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
Archaeologists; Arab-Israeli conflict; Excavations (Archaeology)--Israel; Excavations (Archaeology)--Jerusalem; Dan (Extinct city); Jerusalem History 20th century; Jerusalem International status; Jerusalem Politics and government; Israel Antiquities; Israel Foreign relations; Israel Foreign relations United States; Israel History; United States Foreign relations Israel; Biran, Avraham; Muzeʼon Yiśraʼel (Jerusalem); Rockefeller Museum (Jerusalem); Israel. Agaf ha-ʻatiḳot Management
Format
oral histories; sound recordings
Genre
Interviews
Date
1994
Note (Biographical)
Archaeologist
Note
Interviewed by: Bluma Swerdloff on November 12, 13, 14, 16, 17, 28, 29, and 30, 1993 and February 7, 1994 in New York, New York