Jewish Colonial Trust
"I have been aware for some time that shares in the upcoming state of Palestine (now Israel) were offered for sale many years ago, and that many Jews in Europe and many other countries around the world purchased these shares in the first third of the 20th century, for three reasons:
1. As a good investment,
2. To export their money to a safe haven, or
3. As Zionists, to show their support for Hertzl's new country-to-be --Palestine.
So I searched for and found the web site and an on-line data base of Jewish Colonial Trust shareholders. This Trust, based on an old company established about 100 years ago, still exists today. The Trust is searching for the original shareholders or their valid descendants in order for these people to receive a cash settlement. I have searched the data base and found a number of relatives or persons of whom I know, and perhaps you will be able to do this too. Read on.
The Jewish Colonial Trust Ltd was the parent company of the Anglo Palestine Bank, the predecessor of Bank Leumi of Israel. It was founded in 1899 by Theodore Hertzl to serve as a financial instrument for the Zionist Movement.
Early in the 20th century, the company issued approximately 250,000 shares at par value one pound Sterling. The company's activities in the diplomatic field focused on the purchase from the Ottoman Government of the right to settle in the Land of Israel, and in the financial field, to grant credit for the establishment of Zionist activities in the Land of Israel. The company established a number of subsidiaries which subsequently became well known, including the Anglo-Palestine Bank which later evolved into today's Bank Leumi of Israel.
In the 1950s the company's activities were transferred to an Israeli corporation, The Jewish Colonial Trust Ltd., and most of its share rights were converted into interests in the Israeli company.
Share holders or their descendants are entitled to contact the company and to receive a cash settlement or other benefit. The web site has a form which can be filled in and sent via Email: to the company to make such a claim.http://www.jct.co.il/contact.html
The home page where you can search for the names of relatives and find other information http://www.jct.co.il/shareholders.asp
http://www.jct.co.il/
I do recommend that you visit this page and search for your ancestors.
The search name you use should be either the exact name of which you are aware, or the first syllable or two if you are uncertain of the exact spelling -- their search engine finds the exact text which you submit, but also finds other names which continue on with extensions of your text for the name, e.g., Ester and Esterson. Their search engine allows you to search for either an exact surname, forename, or city of residence, or some combination of these three items of information, or to input the first part of a person's name or city name in order to get variations of what you are looking for, and/or to get around a lack of knowledge of exactly how the name was spelled in the data base (no Soundex).
The data base would also be useful for those seeking to collect a large number of the residents of a given European country (or non-European country, for that matter) or city, for genealogical purposes. The company can be contacted at:
JCT - Jewish Colonial Trust, Ltd.
17 Kaplan Street
Tel Aviv 64734, Israel
Email: info@jct.co.il
Tel: 03-691-4111/2
FAX: 03-691-4170
I was able to find an Esterson in Edinburgh (a member of a tree which I set up for an English Esterson family that may be related to me), several persons named Mirvis and Mervis from Baltimore and other cities (whose names I recognized from my work with the Mirvis Research Group), and two persons named Gell who my wife Leah thinks are her paternal uncles from Riga. I also checked some surnames of genealogy friends of mine, and found names for them to research. When I searched for only "Baltimore" (where I was born and grew up), I obtained a long list of share purchasers whose names I recognized from my days in Baltimore over fifty years ago. Same success for Riga and other European cities.
