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StorageSiteUCL Special Collections
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Reference Number GASTER/1/A/2/302
TitleJews' College: Invitation to Dr M. Friedlander's birthday presentation
Date11 Jun 1903
DescriptionInvitation from the President and Committee of Jews' College Union Society, Queen Square House, Guilford Street, London WC, to the presentation of an illuminated album address to the Principal, Dr M. Friedlander, on his 70th birthday.
Extent1 item
AdminHistoryRabbinical seminary in London, founded in 1855 by the Ashkenazi chief rabbi, Nathan Marcus Adler, with support from the Sephardi community, to train English-speaking ministers and laymen in Jewish and secular subjects, and to educate boys in a Jewish secondary school. The secondary school was closed in 1879, but the college continued to train ministers, readers, and teachers for the English-speaking world. From 1883 onward its pupils normally graduated at London University. Michael Friedlnder was Principal from 1865-1907. The Union Society was founded in 1899 for past and present pupils.
AccessStatusOpen
AccessConditionsAvailable 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 MaterialUniversity College London Special Collections holds a copy of a photograph presented to Michael Friedlander on this occasion (Ref: GASTER/7/B/1); his visiting card (available on the UCL Digital Collections website); Friedlander family correspondence and other papers of Michael Friedlnder (Ref: FRIEDLANDER); and correspondence between Michael Friedlnder and Moses and Lucy Gaster (Ref: GASTER/9).
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