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MS 352
A2083 Papers of Harry S. Ward
1 Papers regarding synagogues
Synagogue Secretaries Association
1/1 Correspondence regarding meetings and salaries 1950-86
Golders Green Synagogue
1/2/1 Events, elections, invitations, correspondence, 1952-1983 check lists and notes for announcements to be made at Sabbath.
1/2/2 Administrative papers including some notes and 1973-83 accounts
1/2/3 Papers of Revd I Livingstone: notebooks and c.1904-1916 notes regarding liturgy, psalms, sermons and homiletics
1/2/4 Papers of Revd I Livingstone: mostly 1910s-1930s correspondence
The United Synagogue
1/3 Centenary of the United Synagogue: 1970 Invitations, correspondence, notes, exhibition catalogue, order of service, posters for exhibition, symposium and lectures.
Other synagogues
1/4 Synagogue papers mostly circular c.1930s-60s, 1995 correspondence, leaflets, ballot papers, accounts and reports for synagogues including: Bayswater, Brixton, Cricklewood, Dollis Hill, Edgware, Great, Hampstead Garden Suburb, Marble Arch, Muswell Hill, New West End and the United Synagogue. Also includes: Synagogue community centre scheme questionnaire, 1948; The Synagogue Review, 1950; A history of the United Synagogue by Ward, commemorating its 125th anniversary, 1995
2 The Second World War 2
2/1 Papers and correspondence regarding Jewish 1927, 1941-6 festivals, food and moral leadership from: the Jewish Soldiers’ Services of the Chief Rabbi’s Religious Emergency Council; the Jewish War-Services Committee; the Jewish Forces Welfare Committee; the Office of the Senior Jewish Chaplain to H.M. Forces. Booklets containing prayers and meditations Histories of Jewish help in the defence of the British Empire
2/2 Papers and printed ephemera: 1937-49 Events and outings in Bournemouth and Salisbury, Booklets and posters with general war information and propaganda; Booklet and articles about the army; Newspaper cuttings about Palestine, the British Communist Party, Arthur Symons obituary, John Vivian Kitto, literature, Christianity and national health. [Original file title: ‘Cuttings, pamphlets, WWII etc (not J’]
2/3 Newspaper cuttings mostly from the Jewish 1938-46 Chronicle concerning the Second World War including: Jewish involvement in the war effort, the situation in Europe, anti-Semitism and refugees Some regarding more general matters of Jewish interest including Palestine [Original file title: ‘JC cuttings 1940 etc personal’]
2/4 Documents and printed ephemera including the 1940-6 following booklets and pamphlets: ‘Army Bureau of Current Affairs handbook’; ‘Army Education Scheme librarian’s handbook’; ‘The soldiers guide to his rights and duties’; ‘Surprise the first principle of attach: a handbook for NCOs’; ‘War emergency information and instructions’; ‘Release and resettlement: an explanation of your position and rights’; ‘For your Guidance: what to do on leaving the service and how to do it’; ‘Joining up? A handy guide for every recruit’; ‘Official programme of the victory celebrations’.
2/5 Newspapers regarding the Potsdam Conference, 1945, 1984-5 Clement Atlee and Winston Churchill, the 3
surrender of Nazis, Adolf Hitler’s death and the atom bomb; Radio Times magazines commemorating the anniversaries of D-Day and VE day
2/6 Newspaper cuttings regarding the Holocaust 1987-98 including: Compensation for Holocaust victims, Anne Frank, ‘looted’ art, Primo Levi, a concentration camp survivor; Klaus Barbie, a Gestapo commander; trials of accused Nazi war criminals and ‘Shoah’, a film by Claude Lanzmann.
3 Societies, organisations and fellowships
The Israel Zangwill Fellowship
3/1/1 Correspondence 1936
3/1/2 Articles and essays 1952-98
3/1/3 Correspondence and papers regarding the 1954-5 Inauguration meeting on 27 April 1954. Lists of names and addresses and accounts; ‘War limericks for the little ones’ by Israel Zangwill
3/1/4 Papers and correspondence regarding Zangwill 1954-5 evening on January 30 1955: the dramatic reading of Zangwill’s works, invitations, speakers, catalogue and publicity.
