Еврейское телеграфное агенство (JTA)
- Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA)
- Evreiskoe telegrafnoe agentstvo (ITA)
Extent and Medium
197 files
Biographical History
The Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA), originally named the Jewish Correspondence Bureau, was founded in 1919 by Jacob Landau and Meir Grossman. The JTA brought together six bureaus — in New York, London, Berlin, Paris, Warsaw, and Jerusalem. It subsequently opened bureaus in Prague and Geneva. The JTA published daily news report bulletins in English, German, French, and Polish, as well as the Jewish Daily Bulletin (from 1924). Its reports dealt with the situation of the Jewish population of various countries, in particular Nazi Germany, and the activities of Zionist and other Jewish organizations. From 1924 to 1968, Boris Smolar served as editor in chief. The Berlin bureau of the JTA existed from 1922 until November 1937, when it was shut down by the Gestapo. After the banning of the JTA in Germany, the Berlin bureau was transferred to Paris, where it continued its work until the Nazi occupation of that city in June 1940.
Scope and Content
The collection's contents are described in three inventories. Documents are catalogued in the inventories for the most part chronologically, and with geographical and chronological indexes. Copies of informational bulletins of the JTA published in Berlin, London, Prague, and Paris constitute the bulk of the collection's documentary materials. The collection also has copies of bulletins and journals published in Palestine and Switzerland; articles, accounts, reports, and newspaper clippings on the situation of the Jewish population of various countries, on the activities of Zionist and other Jewish organizations, and on the holding of Zionist congresses.
Finding Aids
Nazi-Looted Jewish Archives in Moscow. A guide to Jewish Historical and Cultural Collections in the Russian State Military Archive, ed. by D. E. Fishman, M. Kupovetsky, V. Kuzelenkov, Scranton - London 2010
Existence and Location of Copies
. Microfilms are held by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives.
Archivist Note
Entry selected by Krzysztof Tyszka from the book “Nazi-Looted Jewish Archives in Moscow. A guide to Jewish Historical and Cultural Collections in the Russian State Military Archive”, ed. by D. E. Fishman, M. Kupovetsky, V. Kuzelenkov
Rules and Conventions
EHRI Guidelines for Description v.1.0