Archive History

The Archive was started in the nineteen sixties, in a small cardboard box in the Oz family room, in kibbutz Hulda. Oz’s wife’ Nili took care of it and it grew through the years. When the Oz family moved to Arad in 1987 the archive was first presented to the public in the Arad public library, under the care of Mrs. Batya Shimony. In 1989 the Lavon institute for the research of the Labor Movement took the archive under its auspices. In 1993 the archive was transferred to the Aranne central library of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Beer Shave in order to make it more available to researchers and students, under the care of Mrs. Ruthie Kalman In 2007 the archive moved to its new home, between other literary archives in “Heksherim Institute, a research institute for Jewish and Israeli literature and culture at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.”