosef Meyuhas photograph collection — exact call-number TBD.
Collection of Colour Photographs of Jerusalem
Diarna.org — geo-located Jewish heritage archive
Diarna.org geo-located Jewish heritage archive.
getarchive.net - PICRYL public-domain image aggregator; surfaced an on-t
Jerusalem Municipal photo archive
Jerusalem Municipal photo archive.
lifeintheholyland.com - Curated guide to the American Colony / Matson (G. Eric
picryl.com - Aggregated public-domain Matson/American Colony Palesti
Yad Ben-Zvi (general beyond 5 catalog entries)
Yad Ben-Zvi general — Israel Album catalog sweep.
Yad Ben-Zvi — Banai family (second collection)
Yad Ben-Zvi Israel Album: YBZ.0026.002 — Banai family (second).
Part VI
Maps
Maps16
↑ How the sheets are acquired, georeferenced and attributed
PEF map of Palestine (NLI, 1917–18 ed. state)
Jerusalem Town Planning Scheme (McLean, 1918) — NLI
McLean, William H. City of Jerusalem Town Planning Scheme: General Plan for the Restoration & Preservation of the Ancient City, the Improvement of the Modern City & the Lines of Development of the Future City. 1918. Public-domain scan, BnF/Gallica via Wikimedia Commons.
Geddes 1919 — Jerusalem Town Planning Scheme No. 2
Geddes, Patrick. Jerusalem Town Planning Scheme No. 2. 1919. Pro-Jerusalem Society. Public-domain scan via Wikimedia Commons.
Ashbee 1922 — Jerusalem Zoning System (Town Planning Scheme)
Ashbee, C. R. Jerusalem Zoning System (Town Planning Scheme). 1922. Pro-Jerusalem Society. Public-domain scan via Wikimedia Commons.
Holliday 1930 — Jerusalem TPS Skeleton Zoning Map (Approved Plan)
Holliday, Clifford. Jerusalem Town Planning Scheme: Skeleton Zoning Map, scale 1:10,000 (Approved Plan). 1930. Central Town Planning Commission, Jerusalem. Public-domain scan via Wikimedia Commons / Jerusalem Municipality archive.
Survey of Palestine Jerusalem 1:20,000 (sheet 17-13, rev. April 1945) — regional context, via Palestine Open Maps
Survey of Palestine. Jerusalem, Sheet 17-13. 1:20,000. Compiled from the 1:10,000 Topocadastral Survey (1935) and Large-Scale Town Surveys (1936); Mandate revision 1939; principal roads and detail revised to April 1945. Public domain (UK Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988). Accessed via Palestine Open Maps (palopenmaps.org).
Survey of Palestine Jerusalem 1:1,250 (sheet 170-130 9.A, 1947) — MY core, parcel-numbered
Survey of Palestine. Jerusalem, Sheet 170-130 (9.A). 1:1,250. Surveyed 1936, revised 1939, printed 1947. Eran Laor Cartographic Collection, National Library of Israel (Mapn 96), record NNL_ALEPH997012833466505171. Public domain ("Any Use Permitted").
Survey of Palestine Jerusalem 1:1,250 sheet 165-130.12.B — west neighbour, Zikhron Yosef/Anim (parcel-precise)
Survey of Palestine. Jerusalem, Sheet 165-130.12.B. 1:1,250. Surveyed 1936, revised 1939, published 1937. National Library of Israel, Eran Laor Cartographic Collection. Public domain.
Survey of Palestine Jerusalem 1:1,250 sheet 170-130.5.D — north, Mea She'arim/Geula/Beit Yisrael (parcel-precise)
Survey of Palestine. Jerusalem, Sheet 170-130.5.D. 1:1,250. Surveyed 1936, published 1938. National Library of Israel, Eran Laor Cartographic Collection. Public domain.
Survey of Palestine Jerusalem 1:1,250 sheet 170-130.9.C — block-9 neighbour (west edge of MY core 9.A)
Survey of Palestine. Jerusalem, Sheet 170-130.9.C. 1:1,250. Published 1937. National Library of Israel, Eran Laor Cartographic Collection. Public domain.
