Collection of Documents – Yemenite Settlement in Kefar HaShiloach – Silwan – Sa'adya Kovshi

Collection of Documents – Yemenite Settlement in Kefar HaShiloach – Silwan – Sa'adya Kovshi
Documents dealing with the demand of the Yemenite settlers of Kefar HaShiloach to return to their homes and be compensated for their looted or destroyed property since they were obliged to leave their homes by order of the authorities during the riots of 1936-1939. In spite of promises by the British Governor, the settlers returned to their homes only after the establishment of the State of Israel.
Amongst the documents: record of property taken from the homes of the Yemenite and demands for compensation; agreement regarding sale of land; letters to and from various national institutes (letters signed by Yitzchak Ben-Zvi) – requests for compensation and return to homes; document signed by Sa'adya Kovshi, of the Yemenite community leaders and one of the Independence Scroll signatories; correspondence concerning property ownership in Kefar HaShiloach, etc. The lot also contains documents from 1967, when sixty Arab families from the Jewish Quarter in the Old City of Jerusalem were settled in Silwan and requests by Kefar HaShiloach settlers to move into the Old City. Total of 75 documents, sizes and conditions vary.