Archives of Jewish Care

Archives of Jewish Care 

Archives of Jewish Care 

95 boxes and 14 volumes 

Darkest Russia: a record of persecution Board of Guardians for the Relief of the Jewish Poor: minutes of the Board, 1869-1971; minutes of the executive committee, 1869-1977; minutes of the sanitary committee, subsequently the health committee, 1885-1922; minutes of ad hoc committees, 1869-1941, principally connected with emigration and the administration of relief; minutes of the finance committee, 1931-74; board letter books, 1881-1945; conjoint Russo-Jewish committee, formed 1891, on the exhaustion of the Mansion House fund for the victims of Russian persecution: (periodical), 1891, and press cuttings about Jewry in Russia, 1904-9; 'Chronological statement of the restrictions of the rights of Russian Jews 1882-1908'; papers relating to the proposed expulsion of the Jews from Moscow, c.1909; social workers' diaries, 1955-60; Tudor House convalescent home, (founded as the Baroness Clara De Hirsch Convalescent Home and run in close co-operation with the Board, certainly from c.1911), Hampstead, minutes, 1897-1926; industrial committee, minutes 1894-1968; executive of the industrial committee, minutes, 1894-1930; apprentices and industrial exhibition committee minutes, 1882-91; apprenticeship records, 1928-50; women and girls and children's welfare committee, 1947-50; annual reports of the Board, 1859-1932 (with gaps); legal papers, Isaac v. Defriez, 1757-1884 Jewish Association for the Protection of Girls, Women and Children: minutes of the general committee and council, 1885-1933; gentlemen's committee minutes, 1890-1925; general purposes committee, 1917-46; finance committee, 1920-37; foreign agents' address book; annual reports, 1936, 1940-5; Montefiore House (approved school for Jewish Girls), minutes of the general committee, 1912-40, attendance register, punishment register; Sara Pyke House (hostel for working girls), minutes, 1904-7, 1937-46; Charcroft House (hostel for unmarried mothers and their babies), minutes, 1885-9 Jewish Blind Society: minute books, council and committees, 1837-1989; register of pensioners, 1862-1924; investigation committee reports, 1910-32; minutes of housing associations, 1957-89; annual reports, 1927-88 Other papers: minute book of the general committee and sub-committee for Judith, Lady Montefiore's memorial (a convalescent home, also used for training Jewish domestic female servants), 1862-76