Major accessions to repositories in 2021 relating to Jewish History

Local

Hull History Centre (Hull City Archives)

• Hull Jewish Community: records incl minutes of meetings and marriage register from the Hull Hebrew Synagogue, copies of 'The Watchman' newsletters, Hull Jewish Community Care minutes and accounts, photographs rel to community and the research papers of Dr David Lewis 1960-2021 (C DJC)

Tower Hamlets Local History Library and Archives

• Leon Rogers (fl1950-1980) of Tower Hamlets: Oxford and St. George's Clubs, Bernhard Baron Settlement, 33 Henriques Street, as Warden; also photograph albums, rel to Brady Clubs (Jewish youth clubs) activities 1950s-1980s (TH/9883)

West Sussex Record Office

• Oxford and St George's Jewish Youth Clubs: books and pamphlets rel to the Clubs c1930-1989 (20080)

National

Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)

• Records collated by and deposited with Belfast Jewish Heritage as part of a project to locate, preserve, document and make publicly available, material rel to the Jewish community in Northern Ireland, incl a copy of 'Yeshua Gadolah' by Rabbi Gedalia Silverstone, and papers rel to Victuallers Ltd., a kosher butcher shop located on the Antrim Road, Belfast, and run by A J Moss c1903-1984 (D4809)

University

Sussex University Library Special Collections

• Ralph Emanuel (d2020), trustee of the German Jewish Studies Centre at Sussex University: archive 20th cent

University of Southampton Library

• Leopold Kessler (1864-1944), engineer, newspaper publisher and Zionist, and his son, David Kessler (1906-1999), publisher and author: correspondence, diaries, photographs and press cuttings, incl papers rel to the El Arish expedition 1891-1975 (MS456/A4361)
• Evelyn Friedlander (1940-2019), author and Jewish scholar: papers rel to the Hidden Legacy Foundation, focusing on the research, preservation and exhibiting of material on the history of Jewry c1982-2013 (MS455/A4354)