Metadata: Papers of Maurice A. Woolf
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 191 AJ 381
- Title:
- Papers of Maurice A. Woolf
- Title (official language):
- Papers of Maurice A. Woolf
- Creator/accumulator:
- Woolf, Maurice A
- Date(s):
- 1961/1987
- Language:
- English
- Extent:
- 0.35 linear metres: 3 boxes
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Photographic images
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- This collection comprises: working papers and notes including transcripts of seventeenth-century London port books containing details of Jewish merchants (for Woolf's lecture on 'Foreign trade of London Jews in the seventeenth century' delivered to the Jewish Historical Society in 1971); notes for his lecture on Joseph Salvador delivered to the Jewish Historical Society in 1962. Related correspondence, c.1961-8. Copy of a report by Lucien Wolf on the Jewish question before the League of Nations, Dec 1920, and a copy of a Jewish Historical Society report on the unveiling of a memorial plaque at Clifford's Tower, York, in 1978. Photographs, c.1970-2. Obituary from the Jewish Chronicle, Nov 1987.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Maurice A Woolf (d. 1987) was for many years secretary to Anglo-Jewish Archives. He also contributed many articles to the Miscellanies and Transactions of the Jewish Historical Society of England.
- Access points: locations:
- Great Britain
- London
- York
- Access points: persons/families:
- Woolf, Maurice A
- Subject terms:
- Historical research
- 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
