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A2088 Papers of Dr Schneier Levenberg

1 Anglo-Jewry

See also: 20/3 (‘Great Britain and Zionism and the British Zionist contribution to Israel’)

1/1 Historical: Jews in Britain and the development of the c. twentieth Anglo-Jewish community century

1/2 Research papers and statistical analysis on the Anglo- c. 1975-95 Jewish community

1/3 Institutions and organisations c. 1968-98 includes: Marks and Spencer, Jewish Chronicle, Union of Jewish Students, the Oxford Centre for Postgraduate Hebrew Studies, the Spiro Institute, the Institute of Jewish Affairs, the British Friends of the Diaspora and the Commonwealth Jewish Council

1/4 The Board of Deputies of British Jews c. 1960s-c.1990s includes: historical information, constitutional and policy documents, election material and conference papers, newsletters, and papers about Zionism, Israel and Soviet Jewry

1/5 Jewish involvement in British politics c. 1960s-c.1990s includes: historical information, Jewish members of parliament; Jewish support for Labour Party, the British Labour movement and Labour Zionism/Jewish Labour

See also: 11/2 (‘Women’ for Jewish women’s involvement in politics)

1/6 General, miscellaneous and current affairs, mostly c. 1943, 1975, cuttings from the Jewish Chronicle and other papers and c.1980-93 magazines and some typescript papers on British Jews and their affairs

2 Anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism 1940s-93

See also: 18/5 9USSR: ‘Anti-Semitism and anti- Zionism’)

Typescript, printed, and published material and newspaper cuttings giving opinion and analysis. includes papers about the Protocols of the Elders of Zion MS 344 2

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3 Balfour Declaration 1960s-90s Academic articles, historical and commemorative materials

4 Biographical material including academic articles, interview, obituaries, typescript notes and images

4/1 A: Adler, Freidrich; Adler-Rudel, Scholem; Agnon, c. 1960s-c.90s Shmuel Yossef; Aleichem, Sholem; Allon, Yigal; Asch, Sholem and Avner, Gershom

4/2 File on Shalom Alechem: newspaper cuttings, printed and c. twentieth typescript material. century Much material in Hebrew script

4/3 B: Balfour, Arthur; Begin, Menachem; Ben-Gurion, c. 1930s-c.90s David; Berlin, Isaiah; Bevan, Aneurin; Bevin, Ernest; Bialik, Chaim Nachman; Biegun, Dov; Borochov, Ber; Brezhnev, Leonid; Brodetsky, Selig;

4/4 C: Cahan, Abraham; Camus, Albert; Churchill, Winston c. 1960s-c.1990s

4/5 D: Davis, Hyram; Dayan, Moshe; Dubnov, Simon c. 1944-80s

4/6 E: Eban, Abba; Eder, David; Ehrenburh, Ilya; Einstein, c. 1943-93 Alfred; Eitan, Rafael; Elliott, Jack

4/7 F: Fisher, Samuel n.d. (twentieth century)

4/8 G: Goldman, Emma; Goldman, Nahum; Golomb, Eliahu; c. 1982-9 Goodman, Paul; Gorky, Maxim; Gromyko, Andrei

4/9 H: Ha’am, Ahad; Hertz, J.H.; Hertzberg, Arthur; Herzl, n.d. (twentieth Theodor; Hess, Moses century)

4/10 I: Imber, Naftali Herz c. 1980s-c.90s

4/11 J: Jabotinsky, Vladimir (Ze’ev); Janner, Barnett c. 1940-90

4/12 K: Kaplansky, Shlomo; Kautsky, Karl; Kimche, Jon; c. 1983-94 Kollek, Teddy; Kook, Abraham Isaac; Kosygin, Alexei; Kreisky, Bruno

4/13 L: Laski, Harold Joseph; Lazare, Bernard (in German); c. 1968-93 Lennard, Jack; Lieberman, Aron; Linton, Joseph; Locker, Berl MS 344 3

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4/14 M: Maccoby, Chaim Zundel; Maisky, Ivan; Maitlis, c. 1969-91 Jacob; Manger, Itzik; Marx, Eleanor; Marx, Karl; Meir, Golda; Micknik, Adam; Mikardo, Ian; Montefiore, Francis A.; Montefiore, Moses; Mubarak, Hosni

