Metadata: Papers of the Maccabeans
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 126 AJ 17; AJ 269; AJ 287; A1099; A3055
- Title:
- Papers of the Maccabeans
- Title (official language):
- Papers of the Maccabeans
- Creator/accumulator:
- The Maccabeans
- Date(s):
- 1891/1964
- Language:
- English
- Extent:
- 1.4 linear metres: 12 boxes
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Photographic images
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
This collection comprises: Rules and regulations and lists of members, 1893-1927, 1948, 1955 and 1964; list of names and addresses of members, 1934; membership ledger, 1900 and 1902 and two subscription ledgers, 1904-33, one with dates of elections, details of distribution of Meldola medals to public bodies, 1922, and a list of Meldola medallists, 1923-33. Four dinner books, 1903-39, tickets for admission to dinners, 1958-63 and menu cards for dinners, 1955- 62. Treasurers' papers, 1891-1939; accounts and receipts, 1923, and treasurers' correspondence, 1929-39. Volume of newspaper cuttings relating to debates, dinners, meetings, appeals, protests, and an open letter to Dreyfus congratulating him on his rehabilitation, 1905-7.
Correspondence of Percy Spielmann relating to the organisation of an exhibition of 166 portraits of Jews at the First Universal Races Congress, University of London, 1906-11; list of the portraits; lists of lantern slides, lectures and lecturers, and postcards; catalogue of the Jewish art and antiquities exhibition, Whitechapel Art Gallery, 1906; notebook of the Maccabeans' sub-committee appointed to collect portraits for the Races Congress, 1911.
Correspondence of Marion Spielman, President of the Maccabeans, 1904-7, together with a typescript of his inaugural speech, 1904; a menu card for decennial dinner, 1902; the President's speech at an arts dinner, 1905; and notes.
Correspondence relating to Meldola medallists, 1956-8, and the formation of the Meldola Society, 1958.
Photograph album of black and white photographs and a copy of an itinerary prepared by Thomas Cook for the Maccabean pilgrimage to Palestine, 1897. Diary of Lewis Long, a member of the Maccabean pilgrimage, describing the visit to Palestine, 1897.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The Maccabeans were formed in 1891, devoted to philanthropic and cultural activities among the Jewish community and sympathetic to Zionism. Its local branches were known as 'beacons'.
- Access points: persons/families:
- Long, Lewis
- Spielman, Marion
- Spielmann, Percy
- Subject terms:
- Aid and relief
- Aid and relief--Philanthropy and charity
- Zionism
- 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