Metadata: Papers of C. J. Goldsmid-Montefiore
Collection
- Country:
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
- Holding institution:
- University of Southampton Special Collections
- Holding institution (official language):
- University of Southampton Special Collections
- Postal address:
- Hartley Library, University of Southampton, Highfield, Southampton SO17 1BJ
- Phone number:
- 02380 592721
- Web address:
- https://www.southampton.ac.uk/archives
- Email:
- archives@soton.ac.uk
- Reference number:
- MS 108 LF 780 UNI 2/7/51
- Title:
- Papers of C. J. Goldsmid-Montefiore
- Title (official language):
- Papers of C. J. Goldsmid-Montefiore
- Creator/accumulator:
- Goldsmid-Montefiore, Claude Joseph
- Date(s):
- 1885/1935
- Language:
- English
- Latin
- Extent:
- 0.12 linear metres: 3 folders; 1 volume
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- A volume of manuscript notes, chiefly on Aristotle's politics; an address to Goldsmid-Montefiore, written on vellum and signed by members of the senate of University College, Southampton, 1913; a letter from D D Balfour, 1885; and a typescript of 'Some old fashioned opinions and reflections about the Jews: a die-hard's confession', 1935.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Claude Joseph Goldsmid-Montefiore (1858-1938) was the son of Nathaniel Montefiore and Emma Goldsmid. He assumed the additional surname of Goldsmid by letters patent. Goldsmid-Montefiore was educated privately and at Balliol College, Oxford, where he obtained a first class degree. He was Hibbert Lecturer in 1892 and was awarded the British Academy Medal for Biblical Studies in 1930. From 1892 to 1921 Goldsmid-Montefiore was President of the Anglo-Jewish Association. He was President of the Liberal Jewish Synagogue and Acting President of University College, Southampton, 1910-13, and then President, 1913-34. (see Lieber Freund: the letters of Claude Goldsmid Montefiore to Solomon Schechter, 1885-1902 ed. Joshua B.Stein (Lanham, 1988); An English Jew: the life and writings of Claude Montefiore ed. E.Kessler (London, 1989).)
- Access points: locations:
- Southampton
- Access points: persons/families:
- Goldsmid-Montefiore, Claude Joseph
- Access, restrictions:
- Access to the archive requires a prior written appointment. https://www.southampton.ac.uk/archives/about/access.page
- Links to finding aids:
- https://www.southampton.ac.uk/archives/cataloguedatabases/webguide1.page
- Yerusha Network member:
- University of Southampton Special Collections