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MS 311/1  Bound volume of copies of The Tower News: a bulletin issued by the Hackney Boys' Club, Jan-Dec 1944, edited by Harold Newblatt.

The volume is inscribed with the message `Presented to Sergeant Marcus Carr: this bound copy of the news sheets for 1944 completed my third successive year as editor, Harold Newblatt'

Former references:

A993

Size:

1 volume


MS 311/2  Order of service of thanksgiving following the admission of the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor Lord Levene of Portsoken at the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue, Bevis Marks, London, 13 Nov 1998

Former references:

A995

Size:

1 folder


MS 311/3  Album of black and white photographs of Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, including the work of Red Cross personnel, of mass graves and of child survivors; entry pass for the camp

Former references:

A996

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1 folder


MS 311/4  Conference papers of the London Conference on Nazi Gold, Lancaster House, London, 2-4 Dec 1997

Former references:

A1004

Size:

1 box


MS 311/5  Photograph of the front of West Hartlepool Synagogue

Former references:

A1005

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1 folder


MS 311/6  The intellectual level of Anglo-Jewish life: being papers read before an open meeting by the First Lodge of England of the Independent Order of B'nai B'rith, 15 Jan 1928

Former references:

A1006

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1 folder


MS 311/7  Typescript of `Terrorist in Palestine': a letter to The Times, 12 Oct 1944

Former references:

A1007

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1 folder


MS 311/8  Orders of service, 1945-79; sermon of Rabbi Israel Brodie on his installation as Chief Rabbi, 1948; Reply to Bevin: analysis of the Foreign Secretary's statement on Palestine by David Gen Gurion

Former references:

A1008

Size:

1 folder


MS 311/9  Jordan is Palestine Committee newsletters, newspaper cuttings, articles, 1988-92

Former references:

A1009

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1 folder


MS 311/10  Meir Abelson Letter from Jerusalem newsletters, c.1987-91

Former references:

A1010

Size:

1 folder


MS 311/11  Papers relating to Palestine and Arab-Israeli relations, c.1979-92: including papers of the Israel Advocacy Centre, New York, articles, newspaper cuttings, extract of a speech, copy of the League of Nations mandate for Palestine, 1926

Former references:

A1011

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1 folder


MS 311/12  Journals of Curt Rosenberg: two in German `Hexetanz nach Sonnentag' and `Tagebuch as dem Exil' and `Picture from a life: the memoirs of an East Prussian Jew', translated by S.F.Dorman

Former references:

A1014

Size:

1 box


MS 311/13  International Interfaith Centre, Oxford, newsletter, Jul 1999

Former references:

A1019

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1 folder


MS 311/14  Copy of the certificate of naturalisation of Boruchas Mausas Strasunskis, known as Starr, and his son of the same name, 14 Feb 1938

Former References:

A1093

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1 folder


MS 311/15  Papers of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews Congregation

Tercentenary celebration for Bevis Marks Synagogue: order of service, 5 Dec 2001; menu for dinner, 15 Oct 2001; commemorative brochure; annual reports of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, 1934, 1954-64; Laws of the Board of Guardians for the Relief of the Poor of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews Congregation, 1925; An anthology for the Sabbath compiled by Rabbi Dr S.Goldman, 1972

Outline of a plan proposed for the better management and amelioration of the Jewish poor, n.d. [nineteenth century]; Brochure for the Jewish Board of Guardians centenary banquet in Guildhall, 17 Mar 1959; Association of Jewish Social Workers circulars, agenda, memorandum, 1970; Order Achei Brith and Shield of Abraham accounts; copy of a section of a Japanese guidebook to London relating to synagogues of London

Former references:

A1094, A3034

Size:

2 folders


MS 311/16  Copy of the programme, menu and dinner table plan for the tenth anniversary dinner of the Council of Christians and Jews, Mansion House, London, 8 Oct 1952

Former references:

A1095

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1 folder


MS 311/17  Dr Goodman papers on the Liverpool Jewish community

Copy of the score of Hatikvah: a song of hope arranged and orchestrated by Betram B.Benas; Survey of the facilities of Jewish education in Liverpool, 1946; Committee on Jewish education survey on Jewish education in Merseyside by Mervyn Goodman, 1962; report of the demographic and sociological unit, 1965; yearbooks, 1971, 1992-2001; copies of Mosaic, 1962-72; exhibition guide

Former references:

A1098

Size:

1 folder


MS 311/18  Papers of Joyce and Abraham Weiner

Letter from Joyce Weiner to Philip Mishon, 24 Mar 1980; reprint of an article `ICH' by Abraham Weiner; notebook containing newspaper cuttings relating to lectures by Abraham Weiner, 1940-5; programme of meetings of the Adam Smith Club; flyer for the Joyce Weiner Fund

Former references:

A2012

Size:

