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GASTER - Gaster Papers
- 1 - Personal papers
  - A - Ephemera
    - 2 - Invitations, leaflets and programmes

StorageSite	UCL Special Collections
Level	Item
Reference Number	GASTER/1/A/2/32
Title	Baker, Ezra Cecil: Bar Mitzvah invitation
Date	9-10 May 1925
Description	Invitation from 'Mr and Mrs Percy P Baker' to the Bar Mitzvah of their only son Ezra Cecil at Willesden Green and Cricklewood Synagogue, Walm Lane, with an 'at home' at Gloucester House, 229 Willesden Lane, London NW2. With envelope.
Extent	2 pieces
AdminHistory	Percy Paul Baker, born 1875; merchant; Zionist; Chairman, Friendly Societies' Council; Chairman, Tozereth Haaretz Committee of the Zionist Federation; involved in the anti-Nazi boycott movement; member, British Section of the World Zionist Congress; founder of the Jewish National Fund's Stamp Department; member of the Board of Deputies. Edith Baker, born 1885; Zionist; helped to form the Council for the Amelioration of the Legal Position of the Jewess, 1922. Percy and Edith Baker were killed in an air raid together with their son Cecil, 1940.
AccessStatus	Open
AccessConditions	Available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Registration Form. This item is also available online through our Digital Collections website: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/library/collections/ucl-digital-collections/browse-collections/jewish-collections
Related Material	University College London Special Collections holds other ephemera of Percy and Edith Baker (available on the UCL Digital Collections website) and correspondence between him and Moses Gaster (Ref: GASTER/9).

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