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MS 311/1
A993 Small Jewish and interfaith collections: Hackney Boys' Club bulletin
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' 2
MS 311/2
A995 Small Jewish and interfaith collections: order of service
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 3
MS 311/3
A996 Small Jewish and interfaith collections: photograph album
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 4
MS 311/4
A1004 Small Jewish and interfaith collections: London Conference on Nazi Gold
Conference papers of the London Conference on Nazi Gold, Lancaster House, London, 2-4 Dec 1997 5
MS 311/5
A1005 Small Jewish and interfaith collections: photograph
Photograph of the front of West Hartlepool Synagogue 6
MS 311/6
A1006 Small Jewish and interfaith collections: First Lodge of England of the B'nai B'rith
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 7
MS 311/7
A1007 Small Jewish and interfaith collections: letter to The Times
Typescript of `Terrorist in Palestine': a letter to The Times, 12 Oct 1944 8
MS 311/8
A1008 Small Jewish and interfaith collections: orders of service
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 9
MS 311/9
A1009 Small Jewish and interfaith collections: Jordan is Palestine papers
Jordan is Palestine committee newsletters, newspaper cuttings, articles, 1988-92 10
MS 311/10
A1010 Small Jewish and interfaith collections: Letter from Jerusalem
Meir Abelson Letter from Jerusalem newsletters, c.1987-91 11
MS 311/11
A1011 Small Jewish and interfaith collections: Arab-Israeli relations
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 12
MS 311/12
A1014 Small Jewish and interfaith collections: memoirs of Curt Rosenberg
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 13
MS 311/13
A1019 Small Jewish and interfaith collections: newsletter
International Interfaith Centre, Oxford, newsletter, Jul 1999 14
MS 311/14
A1093 Small Jewish and interfaith collections: naturalisation certificate
Copy of the certificate of naturalisation of Boruchas Mausas Strasunskis, known as Starr, and his son of the same name, 14 Feb 1938 15
MS 311/15
A1094, A3034 Small Jewish and interfaith collections: papers of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews Congregation
A1094
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
A3034
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 16
MS 311/16
A1095 Small Jewish and interfaith collections: CCJ anniversary dinner
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 17
MS 311/17
A1098 Small Jewish and interfaith collections: Dr Goodman papers on the Liverpool Jewish community
1 Copy of the score of Hatikvah: a song of hope arranged and orchestrated by Betram B.Benas
2 Survey of the facilities of Jewish education in Liverpool, 1946; 1946-65 Committee on Jewish education survey on Jewish education in Merseyside by Mervyn Goodman, 1962; report of the demographic and sociological unit, 1965
3 Shalom: Merseyside Jewish year book 1971
4 Merseyside Jewish Representative Council year books 1992/3, 1993/4, 2000/1
5 Copies of Mosaic 1962-c.1972
6 Guide for an exhibition on Liverpool Jewry at the Manchester Jewish Museum 18
MS 311/18
A2012 Small Jewish and interfaith collections: papers of Abraham and Joyce Weiner
Letter from Joyce Weiner to Philip Mishon, 24 March 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 19
MS 311/19
A2013 Small Jewish and interfaith collections: 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 20
MS 311/20
A2014 Small Jewish and interfaith collections: 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 January 2001, and a press release 21
MS 311/21
A2015 Small Jewish and interfaith collections: 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 22
MS 311/22
A2016 Small Jewish and interfaith collections: marriage book
Marriage book issued by the Administration Communale Anvers to Fajwel Sznicer and Sara Wahl, 22, July 1937 23
MS 311/23
A2021 Small Jewish and interfaith collections: copy of Perception
Copy of the Jewish Blind Society official journal: Perception, Spring 1967 24
MS 311/24
A2026 Small Jewish and interfaith collections: copy of an article by John M.Shaftesley
Copy of an article on the Council of Manchester and Salford Jews by John M.Shaftesley 25
MS 311/25
A2027 Small Jewish and interfaith collections: two posters for Jews for Jesus
Two posters for the Jews for Jesus organisation 26
MS 311/26
A2036 Small Jewish and interfaith collections: papers of Edwin Manzoni, some relating to the Kitchener Camp, Kent, England
Personal papers
1/1 Papers relating to Manzoni’s life, in particular to c.1924 - c.1939 his application to leave Vienna and go to England as a refugee. Included are: his birth and marriage certificates, school reports, references, sports club membership cards; and information about the Kitchener refugee camp in Kent, England and how to go about making an application. Most of the papers are in German
1/2 Three documents, in German, relating to a court 1931-39 case involving Hans Manzoni.
Printed material
2 Some Victims of the Nazi Terror, a magazine c.1938 about the Kitchener Camp
Five packets of photographs: the German writing on the first four packets indicate that the photographs were developed in Vienna, the fifth is from Boots in England.