Survey of Palestine Jerusalem 1:1,250 sheet 170-130.9.D — block-9 neighbour of MY core 9.A
Survey of Palestine. Jerusalem, Sheet 170-130.9.D. 1:1,250. Published 1937. National Library of Israel, Eran Laor Cartographic Collection. Public domain.
Survey of Palestine Jerusalem 1:1,250 sheet 170-130.9.B — block-9 neighbour (north edge of MY core 9.A)
Survey of Palestine. Jerusalem, Sheet 170-130.9.B. 1:1,250. Published 1938. National Library of Israel, Eran Laor Cartographic Collection. Public domain.
CZA KL20M\1965 — proposed layout plan for the MY market (retail zone, truck parking, Agripas St)
Central Zionist Archives, KL20M\1965 (map/plan).
CZA J17\3435-1m — Or HaChaim (Persian-Jewry) Talmud Torah lot + the new municipal MY market on Agripas
Central Zionist Archives, J17\3435-1m (map/plan).
CZA S21\324 + S21\327 — light-industry halls redevelopment design dossier on the MY municipal-market lot (7 plans)
Central Zionist Archives, S21\327-1m and S21\324\1-1m/-2m/-3m/-4m/-7m (map/plan cluster).
Eran Laor Cartographic Collection (NLI) — historic Holy Land/Jerusalem maps
NLI, Eran Laor Cartographic Collection.
Part VII
Working apparatus
Internal working material — indexes, reading lists and legacy aggregates. Kept for provenance; most are pointers to sources rather than sources themselves.
Bibliographic indexes & meta-resources75
libguides.gwu.edu - Curated finding-aid linking Holy Land maps 1590-1850, P
AID — The 1939 Palestine Guide
IGRA AID database: The 1939 Palestine Guide.
AID — Telephone Directory Of Palestine July 1941
IGRA AID database: Telephone Directory Of Palestine July 1941.
AID — Civil Servants 1926 1947
IGRA AID database: Civil Servants 1926 1947.
Gallica (BnF) — Ottoman/Mandate Palestine periodicals, consular reports, photographs
Gallica, Bibliothèque nationale de France.
AID — Telephone Directory 1963
IGRA AID database: Telephone Directory 1963.
IA nybc208072 — Almanac of Yiddish Writers from Jerusalem (1973)
Almanakh Yidishe shrayber fun Yerushelayim (1973).
Goldschmidt-Lehmann — Quarters of New Jerusalem bibliography (Cathedra 15)
Goldschmidt-Lehmann, R.P. (1980). The Quarters of New Jerusalem, 1860-1980: A Selected Bibliography. Cathedra 15, 205-240.
IGRA AID — All-Israel Database (parent registry)
Israel Genealogical Research Association, All-Israel Database (AID).
Ordinary Jerusalem 1840-1940 — FULL OA book (Brill 2018, 26 chapters)
Dalachanis, Angelos, and Vincent Lemire, eds. Ordinary Jerusalem, 1840-1940: Opening New Archives, Revisiting a Global City. Open Jerusalem 1. Leiden: Brill, 2018. (Open access, CC-BY-NC-SA.) doi:10.1163/9789004375741
Klein BIU syllabus 71-6910 — Jerusalem until 1948 (2019)
Menachem Klein, Jerusalem until 1948 (BIU seminar 71-6910 syllabus, 2019)
CZA Blog Scout Inventory 2026-04-30 (~140 essays surveyed; 14 HIGH + 11 MED for MY)
Internal scout, "CZA Blog Scout — Mahane Yehuda Research Archive," 2026-04-30.
CZA Newsletters "מעת לעט" (Issues 5-114, Dec 2017 - Apr 2026)
Central Zionist Archives, "מעת לעט" monthly newsletter, Issues 5-114, December 2017 - April 2026.
HathiTrust Digital Library — bibliographic API + full-text search
HathiTrust Digital Library.
Internet Archive — Scholar fulltext index + Books advanced search
Internet Archive (scholar.archive.org fulltext index; archive.org books).
kroyanker.co.il — official publications + conservation index
RAMBI — NLI Index of Articles on Jewish Studies
RAMBI — NLI Index of Articles on Jewish Studies.
Trove (National Library of Australia) — aggregated newspapers, books, images, maps
Trove, National Library of Australia.
