MS 116/1-25 Small Jewish collections

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MS 116/1 David Spector collection, 1940-69

Fascist badges; audio tape of the Jewish civic service from Middle Street Synagogue, broadcast on BBC Radio Brighton, 9 Mar 1969; black and white film, 'Synagogue', produced by David Spector; Deutsche Joselzeitung der Evening Post, bi-lingual official daily newspaper published in Jersey by the occupying German forces, 22 Oct 1940

Former references:

A791

Size:

1 box

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MS 116/2 Papers of Cyril Wernick (1917-45), a lance corporal in the Royal Norfolk Regiment, taken prisoner at the fall of Singapore and was held at Changi. Shortly after his release, he died of malnutrition and was buried in Madras.

Prayers for evening service, in Hebrew, written on official receipt forms from Singapore criminal prison; invitation to the dedication service of Synagogue Jacob, Changi Gaol, 26 Aug 1944; photographs of Cyril Wernick, his wife and Wernick's father; letter to Wernick's mother on his death; photographs of temporary and permanent tombstones of Wernick in Kasimode Jewish Cemetery, Madras.

Two articles from the Jewish Chronicle about Jewish prisoners of war in Japanese camps, 1945 and 1948.

Former references:

AJ 4

Size:

1 folder

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MS 116/3 Phillips and Lion family papers, 1817-1901

These include: a manuscript birth certificate of Joel Phillips, 21 Apr 1817; memorial inscription of Philip Phillips; bill for Lion Brothers for a Portland headstone in memory of Alexander Lion; invitation to the marriage of Rachel Phillips and Jacob Lion Lion; portrait of Lion Lion published in BOOT AND SHOE TRADE JOURNAL, Aug 1887; photographs of Alexander and Jacob Lion in BOOT AND SHOE TRADE JOURNAL, Nov 1889; birth certificate of Philip R.Lion, 3 Nov 1890; invitation card for the opening of Raphael House by Gustave Tuck, 6 Jul 1899; invitation card on the occasion of the barmitzvah of Alexander Lion, 9 Feb 1901; visiting card of Mrs L.Lion; manuscript genealogy of descendants of Godfrey Phillips, 1826-1900, with covering letter, 9 Jun 1972

Former references:

AJ 6 and AJ 170

Size:

2 folders

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MS 116/4 Illuminated address presented to the Revd Raphael Harris on the fortieth anniversary of the Bayswater Synagogue, 1903

A letter from Revd Simeon Singer to Revd Raphael Harris, 1 Oct 1888, can be found among the Hugh Harris papers, MS 136.

Former references:

AJ 7

Size:

1 volume

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MS 116/5 Papers of Ruth Phillips, secretary to Lucien Wolf and Israel Zangwill, 1906-43

Papers of Ruth Phillips, including a diary, 1906-7; shorthand notes; a quarterly report of the Endsleigh Palace Hospital for Officers, 1915; newspaper cuttings relating to the hospital, 1915; three photographs of Israel Zangwill; two letters from Israel Zangwill to Ruth Phillips, 1920 and n.d.; admission ticket for the opening of Parliament, 1920; letter from the dowager Lady Swaythling, 1943; and a letter from Alice Model of the Jewish Maternity Society, 1926

Former references:

AJ 9

Size:

1 folder

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MS 116/6 Pro-forma printed petition against fascism and anti-Semitism for presentation by the Jewish People's Councily to Sir John Simon, Home Secretary, 1936

Further material for the Jewish People's Council can be found in the papers of Dr James Parkes, MS 60.

Former references:

AJ 10

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1 folder

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MS 116/7 Four Anglo-Jewish letters: letter from the first Baron Rothschild to Roberts (head gardener ?), n.d.; letter from W.De Rothschild to Roberts (head gardener ?), n.d. c.1882; letter from Chief Rabbi Hermann Adler to Frank A.Bullen, 1889; and part of a letter from George Fandel Phillips, n.d.

Former references:

AJ 11

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1 folder

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MS 116/8 Papers of Major Henry D.Myer, 1913-19: volume of typescript 'excerpts from letters from Major Henry D.Myer, 1918-19'; typescript of 'Soldiering of sorts' by Major H.D.Myer, mainly recounting his experiences with the Royal Fusiliers, 1913-19

Former references:

AJ 14 and AJ 253

Size:

2 folders

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MS 116/9 Papers of Charles Landstone relating to the 50th anniversary of the foundation of the Jewish Association of Arts and Science, 1966-7

Correspondence of Charles Landstone, with Joseph Leftwich, the original secretary of the organisation, Solomon Teff, President of the Board of Deputies, and chairman of the dinner, and others, 10 Jun 1966 - 25 May 1967; financial papers relating to the anniversary dinner, 1966; group photograph of original members of the Association present at the reunion dinner, at the Savoy Hotel, 3 Dec 1966; report in the Jewish Chronicle of the dinner, 9 Dec 1966; two lists of members present at the dinner and of relatives representing deceased members of the Association.

Former references:

AJ 18

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1 folder

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MS 116/10 Papers relating to the Franks family of Manchester: statement, by Lewis Franks, setting out 'the true age of each of the family as properly reckoned by my deceased mother', 1782-1858; sale catalogue of `The Limes', formerly the property of Naphtali Franks (1745-96), 1983

Former references:

AJ 20 and AJ 326

Size:

2 folders

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MS 116/11 Papers of the Adler family, 1877-1923, including a small account book of Chief Rabbi Hermann Adler, 1877-82; a letter from Dr Adler, 27 Feb 1911, giving instructions about his death and advice about a successor; a letter to Dr Adler acknowledging the cheque for his son's articles of clerkship, 6 Jan 1887; and a letter from Jacob Epstein to Mr Adler, 1923.