1 folder


MS 311/19  Papers of Eva Frean for the North Western Reform Synagogue Soviet Jewry Committee

Papers relating to the plight of Soviet Jewry: newspaper cuttings, 1975-83; excerpts from "Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe"; Moscow on trial: what to do with imprisoned Jews?, 1971; report of activities of the National Council for Soviet Jewry; programme of the North Western Reform Synagogue Soviet Jewry Committee; correspondence; publicity booklet relating to Edward Kuznetsov; copy of a typescript account of a visit by Eva Frean to Moscow, December 1978; programme for a recital by Boris Berman

Former references:

A2013

Size:

1 folder


MS 311/20  Papers on the Middle East from Edmund de Rothschild

Copies of `A proposal for alleviating some of the current problems in the Middle East', of the First Alexandria Declaration of Religious Leaders of the Holy Land, 21 Jan 2001, and a press release

Former references:

A2014

Size:

1 folder


MS 311/21  Papers of Mrs Balcombe for Conscience, the Interdenominational Committee for Soviet Jewry

Papers relating to the plight of Soviet Jewry, 1978-84: newspaper cuttings; correspondence; programmes for events; flyers and publicity for Conscience; publicity booklet relating to Edward Kuznetsov; paper relating to a colloquium and meeting in support of A.D.Ioffe

Former references:

A2015

Size:

1 folder


MS 311/22  Marriage book issued by the Administration Communale Anvers to Fajwel Sznicer and Sara Wahl, 22, Jul 1937

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A2016

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1 item


MS 311/23  Copy of the Jewish Blind Society official journal: Perception, Spring 1967

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A2021

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1 folder


MS 311/24  Copy of an article on the Council of Manchester and Salford Jews by John M.Shaftesley

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A2026

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1 folder


MS 311/25  Two posters for the Jews for Jesus organisation

Former references:

A2027

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2 items


MS 311/26  Papers of Edwin Manzoni, some relating to the Kitchener Camp, Kent, England

Personal papers, 1924-39; Some Victims of the Nazi Terror, a magazine about the Kitchener Camp; photographs, 1930s

Former references:

A2036

Size:

1 box


MS 311/27  Obituaries, tributes, in memoriam booklets; tributes and an order of service honouring Leo Baeck’s seventieth, seventy fifth and eightieth birthdays; two lectures by Leo Baeck; articles; notes relating to Leo Baeck; correspondence, 1943-57

Former references:

A2041

Size:

1 folder


MS 311/28  Papers of the Student and Academic Campaign for Soviet Jewry, 1972, 1982-8

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A2042

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1 folder


MS 311/29  Papers of Abraham Moss, Alderman and Lord Mayor of Manchester, 1954-64, including correspondence and diaries

Former references:

A2053

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1 box/p>


MS 311/30  Copy of the text of a broadcast for the Overseas Pacific Service “Jewish Christian co-operation in refugee work”, censored by J.Grenfell Williams, 9 Feb 1942; copy of a memorandum by Allyn Robin on behalf of Sterling Brown to all NCCJ offices on the problems of setting up the ICCJ, 1951, with a covering letter from the ICCJ British office, 1979, discussing this memorandum.

Former references:

A2057

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1 folder


MS 311/31  Copy of a letter from E.Bevan to Harold Laski thanking him for his letter and his confidence and good will, 5 Oct 1940

Former references:

A2058

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1 folder


MS 311/32  Papers of Rudi Kennedy, 1925-2004, mainly relating to his fight for compensation for Jewish slave labourers in the Second World War

Former references:

A2072

Size:

6 boxes


MS 311/33  Papers of Revd Dr I.W.Slotki, MA, 1920-75

Former references:

A2086

Size:

1 box


MS 311/34  Memoirs “J” by Marie Sackin. Maria Sackin was born in Hildesheim, Germany, in 1908 and came to Great Britain in 1936 where she lived until 2003.

The memoirs, which were written in 1950, but contain an epilogue written in 1982, cover from her earliest memory of a family holiday in 1912 until the end of the Second World War.

Former references:

A2089

Size:

1 folder


MS 311/35  Papers of Rabbi Morris Nemeth, 1966-82

Former references:

A2098

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1 folder


MS 311/36  Minute book of the Special Committee appointed by the Jewish Association for the Diffusion of Religious Knowledge to consider the arrangements necessary for training Jewish teachers, 1893-1900

Former references:

A3012

Size:

1 volume


MS 311/37  Copies of petitions and court papers relating to the case of the Saul brothers, 1821-5 (modern copies): used in Todd Endelman’s book The Jews of Georgian England 1714-1839

Former references:

A3025

Size:

1 folder


MS 311/38  Typescript account by Harold Goldman of the experience of Marianne Schwarz between 1938-45. Schwarz lived in Vienna in 1938. She and her parents were interned in a ghetto and subsequently moved to Theirenstadt in Czechoslovakia. Finally Marianne and her mother were sent to Belsen in Mar 1945.

