MS 116/26 Records of births, ketubot, marriages and deaths of the Sephardi congregation of Jamaica, 1800-1960: microfilm copies
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MS 116/27 Assorted historical documents relating to Anglo-Jewry, 1902-20,
Photographs of the Oxford summer school, 1920; the Prophet Ahmad of Qadian and Muhammed Sadig, 1902; address and gifts presented to Professor Solomon Schechter, 1902; group photograph, including Chief Rabbi Hertz; studio portrait of an unknown lady; three pictures after the original drawings of Professor M.Oppenheim.
Copies of a notarial faculty awarded to Haham Isaac Netto, Aug 1747; attesting signatures of a number of London Jewish notaries, taken from the original probate wills; of an engraving of Devonshire Square, 1742; of a notarial deposition signed by Solomon de Costa, 1742; and of the ketubah of the marriage of Isaac Netto or Nieto to Sarah Supino, 1747 (materials for E.R.Samuel, `Anglo-Jewish notaries and scriveners' Jewish Historical Society of England Transactions 17 (1951-2) pp. 113-59.
Cards advertising the twenty-first anniversary dinner of the Jewish Historical Society of England, 27 Apr 1914.
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MS 116/28 Der roiter Hohn (the red cock), an occasional publication of Po'alei Zion (Jewish workers' movement) in honour of the fifteenth anniversary (5 Feb 1921) of its foundation, containing a rhymed parody, in Yiddish, with accounts of the discussions held by leading members of the party on Palestine, negotiations with the Comintern, finances of the party, relations with Chaim Weizmann, his colleagues and opponents, and fifteen branches of the party in Britain.
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MS 116/29 Copy of a Latin diary of a journey to England by Johann Schult, a Swedish Hebraist, 1702-3. Schult visited London and Oxford to study Hebrew manuscripts. He had many meetings with David Nieto (1687-1773), haham of the Spanish and Portuguese Congregation, Bevis Marks.
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MS 116/30 Copy of 'Judenakten im Daenischen Reicharchiv Copenhagen', a list of Jews in Denmark compiled by the German authorities during the occupation of that country during World War II
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MS 116/31 Autograph letter from F.D.Mocatta to Julian, 5 Oct 1904
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MS 116/32 Papers relating to the Mitchell and Berkowitz families, 1812-1970
Birth certificates, 1812-20, copies of the Gravesend and Dartford Recorder which have articles on Henry Berkowitz, Mayor of Gravesend in 1887, and his obituary, notice in the Jewish Chronicle about Henry Berkowitz's school and synagogue, 20 Mar 1857; manuscript notes on Michael Mitchell, and correspondence, 1949-50, 1970
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MS 116/33 Copies of genealogical material relating to the Josephs family, descendants of Emanuel Charles Josephs, 1773-1862, updated to 1988, with a genealogy of Jonas Lazarus, 1771-1851, and a genealogy of the Isaac family
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MS 116/34 Biographical notes on the Solomon family of Edmonton, genealogies from 1778 onwards, with notes on other families including Raphael, Jones, Levason, Nicholls, Nathan and Groomsfelt
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MS 116/35 Notices of meetings and demonstrations: (i) at the Adolf Tuck Hall, Woburn House, against the deportation of refugees reaching Palestine, 27 Jul 1947 (ii) organised by the Anglo-Jewish Association in which `the first military governor of the West Bank of Jordan puts Israel's case for freedom and justice for all peoples in the Middle East', 13 Jul 1967
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MS 116/36 Genealogies and biographical notes on the Fiedler, Groomsfelt, Jaffe (Joffe), Jones, Levason, Maurice, Nicholls, Raphael, Russell, Salamon, Solomon and Sylvester families
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MS 116/37 Letter from the Revd A.L.Green to Mrs Henrietta Green, his daughter-in-law, about eschatology, 20 Aug 1880: with a typescript transcript and related correspondence, 1970
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MS 116/38 Copy of a letter from Juda Monis to Robert Woodward, Minister of Eastwood, near Glasgow, 5 Jun 1723
This is a copy of National Archives of Scotland document GD 18/4054
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MS 116/39 Papers about Curacao synagogues, twentieth century, including Rabbi Simeon J.Maslin Guidebook. The historic synagogue of the United Netherlands Portuguese Congregation "Mikve Israel-Emanuel" of Curacao (Willemstad, Curacao, 1964)
