Metadata: Archive of the Central Council for Jewish Community Services
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 298 A1020
- Title:
- Archive of the Central Council for Jewish Community Services
- Title (official language):
- Archive of the Central Council for Jewish Community Services
- Creator/accumulator:
- Central Council for Jewish Community Services
- Date(s):
- 1972/1999
- Language:
- English
- Extent:
- 11.5 linear metres: 100 boxes
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Photographic images
- Audio
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- This collection comprises: Minute books of committees, 1972-86, including the executive committee, 1975-85, council, 1972-87, annual general meetings, 1976-86, and standing committee of professionals of the Central Council for Jewish Community Services, 1975-82. Files (alphabetical sequence), c. 1975-99, including papers relating to the Association of Jewish Ex-Servicemen and Women (AJEX), annual accounts, committees, conferences, honorary officers' meetings,Jewish Care, the Jewish Deaf Association, Kisharon, long-term care, the National Association of Jewish Homes, the President of the Council and the Women's Campaign for Soviet Jewry. Papers relating to Jewish communal leadership training course, c. 1988-97. Publications produced by the Council, 1975-99; annual reports, 1975-98; ‘Central line’, 1987-99; and information leaflets.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The Central Council for Jewish Community Services was established in 1972 to co-ordinate the work of Jewish communal organisations. It grew to encompass sixty member agencies throughout Great Britain. Amongst the services it provided were Atid leadership courses; the Social Services Ombudsman; and the Arbitration and Mediation Service. It co-ordinated the Jewish Emergency Support Service (JESS) and the National Network of Jewish Housing Associations. The Council closed in 1999.
- Access points: locations:
- Great Britain
- Subject terms:
- Welfare
- 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