Former references:

A3026

Size:

1 folder


MS 311/39  Copy of a typescript booklet Joza: memories of my life and times by Josephine Bruegel with Sylva Simsova (London 2002)

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A3027

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1 folder


MS 311/40  Holocaust Research and Documentation/Jewish Education papers, including lists of members of the panels on Jewish education and Holocaust education and submission for the symposia on Holocaust research, 2001

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A3028

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1 folder


MS 311/41  Copy of a letter, in German, from Hilde Woodman, nee Gerlach, to her brother, Frankl, in Germany, Nov 1945; with explanatory information

Former references:

A3030

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1 folder


MS 311/42  Copy of a typescript paper `War experiences of David Kutner, 1939-1945' describing his family’s incarceration in Lodz ghetto and subsequent move to Auschwitz where the family were separated.

Former references:

A3031/p>

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1 folder


MS 311/43  `Lives in crisis’ a chronicle of the Grunicher family by Ilse Strauss, nee Grunicher, including details of her life in pre-war Germany and in wartime Britain

Former references:

A3032

Size:

1 folder


MS 311/44  Booklets and map relating to the Jewish community in Thessaloniki

Former references:

A3033

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1 folder


MS 311/45  Three letters to Leonard Stein, 1910-11, mentioning Zionism and Professor Segal

Former references:

A3036

Size:

1 folder


MS 311/46  A4 booklet of papers setting out the structure and profile of the Israel Labour party, and the platform on foreign affairs adopted at the 5th Labour Party Conference and the economic and social platform adopted by the Labour Party Congress, 20 Nov 1991

Former references:

A3051

Size:

1 folder


MS 311/47  Papers of Misses Moss, including publications, photographs, correspondence, early 19th century-1860

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Former References:

A3065

Size:

1 box


MS 311/48  Folder of typescript, annotated notes by Miriam Meisel for a work on Rachel Beer (née Sassoon)

Former references:

A3076

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1 folder


MS 311/49  Account, with photographs, by Naidia Woolf of a journey in August 2007 to her ancestral home towns in Poland, to Lodz ghetto and to Treblinka

Former references:

A3077

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1 folder


MS 311/50  Copies of notes from various archival and printed sources, family trees relating to families named Isaac(s) and various spellings

Former References:

A3082

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1 folder


MS 311/51  Manuscript transcript by John Banks (d.1987) of the register of the Great Synagogue, London, covering marriages 1791-1885, and burials, 1826-33

Former references:

A3083

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1 folder


MS 311/52  Papers relating to the Edinburgh Hebrew Congregation and the Edinburgh Jewish Literary Society and the Norwich Hebrew Congregation, 1961-9

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A3084

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1 folder


MS 311/53  Photograph of the booth staffed by Miss Bennett in the interior of the hall at Atlantic Park, Eastleigh, with a number of the refugees in residence at the transit camp, 1920s

Former references:

A3098

Size:

1 folder


MS 311/54   Research material of Dr. Claire Hilton, 1990-3, for her publication The Stockport Jewish Community, which explores the history of the Jewish community in Stockport from the late 19th century to the early 1950s.

Former references:

A4003

Size:

1 box


MS 311/55   Copy of the Stepney Jewish Girls’ and Infants’ School Monthly House Bulletin, Jan 1930

Former references:

A4006

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1 folder


MS 311/56  Jewish Board of Guardians centenary banquet in Guildhall commemorative booklet, 17 Mar 1959

Former references:

A4007

Size:

1 folder


MS 311/57 ;Presentation album from the Federation of Jewish Communities in the Federative People’s Republic of Yugoslavia, to the World Jewish Congress, of black and white photographs of monuments erected by the Jewish community at Djakovo, Čakovec, Bačko Petrovo Selo, Kikinda, Zrenjanin, Zemun, Skoplje, Novi Sad, Sombor, Subotica, Kanjiža, Sarajevo, Zagreb, Bački Petrovo, Mol

The album bears the following note on its front page: “The small Jewish community of the New Yugoslavia has erected since the Liberation in 1945 till the end of 1952-19 monuments and monument plates in various places in memory to the 60,000 victims of fascism and fallen fighters during the war years of 1941-1945. Here are the photographs of some of these monuments.

Former references:

A4030

Size:

1 volume


MS 311/58  Photographs of James and Dorothy Parkes and their dog in the Library, Iwerne Minster, Blandford Forum, Dorset, and of W.J.Ibbett

Former references:

A41031

Size:

1 folder


MS 311/59 Board of Deputies of British Jews campaign kit for the 2009 European elections, including a guide to running a campaign, leaflets about the British National Party and how to stop the BNP, balloons, flyers

Former references:

A4037

Size:

1 folder


MS 311/ 60 ‛Pamela Frankau: a life 1908-1967' by Diana Raymond: a copy of a typescript unpublished biography of Frankau, with annotations.

