Metadata: Sunderland Jewish Literary Circle
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:
- SX87
- Title:
- Sunderland Jewish Literary Circle
- Title (official language):
- Sunderland Jewish Literary Circle
- Creator/accumulator:
- Sunderland and North East Jewish Community Legacy Project
- Date(s):
- 1922/1955
- Language:
- English
- Extent:
- 25 items
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Graphic material
- Physical condition:
- Good
- Scope and content:
- This collection includes membership cards, syllabus, programmes, unit magazines, posters, British Jewry Book of Honour, and items relating to the Silver Jubilee (including a dinner menu, seating plan, and souvenir magazine).
- Archival history:
- Held by creating organisation/individual until gifted to Tyne and Wear Archives.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Formed in 1911 and reorganised in 1920 when it joined forces with the Sunderland Zionist Association. A dramatic society was formed in the late 1920s, and other sections included the Jewish Arts League, the Young Judeans Sports League and three charity organisations.
- Access points: locations:
- Sunderland
- Subject terms:
- Literature
- Access, restrictions:
- Access may be restricted. Please ask a member of staff.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Tyne and Wear Archives
- Author of the description:
- Daniel Stoker; North East Museums; 2025
