This was a quarterly magazine, and in 1949 there is a certain euphoria that the young State of Israel has completed a full year, together with a world survey and an obituary about Paul Goodman, the former Chairman of the Synagogue Council and editor of the Gates of Zion, as well as other articles in … Continue reading The Gates of Zion (Quarterly Magazine of the Synagogue Council of the Zionist Federation (UK), October 1949.
Category: Zionism
The Federation of Women Zionists of Great Britain and Ireland, Fortieth Annual Report, London 1962.
The Federation of Women Zionists of Great Britain and Ireland was founded in 1918. It is the British Branch (British WIZO) of the World Women's International Zionist Organisation (World WIZO). The Federation's founder and first President was Rebecca Sieff. Rebecca Sieff (born Marks) spent most of her childhood in Manchester, which in the late nineteenth … Continue reading The Federation of Women Zionists of Great Britain and Ireland, Fortieth Annual Report, London 1962.
The Seventy-Second Annual Report of the Anglo-Jewish Association, London, 1943-1944.
I have written previously about my copies of early annual reports of the Anglo-Jewish Association from 1879 onwards. Here, however, is a later report, from a crucial time period. The Anglo-Jewish Association and the Board of Deputies of British Jews had a Joint Foreign Committee until it was liquidated in 1943. It consisted of an … Continue reading The Seventy-Second Annual Report of the Anglo-Jewish Association, London, 1943-1944.
Talmud Torah Eavris B’Eavris, 4th Annual Report, 1904-1905, London, November 1905.
The Redman's Road Talmud Torah in Stepney, East London, was founded in 1901 and had just moved to its new address in Redman's Road when this report was written. Redman's Road runs parallel to Mile End Road, from Jubilee Street, almost to Stepney Green. The Headmaster, J. K. Goldbloom, was to remain for many years. … Continue reading Talmud Torah Eavris B’Eavris, 4th Annual Report, 1904-1905, London, November 1905.
50 Years of the Mizrachi Hapoel Hamizrachi Federation of Great Britain and Ireland, London, 1968.
This booklet sets out the history of Mizrachi, which is the religious Zionist movement, in the British Isles, celebrating it's golden jubilee in 1968. There are lots of names of those involved, and it emphasizes the involvement of Mizrachi members in the religious life of Anglo-Jewry.
Jewish National Fund for Great Britain & Ireland, 29th Annual Conference Report, London, 5713 (1953).
I've previously written about the Jewish National Fund's report for 1939. This one, from 1953 gives an amazingly detailed picture of the spread and activity of the Jewish National Fund throughout Great Britain and Ireland in 1953. The entire Zionist and general Jewish community in the United Kingdom and Eire was involved in fund raising … Continue reading Jewish National Fund for Great Britain & Ireland, 29th Annual Conference Report, London, 5713 (1953).
Chaim Nachman Bialik, Poems from the Hebrew, edited by L. V. Snowman with an introduction by Vladimir Jabotinsky, London 1924.
This interesting book of English translations of the great Hebrew Poet, Chaim Nachman Bialik was published in London in 1924. Chaim Nachman Bialik was born in Radi, in the Russian Empire in 1873. He wrote mainly in Hebrew and also in Yiddish, and is regarded as Israel's national poet. He was brought up in Zhytomyr … Continue reading Chaim Nachman Bialik, Poems from the Hebrew, edited by L. V. Snowman with an introduction by Vladimir Jabotinsky, London 1924.
Whittinghame Farm School Ltd., First Annual Report, 1940.
This is an important document which describes the period after November 1938, when there was a great effort by some to bring the maximum amount of Jewish refugee children from Europe to the United Kingdom, known as the kindertransport. Whittinghame House, in Lothian, Scotland, was the birthplace and country home of Lord Balfour, the former … Continue reading Whittinghame Farm School Ltd., First Annual Report, 1940.
Early English Zionists, 1890-1920, Professor Norman Bentwich, Tel-Aviv, 194?.
Norman Bentwich (1883-1971) was the eldest son of Herbert Bentwich, Zionist and founder of Hampstead Synagogue, of whom I have written about previously. He was a barrister and legal academic, and was the first British-appointed Attorney General of Palestine, a post he held until 1931. Bentwich's perceived Zionist bias made him increasingly unpopular with Palestinian … Continue reading Early English Zionists, 1890-1920, Professor Norman Bentwich, Tel-Aviv, 194?.
Chayenu, Organ of Jewish Religious Labour. London, 1947.
Here is an interesting publication from 1947. Europe, or what was left of it, was dealing with survivors and displaced persons, and over in Palestine the Jews were dealing with a hostile and confused British government. This magazine includes an interesting article by Walter Eytan (Ettinghausen), who had been in the Land of Israel for … Continue reading Chayenu, Organ of Jewish Religious Labour. London, 1947.
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