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Palestine

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:

Rolla Foley Papers

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-950-310
Overview This collection contains photographs, letters, documents, and pamphlets regarding Rolla Foley's musical career in the Near East between 1939-1945. He had various roles throughout music performances and festivals, most often compiling and editting the music, but also conducting on occasion. These festivals include the 1941 Palestine Children's Music Festival, the 1943 Children's Music Festival, the 1943 Syrian Students' Music Festival, the 1944-1945 Near East Music Festival, and the 1945 Folk...
Dates: 1941 - 1979

Friends of Ramallah Friends Meeting (Quakers) records

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-1040
Overview

This collection relates to the Ramallah Friends Meeting and Friends International Center in Ramallah, Palestine. The majority of the collection is dated between 2002 and 2014, and pertains to renewing the Ramallah Friends Meetinghouse and transforming it into a Friends Center.

Dates: 2002-2014

Jones Family papers

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-1009
Abstract

The papers of Eli and Sybil Jones, 19th century Quaker missionaries, most notably to the Middle East where they established missions on Mt. Lebanon and in Ramallah, Palestine; the correspondence of Charles and Ellen Jones, also 19th century Quaker missionaries in Ramallah; and the letters of Quaker James Parnell Jones, son of Eli and Sybil Jones, who fought in the Civil War.

Dates: 1821-1918

Russell and Juanita Rosene slides, scrapbook, and videocassette

 Collection
Identifier: SFHL-PA-217
Overview

This collection, consisting primarily of color photographic slides, documents Russell and Juanita Rosene's time as international development workers in the Gaza Strip 1949-1950 and in Guatemala 1961-1964.

Dates: 1949 - 1992; Majority of material found within 1949 - 1964

Students for Justice in Palestine collection

 Collection
Identifier: HCQ-003-126
Overview

The collection contains email printouts with information about the club's goals and activities.

Dates: 2011

Khalil A. Totah and Eva Marshall Totah papers

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-1210
Overview The papers revolve around three topics and provide a picture of Quakers in Palestine in the 20th century: Khalil A. Totah, his second wife, Eva Marshall Totah and his first wife, Ermina Jones Totah. Khalil Totah discusses the situation in Palestine, primarily in the 1930s, and speaks of his own life and aspirations, as when he became a Quaker minister. His diaries expand the picture, adding information about Friends Boys School in Ramallah (Palestine) and his understanding of the political...
Dates: 1896-1955