Documents relating to Liverpool Jewry

  • Reference
    • GB 738 MS 116/141
  • Dates of Creation
    • 1874-1903
  • Language of Material
    • Yiddish, and English
  • Physical Description
    • 1 box

Scope and Content

Report of the board of management of the Liverpool Hebrew Educational Institution and Endowed Schools, 1893; a letter signed by David Jacobs, chairman, and Hyman Moses, secretary of the Liverpool New Hebrew Congregation, referring to deeds relating to the burial ground in Green Lane, 1887; extract from Some accounts of the Royal Institution School, Liverpool by A.T.Brown (second edition, 1927) containing a special report on J.H.Sylvester, a mathematician, the son of Abraham Joseph of Liverpool; third and fifth annual reports of the Board of Guardians for the Relief of the Jewish Poor of Liverpool, 1878-80; letter from Samuel Garfenkle to A.Hoffnung on the attitude of the Jewish poor to the new Princes Street Synagogue, 1874; printed notice in Yiddish and English to the Liverpool tailors' machinists and pressers to attend a public meeting on 5 May; reprint of `Three lovers of Zion', 1970; inaugural address of M.Kaizer, headmaster, to the Association of Old Boys of Liverpool Hebrew Schools, 1903.

Administrative / Biographical History

Copies of documents relating to Liverpool Jewry.

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