Major accessions to repositories in 2015 relating to Jewish History

Local

East Sussex Record Office

• David Spector (1800-2000), historian of the Jewish community, Brighton: additional papers 19th-20th cent (ACC 12234)
• Middle Street Synagogue, Brighton: minutes, leases and subscription records 19th-20th cent (ACC 12304)

Hull History Centre (Hull City Archives)

• Hull Jewry: oral history recordings and transcripts 2015 (C SRL/0/1/1-4)

Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland, Record Office for

• Leicester Hebrew Congregation: records incl membership lists, annual reports and financial statements, AGM papers, service agreements and newspaper clippings c1916-1979 (DE8698)

London Metropolitan Archives: City of London

• Hammersmith and West Kensington Synagogue: records (transferred from Hammersmith and Fulham Archives) 1890-2001 (DD/1097)
• Jewish Historical Society of England: minutes, financial records, corresp, etc 1897-2012 (B15/185)

Redbridge Local Studies and Archives

• Newbury Park Synagogue: records incl photographs, newspaper cuttings, programmes 1968-2014 (316)

Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Archive Service: Stoke-on-Trent City Archives

• Basil Jeuda (fl 2000), historian of industry: additional items incl photographs and slides of North Staffordshire Railway c1850-1948 (SD 1698)

National

Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)

• Solly Lipsitz (1921-2013), musician, writer and jazz aficionado: additional papers c1903-2011 (D4575)

Special

Bishopsgate Institute

• Charlie Pottins (1942-2015), socialist and activist: papers, photographs and corresp rel to Jewish Socialist Group and Workers Revolutionary Party 1983-2013 (POTTINS)

Working Class Movement Library

• Rachel Tepper (1915-2007), doctor, Communist and activist: scrapbook of cartoons from "Daily Worker" newspaper relating to her fear of the international situation at the time c1930-1939 (ACC235)

University

Leicester University Library: Special Collections

• David Englander (1949-1999), historian: papers rel to Anglo-Jewish Biography c1980-1999 (PR6)

Trinity College Dublin

• Louis Lentin (1933-2014), film producer and director: professional and personal papers 20th cent (IE TCD MS 11496)

University of Southampton Library

• Raymond Kalman (d 2014), historian: research papers rel to a history of Jewish friendly societies, with papers of many incl Association of Jewish Friendly Societies, Grand Order of Israel and Shield of David Friendly Society, Grand Order of the Sons of Jacob Friendly Society, Manchester and the Loyal Jewish Lodge, Manasseh Ben Israel Friendly Society and the United Jewish Friendly Society 2001-2009 (MS 422)
• James William Parkes (1896-1981), historian and theologian: corresp with David Tabor, Secretary, Cambridge University Jewish Society 1939-1940 (MS 423)
• Association of Jewish Ex-Servicemen and Women: welfare committee records, with copy details of men and women's Second World War service (MS 418)