3/1/1-11 Photographs: of Manzoni himself, and a number c.1930s of other people
3/2/1-38 Photographs: mainly of people; some of the c.1930S photos are in very poor condition
3/3/1-12 Photographs: mainly of people; some scenes and c.1930s postcards of Vienna are included
3/4/1-25 Photographs: mainly people c.1930s
3/5/1-39 Photographs: mainly of people; a few show rows c.1939 of buildings which could be the Kitchener Camp 27 28
MS 311/27
A2041 Small Jewish and interfaith collections: Papers relating to Leo Baeck
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 29
MS 311/28
A2042 Small Jewish and interfaith collections: papers of the Student and Academic Campaign for Soviet Jewry, 1972, 1982-8
Correspondence; minutes of the meetings of the medical committee for Soviet Jewry; posters; reports of visits of Russia; report of the twelfth world conference of youth and students, 1985; newspaper cuttings; photographs mainly of people, but including one of a letter to the President of the Soviet Academy of Sciences; volume one of the Journal of the academic proceedings of Soviet jewry; copy of The economist; souvenir menu for a ‘banquet’ presented by the Women’s Campaign for Soviet Jewry highlighting the diet of prisoners in USSR labour camps, Feb 1972 30
MS 311/29
A2053 Small Jewish and interfaith collections: Papers of Abraham Moss, Alderman and Lord Mayor of Manchester
1 Two City of Manchester Manuals and Diaries 1957-8, 1960-1
2 Official correspondence from Abraham Moss 1953 whilst in office as the Lord Mayor of Manchester, including with the Ambassador of the United States of America in London concerning a visit; lists of invitations issued for the Lord Mayor’s reception; programmes for visits of the Ambassador of the United States of America and of the French Ambassador; press release relating to the centenary of the granting of the charter of title to the City of Manchester; invitations; typescript paper on the City Surveyor and Engineer’s Department anti-litter campaign; copy of Hansard for 8 Jul 1953; list of guests for a luncheon in honour of the Honourable Winthorp W.Aldrich, GBE; Lord Mayor’s accounts for Oct 1953
3 Official correspondence from Abraham Moss 1954, n.d. whilst in office as the Lord Mayor of Manchester; list of guests for a luncheon in honour of Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery of Alamein and programme for a visit by Lord Montgomery; text of a speech to be delivered by Rt Hon Clement Atlee on the occasion of the conferment of the honorary freedom of Manchester; programme for a visit by the Ambassador of Ireland; memorandum on the charges for the use of rooms for courts and booklet of charges; signed menu from the annual dinner of the Manchester Law Society, with typescript notes relating to the Law Society; invitation list for a Manchester Arts Trust meeting with a memorandum of headings for discussion at the meeting; accounts of the estate of the late Golda Moss, n.d.
4 Correspondence to Alderman Abraham Moss Jun 1964 congratulating him on being elected as President of the Board of Deputies 31
MS 311/30
A2057 Small Jewish and interfaith collections: Council of Christians and Jews
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. 32
MS 311/31
A2058 Small Jewish and interfaith collections: copy of a letter to Harold Laski
Copy of a letter from E.Bevan to Harold Laski thanking him for his letter and his confidence and good will, 5 Oct 1940
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A2072 Small Jewish and interfaith collections: Rudi Kennedy papers
1 Photographs (mostly with captions): early family c.1925-95 photographs, originals and modern copies; the family home in Germany ; Kennedy in the 1990's; photographs relating to the BBC Storyville film; some postcards
2/1 Press cuttings: originals and copies, mainly British 18 Oct 1984-15 but some from the USA and Germany, relating to the Dec 1999 Holocaust and to the campaign for compensation for Jewish slave labourers
2/2 Press cuttings: originals and copies, mainly British Jan 2000-Jan 2002 but some from the USA, Germany and Israel, relating to the Holocaust and to the campaign for compensation for Jewish slave labourers. Includes several articles on Norman Finkelstein regarding the publication of his book The Holocaust Industry (July 2000)
3 Rudi Kennedy’s diary and aide-memoire 18 Jan 1995-12 Includes: May 2002 Notes on a journey to Auschwitz on the 50th anniversary of his release (Jan 1995), some written by his daughter Nicky Working notes towards the campaign for compensation for Jewish slave labourers, including notes for meetings and radio interviews; drafts of speeches
4 Video tapes 1998-9 ‘Slave Labour’ (BBC Sixty Minutes) 1998 ‘I was a Slave Labourer’ ( BBC Storyville) 1999
5 Script for play ‘Woman on the Moon’ by Julia 1 Jan 2001 Pascal. Two postcards inside from Julia Pascal to Rudi Kennedy
6a Autobiographical manuscripts 1995-9 Notes for autobiographical presentations given 1998and 1999 Account of Kennedy’s visit to Auschwitz and IG Farben in 1995 German language account ‘Ein tag bei IG Farben’
6b Autobiographical manuscripts c.1995 Two copies of ‘Remember Bloomsbury’ (Rudi Kennedy’s account of his life from childhood to his later life in England Notes and appendices, including copies and OHPs of work permits, identity cards and other documentation; photographs; press cuttings 34
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7 Military tribunal hearing, in German, relating to IG 1947 Farben, with comments by Rudi Kennedy, also in German, probably written at a later date Paper by Kennedy ‘Meister Kurt Roediger: Mar 2004 manipulating the truth’ regarding Roediger’s account as a defence witness for IG Farben
8 Papers and correspondence, some in German, 1997-2001 relating to the case of the ‘Babies of Ruehen’ (babies of slave labourers at the Volkswagen factory), in particular, correspondence with Prof. Hans Mommsen.
