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LONDON METROPOLITAN ARCHIVES WESTMINSTER SYNAGOGUE LMA/4071 Page 1 Reference Description Dates ADMINISTRATION Council LMA/4071/0 LONDON METROPOLITAN ARCHIVES Page 1 WESTMINSTER SYNAGOGUE LMA/4071 Reference Description Dates ADMINISTRATION Council LMA/4071/01/01/001 Minutes: these include reports from various 1957-1968 Synagogue groups and committees 1 file LMA/4071/01/01/002 Minutes: these include reports from various 1969-1982 Synagogue groups and committees 1 file LMA/4071/01/01/003 Minutes: these include reports from various 1986-1993 Synagogue groups and committees 1 file LMA/4071/01/01/004 Membership 1970-1987 Includes the revised laws of Westminster Synagogue 1 file Executive Committee LMA/4071/01/02/001 Minutes 1957-1960 1 file LMA/4071/01/02/002 Minutes 1961-1964 1 file LMA/4071/01/02/003 Minutes 1964-1970 1 file LMA/4071/01/02/004 Minutes 1970-1978 1 file LMA/4071/01/02/005 Minutes 1979-1985 1 file LMA/4071/01/02/006 Minute book 1957-1987 Includes minutes from the Council and the Annual General Meeting 1 file Search Committee LONDON METROPOLITAN ARCHIVES Page 2 WESTMINSTER SYNAGOGUE LMA/4071 Reference Description Dates LMA/4071/01/03/001 Minutes, with copies of Laws of the Synagogue 1978-1991 and membership accounts 1 file LMA/4071/01/03/002 Minutes and correspondence with the Reform 1994-1995 Synagogues of Great Britain concerning the appointment of a successor to Rabbi Friedlander 1 file LMA/4071/01/03/003 Minutes and correspondence with the Reform 1994-1995 Not available for general access Synagogues of Great Britain concerning the appointment of a successor to Rabbi Friedlander. Some correspondence with interested candidates 1 file Annual General Meetings LMA/4071/01/04/001 Minutes, reports, accounts, statements of policy 1957-1967 and principal, and correspondence. Includes account of meeting held at the Royal Empire Society in July 1957 to discuss setting up the Synagogue 1 file LMA/4071/01/04/002 Minutes, reports, accounts, statements of policy 1968-1979 and principal, and correspondence 1 file LMA/4071/01/04/003 Minutes, reports, accounts, statements of policy 1979-1990 and principal, and correspondence 1 file LMA/4071/01/04/004 Minutes and working papers, agendas, reports, 1992-1994 Laws of the Synagogue and accounts 1 file LMA/4071/01/04/005 Working papers, reports, Laws of the 1975-1995 Synagogue, miscellaneous minutes from Council and committees and correspondence 1 file LONDON METROPOLITAN ARCHIVES Page 3 WESTMINSTER SYNAGOGUE LMA/4071 Reference Description Dates LMA/4071/01/04/006 First Annual General Meeting minutes 1957-1958 Includes the laws of the New London Jewish Congregation, reports and accounts and correspondence. 1 file LMA/4071/01/04/007 Minutes 1978-1990 Includes an address by President Lewis Golden 1 file Correspondence LMA/4071/01/05/001 Articles and correspondence relating to the 1985-1993 purchase of Hebrew books 1 file LMA/4071/01/05/002 General correspondence - A 1958-1962 Arranged alphabetically by surname and subject 1 file LMA/4071/01/05/003 General correspondence - A-C 1964-1969 Arranged alphabetically by surname and subject 1 file LMA/4071/01/05/004 General correspondence - B 1957-1967 Arranged alphabetically by surname and subject 1 file LMA/4071/01/05/005 General correspondence - B 1958-1962 Arranged alphabetically by surname and subject 1 file LMA/4071/01/05/006 General correspondence - B 1963-1970 Arranged alphabetically by surname and subject 1 file LMA/4071/01/05/007 General correspondence - C 1957-1962 Arranged alphabetically by surname and subject 1 file LONDON METROPOLITAN ARCHIVES Page 4 WESTMINSTER SYNAGOGUE LMA/4071 Reference Description Dates LMA/4071/01/05/008 General correspondence - C 1963-1969 Arranged alphabetically by surname and subject 1 file LMA/4071/01/05/009 General correspondence - C 1965-1969 Arranged alphabetically by surname and subject 1 file LMA/4071/01/05/010 General correspondence - D 1963-1969 Arranged alphabetically by surname and subject 1 file LMA/4071/01/05/011 General correspondence - E 1961-1969 Arranged alphabetically by surname and subject 1 file LMA/4071/01/05/012 General correspondence - E 1959-1962 Arranged alphabetically by surname and subject 1 file LMA/4071/01/05/013 General correspondence - F 1957-1962 Arranged alphabetically by surname and subject 1 file LMA/4071/01/05/014 General correspondence - F 1963-1969 Arranged alphabetically by surname and subject 1 file LMA/4071/01/05/015 General correspondence - G 1958-1962 Arranged alphabetically by surname and subject 1 file LMA/4071/01/05/016 General correspondence - G 1963-1969 Arranged alphabetically by surname and subject 1 file LONDON METROPOLITAN ARCHIVES Page 5 WESTMINSTER SYNAGOGUE LMA/4071 Reference Description Dates LMA/4071/01/05/017 General correspondence - H 1957-1962 Arranged alphabetically by surname and subject 1 file