Folklife Research in the Jewish Community
Details
Type of record: Archive
Title: Folklife Research in the Jewish Community
Classmark: LAVC/STA/1/1/4/2
Creator(s): Sanderson, Stewart (1924-)
Site Location(s): Subject - Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom( 53.7965, -1.54785 )
Date(s): 1963-1974
Size and medium: 1 file of typed papers.
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/409852
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
This file includes copies of Stewart Sanderson's 'Proposals for Folk Life Research Amongst the Jewish Community in Leeds', (February 1963); correspondence with Dr. Zvi Sofer of the University of Göttingen on arrangements for his visit to Leeds as a guest lecturer (August 1965-April 1966); correspondence with Bernard Gillinson, and with Louis Saipe of the Leeds Jewish Representative Council on proposals for research into the Leeds Jewish community and Sofer's visit (November 1965-February 1966); correspondence with Stanley Burton, initially via the Vice Chancellor, on sound recordings made by Sofer during his visit and proposals for research into the Leeds Jewish community (April-May 1966); correspondence with Dr. Scheier Levenberg of the Jewish Agency of Israel on the research proposals (May-June 1966); ms., typed and photocopied items relating to the collection of data from Jewish informants in Leeds, including two pages of ms. notes in Hebrew (undated); an invitation addressed to Sanderson to the Sixth World Congress of Jewish Studies in Jerusalem in 1973 (October 1972); correspondence and related papers concerning Dov Noy on a folklore project based at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, including correspondence from Tony Green in Sanderson's absence (October 1972-April 1973), and correspondence between Sanderson, Dov Noy and Edna Cheichel at the Ethnological Museum and Folklore Archives, Haifa, on proposals for collaborative research into Jewish folklore (June 1973-August 1974).
File arranged chronologically, and by correspondent.
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