| Description | One of Moses Gaster's scrapbooks, which he appears to have labelled 'Board of Deputies, Divorce etc.' This is mainly a volume of correspondence between Gaster and the London Committee of Deputies of the British Jews, also known as the Jewish Board of Deputies. A separate index has been inserted into the book. The correspondence includes copies of typed letters, and handwritten letters. It has been organised into the following topics:
- correspondence from 1910 regarding the Committee giving evidence to the Divorce Commission in the UK;
- correspondence from 1912 regarding a request for the Adass Israel Synagogue, North London, to be recognised by the Committee;
- a copy of a letter, dated 1910, to the UK government regarding the Shops Bill, which prohibited shops from opening at certain times on a Sunday (and a copy of the bill);
- a copy of a letter, dated 1908, to the UK government requesting amendments to the Aliens’ Act;
- a copy of a letter, dated 1893, to the UK government regarding the rights of Jews in Romania;
- a 1908 document produced by the Committee, entitled ‘Memorandum on the Treaty Rights of the Jews of Roumania’, regarding the Treaty of Berlin;
- correspondence from 1912 regarding a book manuscript written by Sir Richard Burton (c.1874), which included allegations of practices of ritual murder by Jews [also known as the antisemitic trope of 'blood libel']. |