9a Correspondence with lawyers and advisers relating to Aug 1998-Dec the claim for compensation for Jewish slave 2000 labourers Includes document ‘Class Action and Jury Demand’ Jan 1999 (US district court, New Jersey) against Daimler Chrysler AG [some documents in German]
9b Correspondence with lawyers and advisers relating to Jul 1996-Mar the claim for compensation for Jewish slave 2003 labourers Includes: Papers from a press conference on ‘forced and slave labor’ held by the US Deputy Secretary of the Treasury on 8 March 2000 Details of individual compensation applications
10 Correspondence, mostly in German, with Lothar Oct 1999-Nov Evers (adviser and spokesman for the German 2001 Association for Information and Support for Nazi Persecutees) May and Sep 2001 Issues 1 and 2 of Uberleben, the journal of Evers’ organisation
11 Fritz Bauer Institut 1998-2004 Papers, mostly in German, relating to Rudi Kennedy’s visit to the Fritz Bauer Institut, Frankfurt am Main, for a conference for former prisoners of Buna/Monovitz, 20-22 October 1998 Newsletter from the Fritz Bauer Institut: vol 1/no 1 summer 2000 Publication from the Fritz Bauer Institute: 2004 Begegnung ehemaliger Häftlinge von Buna/Monovitz, (German language) reporting on the 1998 conference (176pp with 50pp of photographs) Programme for similar conference to take place 24- n.d. 28 March 2004
12a Papers, some in German, relating to the ‘Claims for Jul 1996-Jan 2000 Slave Labour Association’ Includes: Newspaper cuttings (US and British) Jul 1996-Mar 1997 Open letter to Gerhard Schröder 5 Feb 1999 35
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12b Papers, some in French and German, relating to the 1997-2001 ‘Claims for Slave Labour Association’ Includes: News release ‘Truth and Justice’ 31 Aug 1999 Open letter to Chancellor Schröder, President Clinton Aug 2000 and Prime Minister Blair Paper ‘Slave labour compensation updates and other 2001 initiatives’ Correspondence with Association Maccabi-inter 1997 regarding the French campaign for compensation for the victims of IG Farben
13 Papers relating to various committees 1996-2004 Includes ‘45 Group ‘45 Aid Society Holocaust Survivors Centre (advisory committee) Camp Survivors Committee
14 Papers relating to the Conference on Jewish Material 1995-2005 Claims Against Germany (Claims Conference) Includes: Correspondence regarding the cooperation between 1999 Claims for Jewish Slave-Labour Compensation and the Claims Conference Paper ‘The Role of the Jewish Claims Conference’ n.d. (English translation and German language version), published in Die Welt, with covering letter dated 17 April 2000 Report on slave labour compensation negotiations, Bonn 16-17 Nov 1999 Details of an allocation of funds from the Claims Conference to the Association of Jewish Refugees In 28 Feb 2005 Great Britain
15 Papers, some in German, regarding the Central Office 2001-4 for Holocaust Claims, established to coordinate restitution and compensation claims for victims of Nazi persecution living in the United Kingdom
16 Papers, some in German, relating to conferences 1997-2004 attended in Britain and Germany Photos of Rudi Kennedy and others at the meeting of 26 Mar 2004 survivors of Buna/Monovitz, held in Frankfurt am Main; copy of a signed resolution of the former slave labourers of IG Farben, from the same meeting
17a Press and publicity: mostly press releases, some in c. 1998-9 German language Press cutting of graphic advertisement against Bayer, 5 Oct 1999 from the New York Times and other examples from the same advertising campaign, coordinated by B’nai Brith International 36
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17b Press and publicity: mostly press releases in German 1999-2001
18 Media report: ‘Nazi Slave Labor Victims Demand Oct 1999 Compensation from German Industrial Giants in Recent Rounds of Talks’: bound volume containing newspaper articles and transcripts of radio and television broadcasts reporting on the talks
19a Film, TV and radio 1997-2000 Mainly papers, some in German or French, relating to the BBC Storyville film ‘I was a Slave Labourer’, first screened on BBC2, 6 October 1999 Includes: Correspondence with Luke Holland (director) Papers relating to subsequent screenings in 1999 and 2000 (French and German TV; Imperial War Museum, London; Institute of Contemporary Arts, London; Brighton) 10 Oct 1999 Review of the film from the Observer TV section
19b Film, TV and radio 1999-2002 Mainly papers, some in German, relating to the BBC Storyville film ‘I was a Slave Labourer’ Includes: Papers relating to screenings of the film in Berlin (Berliner Film Festival and the Reichstag)and at the Margaret Mead Film Festival, New York City Paper ‘Interview with Rudy Kennedy, former slave 1 Nov 2001 labourer’ by Stefan Salchinger, the Jewish Museum, Berlin