4/15 N: Namierovski, Lewis Bernstein [alias Namier, Lewis]; c. 1976-88 Netanyahu, Benyamin; Nordau, Max; Nurock, M

4/16 P: Paine, Thomas; Peres, Shimon; Peretz, Yitskhok c. 1952-94 Leybush; Pearlman, Moishe; Rinner, Hayim Pinsker, Leon; Poborski, Louis; Podhoretz, Norman

4/17 R: Rabin, Yitzhak; Rappaport, Charles; Riegner, Gerhart; c. 1951-92 Rosen, Moses; Rosetti, Moshe (Maurice); Rovina, Hanna

4/18 S: Sacher, Harry; Sacher, M.M; Sapir, Pinhas; Schapira, c. 1941-90 Hermann; Schapiro, Leonard; Schen, Leopold; Sefarim, Mendele Mocher; Segal, Sameul; Serge, Victor; Shamir, Yitzhak; Sharansky, Natan; Sharon, Ariel; Shcharansky, Nathan/Anatoly; Shelepin, Alexander Nikolayevich; Shertok, Moshe; Sheves, Shimon; Sieff, Israel; Sieff; Teddy; Silverman, Sydney; Singer, Isaac Bashevis; Smolar, Hersh; Sokolov, Nahum; Sprinzak; Steinberg, Isaac; Stencl, Avrom Nuchem; Stern, Avraham; Sternberg, Sigmund; Stein, Leonard Jacques; Syrkin, Nachman

4/19 W: Walesa, Lech; Weidenfeld, Arthur George; twentieth century Weizmann, Chaim; Winchewsky, Morris

4/20 Y: Yehuda, Eliezer Ben; Younger, Kenneth twentieth century

4/21 Z: Zangwill, Israel twentieth century

4/22 Other miscellaneous and unidentified biographies: n.d. (twentieth including papers in Hebrew script and unlabelled portrait century) images

5 British Labour movement newspaper cuttings, typescript, printed and published material regarding history and development, plus ‘current affairs’

5/1 The British Labour Movement and the Labour Party 1975-93 includes: commemorative papers, the Labour Party Constitution and standing orders and information about the Aneurin Bevan memorial fund MS 344 4

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5/2 The Labour Party Conferences/Labour Party General c. 1950-90 Committee: Constituency Labour Parties (CLPs) and the Unions: draft composites, resolutions and amendments

5/3 The Labour Party and Israel/Zionism: statements, c. 1949-c. 93 speeches, articles, papers from meetings and newspaper cuttings

5/4 Labour Friends of Israel and Trade Union Friends of 1974-94 Israel: principals, policies and aims; report from meetings; newspaper cuttings; transcript of address given by Dennis Healy; a newsletter and bulletin; brief history; list of sponsors and letter from Shimon Peres

5/5 British Labour Delegation to Israel: correspondence and Jan 1950 minutes of talk

5/6 Copy of a thesis examining the Labour Party’s twentieth century involvement with the question of Palestine from the time of the party’s first declaration on the subject in 1917 to the de facto recognition by a Labour Government of the State of Israel in January 1949

5/7 British Labour movement and the Soviet Union: a c. 1957-c.78 pamphlet and articles from the Newsletter

6 Countries newspaper cuttings, printed material and typescript regarding history and current affairs, their Jewish communities and relationship with Russia and Israel

6/1 Africa c. 1971-90s

6/2 Americas: Canada, United States, South America, c. 1963-90 Carribean

6/3 Asia and Australasia: Australia, Syria, Siberia, China c. 1980-1995 and Japan

6/4 Baltic States: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania c. 1942-93 Some material in German

See also: 11/7 (‘WW2 atrocities in the Baltic states: Babi Yar (Ukraine), Riga (Rumbuli forest), Latvia’)

6/5 Europe, Central/Eastern, including: Yugoslavia, Ukraine, c. 1958-94 Bukovina, Moldova, Romania and Belorussia. Some material in German MS 344 5