3/1/5 List of members 1954-5
3/1/6 Correspondence 1954
3/1/7 Correspondence 1955
3/1/8 Reply cards stating attendance or regret 1955, 1965 for Israel Zangwill evening and Israel Zangwill Centenary Unveiling of Commemorative plaque
3/1/9 Correspondence 1956-8
3/1/10 Financial papers: 1962-5 Cheque book stubs, receipt book, receipts, invoices and bank statements; Correspondence with Cyril J Ross regarding invoices, payments and donations
3/1/11 Correspondence 1960s 4
3/1/12 Correspondence 1970s
3/1/13 Correspondence with: 1987, 1995-9 Philip B.Kleinberg, New York; Edna Nahshon, Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies; Professor Lilian Falk, St Marys University, Nova Scotia; Professor Todd Endelman, University of Michigan; Charles Berlin, Harvard College Library Professor Anthony Wohl (Cousin Tony), Vassar College New York; Dr Avital Simhony, Oxford Centre for Postgraduate Hebrew Studies; Rita Brodie, London; Mario Baraitser, playwright and publisher
3/1/14 Correspondence with Professor Meri-Jane 1995-8 Rochelson, Florida International University
3/1/15 Invitations to events, catalogues of exhibitions, 1900s-2000s programme for a play, photographs of events, stationary and letter-headed paper and newspaper cuttings.
3/1/16 Information about other author societies 1930s-50s
3/1/17 Posters and adverts undated (c.1920s- 70s)
3/1/18 Notes regarding preparations for events c.1950s
3/1/19 Papers regarding Ward’s personal collection of c.1990s Zangwillania
Haskalah Literary Society
3/2 Events listing, invitations, The Haskalah 1930-3 magazine, correspondence, lists of committee meetings, lectures, social functions and study circles and an annual report.
Society for Jewish Study
3/3/1 List of officers, lecture programme, 1965-71 correspondence mostly regarding membership, subscriptions and events, minutes of meeting and an annual report
3/3/2 Accounts, correspondence, lists of members and 1965-81 council members, leaflets, minutes of a meeting, 5
invitations, agendas for meeting, annual reports and programmes.
3/3/3 Payslip booklets and papers regarding income 1969-81 tax
3/3/4 Invitations to lectures 1970-81
The Jewish Historical Society of England
3/4 Index to Transactions, invitations to events and 1949-96 some reports, accounts and correspondence
Friends of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
3/5 Newsletters and a financial statement 1992-4
3/6 Invitations to events and exhibitions, 1964-95 information leaflets and circular correspondence, annual reports and the ‘Anglo- Jewish Art and History’ newsletter
Other societies and organisations
3/7 Papers from various societies including: c. 1920s-80s East London Young Mizrachi; Mizrachi Organisation and Great Britain and Ireland; Jewish Peace Society; Union of Jewish Literary Societies; Society of Jews and Christians; Council of Christians and Jews, Maccabi Literary and Debating Society, Ancient Order of Maccabeans, Memorial Scrolls Committee, Bible Readers Union, the Jewish Book Society and the London Jewish Students Association. Including invitations to events, newsletters and circular correspondence, essay competitions and reports.
4 Education
4/1 Papers regarding education including: 1930s-80s The Inter-University Jewish Federation; Jewish Educational Institutions (‘Tarbuth’) of Poland; Study aids for the Hebrew alphabet, the Prayer Book and Jewish crafts; Examination papers; Leaflets on: ‘Jewish boys and girls at public schools’, ‘Voluntary (denominational) schools within the state educational system’, ‘JFS 6
Comprehensive School brochure’, Council for Jewish Adult Education Information from the London Board of Jewish Religious Education
4/2 Papers regarding Ward’s position as Attendance 1938-9 Officer of the London Organising Council for Jewish Education Correspondence, reports and lists of Jewish refugee children’s names and addresses
5 Academic and Jewish studies papers
5/1 The Sinaist journal: organ of the Sinai League 1916-9
5/2 Essays by Ward including: 1920s-30s ‘Toynbee Hall: mother of settlements and its Jewish association’; The Maurice Alexander Memorial Prize Haskalah Literary Society essay by Wohl, aged 18; ‘Zangwill’s Ghetto: Forty Years -A Retrospect by “Zangwillian” - A child of Zangwill’s ghetto’; ‘Jewish emancipation in England’; ‘“Hang Theology” Rogers’: typed script and copy in B’Nai B’Rith magazine, 1938
5/3 Papers from the conference of Anglo-Jewish 1935 preachers ‘The place of Maimonides’ Mishneh Torah in the history and development of the Halakah’, Dr. A. Marmorstein; ‘Jewish youth movements’, Revd David Hirsch
5/4 Journal articles and printed material regarding 1950s-80s Jewish studies
5/5 Catalogues: description of Jewish studies 1950s-90s collections in libraries and archives, for exhibitions and an auction
5/6 Booklets for studying the Jewish Bible, Yomim Noraim, Seder and other religious matters c.1970s-90s
5/7 ‘A modern commentary on the Siddur’, 1979-82 published by the United Synagogue
5/8 Photocopies and printed material regarding undated (c. 1900s- Anglo-Jewish history 80s) 7
5/9 Typescript notes regarding Mishnah Berachoth, c.1940s Schechita and Muktzah
5/10 Illustrations and articles, mostly photocopies, c.1980s-90s regarding Anglo-Jewry including: Order of Service for Sir Moses Montefiore in his mission to the East, 1841; Order of Service for Queen Victoria and Prince Albert; Notes on some London synagogues and Jewish London, 17th-19th centuries Newspaper cuttings and notes about Jews in Bristol and Bath, 1980s
6 General files
6/1 Correspondence, mostly regarding Ward’s 1932-96 attempts to get his articles published. Replies to letters of condolence from Martin B. Pepys and Chief Rabbi Dr Jonathan Sacks.
