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1 Correspondence as editor of Jewish Chronicle, 1935-46 including with Cecil Roth and James Parkes and requests for help in gaining work, mainly from refugees; copy of The Zionist Review, Feb 1937; photograph of a large sign outside a church bearing the words “This church gratefully remembers that Jesus Christ was a Jew”; typescripts of articles; Red Cross Penny A Week Fund leaflet; confidential handwritten paper giving “Fuller details of J C discussion at AGM of Hebrew Congregation”, 15 Jun 1941

2 Correspondence, mainly as editor of Jewish 1940-64 Chronicle, some with copies of articles and reviews, including with: M.Trau, 1952-3; Lord Nathan of Churt, 1943-6; David Kessler, 1940; Neville Laski, 1941-6; Leonard Stein, 1943-51; M.Gordon Liverman, 1948-9; Leonard G.Montefiore, 1945; H.H.Roskin, 1948; Sir Robert Waley Cohen, 1943; Florence Greenberg; 1939-46; Lawrence Kostoris, 1945; Cecil Roth, 1941; United Zionist Revisionist Party of South Africa and the Jewish Herald, 1947-64; Anglo-Palestinian Club, 1948; Joseph Leftwich,, 1943-6; the Jewish Recorder of the Birmingham Jewish Cultural Society, 1945-8

3 Correspondence, mainly as editor of the Jewish 1934-61 Chronicle, press cuttings, leaflet on The Barn Club, Hertfordshire; handwritten copy of a list of disbursements by J.M.Myers for the funeral of Baroness F de Rothschild in 1866; flyers for the Anglo-Jewish Association and Agudas Israel World Organisation ; typescript `Fordson situation report’, 20 Oct 1948; receipts and handwritten accounts for household items, 1948; two posters concerning the case of the Board of Shechita and the declaration of treifa against certain butchers; The Jewish Fellowship `commentary’ and minutes of a meeting of the executive committee

4 Correspondence as editor of the Jewish 1937-45 Chronicle including with and relating to the Trades Advisory Council, the Office of the Chief Rabbi, the Board of Deputies of and the Ministry of Information; T.A.C. The MS 150 2

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4 [cont.] Monthly Bulletin of the Trades Advisory Council May 1941; `Speech delivered by John Goodenday to the annual general meeting of the TAC, 1942; notes of an interview with the Chief Rabbi, 1941; Board of Deputies memorandum to the Anglo-American Committee of Enquiry concerning the formation of a Jewish national state; copy of Clarion of the Southport Jewish Discussion Group, May 1945; carbon of a typescript transcript of a BBC Home Service broadcast discussion between W.W.Simpson and I.L.Swift; The Bulletin of the Society of Jews and Christians, Nov 1941; copies of the Ministry of Information Religions Division Catholic Bulletin of Foreign News

5 Correspondence as editor of the Jewish 1938-46 Chronicle with the Board of Deputies of British Jews Jewish Defence Committee; typescript reports of a meeting of British fascists at which Captain Maule Ramsey, MP, spoke, on the Militant Christian Party, on the work for Jewish defence, on the National Front and on anti-Semitism and anti-Semitic allegations; Militant Christian Patriots leaflet; newspaper cuttings

6 Correspondence as editor of the Jewish 1939-45 Chronicle concerning the armed forces and chiefly with Rabbis M.Gollop and L.Rabinowitz Senior Jewish Chaplains to the Forces: carbon of a typescript paper `The army: censorship rules regarding the publication of the names of officers and other ranks’; order of service for a memorial service for those killed in Normandy, 1944

7 Correspondence as editor of the Jewish 1937-48 Chronicle including with the Federation of Jewish Relief Organisations, the Jewish Information Bureau, the Jewish Refugees Committee, the Jewish Hospitality Committee for British and Allied Forces, the Hostel Committee for Evacuated Jewish Children, the Movement for the Care of Children from Germany, the United Jewish Relief Appeal and the Jewish Fund for Soviet Russia; typescript translation of a paper on the International League for the Salvation of Oriental Jewry; report of the JNFM public meeting; carbon of a report of a visit to Germany; copy of The Jewish Bulletin; minutes MS 150 3

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7 [cont.] of the meeting of the appeal committee of the Jewish Fund for Soviet Jewry, 3 Dec 1943; press release from the Bulgarian Legation on the government of Bulgaria and the Jewish minority

