Jews
Subject
Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus
Found in 28 Collections and/or Records:
Fonds
Confirmation, Little Chart, Kent
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.3785
Scope and Contents
In consideration of #200, Peter de Bendinge confirms (with warranty) his gift to Bonamicus the Jew of Canterbury, son of Mor, of the manor of ?Petichert [Little Chart], reserving a quit rent of one pound of pepper per annum. Counterpart of Doc 3786. Indenture, witnessed by John son of ?Terricus, John son of Robert, Samson son of Aaron, Creselinus son of Hakelim, Reginald clerk, Elphege clerk, and many others. Tagged seal wanting. Contemporary endorsement: 'parva cherth'. Further endorsed:...
Dates:
1236 (Circa, undated)
Conditions Governing Access:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Fonds
Confirmation, Little Chart, Kent
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.3786
Scope and Contents
In consideration of #200, Peter de Bendinge confirms (with warranty) his gift to Bonamicus the Jew of Canterbury, son of Mor, of the manor of ?Perchert [Little Chart], reserving a quit rent of one pound of pepper per annum. Counterpart of Doc 3785. Indenture, witnessed by John son of ?Terricus, John son of Robert, Samson son of Aaron, Creselinus son of Hakelim, Reginald clerk, Elphege clerk, and many others. No seal. Later endorsement: 'Pe[t]rus de / Bending / dominus manerii / de parva...
Dates:
1236 (Circa, undated)
Conditions Governing Access:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
File
Copies of correspondence with Sir Alfred Zimmern, Political Intelligence Department, 1919-01 - 1919-12
Reference Code: GBR/0014/HDLM 6/3/10
Scope and Contents
Subjects include: JWHM's memorandum on post-war conscription and militarism; the League of Nations; freedom of transit; countering Bolshevism in Eastern Europe; fears for the future of Europe; the Polish Jews wishing to emigrate to Palestine.
Dates:
1919-01 - 1919-12
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
File
Correspondence, 1944-05
Reference Code: GBR/0014/LAUT 1/53
Scope and Contents
Mainly correspondence between HL and Rachel Lauterpacht with Elihu Lauterpacht, on subjects including: a Grotius Society conference for international lawyers; preparations for Elihu's return to Britain; proofs for Oppenheim and "An International Bill of the Rights of Man", continued editing work on the Annual Digest and the Year Book of International Law and HL's memorandum for the Jewish World Congress on war crimes; an opinion of whether the Government could admit Red Cross personnel who...
Dates:
1944-05
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
File
Correspondence, 1924
Reference Code: GBR/0014/LAUT 1/2
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Arnold McNair, Lecturer in International Law, London School of Economics and Political Science, on subjects including HL's suggestions on the revision of L F L Oppenheim's textbook on international law and a testimonial he had written for HL (4); Sabina Lauterpacht, sending a cake recipe.Also includes copies of letters and papers added by Sir Elihu Lauterpacht as source material for his biography of HL, including: a report of the University Zionist...
Dates:
1924
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
File
Correspondence, 1925, 1968 - 2003
Reference Code: GBR/0014/LAUT 1/3
Scope and Contents
Mainly copies of letters and papers added by Sir Elihu Lauterpacht as source material for his biography of HL, including: extract from the memoirs of Norman Bentwich on his meeting with HL at a ceremony giving the World Union of Jewish Students land for a student hostel on Mount Scopus, Jerusalem, for the Hebrew University; HL's doctorate certificate from the University of London; copies of correspondence between HL and the Zionist Organisation on the visit by a group from the World Union...
Dates:
1925; 1968 - 2003
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
File
Correspondence with Lewis Namier, The majority of folios date from June-Oct 1919.
Reference Code: GBR/0014/HDLM 6/4/90
Scope and Contents
Correspondence with Namier, Political Intelligence Department, on subjects including: Ignace Paderewski, Premier of Poland; the chances of the Poles keeping to the peace terms; the commission to investigate pogroms against Polish and Russian Jews; the Minority Treaty; East Galicia; Polish aggression against Lithuania.
