Metadata: Papers of Dr B. Homa
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 141 AJ 65; AJ 226; AJ 259
- Title:
- Papers of Dr B. Homa
- Title (official language):
- Papers of Dr B. Homa
- Creator/accumulator:
- Homa, Bernard
- Date(s):
- 1884/1954
- Date note:
- circa 1884
- Language:
- English
- Hebrew
- Extent:
- 0.12 linear metres: 1 box
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- Papers of Dr Bernard Homa including: (i) Papers relating to the Board of Deputies: constitution, as amended in 1945, together with the constitution as amended April 1949 with the report of the special meeting of the Board. Report of the committee on the constitution and bye-laws, Dec 1948. (ii) Correspondence and papers relating to Jewish marriages, 1935-51 (iii) Papers relating to the Jewish War Services Committee and Jewish Committee for H.M. Forces, 1947 (iv) Assorted correspondence, c.1884-1954, including letters from Rabbi A A Werner, 1901 and 1903; a letter from the Chief Rabbi's Religious Emergency Council, 1943; a letter from Chief Rabbi Hertz, 1939; letters from Richard Offor to Dr Homa, 1951 and 1954; a letter from Ivan Greenberg relating to M H Davis, 1944; a letter from the Union of Orthodox Congregations to Arthur Greenwood, 1931; and a letter from R Zwi Friedmann, Poland; certificate of registration as an Ottoman citizen relating to Hannah Zelda Deichowiski, an aunt of Dr Homa, 1884; draft agreement between Adath Yisrael Synagogue Burial Society and the Machzike Hadath Burial Society, 1928; memorial service for Queen Victoria, 1901; list of members of the Anglo-Jewish Conference on the Jewish Agency, 1929; a paper entitled 'The structure of the Anglo-Jewish community', read by Dr Homa, 1932; letter and list of deeds relating to Spitalfields Great Synagogue, 1714- 1922; account of income and expenditure of Machzike Hadath, 1899- 1901.
- Access points: locations:
- Great Britain
- London
- Access points: persons/families:
- Deichowiski, Hannah Zelda
- Homa, Bernard
- Offor, Richard
- Werner, A A
- Subject terms:
- Marriage and divorce
- Military
- Synagogues
- 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
