Major accessions to repositories in 2023 relating to Jewish History

Local

Richmond upon Thames Local Studies Library and Archive

• Chiswick and Kew Jewish Group, community group: minutes and documents about events 1999-2005 (AD319)

Surrey History Centre

• Marianne Rose Taylor (née Pese) (1924-2020) of Toronto, formerly of Berlin: 1995 memoir of her childhood and experiences as a Jewish refugee in Surrey, 1939-1945; with photographs, 1962-1963, and letter, 1989; death notice, 2020, and research papers, 2023 c1962-2023 (Z/763)

West Sussex Record Office

• Solomon Wine, grocer of Littlehampton (c1882-1966): records relating to Solomon Wine (previously known as Schliania Wiewiora or Solomon Viner) 1845-2000 (20543)

University

Edinburgh University Library, Special Collections

• Regina Kapeller-Adler (1900-1991), biochemist and Jewish refugee: papers c1930-2020 (Coll-2091 (accession number: SC-Acc-2023-0124))

University of Southampton Library

• Jewish Youth Fund: administrative papers, including legal and financial papers, relating to grants, the development of Skeet Hill House 1937-2016 (MS384/A4397)
• Reform Synagogues of Great Britain: papers and publications for annual conferences, publications 1989-2016 (MS302/A4399)
• Walter Jakob Wolfgang (1923-2019), peace activist: papers incl family papers, correspondence, photographs, a yarmulke 1922-2019 (MS468/A4398)
• Revd Dr James Parkes (1896-1981), clergyman and historian: corresp with Rabbi Eisendrath 1938-1939 (MS425/16/A4395)