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  1. Copies of papers relating to the Plymouth Hebrew Congregation

    Extracts from the birth and death register of the Plymouth Hebrew Congregation, 1829-37.

  2. Papers of Jewish benevolent societies

    Order Achei Ameth Bertram Strauss Lodge number 15: minute book, 1921-30; income and expenditure book, 1915-30; account book, 1922-30. City of London Benevolent Society (established to assist widows of the Jewish faith): minute book, 1923-8. Sir John Falstaff Benevolent Society (for assisting the poor, irrespective of creed, during the winter months): minute books, 1931-9; ledger, 1910-42.

  3. Papers of the Bayswater Jewish Schools

    Correspondence files: chronological sequence, 1920-38; alphabetical sequence, 1886, 1924 31. Papers on general school matters; staffing and finance; copies of syllabuses, course and examination papers; papers relating to school journeys and to prize distributions; c.1932-81. Appointments of staff, 1929 31, 1941 4. Financial papers for the building fund and building appeal, 1923 30. School laws, ante 1881-1920s.

  4. Papers of Dr Adolf Bchler

    General correspondence, 1893-1952, including correspondence with the Chief Rabbi's Office; correspondence relating to Jews' College, London, 1900-38, including admissions papers, 1920s and 1930s. Research notes, together with notes for lectures and speeches; manuscript of an incomplete book on marriage by Bchler. Other papers including a report of the London Jewish Hospital Ladies Aid Association, 1930-1, a report of the Union of Jewish Women, 1931, and minutes of the Jewish Unity Group, 1942; newspaper articles and photographs, including a series of photographs of a dairy shop and milk tra...

  5. Papers of the North Finchley Zionist Society

    Working papers 1968-92, including committee minutes, 1983-7 (1 file); correspondence; black and white photographs of hospital trolleys donated by the Society and financial papers, 1968-91.

  6. Papers of Jewish friendly societies and cultural organisations

    ACHEI AMETH: printed rules, 1914-15, annual reports and balance sheets, 1926-7, 1930; correspondence and financial papers, 1931-48, and report of proceedings for the annual conference, 15 May 1932. Isaac Seligman Lodge 95 of the ORDER OF ACHEI BRITH AMD SHIELD OF ABRAHAM: papers of H.Morris, secretary of the Lodge, including invitations, information sheets, bank statements, correspondence, return sheets and financial papers, 1932-40. ASSOCIATION OF JEWISH FRIENDLY SOCIETIES: annual reports, 1925-6; banquet menu, 1930. JEWISH HEALTH ORGANIZATION OF GREAT BRITAIN: annual report, 1928 9. PAPER...

  7. Papers of Mrs Cissi Z. Rosenfelder

    The papers include lists of children from Germany, their date of birth, and the names and addresses of those offering a home, 1938-9; correspondence, photographs and case papers for individual children and young women from Germany, correspondence with refugee committees, including the German Jewish Aid Committee, 1938-9; letter from the Federation of Woman Zionists about running Whittingehame House as a training centre, 1939; minutes of the Whittingehame House general meeting, 1939; Movement for the Care of Children from Germany guarantee forms, memorandum of information, casework letter, l...

  8. Small Jewish Collections

    The collections include: MS 217/1, photographs of liberated concentration camps, including Belsen, n.d. c.1945; MS 217/4, Jewish soldiers in the German army in World War I, including issues of Judische Volkszeitung (Breslau), 1914; Adressenliste des K.J.V., of Jewish soldiers in German service, Feb 1918; copies of Der RJF Schild: Zeitschrift des reichsbundes judischer Frontsoldaten, with lists of Jewish soldiers killed while serving in the German army during World War I, 1928-9; MS 217/5, photographs of Southampton synagogue and Jewish cemetery, 1990s; MS 217/7, correspondence, 1844-1982, i...

  9. `Proposals of the Jewish community as regards Jews from Germany'

    Copy of the `Proposals of the Jewish community as regards Jews from Germany', appended to Cabinet Office records, c.Mar/Apr 1933.

  10. Rosenbaum papers and material relating to the Newcastle upon Tyne and Cardiff Hebrew congregations

    Working papers of Revd Morris Rosenbaum for an article published in

  11. Papers of Rabbi Solomon Schonfeld

    Standard Siddur Prayer Book Personal and family papers: correspondence, 1900-84; birth certificates, passports, documentation from the University of Knigsberg; insurance and financial papers; diaries, 1926-82 (with gaps); papers of Judith Schonfeld (ne Hertz), including correspondence and notes, 1930s to 1987; correspondence and papers of Dr Avigdor Schonfeld, 1909-30, with a minute book of the Chevra Ben Zakkai, 1918-23 (MS 183/829/2); Hertz family papers, 1888-1984 Semi-official papers: papers as presiding rabbi of the Union of Orthodox Hebrew Congregations, 1946-80, including minutes of ...

