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StorageSiteUCL Special Collections
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Reference Number GASTER/1/A/2/506
TitlePhilipp, Oscar and Clarisse: Dinner invitation
Datepost 1908, pre 1920
DescriptionInvitation from 'Mr and Mrs Oscar Philipp' to a 'siyum' on 'Sefer ha-Emunot veha-De'ot', and subsequent dinner, at 33 Ferncroft Avenue, Hampstead, London NW3.
Extent1 item
AdminHistoryOscar Isaac Philipp, born in Hamburg, son of Elias Philipp and his second wife Mary Heine, 1887; left school at the age of 17 and apprenticed himself to a paint and glue maker; became apprenticed in dealing in metals, 1907; moved to England and founded a metal-broking firm in London, 1909; naturalised as British, 1914; moved to Hove, c1914; returned to London, c1918; retired to Geneva; Orthodox Jew; Zionist; member of the Fabian Society; died in Geneva, 1965. His wife Clarisse (nee Weil) was born in Paris of a French father and a German mother; she suffered from epilepsy.
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
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