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Czech Torah Scroll, MST#68, Brno
c.1850
Comprises a Czech Torah scroll in Hebrew containing the Pentateuch, the first five books of the Hebrew Bible. Known as the Brno scroll, it originally came from Czechoslovakia. It is a scroll from an ...
BICKLER, J
1914-1919
This file contains a transcript of an interview (Tape No. 944) with J. Bickler, a Private in the British Army. It details life and service serving in the Royal Fusiliers Regiment (Jewish Battalion), o...
BARKER, Mrs AM
1970-1999
This section contains brief notes on in interview (Tape No. 980) with A. Barker, a woman born to a Jewish family in Leeds. It details instances of antisemitism in both Leeds and Newcastle, specificall...
GORB, D
1914-1919
This section contains the transcript of an interview (Tape No. 919) with D. Gorb who served as Company Quartermaster Sergeant for the 40th Battalion Royal Fusiliers Regiment (Jewish Battalion). It det...
MARKS, LAWRENCE
1914-1918
This section includes a transcript of an interview with Lawrence Marks by his grandson, D. Jacobs, around 1971. Marks served as a private in the 2nd Bn. Welsh Regt. which had been comprised largely of...
Ruth Steinberg
1995
The collection is comprised of ephemera relating to Ruth Steinberg's time at the 1995 Beijing Women's Conference. This was the fourth international women's conference, and focussed on providing equal ...
Marilyn Fletcher Collection
Fletcher, Marilyn
1980s
The collection relates to Shifra magazine. This was a publication running from 1984-1986 aimed towards Jewish women in Britain, encouraging individuals and communities to share experiences, art, poetr...
Sheila Saunders Collection
Saunders, Sheila
C1960s - 1980s C1960s - 1980s
The collection houses material concerning Shelia Saunder’s political activism during the 1970s. Saunders sat on the committees of a variety of charitable and activist organisations, primarily concer...
A. C. Jacobs Collection
Jacobs, A C; Bialik, Hayyim Nahman (1873-1934); Vogel, David (1891-1944)
1955-2000
The collection represents the works of Arthur C. Jacobs, a Scottish Jewish Poet. It includes 6 boxes of archival material (MS 2065/1) and 5 volumes of printed works (MS 2065/2). The archival material ...
Papers of Janina and Zygmunt Bauman
Bauman, Zygmunt (1925-2017); Bauman, Janina (1926-2009)
1945-2015
Most of the material relates to the professional careers of Zygmunt Bauman and his first wife, Janina Bauman (writer). It includes correspondence (with academics of sociology, philosophy and other dis...
Esther Simpson correspondence and papers
Simpson, Esther (1903-1996)
1918-1997
This collection reflects Esther Simpson's work on behalf of refugee scholars over the course of fifty years. It also documents the many friendships and contacts she developed. The main collection (i...