Reminiscences of Avraham Biran, 1994.

Biographical Note

Archaeologist

Scope and Contents

Recollections of childhood, family in Palestine; studies at Reali School, Hebrew University, Teacher's Training College, University of Pennsylvania, Johns Hopkins; career as archaeologist, including mentors, excavations, writings; name changes, from Bergman, Tourai; commitments as archaeologist, including Israel Exploration Society committee member, director of Department of Antiquities of Israel, 1961-, creation of Israel Museum; political posts, including district officer, governor of Jerusalem, 1949-1955, head of Department of Armistice Affairs; politics of Middle East; founding of state of Israel; psychological makeup of Avraham Biran

Subjects

• Arab-Israeli conflict.
• Archaeologists--Interviews.
• Biran, Avraham--Interviews.
• Dan (Extinct city)
• Excavations (Archaeology)--Israel--Dan (Extinct city)
• Excavations (Archaeology)--Jerusalem.
• Interviews.
• Israel--Antiquities.
• Israel--Foreign relations--United States.
• Israel--Foreign relations.
• Israel--History.
• Israel. Agaf ha-ʻatiḳot--Management.
• Jerusalem--History--20th century.
• Jerusalem--International status.
• Jerusalem--Politics and government.
• Muzeʼon Yiśraʼel (Jerusalem)
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Rockefeller Museum (Jerusalem)
• Swerdloff, Bluma, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• United States--Foreign relations--Israel.

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