The Stepney Jewish Lads' Club was founded in 1901. In 1960 it merged with the Cambridge and Hackney Associated Clubs, moved to Redbridge and became known as the East London Jewish Youth Centre.

The last Florentine republic (1952), A short history of the Jewish people History of the Jews in England Encyclopaedia Judaica Cecil Roth: historian without tears Cecil Roth was Reader in Post-Biblical Jewish Studies at the University of Oxford, Visiting Lecturer in History at Jews' College, London, and President of the Jewish Historical Society of England. He published many works on Jewish and general ...

Papers of Dr Bernard Homa including: (i) Papers relating to the Board of Deputies: constitution, as amended in 1945, together with the constitution as amended April 1949 with the report of the special meeting of the Board. Report of the committee on the constitution and bye-laws, Dec 1948. (ii) Correspondence and papers relating to Jewish marriages, 1935-51 (iii) Papers relating to the Jewish War Services ...

Correspondence and papers relating to the West London Synagogue, including correspondence with individuals, papers from religious classes and papers about alterations to and the decorations of the synagogue. Correspondence and newspaper articles relating to Reinhart's resignation, 1957. Correspondence, papers and financial material for the Westminster Synagogue. General correspondence files, including ...

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Rabbi Samuel Jacob Rabinowitz was born in Chelm in 1857. He became a rabbi in Jevye in 1887 and was called the same year to Alexoty. He was the co-founder of the Mizrachi World Movement of Religious Zionists in 1902, and was elected president of the British Mizrachi organisation at its first conference in 1918. He was appointed rabbi of the Liverpool congregation in 1906.

<p>Joseph Cohn (b. 1832) and his wife Johanna ('Hannchen') Jacobsohn (b.1831) were both from Filehne, in Posen, Prussia (now Wielen, Poland). Their son, Heimann ('Heinrich') Cohn (b. 1864 in Aschenbude, Posen) owned the clothing business 'Warenhaus H Cohn' in Filehne. Heinrich Cohn married Ella Lesheim (1878-1955). They had three sons: Harry (1902-1916), Herbert (1904-2002) and Paul (1906-1985). Ella's ...

Executive committee minute books, 1941-78; correspondence files for the executive committee, annual general meetings, the Standing Conference of Local Councils of the Council of Christians and Jews, local associations of the Council of Christians and Jews, as well as subject files, with papers on Aid to Christian Lebanon, 1976-80; the Association of Nazi Camp Survivors, 1960-7; a meeting with the Dalai ...

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, ...

Minute books, 1889-1989 (22 vols.); annual reports, 1896-1995 (incomplete series); legal and financial papers, including deeds for High Road, Tottenham, 1897-1914; correspondence, photograph albums and loose photographs, including albums for Berthons House, Walthamstow, c.1899, and one for the Home, Tottenham, 1906 Minute book of the trustees of the British Tay-Sachs Foundation, 1966-74 (1 vol.)

Drawing of Stanley Cioth done when he was a concentration camp prisoner in July 1941, presumably by another inmate. Stanley was a Catholic Pole arrested in Krakow, Poland, in 1941 and sent to prison. He was given prisoner number 129993 and transferred to several concentration camps, including Auschwitz, Buchenwald, Gros Rosen, and Mauthausen, where he worked as a civil engineering technician. He was ...

David Mellows was secretary of the Association of Jewish Youth and subsequently secretary of the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue, Bevis Marks.

Rules and regulations and lists of members, 1893-1927, 1948, 1955 and 1964; list of names and addresses of members, 1934; membership ledger, 1900 and 1902 and two subscription ledgers, 1904-33, one with dates of elections, details of distribution of Meldola medals to public bodies, 1922, and a list of Meldola medallists, 1923-33. Four dinner books, 1903-39, tickets for admission to dinners, 1958-63 ...

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Minute books of the headquarters committee and the council of the Jewish Lads' Brigade, 1897-36, 1955-83 (10 vols.); minute book camp sub-committee, 1898-1909 (1 vol.); minute book of special meetings of the council, 1936-55 (1 vol.); camp order book of the London Regiment, 1901-2 (1 vol.); award book, 1908-38 (1 vol.); attendance book of the Hackney Boys' Non-Commissioned Officers' Union, 1916-29 ...

Color. "Transatlantique - Linea Frances" and title: "Le Havre - Southampton - New York - Depart du Mercredi 15 Fevrier." New York City. Camera pans up and down showing city streets and skyscrapers (shot from the top of a building). 01:08:36 Man, woman (Jeanne?), and young boy walk towards the camera - it appears the cameraman knows them although they are unidentified. More scenic shots of New York ...

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Miscellaneous excerpts: 05:09:18 Parts of Reel 1, with an introduction, scenes of Nazis in power, and a map. German officers inspecting coastal defenses in France. 05:11:22 Parts of Reel 9, showing thousands of Nazis as they surrender. US prisoners are liberated. Belsen prison camp is occupied, shows scenes of Nazi atrocities, corpses, etc. Voiceover of British soldier: "We'd taken the Belsen Concentration ...

This collection comprises photocopies of the original manuscript letters and typescript transcriptions, which were produced by the depositor, date unknown. Some of the themes which recur throughout include the following: gratitude that at least one child was able to escape and moreover to continue with her education; efforts to find a place on the <em>Kindertransport</em> for Leo; news of the fate ...

The Very Revd Joseph Herman Hertz (1872-1946) was born in Slovakia, but moved to the United States of America in 1884. He graduated from the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York in 1894. He was rabbi of Adath Yeshuran Congregation, Syracuse, 1894-6, rabbi at Johannesburg, 1899-1911, rabbi at the Orach Chaim Congregation, New York, 1911-13, and Chief Rabbi of the British Empire, 1913-46. Hertz was ...

Vivian David Lipman (1921-90) was educated at St Paul's School, London, and Magdalen and Nuffield Colleges, Oxford. He obtained a first class degree in 1941, followed by a DPhil in 1947, on `Problems of areas in English local government'. He served in the Royal Signals and Intelligence Corps, 1942-5. In 1947 Lipman entered the Ministry of Health and later served in the Ministries of Local Government ...

Jewish friendly societies had a number of principal objectives: to grant relief and maintenance to members during sickness or other infirmity, and medical aid during sickness; to grant an allowance to members during confined mourning; to contribute to funeral and tombstone expenses; to provide death endowment; to relieve members when in distress generally; and to grant convalescent home treatment. ...

Rabbi Solomon Schonfeld (1912-84) was the son of Dr Avigdor Schonfeld, the founder of the Jewish Secondary Schools Movement. In 1933 Solomon Schonfeld became rabbi of the Adath Yisrael Synagogue; he succeeded his father as principal of the Jewish Secondary Schools Movement, becoming also the presiding rabbi of the Union of Orthodox Hebrew Congregations and president of the National Council for Jewish ...

The archive is composed of material relating to Nathan and Sarah Laski and their sons Neville and Harold, papers relating to Jewish defence and other papers collected by Neville Laski. Nathan Laski (1863-1941) worked as an Indian merchant for over fifty years. He retired in 1930 and devoted himself to social work. Laski was chairman of the Manchester Jewish Hospital and Manchester and Salford Jewish ...