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6/6 Europe, western including: France, Germany, Spain, the c. 1940-93 Netherlands, Malta and Scotland, Austria and Italy. Some material in German

6/7 Europe, Northern: Sweden, Norway, Denmark, c. 1966-1990s Scandinavia and Belgium

6/8 Poland: Includes information booklets about Warsaw c. 1969-91 Some in Hebrew script

6/9 Turkey and Caucasus region: Kazakhstan, Kirghiz, c. 1976-c. 1992 Nagorny Karabakh, Armenia, Azerbaijan

7 General papers and current affairs newspaper cuttings and printed papers including fact sheets and information booklets

7/1 Britain and its people 1970s-90s

7/2 UK and world affairs 1970s-90s

8 International law and human rights: the United Nations and the International Court of Justice

See also: 20/11 (Zionism: ‘The United Nations ‘Zionism is racism’ resolution’)

8/1 Israel and the Middle East: resolutions, summit c. 1970s-90s statements, declarations, addresses and briefings

8/2 The Soviet Union, the Helsinki ‘Final Act’ and the c. 1970s-90s Conference of Security and Co-operation in Europe (CSCE): agreements and reports

8/3 General printed and published material including charter c. 1950s-80s of the United Nation and Statute of the International court of Justice and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

9 Israel

See also 5/3-5 (‘British Labour and Israel’) and 20 (‘Zionism’)

9/1 General elections and the Knesset (Parliament): guides, c. 1977-c. 96 results and analysis. Some material in Hebrew script

9/2 Politicians: newspaper cuttings and journal articles giving c. 1959-c. 93 analysis on their lives and activities. Some portrait MS 344 6

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images. Some material in Hebrew script

9/3 Politics including material about Israel’s political parties, c. 1964-c. 96 its political history and ‘current affairs’ and its political relationship with the rest of the world

9/4 Histadrut: General Federation of Labour in Israel 1955, c. 1976-c. including pamphlets, newsletters, lectures and interviews 91 giving historical information, analysis

9/5 Aliya[h]/emigration to Israel including statistics, the law 1970s-94 of return and information about Israel’s absorption of immigrants

See also: 11/3 (‘Immigration, emigration and asylum seekers’) and 18/6 (‘Refusniks in the USSR’)

9/6 Religion: holy places in Israel and biblical claims for c.1970s-c.80s Israel

9/7 General papers about Israeli society, facts/statistics, c. 1970s-c. 90s newspaper cuttings and maps

10 Jerusalem

10/1 Historical: Jewish Jerusalem throughout the ages and the c. 1942-90 place of Jerusalem in Israel’s history

10/2 Religion: Jerusalem’s religious significance and Jewish, c. 1979-94 Islamic and Christian claims

10/3 General society and current affairs including newspaper cuttings, information briefings, facts, statistics and surveys Some material in German

11 Jewish, general

11/1 Religious observances and the Jewish way of life: c. 1980s-c. 90s articles/analysis plus prayers/religious writings

11/2 Women including: Jewish female UK politicians; Zionist c. 1970s-9 women; women in the Middle East; women in the Bible: articles and analysis

11/3 Immigration, emigration and asylum seekers: newspaper c. 1979-90s cuttings, facts and reports MS 344 7

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See also 9/4 (‘Emigration to Israel’) and 18/6 (‘Refusniks in the USSR’)

11/4 The nature of the Jewish diaspora and the world-wide 1946, 1960s-90s Jewish community

11/5 Jewish-Christians relations: magazine articles and 1973-91 newsletters

11/6 The Second World War and the Holocaust including 1940s-90s material about the Warsaw ghetto. Some material in German

11/7 WW2 atrocities in the Baltic states: Babi Yar (Ukraine), 1970s-90s Riga (Rumbuli forest), Latvia

See also: 6/3 (‘Baltic States: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania’)

11/8 Historical, academic and analytical studies and papers c. 1964-95

11/9 Bibliographies on various Jewish topics c. 1960s-90s

11/10 Book reviews on various Jewish topics 1940s-90s

11/11 Newspaper cuttings on various Jewish topics c. 1931-50

11/12 Newspaper cuttings on various Jewish topics 1950-94

11/13 General and miscellaneous including photographs, c.1930s-93 newspaper cuttings and printed material regarding Jewish affairs