20 Incomplete text, in German, of an interview between n.d. Rudi Kennedy and Luke Holland
21 Papers relating to the Holocaust exhibition at the May 2000-Dec Imperial War Museum, opened in June 2000 2002 Includes: Transcript of survivors’ testimonies Details of a screening of ‘I was a Slave Labourer’ at the Imperial War Museum, 3 November 2002 Press cutting, review of the Holocaust exhibition (date and source unknown) Educational material from the Holocaust exhibition (photographs with information on the reverse)
22 General correspondence, some in French or German 1996-2003 Includes: Correspondence with Rudi Kennedy’s childhood 7 Oct 1996 friend Ralph Preiss, with an account of his early life and escape from Germany to the Philippines Letter from Rudi Kennedy to Deborah Sturman 24 May 2003 regarding his cousin Henry, also a Holocaust survivor, asking for help with his compensation claim; paperwork regarding his payments from the Claims Conference. 1997-2002 Correspondence regarding compensation claims 1998-2000 Correspondence regarding the story of the ‘Beit- Yakov martyrs’ and the doubts over its truth 1999-2002 Correspondence regarding the film ‘I was a Slave 37
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22 [contd.] Labourer’, mainly appreciative letters from viewers
23/1 Books The final insult, gruppe offene rechnungen (Hg.), Apr 2003 UNRAST-Verlag, Münster (German language) (with piece from Rudi Kennedy on back cover) The Unwelcome one: returning home from Auschwitz, 2002 Frankenthal, H., Northwestern University Press, Illinois
23/2 Books Entschädigung für Zwangsarbeit, Randelzhofer, A. 1994 and Dörr, O., Duncker & Humblot, Berlin (German language) (with note: ‘This started Rudy in earnest’) Surviving Hitler: choices, corruption and compromise 2000 in the Third Reich, Lebor, A. and Boyes, R., Simon & Schuster, London
23/3 Background papers, some in German c. 1994-2004 Includes: Blätter fur deutsche und internationale Politik July 2000 (German language journal) Concentration Camp Memoirs, Lottie Wallenstein n.d. Salz 1995 Paper: ‘The Hugo Princz Case: Powell, Goldstein’s Successful Pro Bono Representation of an American Holocaust Survivor’ 4 Nov 1999 Media report: ‘Legislation to Bring Justice to WWII Slave Labor Victims Introduced by Senators Schumer and Toricelli’ 25 Sep 1998 Paper: ‘Reconciliation and the Holocaust: some Unresolved Issues’ by Michael Pinto-Duschiksky 1999-2000 ‘Extermination through Work’:Jewish Slave Labour under the Third Reich, Donald Bloxham. (Holocaust Educational Research Papers, vol.1 /no. 1) n.d. ‘Protocol of the Wannsee Conference, January 20, 1942' (‘...conference on the final solution of the Jewish question...’) (English translation of an original document in German language which is located in the Politisches Archiv of the German Foreign Office, n.d. Berlin) ‘IG Farben und kein Ende?’(Paper regarding the n.d. history of IG Farben after the war) Report on the International Workshop at Buchenwald 1996-2004 on Nazi Forced Labour, 8-10 July 1999 News articles (from the UK, USA, Germany and Israel) relating to slave labour and compensation
24 Certificate from the Jewish Cultural Centre (Jewish n.d. Cultural Awards 2002/2003): Education Award presented to Rudi Kennedy 38
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A2086 Small Jewish and interfaith collections: Papers of Revd Dr I.W.Slotki, MA
1 Correspondence, including two from the Town 1920-9 Hall, Manchester, congratulating Slotki on the presentation of plays for Young People’s Week and for sending reports which appeared in the Jewish press, 1928 and 1929 respectively; agenda for the Central Committee for Jewish Education, 1927; postcards, one addressed to Miss Dorothy Slotki; photograph of two young men and two young women sitting on a hill side, obviously on a walking trip
2 Correspondence, including with the Aria College, 1931-9 Southsea, the Grove House Lads’ Club, Manchester, the Jewish Year Book, the Manchester Guardian, Manchester Public Libraries and Hulme Rural Deanery Sunday School Workers Association; invitation cards for lectures; Black and white photographs of Rabbi and Mrs Slotki on holiday; Haboker, 15 Nov 1938
3 Correspondence, including with the Council of 1940-9 Manchester and Salford Jews, St Annes Hebrew Congregation, Manchester Central Board for Hebrew Education and Talmud Torah, Revd Dr H.Danby, Christ Church, Oxford, Royal National Life-Boat Institution, the Jewish Chronicle and the Preston Hebrew Congregation; flyer for a press freedom conference; Notes of negotiations between Rossendale Slipper Union and Newman’s Firm at Blackburn Slipper Works on Rossendale Division Labour Party headed paper, 16 May 1944; Syllabus for a moral leadership course for Jewish personnel in the Royal Air Force; agenda for a meeting of the Royal National Life- Boat Institution
