Metadata: Newcastle Zionist Association
Collection
- Country:
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
- Holding institution:
- Tyne and Wear Archives
- Holding institution (official language):
- Tyne and Wear Archives
- Postal address:
- Tyne and Wear Archives, Discovery Museum, Blandford Square, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 4JA
- Phone number:
- 44(0)191 2772248
- Web address:
- https://twarchives.org.uk/
- Reference number:
- SX73
- Title:
- Newcastle Zionist Association
- Title (official language):
- Newcastle Zionist Association
- Creator/accumulator:
- Sunderland and North East Jewish Community Legacy Project
- Date(s):
- 1914/1960
- Language:
- English
- Extent:
- 3 items
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- Good
- Scope and content:
- This collection includes minutes and an invitation card to a mass meeting at the Grand Assembly Rooms, Barras Bridge.
- Archival history:
- Held by creating organisation/individual until gifted to Tyne and Wear Archives.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Appears to have been founded following sermons in the North East by Chaim Zundel Maceoby, known as the Kamenitzer Maggid, at the turn of the century. Murray Rosenberg of Newcastle was one of the delegates to the conference in London which resulted in the formation of the English Zionist Federation in 1898. The Newcastle Zionist Association was established by 1900, accompanied by a ladies branch, the Newcastle B'noth Zion and a library.
- Access points: locations:
- Newcastle upon Tyne
- Subject terms:
- Zionism
- Access, restrictions:
- Depositor's consent is required for access to these records.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Tyne and Wear Archives
- Author of the description:
- Daniel Stoker; North East Museums; 2025
