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This paper aims to provide an historical perspective on the development of higher education's 'third mission' of social engagement. I explore how practices and structures of 'social engagement' emerged in the Israeli higher education field in the 1970s and early 1980s. Drawing on archival research in three universities' historical archives, and on the theoretical lens of neo-institutional theory, I explore the origins and emergence of social engagement as a proto-institution, that is, an institution in the making. My analysis suggests that the current dominant model of engagement in the Israeli field, based on one-on-one tutoring for scholarships, has come to marginalize other initiatives that were based on principles of social action. I show how the emergence of a new proto-institution in an established field is shaped by processes of institutional work, through which actors create, maintain and disrupt institutions.

This research investigates how the interventions of records' creators and archivists have shaped the Six Day War Files Collection to sustain Israel's own narrative of the War. Using a theoretical framework of settler colonialism, epistemic delinking, and symbolic annihilation, this narrative is deconstructed to showcase how it has served to further Israeli colonialism at the expense of Palestinians being marginalized as a people and Palestine being erased as an autonomous state. In constructing this narrative, Palestinians were excluded from the telling of the Six Day War, and in instances where they could not be erased, they were misrepresented or maligned. By delinking the records from their colonial context and unsettling this narrative, Palestinians' experience of coloniality can be reinstated where it was excluded. This paper offers a novel perspective to the current archival scholarship regarding Palestine, revealing how symbolic annihilation in the archive extends and is an extension of systemic annihilation. Moreover, it challenges traditional archival practices which have historically paved the way for acts of imperialism to occur unquestioned.

The Inscriptions of Israel/Palestine project is an online corpus of over four thousand inscriptions from Israel and Palestine, written in Hebrew, Greek, Latin, and Aramaic, dating roughly from the Persian Period to the Arab Conquest. The source files with inscription text and metadata are encoded using EpiDoc, a TEI customization widely used by epigraphers. As the project prepared to deposit its XML files in an institutional repository, it transformed them into a locally developed robust archival format. This paper evaluates these decisions against the FAIR metrics, using IIP as a test case. This allows us to suggest improvements for our own archival encoding as well as to see where EpiDoc and TEI enhance FAIRness and where they could provide more support. Finally, we suggest some ways to use FAIR metrics that are more amenable to TEI documents and corpora. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

What should a powerful patron do when a weaker protégé plans to launch a counter-proliferation strike against the nuclear facilities of a target country? This paper identifies three possible strategies available to the patron when handling a 'trigger happy' protégé. These strategies range from lending 'tacit support' to the protégé' on the one end, to 'intervention by exposure', on the other end, where the raid is effectively sabotaged. Occupying the middle ground is a strategy termed 'status quo adherence', in which the patron attempts to warn the protégé against launching the raid, while simultaneously bidding to mitigate the protégé's concerns by other diplomatic measures. By accessing previously untapped documents from several archives, the study uses the Carter administration's approach to Israel's growing agitation with the Iraqi nuclear programme to explore the strategy of 'status quo adherence' and its lessons. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Focuses on archive resources of Zionism and Israel. History of Zionism; Most important collection of printed material about Jews and Israel; Collection of the oral history of Zionism at the Institute of Contemporary Jewry of the Hebrew University.