Dates:
The majority of folios date from June-Oct 1919.
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
File
Correspondence with Lewis Namier, Political Intelligence Department, 1919-01 - 1919-10
Reference Code: GBR/0014/HDLM 6/3/8
Scope and Contents
Subjects include: relations with the Poles; the Ukraine; Hungary; the Jews in Poland.
Dates:
1919-01 - 1919-10
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Fonds
Ernest James Worman: Handlist to the Taylor-Schechter Collection
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6404-6405
Scope and Contents
List of manuscripts in the Taylor-Schechter Collection. For each item there is the title with a summary description, size, material, language, and date (when ascertainable).
Dates:
1906-1909
Conditions Governing Access:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
File
History of the Paris Peace Conference: source material, c 1928
Reference Code: GBR/0014/AGHM 2/24
Scope and Contents
Lecture by JWHM on the Minorities Treaties.
Dates:
c 1928
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
File
HL Biography: early family history , 1931 - 2009
Reference Code: GBR/0014/LAUT 7/14
Scope and Contents
Notes and correspondence mainly relating to HL's family history 1917-18. Subjects include HL's studies at the University of Lvov and in Vienna [Austria], and his work as a Jewish activist in Poland. Also includes a copy of HL's birth certificate from 1931.
Dates:
1931 - 2009
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
File
HL Biography: early family history , 2004
Reference Code: GBR/0014/LAUT 7/15
Scope and Contents
Print outs relating to HL's family background, on the history of Jewish communities in the Galicia area [Ukraine and Poland, formerly Austria-Hungary].
Dates:
2004
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
File
HL Biography: "HL various", 1937 - 1950, 2002 - 2009
Reference Code: GBR/0014/LAUT 7/42
Scope and Contents
Notes, correspondence and source material on subjects including: treating crimes against Hungarian Jews, including deportation, as war crimes, 1944; HL's contribution to the law of war crimes; HL's graduation from the University of Lvov and family background in Ukraine; Raphael Lemkin; HL's (transcribed) draft of the opening speech by the Attorney-General [Sir Hartley Shawcross] at Nuremberg [see also LAUT 4/36-37]; human rights; the Holocaust at Nuremberg.Includes some original...
Dates:
1937 - 1950; 2002 - 2009
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
File
HL Biography: notes and correspondence relating to 1922, 1922 - 2003
Reference Code: GBR/0014/LAUT 7/23
Scope and Contents
Includes: text and translation of a General Theses by HL on the formation of a World Union of Jewish students; copy (and fragile original) of the certificate for HL's doctorate in political science from the University of Vienna.
Dates:
1922 - 2003
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
File
Humanitarian Intervention, c 1938
Reference Code: GBR/0014/LAUT 2/74
Scope and Contents
Rough [?] lecture notes on Jewish refugees and British Jews registering property in Germany.
Dates:
c 1938
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
File
Jews, 1920-11 - 1920-12
Reference Code: GBR/0014/HDLM 6/4/105
Scope and Contents
Report of the Joint Foreign Committee of the Jewish Board of Deputies on Jewish questions dealt with by the League of Nations, particularly relating to the pogroms of Polish Jews, and a note submitted by the Committee and the Anglo-Jewish Association to the League on the admission of new states to membership of the League.
Dates:
1920-11 - 1920-12
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
File
Letter from Neville Laski to the Foreign Office on the decree relating to property owned by Jews in Germany, 1938-05 - 1938-06
Reference Code: GBR/0014/LAUT 4/18
Scope and Contents
Includes a copy of the reply from [William] Ivo Mallet, Assistant Private Secretary to the Foreign Secretary and a letter of thanks from Laski, President of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, to James Brierly, thanking him for his help in drafting the letter.
Dates:
1938-05 - 1938-06
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
File
Miscellaneous minutes and memoranda , 1919-09 - 1920-04
Reference Code: GBR/0014/HDLM 6/4/98
Scope and Contents
Subjects include: anxiety about relations between Britain and the United States; the dangerous situation in Germany's Baltic provinces; the work of private charities in Germany; the French attempt to take control of Luxembourg's railways under the Versailles Treaty; putting Kaiser Wilhelm II on trial; modifications to the border between Poland and Germany; a suggestion that there had been a suppression of the facts about the outbreak of war; establishing the principle of war crimes and...
