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GOLDSTEIN, SAM
1914-1918
This section includes a Jewish pocket prayer book owned by Sgt Sam Goldstein of the 6th Bn. Yorkshire Regt during the First World War. The book has two handwritten inscriptions. The first details serg...
Photos and discharge documents
1914-1918
This section is comprised of material relating to the service of Privates Phillips, Mendelson and Zabit, who fought during the First World War. It houses photographs of the soldiers and the transfer/d...
MENDOZA, J
1914-1918
This section includes the identity discs (aka. dog tags) of J1029 Pte J. Mendoza, 38th Royal Fusiliers. The battalion was one of the first Jewish-only units in the British army, specifically establish...
ROSENTHALL, M G C
1914-1918
This section includes printed photographs of Simeon Rosenthall who was a driver with the Machine Guns Corps during the First World War. There is also a news story from the Daily Mail detailing Rosenth...
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...
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...
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...
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...