Some 5000 transaction receipts of the Sejera Farm – the first Hakhshara farm of the Jewish Colonization Association (JCA). Sejera, 1901-1913. French (few receipts signed in Hebrew and Arabic).

Large archive of official receipts, issued in the Sejera Farm over the course of 13 years (printed forms, filled-in by hand). Most of the receipts bear the signature of the farm's manager, the agronomist Eliyahu Krause. Some receipts are signed "Zaïd" (most probably Alexander Zaïd, prominent Halutz, member of the Jewish paramilitary organizations Bar Giora and HaShomer). Some of the earlier receipts are signed by the founder of the farm, and its first manager, agronomist Chaim Margaliot Kalvarisky.
Receipts bound in 44 volumes, arranged by year of issue. Various handwritten documents enclosed, bound in a separate volume.

The Sejera Farm was established in 1899 – the first farm to be established by the JCA. Sejera played an important role in the history of the Yishuv, and particularly, in the development of the central ideas of the Second Aliyah – Hebrew labor, Jewish self-defense, and cooperative settlements. Among the Halutzim who worked in the farm was David Ben Gurion, who spent there a period of two years, between October, 1907 and October 1909.

Size and condition vary.