The Institute for the Study of Jewish Communities in the East

Yitzhak Ben-Zvi

1949

The Institute for the Study of Jewish Communities in the East

The Institute for the Study of Jewish Communities in the East was established in 1948 with the aid of three bodies: the General Organization of the Workers in the Land of Israel, the National Committee, and the Committee of Workers in America.

The aim of the institute is to assemble…

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Yitzhak Ben-Zvi

1884–1963

Yitzhak Ben-Zvi (b. Shimshelevich) was the second president of the State of Israel and a longtime Labor Party leader. Born in Poltava, Ukraine, Ben-Zvi moved to Palestine in 1907, first living in Jaffa. He studied law at Istanbul University, along with David Ben-Gurion, and was expelled for political reasons from Palestine from 1914 until 1918. Ben-Zvi became the president of the new State of Israel in 1952, a position he held until the end of his life. As a historian of Mizrahi Judaism, Ben-Zvi also founded Jerusalem’s Institute for the Study of Oriental Jewish Communities in the Middle East, which was renamed the Ben-Zvi Institute in his honor.

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