4 Correspondence, including with the Regnal 1950-8 League, the Council of Manchester and Salford Jews, the Jewish Review, Manchester New Synagogue and Beth Hamidrash, Manchester Great Synagogue, Chevrah Kadisha Synagogue, Glasgow, the Office of the Chief Rabbi, the London Board of Jewish Religious Education, the Church of Scotland, the Zionist Central Council of Manchester, Jews’ College, London, the Mayoralty of Salford, Higher Broughton Hebrew Congregation, the National Paul Robeson Committee, Torah Va’avodah Organisation of Great Britain, Town Clerk of Manchester, Manchester Royal Infirmary and the British Broadcasting Corporation; New Year cards; Committee minutes, including for the industrial 39
4 [contd.] sub-committee, of council meetings; Invitations, some to lectures, and to the marriage of Rose Slotki to Rabbi N.Shapiro; Annual general meeting of the convocation of the University of Manchester; Ministry of Education report of HM Inspectors of the Jewish Day School, Prestwich, Lancashire, Nov 1956; copy of Manchester Review, summer 1956
5 Correspondence, including: 1960-75 (i) letters of condolence on the death of Mrs Slotki from Manchester Great Synagogue, the Jewish Gazette, the Mayor of Manchester, Manchester and Salford Women’s Zionist Council, the Whitefield Hebrew Congregation, the League of Jewish Women, South Manchester Hebrew Congregation, Neville Laski and Manchester United Synagogue and Beth Hamidrash Hagodol; (ii) letters of congratulation on Slotki’s eightieth birthday; (iii) letters and telegrams on Slotki suffering an accident and being admitted to hospital;
handwritten paper by Deborah Slotki ‘My most interesting experience: mistaken theives’; Manchester Central Board for Hebrew Education and Talmud Torah information sheet on what the Board does 40
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A2089 Small Jewish and interfaith collections: memoirs
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. 41
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A2098 Small Jewish and interfaith collections: Papers of Rabbi Morris Nemeth
1 Association of Jewish Friendship Clubs: circulars; 1981-2 agendas; Chairman’s annual reports; minutes
2 Consultative Committee on Jewish/Christian 1977 Relations: minutes; circulars
3 Council of Christians and Jews: correspondence; 1977-9 list of members of the council; schedule of committee meetings, 1978-9; constitution of the CCJ, amended 1977; minutes of the standing committee of local councils, 1979; circulars; copies of the CCJ’s ‘Christian Comment’; copies of Embassy of Israel Information briefing; minutes of the executive committee, CCJ appeal
4 Jewish Marriage Education Council training 1967-70 course: syllabus, 1968; lectures; book list; letter of 7 Nov 1967 to Rabbi Nemeth inviting him to lecture on the course in Jan 1968; booklet The new divorce law: a note for Jewish Marriage Education Counsellors (1970)
5 Paper from the Office of the Chief Rabbi ‘The 1966-9 Universal Declaration on Human Rights viewed from the Jewish standpoint’ by Dayan I.Grunfeld; Hospital chaplain papers: letter and guidance sheet from the Visitation Committee of the United Synagogue; letter from the South West London Hospital Group relating to Birchlands Jewish Hospital; information for patients at Birchlands; South West Metropolitan Regional Hospital Board report of proceedings of the fourth annual inter-church conference, 1969, and report for discussion at the Chaplains’ Advisory Committee, 24 Jan 1969; circulars
6 Printed: The Balfour Declaration: origins and 1940-78 background by Mrs Edgar Dugdale (Mar 1940); Reprint of an address ‘The individual and the family’ by Dayan Dr M.Lew to the Thirteenth Conference of Anglo-Jewish Preachers; A survey of Anglo-Jewish poetry; Two copies of a booklet on the slaughter of animals for food; Lebanon the facts; Orders of service for: Leicester Hebrew Congregation annual civic service, 5 Mar 1957;for Merseyside Jewish Representative Council communal service to mark the visit of the Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress, 1 Dec 1963; and for the consecration and opening of King David’s Primary School, Liverpool, 24 Mar 1965; Programme for the Liverpool Zionist Central Council Israel Independence Day celebration at King David School, 19 Apr 1964; 42
6 [contd.] L’Eylah, Spring 5470; Nes Ammim News, Feb 1978 43