8 Correspondence, mainly as editor of the Jewish 1939-49 Chronicle, including with the Zionist Federation of Great Britain and Ireland, WIZO, , the Zionist Information Office, the Jewish Agency for Palestine, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency; typescript paper relating to Palestine; typescript article `Espionage in Palestine’ by Israel Cohen; `WIZO launches new appeal to the women of the diaspora’; newspaper cuttings; Freedom and work for Jewish Youth: report for the third World Youth Aliyah Conference; copies of the The Bulletin of the United Zionist Revisionists of Great Britain and Ireland and of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency Daily News Bulletin; memorandum and proposals submitted to the special session of the General Assembly of the United Nations by the Hebrew Committee of National Liberation, 16 Apr 1948; carbons of transcripts of articles from newspapers: `Who won and who lost in the elections for the constituent assembly ?’ `And so we carry on’ by Dr J.Bader, `The elections and the aftermath’ by Raphael Kotlowitz; Children and Youth Aliyah Bulletin; `Suggestions for the establishing of public labour exchanges in Palestine’: submitted to the Labour Adviser of the Government of Palestine by the League for the Equal Right to Work for Every Jew; list of polling stations in the London and southern constituency for the twenty second Zionist Congress; correspondence course in Zionism by Dr Joseph Heller published by the Department for Education, Hebrew and Youth of the Zionist Federation of Great Britain and Ireland; United Zionist Revisionists of Great Britain constitution, minutes of general committee and executive meetings, circulars, agendas

9 Shelach papers: correspondence as Chairman of 1948-51 the Jewish National Freedom Movement of Great Britain; minutes of a committee meeting; carbon copies of ‘Shelach Bulletin’; Shelaj Boletin Informativo; A Human Disaster -The Arab Refugees: pamphlet on Arab affairs number 8 published by the Arab Office, London; `Arab MS 150 4

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9 [cont.] refugees’: a statement made by Moshe Sharett (Shertok), Israel’s Foreign Minister, 21 Mar 1949

10 Irgun papers: newspaper cuttings, some in 1947-50 Hebrew script and Italian; newsletter published by the American League for a Free Palestine; text of radio broadcasts on behalf of the Voice of Fighting Zion; `The Hebrew Freedom Movement: declaration by the Maamad’, ; three copies of The truth about the “Altalena”: Irgun leader’s historic broadcast; newsletters; `Truth about Irgun munition ship Bengurion’s abominable treachery: first step towards “selling out” the Jewish state’; `The “Altalena” incident: a chronological account’: prepared by the American League for a Free Palestine; flyer produced by the Irgun Zvai Leumi; Buts et Methodes ed l’Irgoun Tzvai Leoumi; Irgun Zvai Leumi speaks to the United Nations; Scopi e metodi dell’Irgun Zvai Leumi b’Eretz-Israel; photographic copy of a letter from the Jewish Agency for Palestine and the Palestine Emergency Fund, 5 May 1948; Irgun Zvai Leumi newsletters; `Memorandum to the United Nations Special Committee on Palestine by Irgun Zvai Leumi b’Eretz Israel, Jun 1947; Fighting Judea; `Background to the struggle for the liberation of Eretz Israel’; `The Hebrew struggle for national liberation’, Jul 1947; typescript copy of a letter from the High Commissioner for Palestine to Arthur Creech Jones, Secretary of State for the Colonies, 14 May 1947; official proceedings of a conference between representatives of the United Nations Special Committee on Palestine and of the Irgun Zvai Leumi, 24 Jun 1947; press releases; `The Jewish resistance movement’; `Report on interviews with leading personalities’; `Address by Mr Ben Hecht’; `Declaration of the Irgun Zvai Leumi’; confidential memorandum from Y.Ben-Ami; copies of `Bulletin de reseignements’; newsletters; `Special report to Director CIA handed in London’; Palestine Digest Illustrated

11 Herut papers: correspondence; press cables; 1945-50 `Information regarding the Nekudot Hityashvut and Garinim of Cherut-Betar’; Igud “Tnuath Haheruth B’Eretz Israel” Brith Hazohar B’tfutzoth Hagolah circulars, information MS 150 5

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11 [cont.] bulletins; political resolutions of the first meeting of the National Council of the Freedom Movement in Israel; information bulletins; press releases; newsletters; `Proposed social platform accepted by the first council of Tenuat Haherut to be brought before the constituent assembly of the movement: basic outline for social-economic policy’; `Report on Paris conference’; text of the speech of Menachem Begin, head of the Parliamentary `Herut’ Movement in the Knesset; six copies of Herut: a liberal freedom party in Israel: an outline of principles and policy; Herout (liberte); reprint of an article `They were not expendable’ by Simon H.Rifkind; `American League for a free Palestine answers Dr Magnes’ open letter to Mrs Roosevelt; This is the way; Motherland and freedom: objectives and basic principles of the Tenuat Haheruth

