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Foreword:The Kibbutz Hadati Archive contains about 60,000 files, in additional to audiotapes, videotapes and photographs.
The archive is recognized by the State of Israel as a public archive. The material is stored according to regulations, maintained and restored in above-average condition, and most of it is registered in a unique computer program for archives.
The archive is headed by a public committee of members of Hakibbutz Hadati, and university scholars.
Biographies/Autobiographies
a. Personal archives. A partial list:
Michael Perlman, Yona Cohen, Arye Kroll, et al , Pinchas Rosenblit, Avraham Herz, Morchechai Chayut, Tzuriel Admanit, Moshe Una, Menachem Degani, Ephraim Shiloh, David Beit Aryeh, Sara Shtern-Katan, Shimshon Rosental
b. Correspondence
Moshe Una’s correspondence with the following people: Rabbi J.B. Soloveichik, Akiva Ernst Simon (in manuscript), Aryeh Hendler, Yeshayahu Leibowitz, Pinchas Rosenblit, S.Z. Shragai, et al.
David Beit Aryeh’s personal correspondence with the heads of Youth Aliyah: Henrietta Szold, Recha Freier, Herman Shtruck, Giora Yoseftal, Hans Bait, and with the heads of the settlement movement and of the Jewish Agency (Herzfeld, Ruppin, Sturman, et al) relating to settlement activity.
Correspondence with movement emissaries and with members of the movement abroad (Europe, North Africa, North America…) before, during and after the Second World War – regarding Youth Aliyah, the hachshara training farms, Bnei Akiva, Hashomer Hadati and Brit Halutzim Dati’im and the activity of the Mizrachi.
The administration of the offices of Hakibbutz Hadati from 1931.
A collection of documents about Hakibbutz Hadati, which includes the following topics: society, religion, education, codes, mediation, health, institutions of Hakibbutz Hadati, one-day seminars, seminars and special councils, kibbutz collections, kibbutz newsletters and magazines, newspaper clippings from Israel and abroad.
The history section (from 1917 on):
Youth movements and hachshara training programs,
Holocaust survivors and aliyah (immigration) (from Europe, the United States, South America and South Africa),
The religious Youth Aliyah village,
Bnei Akiva in Israel and abroad,
Memorial booklets,
The Mizrachi and Hapoel Hamizrachi movements,
Academic research papers,
Research papers by high school students.
Photograph Collections:
Photographs related to the various topics (the founding of settlements, conferences, the beginning of the movement, the various hachshara farms)
Resource books
Reference literature on the subject of religious Zionism and the kibbutz movement.
Oral history collections
a. Recorded oral histories of various people (including Mordechai Chayut, Yehuda Noyman, Aryeh Hendler, Shmuel Weinberger, et al)
b. audiotapes of various conference and councils
Electronic resources
There are a few videotapes. There is a search for more material on the subject.
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