The principal collection of Adler papers is in the library of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, New York. Further letters from Dr Hermann Adler can be found in collections at Southampton in MS 116//63 and MS 176. Letters from Dr Nathan Marcus Adler (d. 1890), father of the Chief Rabbi, can be found in MS 116/50 and there are further references in MS 174.

Former references:

AJ 21

Size:

1 folder

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MS 116/12 Copies of two deeds relating to Manchester Synagogue, Park Place, Cheetham Hill: a lease of land for building a synagogue, 1856, and an assignment of the land, 1900

Former references:

AJ 29

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1 folder

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MS 116/13 Notes on the De Pass family by A.De Pass, including a genealogy of the descendants of Daniel and Rachel De Pass during the nineteenth century, with related correspondence

Former references:

AJ 40

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1 folder

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MS 116/14 Two albums of black and white photographs of Judaica deposited by Arthur Ellis Franklin with the Jewish Museum

Former references:

AJ 41

Size:

2 volumes

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MS 116/15 Copies of the Kitchener Camp Review, the journal of the Kitchener camp for refugees at Richborough, near Sandwich, Kent, Mar - Nov 1939

Former references:

AJ 45

Size:

2 volumes

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MS 116/16 Papers relating to Jewish cemeteries in Great Britain and elsewhere, 1893-1978

Copies of eight documents relating to disused Jewish cemeteries, including two reports, one with corrections, by Lewis Emanuel, 1893; statement setting out permission granted by Great Yarmouth, Southampton, Norwich (1852), Portsmouth (1858), Aldershot (1865) and Belfast (1871) for grounds to be set aside for Jewish burials; list of burials in the cemetery at Great Yarmouth, 1833 onwards; letter from Wilfred Samuel to Charles Emanuel about the cemetery at Nevis, Leeward Islands, 12 Dec 1923; letter to J.N.Nabarro about burials, 9 Dec 1947; minutes of Canterbury Hebrew congregation, 1833-61; and a list made by the Board of Deputies of disused cemeteries, Jan 1933. Two microfiche copies of a tabulated report on disused provincial Jewish cemeteries or those likely to become disused, 13 Jan 1893. Correspondence, sample survey form, notes of results, report on stones in Canterbury, general report, relating to the survey of Jewish cemeteries in Great Britain undertaken under the auspices of the Jewish Historical Society of England to provide a record of burial inscriptions up to 1900, 1975-8.

Former references:

AJ 48 and AJ 249A

Size:

2 folders

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MS 116/17 Papers relating to the mounting of an exhibition, to commemorate the tercentenary of the resettlement of the Jews in the British Isles, at the Victoria and Albert Museum, 6 Jan 1956 - 29 Feb 1956: committee minutes, 1952-6; reports and accounts, exhibition catalogue, correspondence and working papers, a catalogue of the exhibition, file of newspaper cuttings, booklet and plan for commemorating the tercentenary of the settlement of the Jews in the United States of America.

Former references:

AJ 49

Size:

1 box

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MS 116/18 Copies of correspondence of Marrano merchants in London, Amsterdam, Hamburg, Antwerp, etc., 1608-10, with some transcriptions of the letters and translations

The originals are in the Archives Generales du Royaume, Brussels: E.R.Samuel, 'Portuguese Jews in Jacobean London' Jewish Historical Society of England Transactions 18 (1953-5) pp. 171-230.

Former references:

AJ 55

Size:

1 folder

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MS 116/19 Address to the Jewish Communal League by Arthur Sebag Montefiore, 13 Jan 1889

Former references:

AJ 56

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1 folder

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MS 116/20 Abbreviated genealogical table of the descendants of Alexander Moses and Elias Elias, 1751-1961, compiled by Dr A.Joseph for his 'Fifth cousins, Fergus and Seamus Lyons' (1961).

Former references:

AJ 62

Size:

1 folder and 1 roll

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MS 116/21 Copies of papers relating to Rabbi Chaim Zundel Maccoby (1858-1916), preacher (Maggid) of Kamenets (Kamenets-Podolski, Ukraine) known as the 'Kamenitzer Maggid', 1885-1957

Copies of letters, 1885-1957, from Lithuania, Russia and Paris; correspondents include Isaac Rabinowitz, Jacob Laustein, J.Goldberg, H.E.Luxemburg, J.Arlowitz, Dr H.Adler, the Hambro Synagogue and the Mountain Breeze House, Mount Freedom, New Jersey; other papers, including a certificate permitting the Kamenitzer Maggid to teach Jewish religious subjects, 1884, receipts, telegrams, a naturalisation certificate, together with extracts from newspapers and magazines with information on the Kamenitzer Maggid.

Former references:

AJ 63

Size:

1 folder

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MS 116/22 Document relating to a divorce decree of Sarah/Rebecca Yitshak Yakob, for her divorce from Mordecai Sussia (known as Simon) ben Yakob, 1896

Former references:

AJ 64

Size:

1 folder

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MS 116/23 Copies of deeds relating to the acquisition of the burial ground of the Spanish and Portuguese community, in Mile End, 1684, known as the Velho or Old Cemetery

The original documents are at the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue, Bevis Marks, London.

Former references:

AJ 66

Size:

3 rolls

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MS 116/24 Notice for the Anglo-Jewish historical exhibition to be held at Royal Albert Hall, Kensington in spring, 1887, with a list of officers and committee and of the objects acceptable for exhibition

Former references:

AJ 70

Size:

1 folder

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MS 116/25 United Jewish Friendly Society: history compiled by Harry Hyams (1960), tracing the activities of the society from 1888

Former references:

AJ 71

Size:

1 folder