Dates:
1919-09 - 1920-04
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
File
Note from the Yad V'Shem Foundation in memory of the lost Jewries of Europe, on a plan for commemorating the Diaspora, 1945-05
Reference Code: GBR/0014/LAUT 4/32
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Papers from HL's professional legal career, including articles, memoranda, Opinions, papers for the British legal team at the Nuremberg Trials, and papers relating to cases before the Permanent Court of International Justice, and after the war, its successor the International Court of Justice.
Dates:
1945-05
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
File
Peace Conference: Mr Namier, correspondence and memoranda, 1919-01 - 1919-08
Reference Code: GBR/0014/HDLM 6/4/70
Scope and Contents
Correspondence with Lewis Namier, Political Intelligence Department, and also memoranda by Namier, on subjects including: the future of East Galicia [later parts of Ukraine and Poland]; Polish aggression against Lithuania and White Russia; Polish forgeries on Upper Silesia [later Poland and Czech Republic]; Polish pressure against Jewish language and culture; the Minority Treaty concerning Poland; the expulsion of Jews from Poland; Poland's eastern frontier; the attitude of the Jewish press...
Dates:
1919-01 - 1919-08
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Fonds
Personal Papers of Cynthia Mary Crews, 1901 - 1979
Reference Code: GBR/0271/GCPP Crews
Scope and Contents
The papers listed here include some personal and biographical records; correspondence relating chiefly to Dr Crews' work on Judaeo-Spanish; published articles; and substantial quantities of material in Judaeo-Spanish collected by Dr Crews, which is of considerable importance because of the scarce survival of such material. The headnotes in the sub-sections are largely adapted from Elizabeth Brine's Handlist of the Crews Papers in Girton College Library, published in Estudios Sefardies 1979...
Dates:
1901 - 1979
Found in:
Girton College Archive
/
GBR/0271/GCPP, Personal Papers
Fonds
Records of the Cambridge University Jewish Society, and predecessor and associated bodies, 1896 - 2011
Reference Code: GBR/0265/UA/SOC.104
Scope and Contents
No material is extant for the Cambridge University Zionist Society.
Dates:
1896 - 2011
Conditions Governing Access:
Access to the 1983 deposit is restricted to the C.U.J.S. president and senior treasurer under the transfer terms. Applications for access should be directed to the society. The 2004, 2008 and 2009 deposits are unrestricted. Some items are closed to scholars for 80 years from the date of creation, under data protection legislation.
Fonds
Records of the Cambridge University Jews and Christians, 1988 - 1993
Reference Code: GBR/0265/UA/SOC.XXXII
Scope and Contents
From the Management Group:
The category - Student administration and support records - comprises records relating to student admissions at all levels, graduate students, visiting senior scholars, student careers advice and welfare, together with the records of clubs and societies.
Dates:
1988 - 1993
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
The University Archives are generally freely available to the holder of a reader's ticket for the Department of Archives and Modern Manuscripts, Cambridge University Library, West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DR. Restrictions on access are imposed on certain categories of sensitive record: financial, governmental and personal, by order of the originating body or under data protection legislation. Access information, including opening hours and how to obtain a reader's ticket, appears as part of the Library's web site (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
File
Some Biblical Problems of the Law of War, 1943
Reference Code: GBR/0014/LAUT 4/8
Scope and Contents
Draft paper [?] reworked by HL from his 1932 paper on the same subject (LAUT 4/7), in a lecture to the Cambridge Jewish Students Society (see also LAUT 1/47).
Dates:
1943
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
File
Some Problems of the Law of War in Jewish Law, 1932
Reference Code: GBR/0014/LAUT 4/7
Scope and Contents
Texts in English and Hebrew of a paper later reworked by HL (LAUT 4/8) in a lecture to the Cambridge Jewish Students Society, in 1943 (see also LAUT 1/47).
Dates:
1932
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.