12 Printed material: newspapers, including the 1940-8 Jewish Standard and The Legionaire and newspaper cuttings; press releases of the American League for a Free Palestine; newsletters; Daily News Bulletins of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency; minutes of the executive committee, 4 Jun 1947, and the liquidation sub- committee,13 May 1947, of the Jewish Marine League; The fight for liberation and nationhood: special report 1947; leaflet for a film Last night we attacked: a film record of the fighting resistance in Palestine; Herut: a liberal freedom party in Israel: an outline of principles and policy; newsletters; The Jewish Legion Bulletin; report for Feb and Mar 1943 on the situation of Jewish communities in Europe and across the world; `Memorandum to the United Nations’report of work of the Joint Standing Parliamentary Committee of Women’s Organisations; Palestine and the British Commonwealth of Nations; copies of Young Jewry; copies of the Bulletin of the Bible Readers’ Union, 1940-4; article `A Christian looks at the Christian Mission to the Jews’ by James Parkes from Theology; printed report of the Birmingham Jewish Cultural Society annual general meeting; copy of Hahomer:the monthly journal of the Bloemfontein Jewish Community, Oct 1947; copy of Betar, in Hungarian; The Palestine Economist, Dec 1945; Congress Weekly, 17 Aug 1945; Commentary, Mar 1946; MS 150 6

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12 [cont.] The Highway, volume 1, number 1, Dec 1946; Our way Darkenu: Jewish Labour Magazine, Aug 1948; Shavuot and Rosh Hashanah Jewish Emergency Committee for Jewish Religious Education in Great Britain publications, 1942 and 1944; Democrat, volume 1, number 1, Jul 1946; copies of Ha’yarden; copy of Cayenu, Oct/Nov 1942; copies of Commonwealth, 1946; copies of The Palestine Tribune, 1946; What is happening in Palestine ? published by the Assir Zion Committee

13 Copies of articles and lectures, some with 1938-48 covering letters and illustrations, many submitted to Greenberg for publication in the Jewish Chronicle: (1) `E.M.Lilien: memorial exhibition’, with invitation to the exhibition; (2) `Cranganore- a short note’ by S.S.Koder, 1938; (3) `In memory of Phineas Horowitz’ to the Anglo-Palestinian Club, 1946; (4) `Die erste Nacht der Freiheit’ by Dr Berthold Lachmann, 1948; (5) `The American Jew who personified a generation (B.Chzrne-Vladeck and his generation’ by William Zuckerman; (6) `The Bialik Institute for Hebrew culture’ by Nehemiah H.Behr; (7) `Yeats: great poet of religion and mystic’ by Myer Dominitz; (8) `Traitor or patriot ?’: on the occation of the 1900th anniversary of Josephus Flavius - Jewish historian by Raphael Patai, 1939; (9) `Italiens Juden ... statistisch gesehen’ by Dr Felix A.Theilhaber, 1939; (10) `Elgar and Delius under Palestine skies something about the music life of Eretz Israel’ by Herman Svet, 1939; (11) `British Guiana as a home for the Jews ?’ by James Cassidy, 1939; (12) `On the 14th anniversary of the Hebrew University’ by Gustav Krojanker, 1939; (13) `The Mizrachi programme and activities’ by Rabbi Meier Berlin, President of the World Mizrachi Organisation, 1938; (14) `On guard’ by Isaac Leven, 1939; (15) `Ohne Orgel’ by Rabbi Dr Ignaz Maybaum; (16) `Refugees in South Africa’ by Dr H.O.Simon, 1939; MS 150 7

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13 [cont.] (17) `Fifty percenters’ by Dr H.O.Simon, 1939; (18) `Hughenden Manor as a permanent memorial to Disraeli’ by Alexander Behr, with press cuttings and postcard of house, 1939; (19) `Will Ukraine be a Nazi puppet state ?’ by Oscar Leonard, 1939; (20) `A forgotten Zionist: the Prince de Ligne’ by Barnet Litvinoff, 1939; (21) `The Jews of Aden’ by Joe I.Sargon; (22) Paper, in German, on Jews in Italy; (23) `The Bridge’ by W.Grantham Parker; (24) `The Pope issued of the ghetto: the Jewish pope and the non-aryan Kaiser’ by J.Schneider, 1939; (25) `The other Germany’ by Bernhard Reichenbach, 1938; (26) `The Jews under the German heel: reports from Germany, Austria and Poland’ by Bernhard Reichenbach, 1940; (27) `Une année de politique anti-sémite en Italie’, 1939; (28) `Israel Zangwill - the dreamer of the Jewish state’ by Joseph Leftwich,, 1940; (29) `An open letter to Mr Communal Worker by a Jewish Chronicle reporter’ [Montague Jacobs], 1939; (30) `When did Abraham live ?’ by M.Y.Ben Gavriel, 1939; (31) `Dr Freud at home: some anecdotes from the professor’s life’; (32) `The hope train’, 1939; (33) `Is diabetes really the “disease of the Jews”? New knowledge and statistics’ by Waldemar Schweisheimer, 1940; (34) `The emigré physician in the United States: the problem of the Jewish-German physician’ by Waldemar Schweisheimer; (35) `Are Jewish parents more likely to have sons ?’ by Waldemar Schweisheimer, 1939; (36) `Jews and coronary disease; “disease of the intelligensia”’ by Waldemar Schweisheimer; (37) `My good-bye to Germany (extracts from a diary)’ by Leon Cudkowicz, 1939; (38) `Jewish war aims’ by Bruno Heilig; (39) `The runner of Aphek: a Jewish dispatch runner before 3,000 years’ by F.Pinczower, 1939; (40) `Flights into fancy: an air pioneer’s view about Jews’ by Solomon Sugerman, 1940; (41) An article `Seder’, in German, by MS 150 8