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A3012 Small Jewish and interfaith collections: minute book
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 44
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A3025 Small Jewish and interfaith collections: copies of papers relating to the Saul brothers
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 45
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A3026 Small Jewish and interfaith collections: account relating to Marianne Schwarz
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. 46
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A3027 Small Jewish and interfaith collections: Joza: memories of my life and times
Copy of a typescript booklet Joza: memories of my life and times by Josephine Bruegel with Sylva Simsova (London 2002) 47
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A3028 Small Jewish and interfaith collections: Conference on Jewish Material Claims against Germany (Claims Conference) papers
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 48
MS 311/41
A3030 Small Jewish and interfaith collections: copy of a letter from Hilde Woodman to her brother in Germany, 1945
Copy of a letter, in German, from Hilde Woodman, nee Gerlach, to her brother, Frankl, in Germany, Nov 1945; with explanatory information 49
MS 311/42
A3031 Small Jewish and interfaith collections: typescript `War experiences of David Kutner’
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. Kutner never saw his mother and younger sister again. He worked in the horses stable. 50
MS 311/43
A3032 Small Jewish and interfaith collections: `Lives in crisis’
`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 51
MS 311/44
A3033 Small Jewish and interfaith collections: papers on the Jewish community in Thessaloniki
Booklets and map relating to the Jewish community in Thessaloniki 52
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A3036 Small Jewish and interfaith collections: letters of Leonard Stein
Three letters to Leonard Stein, 1910-11, mentioning Zionism, Professor Segal 53
MS 311/46
A3051 Small Jewish and interfaith collections: paper on the Israel Labour party
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 54
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A3065 Small Jewish and interfaith collections: papers of the Misses Moss
1 Printed thanksgiving prayer, in Hebrew and English, to be read early 19th at Great Synagogue, London, on the day of general thanksgiving century for the health of George III
2 Ketubah of Edward Hyman Levetus and Celia Moss 1848
3 Copies of photographs of Edward Levetus and Celia Moss taken n.d.: copy by Charles Mole, photographers, Birmingham
4 Four letters from Celia Levetus to her sister Marion Hartog, two Apr 1845, of which are franked and two with envelopes Sep 1860, n.d.
5 Nine editions of The occident and American Jewish advocate, May 1859- published in Philadelphia Aug 1860
6 Copy of a family tree and copy of a letter from Margaret Till copies Aug relating to the Moss family history 2008
7 Illustration of the High priest blessing Israel, with the inscription n.d. underneath: “Jehovah bless thee and keep thee Jehovah make his face to shine upon thee and be gracious unto thee Jehovah lift up his countenance upon thee and give thee peace And they shall put my name upon the children of Israel and I will bless them”
8 Early efforts: a volume of poems by the Misses Moss (London) 1839
9 The romance of Jewish history by the Misses Moss (London) in 1840 three volumes, bound together in one volume
10 Tales of Jewish history by the Misses Moss (London) in three 1843 volumes, bound together in one volume
11 The King’s physician and other tales by Mrs Levetus, formerly 1865 Celia Moss, (Portsea)
12 The Hebrew review and magazine of rabbinical literature edited 1834-6 by Morris J.Raphael (London), three volumes: inscribed to Edward Levetus by Raphael, 1849
13 Service for the two first nights of Passover according to the 1849 custom of the German and Polish Jews (London)
14 Prayer book of Edward Levetus, title page missing
15 Jewish school and family bible newly translated by Dr A.Benisch 1852 (London): presented to Edward Levetus as a prize for general proficiency in exams by the Birmingham Hebrew National Schools in 1863
16 Eighteen treatise from the Mishna translated by Revd D.A.de 1845 Sola and Revd M.J.Raphall (London): belonging to Sara Levetus 55
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A3076 Small Jewish and interfaith collections: notes on Rachel Beer
Folder of typescript, annotated notes by Miriam Meisel for a work on Rachel Beer (née Sassoon) 56
MS 311/49
A3077 Small Jewish and interfaith collections: account of journey to Poland by Naidia Woolf