Former references:

A4038

Size:

1 folder


MS 311/61  Diana Bailey’s original typescript bibliography of the printed works of James Parkes by Sidney Sugarman and Diana Bailey; photocopies of photographs of James Parkes, 1975, with a covering letter from Parkes to Diana Bailey concerning one of the photographs

Former references:

A4085

Size:

1 folder


MS 311/62 Copy of a letter from Winston Churchill, Home Office, London, to the Secretary of the Stuart M.Samuel Lodge Number 16 of the Order Achei Brith conveying the thanks of the King for the message from the lodge on the death of Edward VII, 24 May 1910

Former References:

A4098

Size:

1 folder


MS 311/63  Papers of Martin Helmuth Schachmann and Dr Hildegard Sarah Schachmann, née Goldberg

Papers of Martin Schachmann: photographs; wallet containing photographs, papers with names and addresses, calling cards, receipts for postage; appointment slip; correspondence, 1938; Monday Club membership card, 1939; correspondence, papers, notebook, 1939; account paper, 1902

Papers of Dr Hildegard Schachmann: correspondence, including with the International Red Cross and the War Organisation of the British Red Cross, 1942, 1945, but mainly concerning attempts to trace family members and with Messrs Cardew-Smith and Ross, London, and with German legal firms relating to claims of restitution, 1955-68; certificates and copies of forms, 1917-46, including application forms for a certificate of British naturalisation by Martin and Hilde Schachmann

Former references:

A4101

Size:

2 folders


MS 311/64  Papers of Dr Joseph Rosenwasser, including in German and Hebrew, 1931-48

Certificates, including school certificate, 1931, and travel document application form; University of Frankfurt study book, 1934, university study book, 1939, with photograph; correspondence, some in German or Hebrew, including between Rosenwasser and Lotte, 1940-8; lecture notes

Former references:

A4120

Size:

1 folder


MS 311/65  Office of the Chief Rabbi authorisation for the solemnisation of marriage forms and correspondence, 1930-56

Former references:

A4121

Size:

1 folder


MS 311/66  File of papers relating to the parliamentary regulations for Shechita, 1930-2

Correspondence, including in German and Hebrew, 1930-2, and including a letter from the Board of Deputies of British Jews to Arthur Greenwood, Minister of Health, 6 Jul 1931, and another from the Union of Orthodox Hebrew Congregations to Greenwood, 10 Jul 1931; regulations adopted at the conference on the slaughter of animals bill, 14 Aug and 9 Oct 1930; draft memorandum of agreement between the Chief Rabbi and a range of organisations for the administration of shechita; handwritten note of the Rules of the Rabbinical Commission; Parliamentary debates, House of Commons, 12 Dec 1930; copies of the Slaughter of animals bill and amendments; Jewish Telegraph Agency Daily News Bulletin, 13 Dec 1930; typescript Union of Orthdox Jewish Congregations memorandum with regard to the Slaughter of animals bill; circular by Chief Rabbi Hertz containing his ‘Observations on the memorandum by the so-called “Union of Orthodox Congregations”’ relating to the Slaughter of animals bill, 6 Jul 1931; newspaper cuttings; paper on ‘Birmingham decision’

Former references:

A4122

Size:

1 folder


MS 311/67  Manuscript reminiscences of C.W.H.Pauli, also known as Hirsch Prinz and Tzvi Nassi (1800-77), a Jewish convert to Christianity. Pauli’s reminiscences include accounts of his early years in the synagogue, his conversion and his travels as a missionary.

Former references:

A3013

Size:

2 boxes


MS 311/68  Second draft of ‘The New Jerusalem: a Sussex Story’ by Professor Pamela Howard a site specific piece written for performance in the main gallery of the Oxmarket Centre for the Arts, Chichester

Former References:

A4153

Size:

1 folder


MS 311/69  Papers of Eva Mitchell, née Ledererova, relating to the kindertransport from Prague, 1939

Copy of a list of children brought under the auspices of the Czech Children’s Section on transports from Prague in 1939; correspondence, papers, newspaper article relating to reunions, 1988-9

Former references:

A4154

Size:

1 folder


MS 311/70  Typescript poems ‘What would I have done?’ and ‘Incident with a child’ by Harry Haines reflecting on the experience of the Jewish community during the Holocaust

Former references:

A4155

Size:

1 folder


MS 311/71  Typescript copy of ‘Memoirs of an Adass childhood’ by Herbert Richer, 2012, recounting his childhood as a member of the Adath Yisrael Synagogue and Burial Society (Adass) in the 1920s and 1930s.

Former References:

A4160

Size:

1 folder

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