Descriptive Summary
Title:
J. C. Hurewitz Collection, ca. 1789-1982
Collector:
Hurewitz, J. C., 1914-, collector
Extent:
21 ms. boxes, 1 oversize box
Repository:
Hoover Institution Archives
Stanford, California 94305-6010
Abstract:
Pamphlets, reports, memoranda, serial issues, and statutes, relating to diplomatic
relations of and domestic conditions in various countries of the Middle East, mainly
during the period 1945-1960; Palestine and the Zionist movement; and the Suez Canal.
Includes statutes of Afghanistan, 1931-1957, in Persian, with translations; Zionist and
some anti-Zionist literature from the interwar period and the period of formation of the
Israeli state; reports of the United States Foreign Operations Administration, 1951-1954,
relating to various Middle Eastern countries; microfilm of records from the Turkish
national archives relating to Turkish diplomatic history, ca. 1789-1914; and annual
reports of the Compagnie Universelle du Canal Maritime de Suez, 1915-1954.
Language:
In various languages.