  12. Education Aid Society papers

    Minute books of the general committee, 1896-1946, of the musical committee, 1909-38, and of the case sub-committee, 1913-14. Cash books, 1911-46; special fund account, 1930-9; ledgers, arranged alphabetically, 1938-50; analysis of income and expenditure, 1910-29; papers relating to the Henry Lewis Bequest and Fund; memorandum on the financial position, 1937. Case files (approx. 300 files). Correspondence files, 1926-40; applications, 1939-51; agreements and record cards of students assisted 1908 onwards. Annual reports, 1898-1936, 1939-46 and 1947-8.

  13. Papers of the Council for the Amelioration of the Legal Position of the Jewess

    Minutes of council meetings, 1922-30; general committee, 1930; and executive committee, 1930-1. Correspondence with organisations and individuals, 1923-46, including the Jewish Association for the Protection of Girls and Women, 1919-27; the Board of Deputies, 1920-8; American organisations, 1919- 27; Palestinian organisations, 1922-6; Czechoslovakian organisations, 1924-5; and Balkan organisations, 1925-6; correspondence with Mrs Constance Lesser, 1921-30, and Mrs Henrietta Irwell, 1923-9. Annual reports, 1922-8; off-prints and translations of articles by Miss Hands; posters and corresponde...

  14. Papers of S.M.Rich

    'Journal of a minor Anglo-Jewish communal official': forty- five diaries of Samuel Morris Rich, 1904-49, including earlier correspondence and press cuttings. Papers relating to the death of Rich, including typescript copies of a valedictory address, 4 Nov 1949; order for the memorial service for Rich, 1949.

  15. Papers of the Stott family of Hertfordshire relating to Jewish refugees

    Correspondence with refugee committees, including the German Jewish Aid Committee, the Germany Emergency Committee and with individual refugees, about supporting them in the UK; letters about the Adler family, along with letters from the Adler family, and about other refugees, 1938-45; correspondence with Victor Gollancz and Professor A. V. Hill. Papers relating to internment in the UK including `Some observations after four weeks' internment' at Onchan Internment Camp, Isle of Man. Photographs of refugees and their families, 1938-83. Pamphlets and publications on refugees.

  16. Papers of Rabbi Samuel Jacob Rabinowitz

    Ha'dath V'Halumiuth Lit'kufath Ha'yamim M'muhath Shabbath The letter and the spirit, Na'aseh V'nishma Jewish Chronicle Yashresh Ya'akov Published works including , a collection of essays (Warsaw, 1900); , expositions of Halakhah and dialectical addresses (1917); , published by Liverpool Mizrachi (1919); , a paraphrase from the Hebrew by Revd J.Raffalovitch and Betram B.Benas, reprinted from the , 1920; (1924). Manuscript notes for publications, including dialectical addresses on Baba Kamma, Baba Metsia, Baba Bathra, Kiddushin, Shabbath, Horioth and Hullin, and homiletical addresses on Arba'...

  17. Papers of the Brynmawr Hebrew Congregation

    Deeds and insurance papers relating to the Brynmawr synagogue, 1900-65; deeds and papers relating to the Jewish Burial Ground, 1919-54; death registration certificates, 1923-54. Papers of Moisei Dovidov Goldin (naturalised as Jacob Morris, 1912), watch and clock repairer, 1900-12 Letter from the Chief Rabbi to the President of Ebbw Vale Hebrew Congregation, 1927; typescript notes and an article on the history of Newport Hebrew Congregation, 1956; order of service, Newport Hebrew Congregation, 1956; order of service, re-consecration of Merthyr Tydfil Synagogue, 1955; and order of service at ...

  18. Jewish photographs and assorted papers

    Studio photographs, many of First World War soldiers in uniform, but also family portraits, late 19th-early 20th century. Portrait of Levi Barent Cohen together with correspondence about him, 1936; an engraving of a portrait of Sir David Salomons. Visitors' book for South Stoneham House, 1890-1918; souvenir music score for Gounod's 'Romeo et Juliette' performed at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, in honour of the marriage of the Duke of York and Princess Mary of Teck, 4 Jul 1893; translation of the epitaphs still visible in the Hambro Synagogue cemetery made by Dayan Mendelsohn of the ...

  19. Solomon family papers

    Correspondence, in German and Russian, of Harry Solomon (Chaim Salomonowitz), 1897-1950, with family members in Liepaja, and Riga and Vilnius, including a long series of letters from his wife, Jenka/Jenny, 1910-15; correspondence with and about other members of the family as refugees from Russia, including letters from Novi Sad (Serbia), 1921

  20. Papers of D.Mellows

    Report on the East End Scheme, issued under the auspices of the United Synagogue in June 1898, dealing with the question of interpreters at police courts, courts of arbitration for the settlement of private disputes; recommendations for the amelioration of the social, intellectual and spiritual condition of the poorest Jews in East London; statistics; proposals for teaching English, giving lectures, forming libraries, reading rooms; providing food for the poor, clubs and athletic associations, creches, mothers' meetings, provident and benevolent societies, savings banks; recommendations abo...