6/2 Leaflet regarding Kosher School meals service c. 1930s-40s and correspondence: Jewish Communal Kosher Restaurant and the Chief Rabbi’s Kosher Canteen Committee for Jewish Evacuees
6/3 Newspaper cuttings, notes and correspondence c. 1950s-90s regarding Ward selling his papers and the sale of personal papers generally
6/4 Jewish East End Festival: 1986-7 Newspaper cutting, correspondence with Mrs Helen Vegoda (Ward’s daughter) and Helen J.Carpenter; An appeal brochure
6/5 Assorted booklets and printed ephemera c. 1960s-70s regarding an orchestra and youth hostel in Israel, charities and voluntary organisations
7 Newspaper cuttings and printed ephemera
7/1 The Jewish Chronicle: 1876, 1898-9, 1904-8 The Anglo-Jewish Association, Universal Israelitish Alliance, Spain, Russia, Jews’ College, Romania, India, the Westminster Jews’ Free School, the religious education board, 8
committee of workers among the Jewish poor, immigration into Australia, Jews and naturalisation, Purim, the Jewish Institute, the Jewish religious union and the East End, Union of Jewish Literary Societies Annual Conference, Marcus Adler and the Stepney Jewish schools, the Aliens Act and its administration
7/2 The Jewish Chronicle: Purim recollections, 1899, 1905 notes on the Megillah, Jewish sects and the Faust of the Talmud
7/3 The Jewish World: 1904 Mr Adolf Lazarus-Langdon, K.C., the Kharkov Conference, the United Synagogue annual budget, Jews’ College Literary Society, education, London County Council election, Hampstead Synagogue special service for girls, Joel Emmanuel almshouses, the Belfast congregation, South Africa and Russia.
7/4 The Jewish World: 1905 Education, Chevra Kadisha, British Jewish population, West London synagogue annual confirmation service, South Africa, the Zionist Congress, Great Synagogue memorial service, Jews’ college, Russia, the new Beth Hamedrash, the Zionist movement
7/5 The Jewish World: 1906 The East and the West-end: what each can do for the other, Jews and agriculture: why they are not farmers, Aliens Act Administration, The Jewish intellect: is it superior to others?, South Africa, the problem of tuberculosis, Jewish infant mortality, health and religion, Jews College, massacre at Siedlce, redecoration of the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue,
7/6 The Jewish World: 1907 Dublin, Russia, Moses Mendelssohn, the Kingston earthquake, the Board of Guardians, Jews College, a Union of Jewish ministers, Africa, the beard in Jewish custom and practice, Jewish Lads’ Brigade camp
7/7 World War One: c. 1914-1921 Economics, Russia, reprisals against Germans, post-war response and Rudyard Kipling,
7/8 The Jewish World: 1922-31 Lord George Gordon, local Purims, Jews and Persia, Jews and pawn broking, Jewish 9
demography, Communism in Palestine, cookery recipes, Jews and Jamaica, the bearded Jew, marriages, humourous stories and jokes, news about young Jewry, nomenclature, music, friendly societies, ancient Jewish monks, the black art, ‘Jewish looks’. Includes many photographs
7/9 Anti-Semitism, the decline of religion, Ealing 1922-40, 1964 Round Table Rules, Synagogue bulletins, Abyssinia and education. Some German and Hebrew script
7/10 Jewish Chronicle Literary Supplements 1938-9, 1963, 1973, 1976, 1978, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1990-3
7/11 Jewish individuals including Ariel Sharon, 1951-82 Yigael Yadin and Mordecai Richler, Churchillian memorabilia, the National Portrait Gallery, Marks and Spencers, election results, Sherlock Holmes, the Rent bill, Bertrand Russell, the Middle East, E.M. Forster Catalogue from an exhibition on encyclopaedias and dictionaries, the National book League, 1966
7/12 Libraries, museums and book collections: 1985-6, 1996-8 Siegfied Sasson, Benny Green, British Library, V.S. Naipaul, the V&A, the British Museum, Maurice Rickards, John Louis Gili (Joan Gili i Serra), Willi Guttsman, Enid Marx, the King’s Library, Penguin books, Herbert Mayow Adams, Librarian of Trinity College Cambridge, Lovat Dickson,
7/13 Dr Jonathan Sacks 1988-98 Also includes papers about Alfred Rubens, Kandinsky, Muriel Sparks and art.
