Shortly after my immigration to Israel from  Poland in 1968 I started to work at the  Central Zionist Archives in Jerusalem, undoubtedly one of the most important and largest Jewish archives in the world. At first it was a temporary position but soon afterwards I became a tenured archivist, then deputy director and from 1990 to 1998, director of the archives. Simultaneously with my employment, I enrolled in archive studies at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and received my MLS degree (cum laude) in 1989.                                                                                                                                                

In October 1998, after almost 30 years of work, I retired from the Central Zionist Archives and established myself as a freelance researcher in Jewish genealogy.   

Shortly afterwards I was hired by the International Commission on Holocaust-era Insurance Claims (ICHEIC) to coordinate its archival research. My two reports to ICHEIC can be accessed via this site. 

​

Throughout my career, I devoted some of my time to research, firmly believing that an archivist should from time to time change sides and approach archives from a different angle. This resulted in a number of publications on French-Jewish involvement in Palestine before WWI, on Zionism and on Jewish archives.

In the framework of my work and research I visited most of the major Jewish and Israeli archives as well as many non-Jewish ones. Most unforgetable were my two visits to the so-called "Special Archives" in Moscow, where archival material originally looted by the Nazis during WWII and recovered by the Red Army in 1945, is kept. I devoted one of my articles to the "Special Archives".