Resource Pack

History of Jerusalem

Explore the primary sources that tell a story of the Holy City Jerusalem under Ottoman Empire and British

Primary Sources

Synagogue Officers, 1925

Purim in Jerusalem, 1957

Arieh Allweil, “To the Liberated Jerusalem,” 1949

Protest Against the Division of Jerusalem, 1948

Foundation Stone of the Knesset, 1959

British Soldiers at the Kotel, 1933

Map of Jerusalem, Christiaan van Adrichem, 1584

Notice from the Jewish Resistance Movement, 1946

Tu Bishvat Gift Bags, 1920

Snow in the Jerusalem Alleys, 1940s

Herzl’s Interment in Jerusalem, 1949

Ketuba, Jerusalem, 1926

Jerusalem Is Not To Be Divided, Herut newspaper, 1949

Jewish Policemen, 1939

The First Battle on the Way to Jerusalem, Dvar Le’Yeladim, 1948

Jerusalem Election Announcement, Doar Hayom, 1920

Eliezer Ben-Yehuda’s Business Card

Leah Goldberg Teaching at the Hebrew University

Article about the Nebi Musa Muslim Holiday, Doar Hayom, 1920

Tension in Divided Jerusalem, 1954

Boys Town Jerusalem, 1959

Photographs of Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, 1939

Letter Regarding Shabbat demonstrations, 1954

Women at the Western Wall, 1910

Coffee Shop in Jerusalem, 1881

Student Day Poster, 1955

Cover Page of Maariv, Yom Ha’atzmaut, 1958

Receipts of Donations, Havazelet, 1871

Water of Life to Jerusalem and the Negev, Davar, 1949

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