So it is well worthwhile checking this list, either to redeem the money invested all those years ago by your ancestors, or to obtain additional genealogical information about them." From a posting by Professor Gerald Esterson jerry@vms.huji.ac.il
Schelly Talalay Dardashti discusses the Jewish Colonial Trust Ltd database of thousands of turn of the century names from Jewish communities around the world in her City Lights column. The article can be found on theJerusalem Post web site and then use their built-in search engine. From a posting by Schelly Talalay Dardashti Email: address: schelly@allrelative.net
http://www.jpost.com
Jewish Communities
World Confederation of Jewish Community Centers
Jerusalem 94185, Israelhttp://www.haruth.com/JewsoftheWorld.html
Jerusalem 94185, Israelhttp://www.haruth.com/JewsoftheWorld.html
Jewish Demographic History
Professor Della Pergola is considered one of the world's leading experts on Jewish demographyhttp://www.claimscon.org/index.asp?url=demographics
Jewish Family Research Association (JFRA/ESRA)
PO Box 48010
Tel-Aviv 61480 Israel
Telephone +972 3 6992813 Fax: 872 3 6993852
Contact Archie Taina archt@netvision.net.il or
Aviva Neeman, President aneeman@netvision.net.il or
Schelly Dardashti dardasht@barak-online.net http://www.genealogy.org.il/
Members Directoryhttp://www.genealogy.org.il/members.htm
Tel-Aviv 61480 Israel
Telephone +972 3 6992813 Fax: 872 3 6993852
Contact Archie Taina archt@netvision.net.il or
Aviva Neeman, President aneeman@netvision.net.il or
Schelly Dardashti dardasht@barak-online.net http://www.genealogy.org.il/
Members Directoryhttp://www.genealogy.org.il/members.htm
Jewish Genealogy Society of the Galilee
Jewish Heraldry
Jewish Holidays
Jewish National Fund (JNF)
Still distributes the familiar Blue Boxes and plants trees all over Israel. My personal box, dating from the 1930s, sits on top of my desk to remind me of this organization. Learn about its history at http://www.jnf.org
The Jewish National and University Library
Located on the Hebrew University campus in Givat Ram, Jerusalem. There you will find a permanent exhibition dedicated to the life and work of Albert Einstein which includes the personal papers, manuscripts, correspondence, photographs, cartoons and newspaper clippings. The Library is opposite the main gate and may be reached by bus lines 9, 24 and 28 http://sites.huji.ac.il/jnul/contents.html
Jewish People Finding List
Here is an often overlooked source (ICQ) to find people all over the world by name, by occupation http://www.icq.com/whitepages/search.html
Jewish Refugees from Arab Countries
Jewish Resources in Israel
Jews Indigenous to the Middle East and North Africa
Justice for Jews from Arab Countries
Kol-Israel
Kollel Galicia
A Yeshiva in Mea Shearim has records that are similar and parallel to those of the Chevra Kadisha in Jerusalem.http://www.shoreshim.org/Chrzanow_donors.asp
'Kria LeKria' (Call to Read)
This is a Hebrew website which collects the best on-line and off-line articles from Israel's newspapers, magazines and journals and provides a directory of links to a variety of resources http://www.kria.co.il/
Leo Baeck Institute
The institute is a research, study and lecture center whose library and archives offer the most comprehensive documentation for the study of German Jewish history.
The Center for Jewish History
15 West 16th St.
New York, NY 10011 lbaeck@lbi.cjh.org Telephone: 212 744 6400 Fax 212 988 1305.
There is also two Branches:
LBI, London
4 Devonshire Street
London
LBI, Jerusalem
33 Bustanai Street
91082 Jerusalem. http://www.lbi.org/
The Center for Jewish History
15 West 16th St.
New York, NY 10011 lbaeck@lbi.cjh.org Telephone: 212 744 6400 Fax 212 988 1305.
There is also two Branches:
LBI, London
4 Devonshire Street
London
LBI, Jerusalem
33 Bustanai Street
91082 Jerusalem. http://www.lbi.org/
Lexicographer
Maps
Some of the maps available are: Ancient Maps; Kingdoms of David & Solomon; Herodian Period; Jews in the Land of Israel under Islamic & Christian rule; Maps of the changing borders 1949-67; Jewish Communities Lost; Pre-State Maps and more. Type in the word maps and scroll down a bit to get to the maps. http://tinyurl.com/6xj56d
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Map of Israel 1993
Map of Israel from Haaretz
http://www.Haaretz.com Scroll down to view map
Israel ( Map of)
You can find places in Israel right down to street address level. It is only available in Hebrew
http://mapsof.net/israel
Map of Israel from Haaretz
http://www.Haaretz.com Scroll down to view map
Israel ( Map of)
You can find places in Israel right down to street address level. It is only available in Hebrew
http://mapsof.net/israel
Open Street MapsThe crowd-sourced mapping project OpenStreetMap has amassed a million contributors since its inception in 2005 and, according to navigation app maker Skobbler, boasts greater accuracy inEngland, Russia and Germany than rivals such as Google Maps. I tried the site and found an accurate drawing of my father's ancestral town Tal'ne, Ukraine. Almost every country is available as is most towns
http://openstreetmap.org
http://openstreetmap.org
Masada Museum (Yigal Yadin)
The fortress of Masada's siege in 72 C.E. and the last months, days and hours for the 960 Jewish rebels before they all committed suicide, is depicted at the Yigal Yadin Masada Museum situated inside the visitors center at the foot of the mountaintop stronghold in the Judean Desert.