In 1949, the political context of the People's Republic of Romania and of the newly founded Israeli state formally provided a framework for the immigration of Romanian Jews to Israel, upon the opening of the Israeli Legation in Bucharest in 1948. Our paper proposes an analysis of the Aliyah in 1949 as portrayed in migration requests addressed by members of the Jewish community all over Romania to the Israeli Legation in Bucharest. The requests, never published before, have been hosted since 1997 by the Center for Research on Romanian Jewry within the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. First, we address the history of the fonds, the hypotheses of historians on the submission of the requests, the shape of the material and characteristics of the documents. Second, our in-depth textual analysis allows a refined understanding of writing patterns, engagements, and reasons for requesting migration. Overall, our study contributes to the understanding of archives as "vehicles of memory" (Confino 2011) and of individual and group responses to historical transformations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Euro-Arab Dialogue (EAD) was launched in the aftermath the Arab Israeli Yom Kippur War of 1973 by Nine European countries and the Arabs. The main objective was to create a stable, long-term relationship between the two regions. Despite its political intent, the framework of the Dialogue was restricted to multilateral economic co-operation in selected areas for reciprocal benefits. Due to inevitable obstacles, after almost five years of engagements, the Dialogue seemed to be progressing slowly with the development of only a few practical projects. Nevertheless, the British remained committed to the initiative, which they viewed as supplementary to their successful existing bilateral relationships, as well as an inexpensive but effective way to maintain their political and economic interests in the Arab world. Through historical analysis, this paper examines the British attitude and perspective towards the Dialogue from 1973 to 1978, mainly using archival documents available at the National Archive in England. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