VIAF — Virtual International Authority File
Virtual International Authority File (VIAF). OCLC.
Wikidata Q-identifiers
Wikidata.
academia.edu - Genuine academic repository hosting author-deposited co
accordancebible.com - Introductory finding-aid/essay to the American Colony (
AID — Lawyers State Of Israel
IGRA AID database: Lawyers State Of Israel.
AID — Medical Practitioners
IGRA AID database: Medical Practitioners.
apps.dtic.mil - DTIC-hosted full-text monograph surveying the British M
archives.jdc.org - JDC Archives Yishuv/Israel resource guide: detailed fin
avalon.law.yale.edu - Yale Avalon Project authoritative full text of the Pale
books.google.fr - Google Books for Cohen-Hattab & Shoval, 'Tourism, Relig
cambridge.org - Cambridge Core is Cambridge University Press's peer-rev
cjh.org - Center for Jewish History Israel Research Guide PDF — a
cordis.europa.eu - EU CORDIS reporting page for the Opening Jerusalem Arch
doi.org - Encyclopaedia of Islam THREE article 'Jerusalem since 1
ehri-project.eu - EHRI portal institution record for the Jerusalem City A
emerald.com - Genuine peer-reviewed Emerald case report on Mahane Yeh
en.wikipedia.org - English Wikipedia — a genuine, live tertiary reference,
familysearch.org - FamilySearch wiki page on Israel vital records — practi
fishburnbooks.com - Antiquarian-bookseller Zionist/Palestine catalogue (PDF
gaza.ub.rub.de - Ruhr-Univ Bochum digital-methods historical DB of a lat
Genealogy Indexer (genealogyindexer.org)
Genealogy Indexer, genealogyindexer.org (free index of historical directories, yizkor books, etc.).
groups.jewishgen.org - Login-walled JewishGen forum thread (scrape blocked) bu
guides.lib.uw.edu - University of Washington Sephardic Studies primary-sour
guides.libraries.indiana.edu - University library research guide curating Jewish-studi
guides.library.ucla.edu - UCLA Jewish Studies subject guide for Sephardic/Mizrahi
hal.science - hal.science is France's legitimate open-access scholarl
HAZINE — guide to Middle East / Ottoman archives & collections
HAZINE — A Guide to Researching the Middle East.
histecon.magd.cam.ac.uk - Cambridge Centre for History & Economics finding aid by
hollanderbooks.com - Antiquarian bookseller stocking the core MY monograph '
IA yehudehamizrabee21gaon — Gaon biographical reference
Gaon, M.D. Yehude ha-Mizraḥ be-Erets Yiśra'el. (Sephardi/Mizrahi biographical reference.)
israelpalestineguide.wordpress.com - Tom Powers' detailed essay/finding-aid on the American
Jewish Archives — Israel/Palestine archive directory
Jewish Archives directory, Israel/Palestine.
jewishgen.org - JewishGen Sephardic Database — searchable genealogical
jewishhistory.huji.ac.il - FALSE NEGATIVE: Hebrew University Jewish History dept's
journals.sagepub.com - Legitimate Sage academic-publishing platform; the scrap
judaica.kobv.de - KOBV Judaica-Portal union catalog (GET-searchable) fede
libguides.cjh.org - Center for Jewish History curated Sephardic/Mizrahi gen
lisa.biu.ac.il - Full publication list of Kobi Cohen-Hattab — the leadin
mideast.haifa.ac.il - University of Haifa faculty page for Ben-Bassat; canoni
NLI blog — Jerusalem Jewish neighborhoods (Walter Preuss / Yad Ben-Zvi photos)
NLI blog, Jerusalem Jewish-neighborhoods posts.
