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Dr. Zerah Warhaftig Institute for the Research on Religious Zionism
General Information
Head of Institute: Prof. Yehuda Friedlander,
http://www.biu.ac.il/faculty/Yehuda.F./
email: friedy@mail.biu.ac.il
Director of the Archives: Dr. Silvia Schenkolewski - Kroll
(http://www.biu.ac.il/faculty/schenks/)
email: sil_sch@netvision.net.il
Archivists: Oren Maurern
Address: Bar Ilan University Ramat- Gan, 52900 ISRAEL
Central Library Building,
Middle floor (actually, one floor below main floor)
Phone: 972-3-53179470
Fax: none
E-mail: zionarc@mail.biu.ac.il
Website: http://www.biu.ac.il/JS/riz/ (Hebrew)
http://aleph.biu.ac.il:4500/ALEPH/ENG/BAR/BAR/RIZ/START (Bibliographical Database on the Religious Zionism - A project conducted by the Dr. Zerah Warhaftig Institute for the Research on Religious Zionism)
Hours of Operation: Sunday, Monday, Tuesday & Wednesday 8:30-13:15
Closed on Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Jewish holidays.
Closest Public Transportation:
Bus: Dan: 43, 45, 56, 60, 61, 64, 68, 70, 187
Egged: 164, 400, 618
Directions: On Geha road (road # 4), turning at the Bar-Ilan junction (from north – turn left; from south – turn right after Aluf Sade junction)
Access for Disabled: None
Description of Resources

see website: http://www.biu.ac.il/JS/riz/

Archives Content
Personal archives (see online catalog)
Institutional and Personal archives (see online catalog).
Languages of documents: Mostly Hebrew. The rest in English, Yiddish, German, Romanian, French, Spanish.
Personal and Institutional correspondence, protocols, personal letters, personal archives. Hapoel Hamizrachi, Bnei Akiva archives from outside Israel, Youth groups, Women's groups.

Collection on Genealogy and Family History
Family trees - Generati de Judaism Si Sionism DOROHOI Vol 4 (Romanian and Hebrew) by Shlomo David includes family trees and photos of this town
Finding Aids:
The indexes are computerized, Theasaurus (keywords in Hebrew only), hard copy

Description of Facility:
Books, cassets (audio - video), manuscripts, periodicals covering Israel, Europe, South and North America and Oceania.
Fees/Copies:
photocopies @ 0.30 shekels per page
Restrictions on Use:
On site research only.