Metadata: Papers of Jacob A. Franklin
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 305 A1065
- Title:
- Papers of Jacob A. Franklin
- Title (official language):
- Papers of Jacob A. Franklin
- Creator/accumulator:
- Franklin, Jacob Abraham
- Date(s):
- 1840/1999
- Date note:
- 1840s/1909; 1990s
- Language:
- English
- Extent:
- 0.12 linear metres: 1 box
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- Papers of Jacob Abraham Franklin (1809-77), editor of the Voice of Jacob, the predecessor of Jewish Chronicle newspaper: correspondence, 1840s-70s; paper containing a response to attacks in The Times on the Jewish faith; prospectus for a proposed magazine The Occident and American Jewish Advocate; papers of Ellis and Henry Franklin, trustees of the Jacob A Franklin Trust, 1875-99; volume of cuttings from the Voice of Jacob, 1840s; typescript foreword by Henry Cohen, Texas, for an edition of extracts from the Voice of Jacob edited by Franklin, relating to American-Jewish affairs, 2 February 1909; typescript paper ‘The Lost Legion?’ on a proposed Jewish regiment in the nineteenth century, written by a descendent of Jacob Franklin, n.d. [1990s].
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Jacob Abraham Franklin (1809-77) was the editor of the Voice of Jacob.
- Access points: locations:
- United States of America
- Access points: persons/families:
- Franklin, Ellis
- Franklin, Henry Abraham
- Franklin, J A
- Subject terms:
- Jewish press
- Newspaper clippings
- Professions
- Professions--Journalists
- 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
