Major accessions to repositories in 2014 relating to Jewish History

Local

East Sussex Record Office

• Eastbourne Hebrew Congregation: marriage register 1936-1939 (Acc 11907)

Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland, Record Office for

• Leicester Hebrew Congregation: minute book 1971-1987 (DE8727)
• Leicester Hebrew Congregation, Ladies' Guild: annual general meeting minutes 1946-1982 (DE8715)

London Metropolitan Archives: City of London

• Joy Conway (fl 1980-2009), London Jewish community administrator: files rel to work with the United Synagogue and the London Jewish Community c1980-2009 (B14/010)
• London Diocesan Council for Christian Jewish Understanding: minutes and printed material 1901-2002 (B14/077)
• United Synagogue, London: Barking Synagogue marriage authorisation register, with records rel to Hampstead Synagogue incl minutes, corresp files and administrative papers, annual reports, kesubah books and marriage registers, Ladies Guild minutes and papers, photographs and portraits, orders of service, with music and choir books 1883-2007 (Acc/2712/BKS, Acc/2712/HPS)

West Glamorgan Archive Service

• Myer Joseph (fl c1980), member of the Swansea Hebrew Congregation: recorded interview late 20th cent

West Yorkshire Archive Service, Bradford

• Bradford Jewish Refugee Hostel: corresp and reminiscences from the boys who lived in the hostel 1938-1983 (WYB615)
• Bradford Jewish Benevolent Society: minutes, corresp, reports and accounts 1913-2007 (WYB637)

National

Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)

• Solly Lipsitz (1921-2013), musician, writer and jazz aficionado: corresp and papers c1931-2000 (D4575/UNL)

University

Oxford University: St Antony's College: Middle East Centre Archive

• Palestine Police Old Comrades' Association: additional material incl lists of known decorations, of officers, police stations, vessels carrying Jewish migrants to Palestine (1939-1947), and other information about former Palestine Police activity 1922-2012 (0224)

St Andrews University Library

• David Miller Kay (1866-1930), professor of Hebrew at St Andrews University: prayers, sermons and service sheets 20th cent (ms38959)