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Total number of records: 10

Count of Collection group

Collection groupCount
Liddle Collection6
English Literature1
Feminist Archive North1
Leeds Animation Workshop1
Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture1

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
jewish daily life and religious practices10
oral history6
jewish community5
world war i5
antisemitism4
jewish press3
jewish soldiers3
world war ii2
acculturation1
archive administration1

Count of People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Bialik, Hayyim Nahman (1873-1934)1
Fletcher, Marilyn1
Jacobs, A C1
Sanderson, Stewart (1924-)1
Vogel, David (1891-1944)1

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Up to 19998
Up to latest2

Archive Collection

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 ...

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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...

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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...

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Burton, Stanley H

c.1939-1945

This section contains archival objects relating to the service of Stanley Burton in the Royal Air Force during the Second World War. This includes a United States mess tin, a cloth insignia, cuttings ...

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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...

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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...

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LEFTWICH, J

1914-1918

Ths collection contains a transcript of an interview with Joseph Leftwich in which he recalls life as a young Jew in the East End of London. He was born in Holland to an Orthodox Jewish family and mov...

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PARSONS, Mrs OLIVE N

1914-1918

This section contains a transcript (Tape No. 1200) of an interview with Olive Parsons regarding her life as a young Socialist in London. Parsons was born into a Jewish family in Britain in 1892. She l...

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Folklife Research in the Jewish Community

Sanderson, Stewart (1924-)

1963-1974

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 Gött...

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Storyboards for "Kosher Turkey" [Never made film]

[c.1977 - 2015]

This file contains one photocopied storyboard for a short film entitled ‘Kosher Turkey’. This would concern life in Britain as a Jewish woman, examining themes of identity and assimilation. The pr...

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