Description | Scrapbook containing biographical and historical notes, articles, press cuttings, correspondence, transcriptions, family trees, postcards, photographs and ephemera. Includes a loose mounted photograph, letters, notes and press cuttings. |
AdminHistory | 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. |
CustodialHistory | Formerly held with other Jewish collections in the Mocatta Library of University College London. |