Exhibitions

The Jewish State  In 1996, marking the centenary of the publication of the essay The Jewish State by Theodor Herzl, three original pages of an early draft of the essay were displayed in the entrance hall of the Archives, along with translations of the essay into 22 different languages. (This site is in English)     Posters of Eretz Israel   In 1994, the CZA along with “Matach”, the Center for Educational Technology, produced an exhibition displaying dozens of posters issued in Palestine/Israel from the 1920s to the 1950s. x Making use of a range of symbols and motifs, the posters vividly reflect the issues and concerns of the nascent Jewish state. x (This site is in Hebrew)

Journey in the footsteps of Herzl to Eretz Israel, 1898 Starting from mid-1993, the exhibition “With Herzl to Jerusalem: Journey and Vision” was displayed in the entrance hall of the Archives. The first part, which presented the journey made by Theodor Herzl and the Zionist delegation to Eretz Israel and Jerusalem in 1898, was based mainly on Herzl’s diary (re-translated from the German original). The exhibition featured excerpts from the diary, memoirs of figures who met with Herzl in Palestine and dozens of photographs documenting the sites where the delegation visited. The second part, which presented Herzl’s vision with regard to Jerusalem, presented sections of Herzl’s utopian work Altneuland and slides depicting landscapes in Jerusalem from the 1920s onward. (This site is in Hebrew)    The large wave of immigration in the state’s early years  In 1991 an exhibition was produced dealing with the mass wave of immigration to the State of Israel between the years 1948 – 1951. Through photographs, press clippings and posters from this period, the exhibition presents the vast number of immigrants who came from different countries, illustrates how they were settled in transit and immigrant camps, discusses employment problems and relief works projects, and explains the expanded deployment of the Jewish Yishuv as a result of the waves of immigration. The exhibition was displayed for about a year at the entrance hall to the Archives, and was subsequently moved to permanent display in one of the wings of the Archives.

(This site is in Hebrew)