Metadata: Correspondence of Dr Salis Daiches
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 189 AJ383
- Title:
- Correspondence of Dr Salis Daiches
- Title (official language):
- Correspondence of Dr Salis Daiches
- Creator/accumulator:
- Daiches, Salis
- Date(s):
- 1918/1932
- Language:
- English
- Extent:
- 0.23 linear metres: 2 boxes
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The collection includes correspondence with the following organisations: League of Nations Union and Edinburgh University Settlement, 1925-8; Zionist organisations, including Keren Heyesod and the English Zionist Federation, 1925-8; Jews' College London, 1928; Jewish educational organisations including the Central Committee for Jewish Education, 1925-8, B'nai Brith, 1926-8, and the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, 1926, the Chief Rabbi's Office, 1918-28; Jewish study societies, 1925-8; Jewish literary societies, 1925-6; Jewish publications, 1923-8; and with Jewish and other organisations, 1926-8 and 1932; correspondence with Edinburgh synagogues and with members of Edinburgh Jewry, 1926-8. Subject correspondence including mixed marriages, 1927-8; conversions to Christianity, 1926-7; legal matters, 1923-8; relief, appeals and charities, 1924-8; shechita, 1927; and pensions and insurance, 1925-8. Family correspondence, 1928
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Dr Salis Daiches was rabbi of the Edinburgh Hebrew Congregation, 1918-32.
- Access points: locations:
- Edinburgh
- Access points: persons/families:
- Daiches, Salis
- Subject terms:
- Education
- Jewish community
- Synagogues
- 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