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MS 116/40 Genealogies and biographical notes on the families of Moses/Moss/Marsen and Lucas, 18th century onwards; copy of articles of agreement between Joseph Moses and his sister Hannah, 5 Jun 1790
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MS 116/41 Correspondence and papers, mainly of Mrs Eliza Davis, 1860-94, including a letter from Charles Dickens to James J.Davis, 4 Sep 1860; correspondence of Mrs Eliza Davis with Walter Besant, 1893; with Lawrence Alma-Tadema, RA, 14 Jul 1898; and with Sir Henry Ponsonby, private secretary to Queen Victoria, 13 Feb 1894; photograph, probably of Mrs Eliza Davis
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MS 116/42 Copy of a genealogy of the Davis-Espir family, from the 18th century onwards, with notes of the Mosbach (later Davis), Moses, Barnett, Collins, Mordant, de Saxe, Koppenhagen, Marks, Salmon, Halsted, Hyams, Moss, Beyfus, Barnard, Barton, Piperno, Simmons, Meyers, Picard, Bernheim, Joseph and Abrahams families
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MS 116/43 Papers relating to the Manchester Congregation of Spanish and Portuguese Jews and to the Manchester Jewish Hospital: laws and regulations of the Manchester congregation, revised and amended, 1910; history of the congregation, 1873-1923; cutting from the JEWISH CHRONICLE relating to the laying of the foundation stone of the Manchester Jewish Hospital, 3 Jul 1903
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MS 116/44 Papers of the English Zionist Federation, including correspondence, reports of meetings, press announcements and related papers, 12 Mar 1909-6 May 1910
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MS 116/45 Papers relating to the Jewish burial ground, Nevis, West Indies, including copies of an invitation to the reconsecration service, 23 Feb 1971, programme for the service, list of tombstones and speech by the Prime Minister of St Christopher, Nevis, Antigua
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MS 116/46 Papers of Isaac and Sarah Mejzner (Meisner): marriage attestation, in Yiddish, of Isaac and Sarah Mejzner, 9 Jan 1862; passport and laisser passer, in Russian, of Isaac Meisner, and laisser passer, in Polish, of Sarah Faige Mejzner
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MS 116/47 Booklet produced to celebrate the dedication of Birmingham Central Synagogue, 16 Apr 1961
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MS 116/48 Papers relating to Abraham Mocatta and to the Sephardi community in London, 1853-1901
Papers include: an article headed `Leaders of European chess' A.Mocatta, President of the City of London Chess Club, 1894-7, in the American Chess Magazine; a report on the funeral of Abraham Mocatta in the Jewish World, 28 Dec 1900; a vote of condolence passed by the Board of Deputies on the death of Mocatta in the Jewish Chronicle, 25 Jan 1901; report of an address by Haham Gaster on Abraham Mocatta and a genealogy of the Mocatta family from 1677 onwards in the Jewish Chronicle, 4 Jan 1901; report of the same address in the Jewish World, 4 Jan 1961; illustrated supplement to the Jewish Chronicle on the Bevis Marks bicentenary, 28 Jun 1901; reports in the Jewish Chronicle on the celebration of the Bevis Marks bicentenary, 5 Jul 1901; invitation to Miss Ella Mocatta to lay the foundation stone of the Lauderdale Road Synagogue, 15 Dec 1895, and order of service for this ceremony; order of service for the dedication of Lauderdale Road Synagogue, 6 October 1896; and an order of service for the blessing of the sun, Lauderdale Road Synagogue, 8 Apr 1853.
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MS 116/49 Typescript reminiscences of S.Mattatia (d. 1958), a member of the Manchester Congregation of Spanish and Portuguese Jews, n.d.
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MS 116/50 Papers collected by Rabbi L.G.Graf, 1846-60, including a certificate that Ephraim Cohen is a competent mohel, 19 Dec 1852; formal letters authorising Ephraim Cohen to perform marriage ceremonies, 1848- 60; correspondence, mainly in Hebrew or Yiddish, to and from Ephraim Cohen, 1850-4, including correspondence with Dr N.Adler and Dayan Aaron Levy; a marriage contract drafted and signed by Ephraim Cohen, 31 Oct 1850; four letters, in Yiddish, from Eleazar Beresh (Katz), 1846-50; a draft letter from Manasseh (Katz), the son of Eleazar, to Rabbi Aaron, n.d., with a letter from David to Manasseh, on the reverse; Hebrew draft of a conversion certificate for a Nottingham woman, 4 Jul 1849; a letter, in Hebrew, from Israel, son of [?], to Chief Rabbi M.Veilchenfeld in Rogozno, 25 Jun 1846; and a letter, in Hebrew, from Elijah Sarasohn, 18 Jun 1846
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