Metadata: Papers of the Council for the Amelioration of the Legal Position of the Jewess
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 123 AJ 13
- Title:
- Papers of the Council for the Amelioration of the Legal Position of the Jewess
- Title (official language):
- Papers of the Amelioration of the Legal Position of the Jewess
- Creator/accumulator:
- Council for the Amelioration of the Legal Position of the Jewess; Hands, L
- Date(s):
- 1919/1946
- Language:
- English
- Extent:
- 0.23 linear metres: 2 boxes
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- This collection comprises: Minutes of council meetings, 1922-30; general committee, 1930; and executive committee, 1930-1. Correspondence with organisations and individuals, 1923-46, including the Jewish Association for the Protection of Girls and Women, 1919-27; the Board of Deputies, 1920-8; American organisations, 1919- 27; Palestinian organisations, 1922-6; Czechoslovakian organisations, 1924-5; and Balkan organisations, 1925-6; correspondence with Mrs Constance Lesser, 1921-30, and Mrs Henrietta Irwell, 1923-9. Annual reports, 1922-8; off-prints and translations of articles by Miss Hands; posters and correspondence regarding publicity, 1922-36; and newspaper cuttings relating to the Council's activities, 1924-44.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The Council for the Amelioration of the Legal Position of the Jewess was founded in 1922 by Miss L Hands. Its purpose was to press for such measures of relief as would bring practical help to Jewish women who, under existing laws, would be liable to suffer serious handicap; to consult with Jewish communal workers and organisations throughout the world respecting the legal disabilities of Jewish women; to consult with Jewish scholars regarding the best methods to employ to obtain the desired results; and to lay these considered demands ultimately before a world-wide assembly of orthodox rabbis.
- Access points: persons/families:
- Hands, L
- Irwell, Henrietta
- Lesser, Constance
- Subject terms:
- Welfare
- 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
