Archives of the Anglo-Jewish Association

Archives of the Anglo-Jewish Association 

The Anglo-Jewish Association was founded in 1871 mainly through the exertions of Dr Abraham Benisch and Revd Albert Lwy. Membership of the Association is open to all British Jews who accept as their guiding principle loyalty to their faith and their country. Its objects are to promote the education of Jews in the United Kingdom and elsewhere; to instruct in Jewish affairs and matters relating to the Jewish religion and race; to collect and publish information relating to the religious and social conditions of Jews throughout the world; to encourage Jews in the United Kingdom to support Jewish charitable organisations by personal service and financial assistance; to join or promote any charitable society or body in the United Kingdom or elsewhere, in order to further any of its objects and people; to use its education, cultural and political experience for the promotion of goodwill towards Israel. Until July 1943 the Association's work in the field of foreign affairs was carried on in conjunction with the Board of Deputies of British Jews through the medium of the Joint Foreign Committee. When the latter body was dissolved the Association set up its own General Purposes and Foreign Committee: it is the papers relating to foreign affairs that form the most substantial part of the archive. (A report on the records of the Anglo-Jewish Association covering AJ 37 and AJ 95 was reproduced by the Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts in 1978.) 

Archives of the Anglo-Jewish Association