LMA/4071/01/05/018 General correspondence - H 1962-1970 Arranged alphabetically by surname and subject 1 file LMA/4071/01/05/019 General correspondence - K 1957-1962 Arranged alphabetically by surname and subject 1 file LMA/4071/01/05/020 General correspondence - K 1963-1970 Arranged alphabetically by surname and subject 1 file LMA/4071/01/05/021 General correspondence - L 1957-1961 Arranged alphabetically by surname and subject 1 file LMA/4071/01/05/022 General correspondence - L 1963-1969 Arranged alphabetically by surname and subject 1 file LMA/4071/01/05/023 General correspondence - L 1963-1968 Arranged alphabetically by surname and subject 1 file LMA/4071/01/05/024 General correspondence - M 1957-1962 Arranged alphabetically by surname and subject. Includes music documentation. 1 file LMA/4071/01/05/025 General correspondence - M 1963-1970 Arranged alphabetically by surname and subject. Includes marriage and music documentation. 1 file LONDON METROPOLITAN ARCHIVES Page 6 WESTMINSTER SYNAGOGUE LMA/4071 Reference Description Dates LMA/4071/01/05/026 General correspondence - N 1957-1962 Arranged alphabetically by surname and subject 1 file LMA/4071/01/05/027 General correspondence - N 1963-1970 Arranged alphabetically by surname and subject 1 file LMA/4071/01/05/028 General correspondence - N 1963-1969 Arranged alphabetically by surname and subject 1 file LMA/4071/01/05/029 General correspondence - O 1960-1969 Arranged alphabetically by surname and subject. Includes Oxford University Jewish Society documentation. 1 file LMA/4071/01/05/030 General correspondence - O 1958-1962 Arranged alphabetically by surname and subject 1 file LMA/4071/01/05/031 General correspondence - Q-R 1957-1961 Arranged alphabetically by surname and subject 1 file LMA/4071/01/05/032 General correspondence - R 1959-1968 Arranged alphabetically by surname and subject 1 file LMA/4071/01/05/033 General correspondence - R 1963-1969 Arranged alphabetically by surname and subject 1 file LMA/4071/01/05/034 General correspondence - S 1934-1959 Arranged alphabetically by surname and subject 1 file LONDON METROPOLITAN ARCHIVES Page 7 WESTMINSTER SYNAGOGUE LMA/4071 Reference Description Dates LMA/4071/01/05/035 General correspondence - S 1958-1962 Arranged alphabetically by surname and subject 1 file LMA/4071/01/05/036 General correspondence - T 1958-1961 Arranged alphabetically by surname and subject 1 file LMA/4071/01/05/037 General correspondence - U-V 1958-1962 Arranged alphabetically by surname and subject 1 file LMA/4071/01/05/038 General correspondence 1959-1966 Includes correspondence relating to the Council of Christians and Jews. 1 file LMA/4071/01/05/039 General correspondence 1956-1960 Includes correspondence relating to the Journal of Jewish Studies. 1 file LMA/4071/01/05/040 General correspondence 1963-1968 Includes correspondence relating to the Board of Deputies of British Jews and Jewish Peace Society. 1 file LMA/4071/01/05/041 General correspondence 1961-1968 1 file LMA/4071/01/05/042 General correspondence 1963-1969 Includes correspondence relating to the Jewish Review, Jewish Quarterly and the Jewish Welfare Board. 1 file LMA/4071/01/05/043 Jewish Peace Society and Jews' Temporary 1959-1962 Shelter 1 file LONDON METROPOLITAN ARCHIVES Page 8 WESTMINSTER SYNAGOGUE LMA/4071 Reference Description Dates LMA/4071/01/05/044 Musical scores 1960-1970 Includes Atonement Day documentation 1 file LMA/4071/01/05/045 Tisha B'Av 1952 9th day of Av 1 file LMA/4071/01/05/046 War on Want Programme 1963-1965 1 file LMA/4071/01/05/047 Westminster Synagogue Classes 1949-1966 Includes documentation from the Jewish Historical Society, Forms of Prayer and Worship and Psalms. 1 file LMA/4071/01/05/048 B'nai B'rith 1959-1960 1 file LMA/4071/01/05/049 Peddalebaka 1962-1965 War on Want Programme 1 file LMA/4071/01/05/050 Jewish Group - Campaign for Nuclear 1958-1963 Disarmament 1 file MINISTERS Rabbi Harold Reinhart LMA/4071/02/01/001 Sermons: mainly from 1967-1968, includes the 1957-1968 last sermon he gave as Minister of the West London Synagogue and the Leo Baeck Memorial Lecture delivered on 31st October 1962 1 file LMA/4071/02/01/002 Miscellaneous papers: includes copies of 1958-1983 newsletters and circulars to congregation, obiturary notices, details of memorial services for Rabbi Reinhart and his wife (1983) 1 file LONDON METROPOLITAN ARCHIVES Page 9 WESTMINSTER SYNAGOGUE LMA/4071 Reference Description Dates LMA/4071/02/01/003 Correspondence 1954-1965 Includes classical music programmes 1 file LMA/4071/02/01/004 Address to the newly established congregation 1957-1960 1 file LMA/4071/02/01/005 Correspondence and letters 1963 1 file LMA/4071/02/01/006 Westminster Synagogue Youth Club 1981 Includes an in memoriam for Flora Ruman Reinhart 1 file LMA/4071/02/01/007 Rabbi Chaim Stern 1967-1968 Briefly succeeded Rabbi
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