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MS 116/105-130 Small Jewish collections


MS 116/105 Papers relating to the Oxford Jewish Congregation, 1979-81: circulars, papers, information pamphlets relating to the Oxford Habonim, 1971-80; copies of Iton Ha'vatikim, the magazine of the Habonim club, 1936-48

A related collection is in the Bodleian Library.

Former references:

AJ 260

Size:

1 folder


MS 116/106 Raffle ticket, in Hebrew script, for support for a needy family, with receipt for prize, a silver cigarette case, 1917

Former references:

AJ 265

Size:

1 folder


MS 116/107 Two registers of burials at the German Jews Burying Ground, Great Synagogue, London, 1776-1810, with interments at the New Cemetery, Ducking Pond Lane, Bethnal Green (Brady Street), from the 1790s

Former references:

AJ 266

Size:

2 volumes


MS 116/108 Copies of four letters, in Yiddish, with English translations, concerning immigrants in London, 1901-2

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AJ 268

Size:

1 folder


MS 116/109 Letter from Elliott Phillipp, Honorary Secretary of the Cambridge Hebrew Congregation and Schechter Society to Chief Rabbi Hertz, asking for copies of his pamphlet The Shema, 20 May 1935

Former references:

AJ 270

Size:

1 folder


MS 116/110 Orders of service, 1974-7: on the centenary of the East London Synagogue, 1977; `The Nazi War: prayer of supplication', c.1974

Former references:

AJ 271

Size:

1 folder


MS 116/111 Russian passport permitting Yossel Podgur to travel for six months, 1895

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AJ 272

Size:

1 folder


MS 116/112 Address, in Hebrew, in honour of the one hundredth birthday of Sir Moses Montefiore, with a photograph of Rabbi Joseph Kohn- Zedek

Former references:

AJ 275

Size:

1 box


MS 116/113 Copies of papers relating to the Uhlman family, 1747-1921

Copies of papers relating to the Uhlman family including a transcript of two documents, with translation, granting certain rights and privileges to David Uhlman, Hofaktor of the Duke of Wurttemberg, 6 Jul 1747; a letter, in German, in Hebrew script, from H.Uhlman to his children Simon and Lehna, 5 Oct 1867, together with a transcription; discharge of Simon Uhlman from the American army, 1863; photographs of Fred Uhlman and friends, in military uniform, 1920-1; a portrait of Isak Elsas, the great grandfather of Fred Uhlman; transcript of gravestone inscriptions of Isak and Rosle Elsas, Jewish cemetery, Hochberg; `A man and his time', an autobiography by Fred Uhlman

Former references:

AJ 278

Size:

1 folder


MS 116/114 Copy of the reminiscences of Thomas V.Edwards, founder and senior partner in a firm of solicitors in the East End, with particular reference to Judge Cluer, the presiding judge at Whitechapel County Court, with associated correspondence, c.1980

Former references:

AJ 279

Size:

1 folder


MS 116/115 Album of photographs of the Egyptian expeditionary force, 1918-19, in Egypt, Palestine (Bir Salem) and Lebanon, with autographed photographs of individual members of the force, 1918

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AJ 284

Size:

2 folders


MS 116/116 Papers and photographs of Morris Solomon, relating to his service during the First World War

Former references:

AJ 290

Size:

1 folder


MS 116/117 Letters to Professor Jacob Isaacs from the British Council giving instructions for his journey to Palestine, 18 Dec 1944; copy of a letter in English and Hebrew relating to Isaacs' appointment as the new Sir Moses Montefiore Professor of English Literature at the Hebrew University, Jersualem

Former references:

AJ 295

Size:

1 folder


MS 116/118 Genealogy of the Pyke family, 1792 to 1980

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AJ 297

Size:

1 folder


MS 116/119 Group photograph of the Chazanim (Association of Ministers) c.1925

Former references:

AJ 298

Size:

1 folder


MS 116/120 Correspondence about Jews as navy agents during the nineteenth century, 1979-80

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AJ 300

Size:

1 folder


MS 116/121 Papers relating to the Notting Hill Jewish Lads' Club and the Stepney Jewish Lads' Club, 1911-60, including copies of the magazines, newspaper cuttings, photographs, booklets, invitations, 1911-60

Former references:

AJ 301

Size:

1 folder


MS 116/122 Papers of Simon Burns, lawyer, 1938-42

Papers of Simon Burns, lawyer, including a letter from David Cope to Burns, 20 Jan 1939; a typescript account by Burns of `Seeing primitive South Africa', 1939; a carbon of a letter from Burns to Samuel Wolkowicz, Warsaw, 25 Nov 1938; a circular announcing a lecture by Burns: `Is there hope for the Jews ?'; article from the JEWISH CHRONICLE on Britain as a home for refugees, n.d.; article from the EVENING STANDARD: `Trust fund for Jews planned'; two versions of a lecture by Burns on `The Jew and crime', n.d.; lecture by Burns on his visit to Warsaw and Zbaszyn in 1938; lecture: `Magic in the African jungle', 24 Feb 1942; lecture entitled `Have the Jews any future ?'; open letter to a Jewish parent; bulletin on Mr Hellman's visit to Zbaszyn, 10 Nov 1938; chapter 14 of a work reflecting on the trial and conviction of the pantry boy, Henry Jacoby, and of Ronald True

Former references:

AJ 302

Size:

1 folder


MS 116/123 Papers relating to the Jewish community in Bradford, 1935-82, including newspaper cuttings, correspondence and papers relating to German Jews in Bradford

Former references:

AJ 306

Size:

1 folder


MS 116/124 Genealogy of the Bergson family, with explanatory notes, 1982

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AJ 307

Size:

1 folder


MS 116/125 Papers relating to small Jewish communities and genealogical material

Papers relating to small Jewish communities and genealogical material including notes, newspaper cuttings, copies of local Jewish newspapers, correspondence, genealogies, relating to Jews in Cork, Bristol, Plymouth, Cheltenham and a provincial index to the list of Jewish bankrupts in the Gentleman's Magazine; correspondence and papers on the De Castro family; papers relating to Joseph Cortissos; letter from Sir Paul Butler to the secretary of the Board of Deputies concerning an ancestor, Charles Nathaniel Levien and his family, 18 September 1951; correspondence, notes and papers on the families of D'Aguilar, Setton and Samuel; genealogies of Joseph Joseph of Mulhouse, Alsace; correspondence and papers relating to Brinah Joseph and his descendants

Former references:

AJ 309

Size:

1 box


MS 116/126 Transcripts of the marriage registers of the Western Synagogue (19 and 27), 1827-63 and of a mohel register (161), 1794-1815

Former references:

AJ 312

Size:

1 box


MS 116/127 Copies of the betrothal and marriage contracts of Hannah and Hirsch Hoffman, 1812; the betrothal and marriage contracts of Marcus Josephi and Eva Arnold, 1814; a certificate, issued by an official body in Riga, giving the date of the marriage and the names and dates of birth of the first four sons and daughters

Former references:

AJ 314

Size:

1 folder


MS 116/128 Copy of the De Pass family register, which includes epitaphs, etc.; copy of an article on `The family of de Pass' by Archie de Pass

Former references:

AJ 318

Size:

1 folder


MS 116/129 Genealogical material relating to the Cowan family, 1973

Former references:

AJ 321

Size:

1 folder


MS 116/130 Freemasonry certificate granting Abraham Moos membership of Fitzroy Lodge no. 569 of the United Grand Lodge, 25 Jul 1894

Former references:

AJ 327

Size:

1 folder

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