7/14 An eruv in Barnet, north-west London (An eruv 1992-5 is a religious zone in which strict Sabbath laws are relaxed)
7/15 Fifty year anniversary D-DAY commemorations 1993-4
7/16 VE day commemorations, 1995 1995 Modern reprints of papers from 1945
7/17 Food, Yassir Arafat, Nazi gold/‘blood money’ 1996-7 from Swiss bankers, VW Beetle, Israel/the Middle East, Harvard and the Holocaust; Dr 10
George Carey, Archbishop of Canterbury; Chief Rabbi, Dr Jonathan Sacks; Mr Rifkind, German Foreign Secretary; disputes within UK Jewish community, art ‘looted’ from Jews, Anne Frank, anti-Semitism, obituaries for Sybil Rosenfeld, Robert Nunes Carvalho, Rabbi Hugo Gryn, Amschel Rothschild and Sir Joshua Hassan. File includes some pictures of Holocaust and Middle East
7/18 The Times: 1998 Arnold Levene, Rabbi Dunner, Daks Simpsons clothing retailer, Jewish faith, Barnet’s eruv, Kurt Weill, Jewish broadcasting, Dr Jonathan Sacks, Bnny Green, Alfred Kazin, Profesor Jacob Katz, Sir John Nabarro, Michael Weitzman
7/19 The Times about Israel and Judaism: 1998 Chaim Herzog, archaeological digs in the Holy Land, Palestinian Christians, Yitzhak Shmueli, Binyamin Netanyahu and Israel’s fiftieth anniversary
7/20 50th Anniversary of Israel 1998
8 Postcards, greetings cards, invitations and orders of service
8/1 Invitations to events including weddings, 1930s-70s lectures, Barmitzvahs, meetings and services
8/2 Calendars and almanacs c.1930s-80s
8/3 Orders for service in memory of Rabbi Dr Isaac 1933, 1938, 1940, Herzog, Chief Rabbi of the Holy Land and for 1959 Jews in Germany
8/4 Orders of service for marriages 1947-8, 1951, 1955, 1957, 1979-81
8/5 Postcards c. 1960s-1990s Mostly of Jerusalem and synagogues from around the world. Some with messages
8/6 New Year greeting cards c. 1970s
8/7 New Year greeting cards Undated, c.1970s
8/8 New Year greeting cards c.1974
8/9 Orders of service 1967-96 11
9 Bibliographic references and catalogues for Ward’s personal collections
9/1 Hand written notes in English and Hebrew c.1970s-80s script. Seems to include some bibliographic references. [Original file title: ‘[?]Schichsha SC (SR)’]
9/2 Bibliographic listings c.1973, 1976, 1994 Howes Bookshop Bibliography and lists of books about book collecting, books, book selling, publishing and libraries
9/3 Hand written lists of books regarding Jews, c.1980s-90s Judaism and Jewish history [Original file title: ‘Harry S Ward library My original handwritten catalogue Anglo-Judaica-sub-divided: Synagogues - histories and sermons - Social studies- bibliographies - literature etc etc As above general Judaica: Jewish History - general - Judaism - essays and studies - Zionism Jewish Art-the holocaust etc etc (with Sylvia’s photocopies)’]
9/4 Lists of books and references to journal articles c.1980s-90s [Original file title: ‘Harry S. Ward Library General Judaica My original handwritten catalogue with Sylvia’s photocopies’.]
9/5 Lists of pamphlets and other research materials c.1950s regarding Jewish studies
9/6 Catalogues Judaica box file c.1990s
9/7 Handwritten notes regarding Ward’s personal c.1930s-80s Jewish studies collection