http://www.parks.org.il
http://www.parks.org.il
Mt. Gilboa
Where the bible states that Saul and Jonathan died fighting against the Philistines. Do a search on the following site.http://en.wikipedia.org/
The National Maritime Museum
Netanya-Sharon Region Genealogy Group
Meetings are held at the AACI (Back Room) 28 Shmuel Hantaziv, Netanya. For further information, contact Joe Isaacs Email: jisaacs@netvision.net.il
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/vie/Netanya.html
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/vie/Netanya.html
Palestine Post - 1932 - 1950
An "online intelligent retrieval tool for the 40,000 pages of the "Palestine Post" daily newspaper published in Israel in the English language between December 1932 and April 1950. Fully searchable.
This project is the initiative of The Laura Schwarz-Kipp Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities in Tel Aviv University. I find it as a very useful tool to learn about day by day life in Mandatory Palestine and later on Israel in general and in particular to us the roots searchers. For example: Almost any vessel that entered the ports of Palestine and Israel during those years will have it recorded in the newspaper."
http://www.jpress.org.il/publications/PPost-en.asp
This project is the initiative of The Laura Schwarz-Kipp Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities in Tel Aviv University. I find it as a very useful tool to learn about day by day life in Mandatory Palestine and later on Israel in general and in particular to us the roots searchers. For example: Almost any vessel that entered the ports of Palestine and Israel during those years will have it recorded in the newspaper."
http://www.jpress.org.il/publications/PPost-en.asp
Partisan Information - Lithuania
Information may be available by contacting Igud Yotzei Lita
1 David Hamelekh Blvd.
Tel-Aviv, Israelhttp://www.lituanus.org/1969/69_1_02.htm
1 David Hamelekh Blvd.
Tel-Aviv, Israelhttp://www.lituanus.org/1969/69_1_02.htm
Polish Wooden Synagogues
The Wooden Synagogue in Wolpa, Poland
http://www.library.fau.edu/lostwood/home.html
http://www.library.fau.edu/lostwood/home.html
There is a list of wooden synagogues that were destroyed by the Nazis http://www.zchor.org/verbin/verbin.htm http://www.prz.ginsburgs.org/histgeo/shuls/mainframe.html http://www.handshouse.org/woodsynagogues.html
On display at Beth Ha'tefutsorth and at Kibbutz Yakum - both in Israel are many models built by Moshe Verbin
http://web.mac.com/allenbsaxe/iWeb/Zechariah%20Family%20History/The%20Synagogue.html
On display at Beth Ha'tefutsorth and at Kibbutz Yakum - both in Israel are many models built by Moshe Verbin
http://web.mac.com/allenbsaxe/iWeb/Zechariah%20Family%20History/The%20Synagogue.html
Postcards
Macedonian Jews from the Stephanie Comfort Collection
Stephanie Comfort has been collecting postcards of Jewish life, synagogues and towns from around the world for many years. Her Jewish postcards are from almost every continent fromEurope, Africa, North and South America, Australia and Asia. One of Stephanie's specialty iseastern Europe before World War II and the Holocaust - a place of "long-gone individuals and communities." Stephanie Comfort's Jewish postcard collection is one of the largest collections of Jewish images on the Internet
http://jewishpostcardcollection.com
http://jewishpostcardcollection.com
Rabin - Yitzhak
He was born on March 1, 1922. He served two terms as Israeli Prime Minister, from 1974-1977 and 1992 - 1995, when he was assassinated. He was killed by Yigel Amir, a law student, who fired several shots at Rabin after a Oslo Accords rally at the Kings of Israel Square in Tel Aviv on November 4, 1995. He was buried at the Mount Herzl Cemetery in Jerusalem on November 6, 1995 where 80 heads of state attended the funeral. http://pastparallelpaths.wordpress.com/author/ricbretz/
San Remo Resolution Proclaimed on April 25, 1920
What needs to be appreciated is that Fifty-One member countries — the entire League of Nations — unanimously declared on July 24, 1922, "Whereas recognition has been given to the historical connection of the Jewish people and to the grounds for reconstituting their national home in that country". In other words, as Winston Churchill informed in June, 1922, "It is essential that it [the Jewish people] should know that it is in Palestine as of right and not on sufferance". This response to the Arab assertion that they are being penalized for the Holocaust sins of others [Germans, Poles etc.] extends well beyond rhetoric.