NLI — List of Archives in Israel (national archive survey/seker)
NLI, List of Archives in Israel.
northwestern.edu - CV of Roberto Mazza (Jerusalem WWI/Mandate historian, J
openjerusalem.org - Open Jerusalem is a genuine ERC-funded scholarly portal
orcid.org - ORCID publication list for Yuval Ben-Bassat (Ottoman Pa
PalQuest — Palestinian Journeys / interactive history portal
PalQuest — Palestinian Journeys portal.
pluto.huji.ac.il - Yaron Ben-Naeh (HUJI) publication list with downloadabl
primarysources.brillonline.com - Brill curated corpus of 89 Mandate primary-source title
referenceworks.brill.com - Brill EJIW encyclopedia entry on the Valero family by R
ruhr-uni-bochum.de - Faculty page of Johann Büssow, author of 'Hamidian Pale
sephardicgenealogy.com - Sephardic Genealogy guide to Sephardim-in-Israel resear
tandfonline.com - Genuine, top-tier scholarly resource: Taylor & Francis
tau.ac.il - Tel Aviv University Law Faculty bibliography 'Law in Pa
Uni-Tübingen publications — Ben-Bassat & Büssow Ottoman Jerusalem
Uni-Tübingen OA repository.
wzo.org.il - Central Zionist Archives portal — primary institutional
yadvashem.org - Dismissed URL is just a memorial-architecture blurb (Va
ybz.org.il - Yad Izhak Ben-Zvi Institute — the premier publisher/res
zmo.de - ZMO workshop program on 19th-c. urban governance in Bil
Derived / mixed sources (legacy)23
Beit Yaakov quarter regulations 1875
Takkanot Yerushalayim ha-Chadasha, 3: Beit Yaakov [תרל״ה/1875]. Repr. in Luach Yerushalayim XI (1951), pp. 257-263.
Nahalat Beit Yaakov plot-lottery deed 1879
Shtar Hachlata al-pi ha-Goral... yom alef טו"ב Sivan 5639 [1879], be-veit ha-midrash be-Nachalat Beit Yaakov. Jerusalem, 1879. [single leaf].
Shaarei Shalom building-society bylaws 1892 (within Mahane Yehuda)
Sha'arei Shalom: Chevra le-Vinyan 26 Batim... be-toch chevrat 'Mahane Yehuda'. Jerusalem: Zuckerman, 1892 [תרנ״ב]. 12 pp. Hebrew and French. [Repr. in Kluger, Yerushalayim Shchunot Saviv La, pp. 64-65.]
1939 census processing (Ben-Arieh derivation)
Kotar scholarly attestations (folded across 14 books)
Aggregate of 14 Kotar books extracted 2026-04-22.
MHY enterprises proposed (1948 anonymous)
Internal: MHY enterprises proposed from Mishmar HaAm 1948 corpus.
Mendele 2003 — Gza'im Halulim (fiction set in Zikhron Moshe / Nahla'ot)
(2003). גזעים חלולים. Mendele/Mira (מנדלי / מירה).
Orion 2015 — Grandma's Cocoa Tree (children's walk through MY)
(2015). עץ הקקאו של סבתא. Orion (אוריון).
Orion 2016 — Castles & Sailing Ships (50s Jerusalem children's gang stories)
(2016). טירות וספינות מפרש. Orion (אוריון). Oct 2016.
Yedioth 2023 — In Jerusalem They Used to Say (sayings/expressions compendium)
(2023). בירושלים היו אומרים. Yedioth Sefarim. Mar 2023.
Contact — Dr. Neta Dan (Hebrew Language Academy) — David Yellin "הר ציון" researcher
Dr. Neta Dan, Academy of the Hebrew Language — researcher cited in CZA newsletter Issues 71/83 (2022-2023) re: David Yellin "Har Tzion" newspaper.
Master Research Summary (project-internal lodestar)
Master Research Summary, Mahane Yehuda Living Archive (internal).
OpenStreetMap Overpass API — current features for parcel-spine sanity checks
OpenStreetMap (ODbL), via the Overpass API.
Arab family surname sweep (cross-source)
Internal Arab family surname sweep across project sources.
General archival sweep (mixed)
General archive (unspecified residual)
Residual general-archive rows without recoverable specific provenance.
Jaffa Road street sweep
Internal Jaffa Road street-level sweep.
Local archival OCR (unspecified subset, residual)
Residual local OCR rows whose specific provenance is not recoverable.
Local archival OCR corpus (mixed)
Local OCR'd archival corpus.
Local research corpus (mixed)
Newspaper sweep (mixed)
Street-scoped NLI sweep
Internal street-scoped NLI sweep.
Wikidata SPARQL endpoint — cross-reference graph for MY persons/places
Wikidata (CC0), via the Wikidata Query Service SPARQL endpoint.