About 100 letters, documents and paper items, mostly printed, that belonged to the "Council (Waad Hair) of the Ashkenasic Jewish Community, Jerusalem". Jerusalem, New York, Geneva and elsewhere, early 1920s to early 1950s. English, some German and some Hebrew.
The "Council of the Ashkenasic Jewish Community, Jerusalem" (today the Orthodox Council of Jerusalem) was founded in the early 1920s on the initiative of Rabbi Yosef Hayim Sonenfeld, in light of the community's opposition to the Zionist institutions and the appointment of Rabbi Kook as Jerusalem's chief rabbi. While it was active, the Council followed a policy of radical separatism and sought to achieve the recognition of the British Mandate authorities and international bodies. The present collection includes documentation of the council's activities during its first decades. Items include:
* Memorandum, submitted to His Majesty's secretary of state for the colonies, when on a visit in Palestine on April 24th, 1925 - memorandum typewritten on official stationery, addressed to the English Minister of the Colonies Leo Amery with a request not to subject the Haredi Community to the authority of the Zionist organizations.
* Copy of a letter, typewritten, addressed to Arthur James Balfour with a request to act for the rights of the Haredi community and separate it from the Zionist institutions.
* Copy of a letter from April 29, 1928, addressed to the League of Nations, with a request to assist the community in achieving recognition as a separate entity.
* Statement By The Orthodox Community, Presented To The Anglo American Committee of Enquiry For Palestine, Jerusalem, 1946. Booklet on behalf of the Orthodox Council of Jerusalem, presented to the Anglo-American Committee of Enquiry for Palestine, containing a report on the condition of the Jews, opposition to the establishment of a secular Jewish state, recommendations for limiting immigration and other matters.
* Numerous letters sent to the Council (many from Jewish communities in the U.S.), items concerning donations to "Kupat Ha-Rabbanim", the issue of divorce documents, the will of Sima Balilius and other matters.
Size and condition vary. Good-fair overall condition. Creases, stains, tears and open tears (mostly small, to margins). Folding marks and filing holes to some of the items.

38 ephemera items - printed tickets, invitations and entrance tickets to public and private events. Tel-Aviv and Jerusalem, ca. 1919 through 1953.
Among the items: * Invitation to a convention of rabbis, on behalf of the "Rabbinic office for Adat Israel" in Jerusalem, [1919]. * Delegate ticket to a council of delegates for founding a branch of "Union of construction and public works workers in Jaffa-Tel-Aviv", 1922. * Invitation to a "Convention of Printers", 1928. * Invitation to the cornerstone laying ceremony for a "New settlement point" - "Kfar Aharon" (near Nes Ziona), 1926. * Guest ticket for the second session of the second Assembly of Representatives of Jews in Palestine, 1929. * Invitation to the third national convention of "Hapoel", 1931. * Invitation to the opening of the meeting of Betar commander, 1942. * Invitation to the national convention of "Day of the Fighting Woman", on behalf of the Association of Jewish Women's Organizations, 1943. * Entrance tickets to sessions of the first Knesset. * Entrance ticket to the ceremony of the President's Declaration (1953). * More items.
Size and condition vary. Fair-good condition. Some items were used - tears, wear and stains. Torn or lacking pieces. Filing holes to most items.

Eleven telegrams and paper items documenting the activity of the Palestine-Arab Delegation to London. London, 1921-1922. English and Arabic.
In 1919, after World War I and following the British occupation of Palestine, some groups of Muslims and Christians in Palestine united and organized the Palestine Arab Congress. During the years 1920-1928 the congress convened six times, focusing on opposition to the Zionist Movement and demanding the renunciation of the Balfour declaration. In 1921, during the third congress, the politician Musa Kazim Pasha al-Husseini was elected to head The Palestine Arab Delegation to London. This was the first of several delegations that were sent to London during the years 1921-1930. While in England, members of the delegation tried to draw attention to the Arab-Palestinian issue and met with many leaders and politicians (including the Pope, representatives of the League of Nations, secretary of state for colonies Winston Churchill, and others). In 1922 the delegation returned to Palestine as a protest against the approval of the text of the Mandate of Palestine. The delegation did not achieve any significant results but succeeded in gaining support from British Parliament members, mainly from the conservative party.
The present collection includes:
* Eight telegrams (printed on paper strips and glued onto the telegram form), sent to delegation members in November 1921. Most contain reports on strikes, demonstrations and protests occurring on the anniversary of the Balfour Declaration, in various cities throughout Palestine and in Cairo. English.
* Copy of a long letter dated 24 October 1921, typewritten and stenciled (the first page typewritten on the delegation's official stationery), addressed to the British Prime Minister David Lloyd George. The letter expresses sharp opposition to the Balfour Declaration, calls for the restriction of Jewish immigration and proposes guidelines for solving the Palestine problem in the spirit of the Arab approach. English.
* Two summaries of the delegation's activities in April and May 1922. Handwritten and stenciled, on official stationery. Among other things, the summaries mention a meeting with the foreign ministers of the Allied Powers in Paris, participation in an economic convention in Genoa (Italy), meetings with leftist politicians in England, a meeting with the High Commissioner Herbert Samuel, and other issues. Arabic.
Enclosed: fourteen paper items that belonged to delegation member Ibrahim Shammas (al-Shammas), including receipts, letters, purchase certificates, items connected with his activities in the Freemason organization, and more.
See enclosed material.
Size and condition vary. Fair overall condition. Some of the telegrams are in fair-poor condition, with stains, creases, tears and open tears (mostly to margins).

Twenty five drawings and prints by Grete Wolf-Krakauer, created during sessions of UNSCOP. [Palestine, 1947].
UNSCOP [United Nations Special Committee on Palestine] was created in 1947 to investigate the question of Palestine, and it included representatives from eleven nations from around the world. During its operations the committee gathered information in Palestine, in Arab countries and even in Displaced Persons Camps in Europe, and finally, in August 1947, it recommended a partition of Mandatory Palestine at the end of the British Mandate. Since photography during sessions was not allowed, the artist Grete Wolf-Krakauer was commissioned to draw the participants.
This collection includes:
1-9. Nine pencil drawings on paper. Portraits of the committee members, among them: Emil Sandström (representative of Sweden and chairman of the committee), John Hood (Australian representative), Moshe Sharett (representative of the Jewish Agency) as well as representatives from Iran, India, Holland and more. On two of the drawings appear, most probably, autographs of the objects of the drawings.
10-19. Ten drawings in ink on tracing paper (drawn after the pencil drawings). Signed: G. K. W.
19-25. Six trial prints of the drawings.
Enclosed: Issue of the newspaper "Mitteilungsblatt, Alija Chadascha" from 20.6.1947 in which some of the drawings were printed. German.
Total of nineteen drawings and six prints. Size and condition vary. Good overall condition. Stains and tears (most of them small, at margins). Pinholes to four of the pencil drawings. Two of the tracing papers are torn (some open tears), and one tracing papers is creased.
Provenance: Dotan family collection, Jerusalem.