http://www.think-israel.org/rose.historicevents.html
http://www.think-israel.org/rose.historicevents.html
Search Bureau for Information about Immigrants (The Central Zionist Archives )
Send Email: requests to Ruth an Tamara. familyresearch@jazo.org.il
The Search Bureau for Missing Relatives
Batya Undershatz, Director
PO Box 92 91000
Jerusalem, Israel
Phone: 972 2 5612 471 Fax: 972 2 6202 516
Allow at least two weeks for a mail response.http://www.jafi.org.il/ph/relatives.htm
Radio Searching Relatives in Israel Reshet bet has a new email address which is: radio2@iba.org.il They broadcast a program for people searching for relatives or friends several days a week at 4.45 pm Israel time.
Anyone who would like to speak in the program about finding relatives, may leave a message with his / her Phone. No. on the answering machine of the program, telephone number (it is definitely not a private telephone): 972-3-7652034 and the editor of that program will call back and get the person on air in the right time (don't forget the time difference between you and Israel!). The Searching Relatives Program re-opened in Israel on Reshet Bet at 15:45. Telephone to contact the organizers: 00-972-3-7652034.
You can listen to the program from anywhere on the Internet - (press the "live" button)http://bet.iba.org.il/
The Search Bureau for Missing Relatives
Batya Undershatz, Director
PO Box 92 91000
Jerusalem, Israel
Phone: 972 2 5612 471 Fax: 972 2 6202 516
Allow at least two weeks for a mail response.http://www.jafi.org.il/ph/relatives.htm
Radio Searching Relatives in Israel Reshet bet has a new email address which is: radio2@iba.org.il They broadcast a program for people searching for relatives or friends several days a week at 4.45 pm Israel time.
Anyone who would like to speak in the program about finding relatives, may leave a message with his / her Phone. No. on the answering machine of the program, telephone number (it is definitely not a private telephone): 972-3-7652034 and the editor of that program will call back and get the person on air in the right time (don't forget the time difference between you and Israel!). The Searching Relatives Program re-opened in Israel on Reshet Bet at 15:45. Telephone to contact the organizers: 00-972-3-7652034.
You can listen to the program from anywhere on the Internet - (press the "live" button)http://bet.iba.org.il/
Sephardic Sites
Simon Wiesenthal Center's Israel Office
Surname Navigator
A simple one input-form search engine for surnames and "cross-border" emigration research including a global version for 45 countries. The databases include:
LDS (Mormons) Israel, All Databases
Geneanet Israel
Google Jewish Genealogy
Google News Jewish Genealogy
RootsWeb Message Board Israel
RootsWeb Surname List Israel
Jewish passengers New York, 1892-1924
Genforum Jewish
Lezecher, Dutch Holocaust Victims
Yad Vashem Names Database
RootsWeb Jewish
Email Finder Israel
Jewish Community England
The Poor Jews' temporary Shelter Database
Irwin I. Cohn Michigan Jewish Cemetery Indexhttp://www.kuijsten.de/navigator/israel
LDS (Mormons) Israel, All Databases
Geneanet Israel
Google Jewish Genealogy
Google News Jewish Genealogy
RootsWeb Message Board Israel
RootsWeb Surname List Israel
Jewish passengers New York, 1892-1924
Genforum Jewish
Lezecher, Dutch Holocaust Victims
Yad Vashem Names Database
RootsWeb Jewish
Email Finder Israel
Jewish Community England
The Poor Jews' temporary Shelter Database
Irwin I. Cohn Michigan Jewish Cemetery Indexhttp://www.kuijsten.de/navigator/israel
Telephone Books
BEZEK - the Israel Phone Company
The phone book is in Hebrew, but there is a keypad which allows you to write the surname you are looking for in Hebrew by clicking on the letter. Let the first box checked in the keypad window because it represents the name. Then by checking the other, you can fill the first name, the street and the city. But only a surname is required for a search.
