Metadata: Archives of the London Board of Shechita
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 142 AJ 75; AJ 286; AJ 416
- Title:
- Archives of the London Board of Shechita
- Title (official language):
- Archives of the London Board of Shechita
- Creator/accumulator:
- London Board of Shechita
- Date(s):
- 1801/1980
- Language:
- English
- Hebrew
- Extent:
- 7.39 linear metres: 39 boxes and c. 25 volumes
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
Minute books of the Board, 1801-93; minute book of the sub-committee on Shechita, 1841-86, with copies of letters at the end of the volume; minute book of the executive committee, 1880-1913, with a report on the butchers' agitation, its origins and objects, 1908; agenda books for the executive sub-committee, 1877-87 and for the executive committee, 1916-24; minute book of the executive committee, 1924.
Financial papers: account books, 1809-98; wages books, 1838- 1900; Yehidim annual debtors accounts, 1841-60; receipt books, 1930-5; invoice book, 1945-6; general accounts with Joseph Sebag and Company, 1965-9; investment papers, 1965-7; investment ledgers, 1950-71; general revenue account sheets, 1969-70; poultry fees, 1973-8; nominal ledgers, 1962-70, 1972- 8, 1981; and cash books, 1963-80.
Correspondence, including letter books, 1876-85 and 1898-1905; correspondence, accounts, 1840s-1850s, 1941-2, and 1953-72; correspondents include synagogues, butchers, meat suppliers, the Ministry of Food, the Board of Deputies, the Beth Din, the Chief Rabbi, etc.
Applications for licences. Volumes of butchers' licences, 1973.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The Board was constituted in 1801 by representatives of the congregations of the Great, the Hambro and the New Synagogues to regulate matters connected with the slaughter of poultry and livestock and preparation of meat according to Jewish practices. From 1804 the Board included representation from the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue. The activities of the Board have grown to encompass many aspects of a wide range of foodstuffs and their consumption by the Ashkenazi, Sephardi and other Jewish communities.
- Access points: locations:
- London
- Subject terms:
- Kashrut
- Ritual slaughter
- 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