12 Labour Zionism and Jewish Labour

12/1 Religion and politics: Socialist Zionism and Labour c. 1960s-80s rights in the Jewish tradition: printed and typescript articles. Some material in Hebrew script

12/2 Poale Zion 1920-90s Some material in German

12/3 Socialist and/or Zionist organisations including: Labor 1950s-90s Zionist Alliance, French Socialist Party, Jewish Labor Committee, Ihud Olami and the Jewish Labour Co- operative

12/4 The far left: Communism, Lenin, Marx and Engels: 1970s-90s MS 344 8

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newspaper cuttings, academic articles and typescript

See also: 18/21 (‘USSR: Marx, Lenin and Stalin and other extremist politics’)

12/5 The Jewish Vanguard 1950-57, 1970- 73, 1982

12/6 The Labour Zionist Movement and the World Labour 1960s-90s Zionist Movement: general material

13 Language, literature and culture

See also: 18/4 (USSR: ‘Suppression of Jewish literature and culture’)

13/1 Yiddish and Hebrew language: history, development, c. 1950s-90s decline and survival and about poets, authors and other champions of language

13/2 Publishing, literature and newspapers including poems 1960s-90s about Babi Yar. Some material in Hebrew script and Russian

14 Middle East conflict

See also: 18/18 (‘Relations between the Soviet Union and the Middle East’)

14/1 Historical and analytical articles and reports 1936-93

14/2 Newspaper cuttings and news briefings: current affairs 1980s-90s

14/3 Declarations of principles and peace treaties, agreements, c. 1967-94 accords and negotiations

14/4 Geographical regions: the Gaza Strip, Jordan, Jericho, the 1948, 1970s-90s Golan Heights, Sinai, the West Bank plus maps of Tel- Aviv and Palestine: printed, published and typescript facts and reports

14/5 Jews in Arab lands: articles and reports 1970s-90s

14/6 Israeli perspective: articles in Jewish newspapers and 1960s-94 reports, interviews and statements. Includes divergent Jewish comments and some pro- Israeli/anti-Arab material

14/7 Israeli aggression: articles and newspaper cuttings c. 1980s-94 MS 344 9

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14/8 The Palestinian people and pro-Palestinian material: 1960s-90s includes the Palestinian National Covenant, Palestinian National Council, the Palestine Committee and general Islamic material

14/9 The Palestinian Liberation Organisation (PLO), Yasser 1960s-90s Arafat and Palestinian aggression

14/10 British Jewry’s actions on Palestine circa second world 1930s-40s war including signed petitions, newspaper cuttings and printed material Some material in Hebrew script

14/11 British Government policy on the Middle East including 1930s-80s concerns about a pro-Arab or anti-Zionist stance

14/12 International involvement including the ‘European c. 1980s initiative’ on the Middle East and the work of the EC/EEC

14/13 American involvement and the Arab and Israeli lobby in 1946, 1980s-90s the US

14/14 The Camp David Accords and relations with Egypt c. 1978-c. 94

14/16 The Persian Gulf and Gulf War c. 1989-c. 1990

14/17 General, background and miscellaneous papers, including 1946, 1970s-90s maps: newspaper cuttings and published material

15 Levenberg’s original files

15/1 File of papers labelled ‘prologue’: printed and typescript 1940s-1990s, but material, some in Russian and Hebrew script, including mostly1988-90 newspaper cuttings and printed materials about Soviet Jewry

15/2 File of articles, mainly typescript, by Levenberg, about c. 1940s-1980s various Jewish subjects

15/3 File labelled ‘copies’ mostly annotated typescript twentieth century including a bibliography and pages from articles by Levenberg. Much material in Hebrew script

15/4 File of loose notes and papers, handwritten and typescript twentieth century and some printed material including about Israel and the Arab-Israeli conflict, Zionism, Soviet Jewry, Yiddish. MS 344 10