Return to the main window and search: the search button is the green one (bottom right). Before searching, choose the zone (the menu with the prefix. "00") is for the whole country but it doesn't find a name though it may exist. This is why you need to make them all 03, 02, 04, 08 and 09.
The results are in Hebrew, so you need to know some aleph beys! (put in area code 00 to get a Hebrew listing), has stated that to their knowledge there is no English language phone books in Israel. From a posting on JewishGen by Nicolas Trokiner trokiner@orange.fr http://144.bezeq.com
Bezeq's Telephone book site
Offers 'Dapey Zahav' lookup phone and addresses of Israeli businesses; White page of Israel; University of Jerusalem People Search and more http://www.iguide.co.il/english/people-find.htm
If you are familiar with the Hebrew alphabet, open www.144.bezeq.com http://www.tcpage.force9.co.uk/hefek/
and there will be brief instructions in Hebrew. There is a typewriter bar in the lower left of the screen where you can input the surname, first name, street and town. It also has a helpful Soundex feature that's built in. If you are not sure what area of the country, set the area to 00 -- the entire country -- and set it to return 20 listings per screen. From a posting by Jeffrey Blustein
Stephen Morse has two aids to using the Bezeq phone book: For English: http://stevemorse.org/hebrew/bezeq.html
For help with the Hebrew:http://stevemorse.org/hebrew/bezeqhebrew.html
You can obtain a Israeli phone number through International Information.http://www.yellowpages.co.il/yp/yp.cgi?lang=E&clear=1 http://www.yellowpages.co.il/yp/yp.cgi
Telephone Directories on the Web http://www.teldir.com
The phone book is in Hebrew, but there is a keypad which allows you to write the surname you are looking for in Hebrew by clicking on the letter. Let the first box checked in the keypad window because it represents the name. Then by checking the other, you can fill the first name, the street and the city. But only a surname is required for a search.
Return to the main window and search: the search button is the green one (bottom right). Before searching, choose the zone (the menu with the prefix. "00") is for the whole country but it doesn't find a name though it may exist. This is why you need to make them all 03, 02, 04, 08 and 09.
The results are in Hebrew, so you need to know some aleph beys! (put in area code 00 to get a Hebrew listing), has stated that to their knowledge there is no English language phone books in Israel. From a posting on JewishGen by Nicolas Trokiner trokiner@orange.fr http://144.bezeq.com
Bezeq's Telephone book site
Offers 'Dapey Zahav' lookup phone and addresses of Israeli businesses; White page of Israel; University of Jerusalem People Search and more http://www.iguide.co.il/english/people-find.htm
If you are familiar with the Hebrew alphabet, open www.144.bezeq.com http://www.tcpage.force9.co.uk/hefek/
and there will be brief instructions in Hebrew. There is a typewriter bar in the lower left of the screen where you can input the surname, first name, street and town. It also has a helpful Soundex feature that's built in. If you are not sure what area of the country, set the area to 00 -- the entire country -- and set it to return 20 listings per screen. From a posting by Jeffrey Blustein
Stephen Morse has two aids to using the Bezeq phone book: For English: http://stevemorse.org/hebrew/bezeq.html
For help with the Hebrew:http://stevemorse.org/hebrew/bezeqhebrew.html
You can obtain a Israeli phone number through International Information.http://www.yellowpages.co.il/yp/yp.cgi?lang=E&clear=1 http://www.yellowpages.co.il/yp/yp.cgi
Telephone Directories on the Web http://www.teldir.com
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