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 57
MS 311/50
A3082 Small Jewish and interfaith collections: notes relating to the Isaac family
Copies of notes from various archival and printed sources, family trees relating to families named Isaac(s) and various spellings 58
MS 311/51
A3083 Small Jewish and interfaith collections: transcript of the registers of the Great Synagogue, London
Manuscript transcript by John Banks (d.1987) of the register of the Great Synagogue, London, covering marriages 1791-1885, and burials, 1826-33 59
MS 311/52
A3084 Small Jewish and interfaith collections: papers relating to the Edinburgh Hebrew Congregation and the Edinburgh Jewish Literary Society and the Norwich Hebrew Congregation
Edinburgh Hebrew Congregation
Order of service, 1961; financial statement and report, 1962; Hebrew classes syllabus and timetable, 1965-6
Edinburgh Jewish Literary Society
The Lit at home: a celebration of the centenary of the Edinburgh Jewish Literary Society, 1888- 1988; a history of the Society, 1963; programmes, 1961-4
Norwich Hebrew Congregation papers, 1964-9:
Order of service; flyers; charity ball and Simchas Torah party invitations 60
MS 311/53
A3098 Small Jewish and interfaith collections: photograph from Atlantic Park, Eastleigh
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 61
MS 311/54
A4003 Small Jewish and interfaith collections: papers relating to the Jewish community in Stockport
Research material of Dr. Claire Hilton for her publication The Stockport Jewish Community (ISSN 090516489X), which explores the history of the Jewish community in Stockport from the late 19th century to the early 1950s. The book is based on the testimonies of about twenty people who were mostly the children or grandchildren of late nineteenth- century immigrants
1 Research material, including photocopied and original 1990-3 newspaper clippings of stories relating to the Stockport Jewish community dating to the early nineteenth century; photocopies of advertisements for local businesses and synagogue notices; photographs; maps; handwritten notes; lists of Jewish families in Stockport; interview transcripts; correspondence between the author and interviewees; an official programme for the 60th anniversary of the Kinder Scout mass trespass (dated 24th-26th April 1992) and a souvenir “blitz edition” reprint of the Stockport Express dated 26 Dec 1940
2 Notebook with handwritten notes, detailing points of interest n.d. c.1990-3 and themes arising from the taped recordings of interviewees
3 16 cassette recordings of interviewees recorded between 1990 and 1992
3/1 Cassettes labelled : Mrs M. Baker Mr. Harry Berger 22/5/91 Mr Bernstein – USA/S’PORT Mrs Blasberg interview 5th Dec 1990 Neil Chestock Harry Clare Leah and Sarah Clare 4th July 1991 Harry Cohen
3/2 Cassettes labelled: Leslie Curtis 30/12/1991 Harry Freedman 13/12/92 Celia Goodman and Sol Levine Mrs Hinson Dr. Lester Mendelson Irving Normie (copied 31/8/92) Roseman 11/3/91 in Southport 62
MS 311/55
A4006 Small Jewish and interfaith collections: Stepney Jewish Girls’ and Infants’ School bulletin
Copy of the Stepney Jewish Girls’ and Infants’ School Monthly House Bulletin, Jan 1930 63
MS 311/56
A4007 Small Jewish and interfaith collections: Jewish Board of Guardians booklet
Jewish Board of Guardians centenary banquet in Guildhall commemorative booklet, 17 March 1959 64
MS 311/57
A4030 Small Jewish and interfaith collections: presentation album of photographs from the Federation of Jewish Communities, Yugoslavia
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, Èakovec, Baèko Petrovo Selo, Kikinda, Zrenjanin, Zemun, Skoplje, Novi Sad, Sombor, Subotica, Kanjiža, Sarajevo, Zagreb, Baèki 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.” 65
MS 311/58
A4031 Small Jewish and interfaith collections: photographs of James and Dorothy Parkes and of W.J.Ibbett
Colour photograph of James and Dorothy Parkes and their dog in the Library, Iwerne Minster, Blandford Forum, Dorset
Black and white photograph, with three copies, of W.J.Ibbett aged 74 years, taken by J.E.Masters, 1932. James Parkes has noted on the back of the photograph: “Mrs Beatrice M.Masters sent me this photograph of W.J.Ibbett (taken by her husband) with the comment (31st March 1959): `... it is very good but much too respectable, he dressed up in his best for it: usually you would see him with no collar or tie, and with no socks - just bare feet - he was a crank - of the unwashed ... but he was a very loveable man. His motto was “While alive remain hidden”.’ Alas as a poet this motto seems to have worked against him.” 66
MS 311/59
A4037 Small Jewish and interfaith collections: European elections campaign kit
