Papers of Revd Isaac Livingstone

Scope and Content

Lecture and sermon notes, 1908 onwards, predominantly on religious themes, with others explaining aspects to Jewish life to a non-Jewish audience. There are pamphlets, lectures and works by other authors, including B.L.Q. Henriques, Myer Domnitz, Harold Levy, Nathan Morris and Cecil Roth.

Administrative / Biographical History

Revd Isaac Livingstone (1885-1979) was visiting minister at Aldershot, 1907-8, minister at Bradford, 1909-16, and Minister at Golders Green, 1916-53. He was secretary of the Union of Anglo-Jewish Preachers from 1925 onwards and a member of the council of Jews' College, London, and of the Anglo-Jewish Association. Livingstone was Jewish representative on the National and London Council of Social Services and a member of the executive committee of the London Society of Jews and Christians.

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