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13 [cont.] A.Goldschmied; (42) `The weeping without tears’ by W.Flusser, 1940; (43) `Mark Twain “concerning the Jews”’ by K.W.Coales; (44) `Israel Zangwill: a tribute’ by John Sorsky, 1940; (45) Article on the history of Jewish art by J.M.Wolfson, 1940; (46) `Don’t take the children back....’ by Erica Natonek; (47)`Germany and the Jews’; (48) `Das Zehnjahrige Jubileum der 50 jahrigen’; (49) `The Jews in Great Britain and Ireland’; (50) `The wicked prince’: a translation of a Hans Christian Andersen story by Helga Melchior, 1939; (51) `Beware 1-29' concerning the Nazi press; (52) Article on immigrants;

Pamphlets and journal articles: (53) Two copies of Crumbling Christianity by Janet Steer; (54) Who founded the church ? An argument and its logical conclusion by Janette Steer (1937); (55) `The Galilean and the rabbi: a parable’ by William Zukerman from the Antioch Review, 1941; (56) The Sabbath: its central position in Jewish life and thought by Dayan Dr I.Grunfeld (1943); (57) The war guilt of German doctors by Revd S.H.Michelson (1945); (58) Answers to the Palestine question by Carl Hermann Voss (1947); (59) Palestine Diamonds publicity booklet for the Palestine Diamond Cutting Industry, Nov 1944; (60) Religious teachings in the psalms by Isidore Epstein; (61/1-2) Parts 1 and 2 of Britons awake ! by Keith Williams (1940); (62) `Origins of the Balfour Declaration: Dr Hertz’s contribution’ by Samuel Landman; (63) A blueprint for Hebrew freedom: a letter from Peter H.Bergson to Dr Chaim Weizmann; (64) The post-war problem and its solution; (65) Jews are news ! by A.C.Crouch; (66) `The birth of the Jewish agency’ by Chaim Weizmann; MS 150 9

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13 [cont.] (67) Chamishah Asar Bi’Shevat by Rabbi Dr I.Weinstock (1943)

14 Pamphlets, articles, leaflets: 1939-46 (1). Black Paper - the British terror in Palestine published for the American League for a Free Palestine (New York); (2) The Jewish Fellowship; (3) The case for the daily worker; (4) The Education Bill: address by R.A.Butler, MP (President of Board of Education), to Board of Deputies of British Jews, 10 Jan 1944; (5) Copy of Parliamentary Debates: House of Lords unrevised official report on the refugee problem, 1939; (6) Copy of Parliamentary Debates House of Lords unrevised official report on International relations after war, 1943 (7) Minutes of evidence taken before the Royal Commission on the Press 30 Oct 1947 (HMSO); (8) Printed letter to the Ministry of Information, London, from Dr Jacob Katz, Deputy, MOH, `Re the principal slaughter-house of Poles and jews and the Ukranian problem - some facts and suggestions’, 1 Jan 1943; (9) `The Great Synagogue will rise again’: order of service at the national day of intercession and prayer September 7th 1941 n the ruins of the Great Synagogue, Aldgate, London with sermon by the Chief Rabbi (Dr J.H.Hertz) (10) Union OSE Report on the situation of the Jews in Germany, October/December 1945 (Geneva, 1946)

15 Copies of La Riposte, 1948-9, The Answer: an 1946-9 American weekly dedicated to the liberation and the struggle for Hebrew national independence of Palestine, Le Monde, The Jewish Standard; Jewish National Freedom Movement of Great Britain newsletters; Zionist Information Office weekly news digest, Dec 1949; Press statements, 1946

16 Copies of newspapers, including the Palestine 1939-46 Post, Jewish Standard, the Jewish Gazette and newspaper cuttings relating to Palestine; booklets; journal articles on the neutrality of MS 150 10

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16 [cont.] South Africa, 1939, the Jewish background of the Gospels, 1942, Biblical theology in the life of the church, 1943; copy of Blackfriars Monthly Review, 1944; leaflets, lists of candidates for Poale Zion, relating to the Zionist Congress elections, 1946