| Description | Menu booklet for a dinner given by the Jewish Historical Society of England, St John's Wood Synagogue, Stoke Newington Synagogue, the Home and Hospital for Jewish Incurables, the Soup Kitchen for the Jewish Poor and the Jewish Lads' Brigade, in honour of Gustave Tuck on his seventieth birthday, at the Connaught Rooms; Lionel de Rothschild OBE in the Chair. Booklet contains the menu, a 'Toast List' and a list of the Organising Committee. Speakers included Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. |
| AdminHistory | Stoke Newington Synagogue, founded in 1903 as a successor to the the New Dalston Synagogue; constituent of the United Synagogue; despite its name it was actually in Dalston, not Stoke Newington; amalgamated with Hackney Synagogue, 1976.
St. John's Wood Synagogue, established under the aegis of the United Synagogue, in a temporary structure in Abbey Road, 1876; permanent synagogue built, 1882-1883; new synagogue and community centre built in Grove End Road, 1957-1965.
The Soup Kitchen for the Jewish Poor first operated in 1853 and was founded to relieve Jewish poor in Spitalfields, London, taking on premises and providing rations to local recipients.
The Jewish Lads' Brigade was founded in 1895 by Colonel Albert E W Goldsmid; the earliest recruits were drawn from the Jews' Free School, the Norwood Orphanage and local elementary schools; it aimed to anglicise the children of Yiddish-speaking East European immigrants and inculcate them with British patriotism; modelled on the Church Lads' Brigade, it emphasised morality, physical fitness, respect for authority, and national defence; the first company was launched at the Jews' Free School and others soon appeared elsewhere in London and the provinces; declined in popularity in the inter-war period as a result of public desire for peace and revulsion against 'militarism'; in 1963, the parallel Jewish Girls' Brigade was formed and in 1974 the two organisations amalgamated.
The Jewish Historical Society of England was founded in 1893 in the wake of the Anglo-Jewish Historical Exhibition of 1887; its first President was Lucien Wolf; since its inception it has sponsored lectures on aspects of Anglo-Jewish history; currently has about a dozen branches outside London; publications include the 'Transactions of the Jewish Historical Society of England', (renamed 'Jewish Historical Studies' in 2000) and a number of miscellaneous volumes of primary material.
The Home and Hospital for Jewish Incurables opened in 1889 and occupied houses in Hackney and afterwards in Walthamstow, offering care and religious facilities to poor immigrant Jews; a new building in Tottenham was opened in 1903, with an extension and synagogue completed in 1914; a nurses' home was opened in 1938 and a new block in 1964. |