Yad Ben Zvi (), also known as the Ben-Zvi Institute, is a research institute and publishing house named for Israeli president

Yitzhak Ben-Zvi Yitzhak Ben-Zvi ( ''Yitshak Ben-Tsvi''; 24 November 188423 April 1963; born Izaak Shimshelevich) was a historian, ethnologist, Labor Zionism, Labor Zionist leader and the longest-serving president of Israel. He was 1952 Israeli presidential elec ...

Jerusalem Jerusalem is a city in the Southern Levant, on a plateau in the Judaean Mountains between the Mediterranean Sea, Mediterranean and the Dead Sea. It is one of the List of oldest continuously inhabited cities, oldest cities in the world, and ...

History and activities

Yad Ben-Zvi is a research institute established to continue the

Zionist Zionism is an Ethnic nationalism, ethnocultural nationalist movement that emerged in History of Europe#From revolution to imperialism (1789–1914), Europe in the late 19th century that aimed to establish and maintain a national home for the ...

, educational and cultural activities of Israel's second and longest-serving president, Yizhak Ben–Zvi. It is housed in the home and offices of Ben-Zvi and his wife, Rachel Yanait, in Jerusalem's

Rehavia Rehavia or Rechavia (, ) is an upscale neighbourhood in Jerusalem. It is bordered by Nachlaot and Sha'arei Hesed to the north, Talbiya and Kiryat Shmuel, Jerusalem, Kiryat Shmuel to the south, and the Valley of the Cross to the west. Rehavia was ...

neighborhood. Yad Ben Zvi

Ben-Zvi founded the institute in 1947 to explore the history and culture of the Jewish communities living in Arab countries. It houses a library of manuscripts, rare books and a photographic archive, and runs an academic publishing house.A national institution
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Jerusalem Post ''The Jerusalem Post'' is an English-language Israeli broadsheet newspaper based in Jerusalem, Israel, founded in 1932 during the British Mandate of Palestine by Gershon Agron as ''The Palestine Post''. In 1950, it changed its name to ''The Je ...

, 2 Nov 2006. Active link, 21 Jan 2024.

Education

Yad-Ben Zvi organizes courses, seminars, lectures and special tours of Jerusalem. In 2012, the institute opened a new international school for Jerusalem studies in a renovated historic building formerly known as the Pioneer Women's House.

Publications

The institute's publishing house publishes specific studies as well as three academic journals (in Hebrew):"Yad Ben-Zvi Collection"
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Sefunot Sefunot () was a Hebrew-language academic journal, published annually, dealing with the study of Jewish communities in the East, from the end of the Middle Ages unto the present time.Yitzhak Ben-Zvi, Ben-Zvi (1956), p5/ref> It was initiated by :h ...

'', the Institute's annual, published between 1956 and 2017, with articles on Jewish communities in the East, from the end of the

Middle Ages In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages or medieval period lasted approximately from the 5th to the late 15th centuries, similarly to the post-classical period of global history. It began with the fall of the Western Roman Empire and ...

to the present. *''Pe'amim: Studies in Oriental Jewry'' (or "Studies on Jewish Heritage in the East")"Pe'amim: Studies in Oriental Jewry / פעמים: רבעון לחקר קהילות ישראל במזרח"

JSTOR JSTOR ( ; short for ''Journal Storage'') is a digital library of academic journals, books, and primary sources founded in 1994. Originally containing digitized back issues of academic journals, it now encompasses books and other primary source ...

. Accessed 21 Jan 2024. The Institute's

quarterly A magazine is a periodical literature, periodical publication, print or digital, produced on a regular schedule, that contains any of a variety of subject-oriented textual and visual content (media), content forms. Magazines are generally fin ...

, published since 1978, it deals with the history, cultures and folklore of Jewish communities in the

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region (

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and the

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). Digitized issues appear on the Institute's website since 2011. Complete list and details at

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*''Cathedra: For the History of Eretz Israel and Its Yishuv'' (Hebrew '' קתדרה: לתולדות ארץ ישראל ''), also known as ''Cathedra: Quarterly for the History of Eretz Israel''; also transliterated as ''Katedra''; since 1976, websit
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*''Et-mol'', full title: ''Et-Mol: Iton Letoldot Eretz Yisrael Ve'am Yisrael'', '"Et-Mol: Journal on the History of the Eretz Yisrael and Am Yisrael', in the sense of the

Land of Israel The Land of Israel () is the traditional Jewish name for an area of the Southern Levant. Related biblical, religious and historical English terms include the Land of Canaan, the Promised Land, the Holy Land, and Palestine. The definition ...

and Jewish peoplehood/the

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External links

Yad Ben Zvi websiteYad Ben-Zvi: comprehesive presentation
at The National Library of Israel website

References

{{authority control Research institutes in Israel Research institutes established in 1947