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This article examines the diplomatic relations between Czechoslovakia and the Zionist movement during the late 1940s in regard to Czechoslovakia's contribution to the establishment of the State of Israel in May 1948. The support provided by Czechoslovakia, both diplomatically and militarily, played a pivotal role in the formation of an independent Jewish state. Notably, this assistance continued even after Czechoslovakia underwent a political regime change following the communist coup d'état in February 1948. The article aims to unravel the reasons behind this exceptional cooperation between two seemingly distant actors, both geographically and ideologically. Drawing upon recently disclosed archival collections from the relevant Czech archives and providing the insight to the foreign policy of a Soviet satellite, this research aligns with the historiographic paradigm known as the New Cold War History. By focusing on the contributions of satellite states to Cold War history, it sheds light on Czechoslovakia's significant role in shaping the geopolitical landscape of the Middle East in late 1940s. Even though it might have been a somewhat marginalized story in the later decades of the Cold War due to the affiliation of the two countries with opposite ideological blocs, the history of Czechoslovakia's contribution to the creation of the State of Israel is now recognized as one of the significant narratives in the mutual relations between the two states, demonstrating the importance of past-present linkages. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Amidst an escalating assault from the populist right, including a prominent settler faction, on the core tenets of Israeli liberalism and the judiciary, a broader agenda emerges. While the primary objective of this attack is to establish Jewish supremacy across the nation, it is evident that a secondary goal involves the imposition of a conservative, right-wing ideology concerning sexuality and gender within the public sphere. In tandem, legislative maneuvers by the government and a surge in daily acts of violence converge to undermine the hard-won gains of feminism and the LGBTQ+ community in Israel. In the past decade, Israel has aligned itself with the global trend of community-driven queer archiving, resulting in the emergence of such archives in cities like Haifa, Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, and Be'er Sheva. This essay explores the imperative faced by community queer archives in response to the prevailing political context, operating under the assumption that the onslaught against the LGBTQ+ community will only intensify. To achieve this understanding, the author delves into history, examining the phenomenon of homosexual cruising sites, particularly in Haifa, during the latter half of the 20th century. These sites not only exposed men to the specter of homophobic violence but also to police persecution, exemplified by the creation of "pink lists"—police-maintained databases documenting information about the gay community in the 1990s. This essay interprets the pink lists as instruments of police control. It illustrates how their underlying organizational principles can be adapted to guide the operation of a queer community archive within a hostile, anti-LGBTQ+ regime Ultimately, the essay offers a blueprint outlining the operational framework for queer archives, a structure that could potentially find utility beyond its immediate context. These principles might be extended to other community-driven archives handling sensitive information and standing in opposition to repressive regimes—from women's archives to civil society-operated repositories and archives engaged in antioccupation advocacy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article questions why the Central Zionist Archives (hereafter CZA), the institutional archive that served the two main pre-State infrastructures, the Zionist Organization and the Jewish Agency, was not reorganized by the first government headed by David Ben-Gurion as the national archives of the State in 1948. In seeking an answer, we analyze the historical and theoretical components of archives overall, and particularly those of national and state archives in 19th and early 20th century Europe. We then consider examples of these with respect to the discourse surrounding the CZA in 1948 and the government resolution in 1949 to establish the Israel State Archives, notwithstanding the centrality and importance of the CZA. The reason we ultimately find for the marginalization of the CZA and the establishment of the Israel State Archives as a bureaucratic institution is Ben-Gurion's concept of Mamlachtiuyt ("Statism") in the governance of the nascent State of Israel. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Legal and regulatory edicts that apply to archives focus on the value of the archival matter. The case study at the heart of this study discusses the rules pertaining to archives under Israeli law and analyzes them through a novel theoretical perspective that sees public depositories of information as media that partake in the creation and sustenance of society's memory. This study broadens the discussion on archives in relation to memory by focusing on the elements of archive laws developed in Israel. Analyzing the policies behind the operation of archives we highlight the legal requirements for both public and private archives, the criteria by which "archival matter" is defined, the balances created between the right for freedom of information and other rights such as privacy, the rules regarding the elimination of archival material, and the obligations on choosing which records to keep, and we wonder how these legal requirements influence memory processes. Utilizing this memory-driven analysis, the study uncovers the mechanisms by which laws and regulations influence "social memory." By bringing the discussion regarding the worlds of regulation and memory under the roof of archive regulation, we offer a novel understanding of memory processes, the power of regulation within these processes and the role of archives in it. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This Special Document File examines the closure of documents on the Nakba in the Israeli archives and argues that this closure must be juxtaposed with recent intensified U.S. and Israeli attempts to depoliticize the Palestine question and to delegitimize the Palestinian narrative in general, and that of 1948 in particular. The documents are important because they expose the systematic nature of the 1948 ethnic cleansing of Palestine, both in planning and execution. Many of these documents have been copied and scanned by scholars over the years, but they are now no longer accessible to the public or to researchers. Collating, digitizing, and archiving these documents is the best response to the attempt to cover up the crimes against the Palestinian people in 1948. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Although the fourth volume of Shabtai Teveth's biography of David Ben-Gurion presents a comprehensive and detailed description of his activities in the years 1942-46, it has omitted a fascinating aspect, which this article wishes to address: the contacts between Ben-Gurion and Soviet officials on the efforts to establish a Jewish state in Palestine. On the basis of documents in the Soviet and Israeli archives, the article challenges conventional explanations for Soviet support in 1947 for the partition of Palestine and subsequent recognition of the young state of Israel. It argues that the Soviets were less interested in imperialistic designs on the Middle East than in preventing the return of Jews to the USSR and its satellites after the war. Ben-Gurion knew as much but, for a variety of political considerations, kept silent. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The introduction of computers, beginning in the late 1960s, for use in the description of textual archival materials has posed new challenges for archivists in general, and Israeli archivists in particular. Today, Israeli archives face several issues: acceptance of international standards and their adaptation to the conditions and needs of Israeli archival data bases; creation of tools for information retrieval, particularly a comprehensive thesaurus to be used by all archival institutions or a basic thesaurus which can be developed in accordance with the needs of individual archives. The article discusses the standardization that has begun in archival description outside of Israel, and various proposed solutions for information retrieval from meta-data or the content of the documents by means of thesaurus-based indexing. Two unique projects, representing different outlooks, are described: the thesaurus of the National Insurance Institute of Israel, partially based upon that of the Henrietta Szold Institute, and that of the archives of Religious Zionism at Bar-Ilan University, created ex nihilo on the basis of the meta-data and the documentation itself. In addition, a comparison is conducted of elements of ISAD(G) adopted by the Israel State Archives and the Archives of Religious Zionism. The article concludes with a proposal for the creation of an archival description and information retrieval system based on ISAD(G) and ISAAR(CPF), and a general thesaurus suitable for all Israeli archives. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]