The 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 67
MS 311/60
A4038 Small Jewish and interfaith collections: typescript biography of the writer Pamela Frankau
MS 311/61 A4085 Small Jewish and interfaith collections: bibliography of the printed works of James Parkes 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 69 MS 311/62 A4098 Small Jewish and interfaith collections: copy of letter from Winston Churchill 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 70 MS 311/63 A4101 Small Jewish and interfaith collections: papers of Martin Helmuth Schachmann and Dr Hildegard Sarah Schachmann,née Goldberg Papers of Martin Schachmann 1/1-9 Photographs: (1) a young girl [possibly a nanny] holding a baby; (2) a portrait of a man dressed in a suit, 1932; (3) passport photograph of Martin Schuchman, 1940s [?] (4) Two group photographs of young men, part of a fencing group, posing with foils and some wearing padded protection, 1922; (5) group photograph of the members of the fencing group, with identifications of the men written on the back, 1922; (6) photograph of three members of the fencing group, including Martin Schachmann, 1922; (7/1-14) 13 portrait photographs and 1 profile drawing of members of the fencing group, all signed, 1922; (8) photograph of troops in German army uniform standing on parade outside a building; (9) Faded colour photograph of a man and woman sitting at the side of water with trees and plants in the background 1/10 Wallet of Martin Schachmann containing photographs, papers 1938-9, 1902 with names and addresses, calling cards, receipts for postage; appointment slip; correspondence, 1938; Monday Club membership card, 1939; Correspndence, papers, notebook of Martin Schachmann, 1939 Account paper for George Schachmann, 1902 Papers of Hildegrard Schachman 2 Correspondence including with the International Red Cross and 1934-68 the War Organisation of the British Red Cross, 1942, 1945, but mainly concerning attempts to trace family members, but is mainly 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 71 MS 311/64 A4120 Small Jewish and interfaith collections: papers of Dr Joseph Rosenwasser (b. 1909), 1931-48 Papers of Dr Joseph Rosenwasser, including 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 72 MS 311/65 A4121 Small Jewish and interfaith collections: Office of the Chief Rabbi authorisation for the solemnisation of marriage forms 1/1-3 Three forms: 1930 Abraham Horowitz and Yetta Cohen; Isaac Payansky and Golda Liberman; Noah Kaplin and Rachel Saunders 2/1-17 Seventeen forms: 1931 Jacob Kushalewsky and Elka Behr otherwise Alice Bear; Mendel Hollander and Mary Baitsis [?] otherwise Reitzes; Michael Polchar otherwise Mark Polchar and Sarah Pschpeter other Ansfetter; Israel Miller and Rebecca Milgrome otherwise Milgrom; Jacob Caplan otherwise Jack Caplan and Lily White; Solomon otherwise Samuel Lieberman and Katie Schiffman or Kitty Shiffman; Morris Swift and Phoebe Solomon; Archie Shine and Minnie Middleburgh; Jacob Moses and Annie Goldstone; Harris Lazarus and Cecilia Slotkin; Samuel Spillman and Rebecca Gershon; Henry Greenberg and Matilda Levy; Simon Rogoff and Anne Sherman; Samuel Harris and Millie Kirschenbaum; Joseph Weitzman and Zelda Lipschitz; Joshua Goldstein and Livy Riva Yanover; Maurice Caplin and Lena Hitner; Harry Ritvo and Sarah Spurling 3/1-19 Nineteen forms: 1932 Daniel Rubinstein and Minnie Leborwitch otherwise Labovitch; Aaron Rosenberg and Lea Marrick; Woolf Brier and Hilda Price; Leon Goldberg and Rebecca Caplan; Sidney Rabinowitch and Rachel Cohen; Marnett Rothberg and Sophie Nemander [?]; Harry Goldman and Fannie Silberstein; Moses Schloss and Anna Rosenblatt; Philip Lazarus and Fanny Caplan; Abraham Levine and Eva Miller; Henry Vogel and Regina Bloch; Morris Stolsky and Jane Garson; Jacob Coffman and Dora Leiberman; Samuel Cohen and Mary Rubinstein; Isaac Coffman and Rachel Necus; Samuel Taub and Annie Pisatinsky; Louis Stolsky and Betsy Rosenberg; Israel Moshewitz otherwise Moswitch and Fanny Pogrebinsky otherwise Fanny Robins; Moss Abrahams and Sarah Schaffer 4 One form: Joe Goldberg and Jane Primhak [?] 1933 5/1-3 Three forms: 1947 Jack Elder and Theresa or Teresa Davis; Montague Greenberg and Lilian Fagelson; Louis Leberman and Bertha Wald 73 6/1-2 Two forms: 1950 Ronald Gedalla and Patricia Hammond; Isaac Gedalla and Betty (Bessie) Simmons 7/1-2 Two forms and related correspondence: 1955 Jacob Iger and Hildegard Hewlein Jonas Leitner and Mania Wiesenfeld 8 One form and related notes: Henry Schmahl and Sybil Kaplin 1956 74 MS 311/66 A4122 Small Jewish and interfaith collections: 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’