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Material in Hebrew script

15/5 File labelled ‘odd papers and incomplete typed articles’: twentieth century mostly typescripts, some incomplete and/or with annotations, by Levenberg on various Jewish-related subjects

15/6 Miscellaneous manuscript notes, including some in twentieth century Hebrew script and German

15/7 File labelled ‘confidential’ including information from or c. 1981-c. 1992 about: the Board of Deputies, the Zionist Federation of Great Britain and Ireland; Ta’ali World Movement for a United Israel and the Sephardi Federation of Great Britain and the Commonwealth; Poale Zion and the World Jewish Congress

15/8 Black and white photographs of individuals and group of twentieth century people [?mainly at Jewish social, political and religious events]

16 Non-English language material printed, published and some typescript material, newspaper cuttings and magazine and journal articles

16/1 Russian [4 files] c. twentieth century

16/2 Hebrew script [17 files] c. twentieth century

16/3 Additional file in Hebrew script - photocopies of 1929-30 newspapers

16/4 German c. twentieth century

17 Personal material about Levenberg

17/1 Photograph, biographical notes and newspaper cuttings c. twentieth about Levenberg century

17/2 File labelled ‘items connected with Levenberg’ including c.twentieth a photograph, handwritten notes, printed and typescript century material and articles by Levenberg on Jewish topics. Material in Hebrew script

17/3 Commemorative coins and certificates: including from c. 1970-c. 95 the Zionist Federation of Great Britain and Ireland, for MS 344 11

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services to Israel and Poalei Zion UK, and the Keren Hayesod Jubilee

18 The USSR (Russia and the Soviet Union) typescript, printed and published material, newspaper cuttings, reports, articles and analysis

See also: 5/7 (‘The British Labour Movement and the Soviet Union’)

18/1 Information and current news stories about Jews from the twentieth century Soviet Union

18/2 Facts, figures and statistics about Soviet Jewry twentieth century

18/3 Jews in Soviet politics and political movements, c. 1960s-80s including historical material

18/4 Suppression of Jewish literature and culture c. 1960s-90s

18/5 Anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism 1960s-90s

18/6 Emigration, refusniks, aliya[h] and neshira/noshrim c. 1976-91

18/7 The Soviet Press and publications, particularly the 1944-9s portrayal of Jews, including anti-Semitic material

18/8 Jewish revival in the USSR, criticism of previous policies c. 1980s-94 and decrease in censorship

18/9 Jewish community within the USSR and actions by 1972-89 Soviet Jews, including those in Birobidzhan (Jewish Autonomous Oblast)

18/10 Action and comment by the Jewish community external c. 1960s-90s to USSR, e.g. the National Council for Soviet Jewry and the Institute of Jewish Affairs

18/11 Reports by Isi Leibler, Vice President of the World c. 1980s Jewish Congress on Soviet Jewry and a reply to I.Leibler by the Political Committee, Communist Party of Australia

18/12 Publication: Jews in the USSR c. 1988-91

18/13 Soviet Government and administration c. 1960s-90s

18/14 The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, Russian c. 1970-92 nationalism and separatist movements MS 344 12

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18/15 Pamyat c. 1980s-90s

18/16 Mikhail Gorbachev and Glasnost c. 1985-91

18/17 Historical and academic articles and reports c. 1957-95

18/18 Relations between the Soviet Union and the Middle East: c. 1950s-90s Soviet-Israeli relations and Soviet-Arab relations

18/19 Western interaction and comment 1960s-80s

18/20 The United States and the Soviet Union including 1985-90 material about human rights and emigration

18/21 Marx, Lenin and Stalin and other extremist politics. twentieth century Some material in German

See also: 12/4 (Labour Zionism and Jewish Labour: ‘The far left: Communism, Lenin, Marx and Engels’)

18/22 File labelled ‘USSR’ including newspaper cuttings and c. 1971-90 material on Soviet Jewry and their history. Some material in Russian

18/23 General and miscellaneous papers on Russia c. 1970s-90s

19 World Jewish Congress 1960s-90s policy and programmes, invitations and agendas, press statements, reports, speeches, lists of participants and resolutions,

20 Zionism typescript, printed and published materials, newspaper and magazine cuttings, articles and essays