Metadata: Papers of Clemens Nathan
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 315 A1076
- Title:
- Papers of Clemens Nathan
- Title (official language):
- Papers of Clemens Nathan
- Creator/accumulator:
- Nathan, Clemens
- Date(s):
- 1961/2000
- Language:
- English
- French
- German
- Hebrew
- Extent:
- 1.97 linear metres: 17 boxes
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The collection has been grouped into twelve series: scrapbooks containing newspapers cuttings and correspondence relating to Nathan’s work at the Anglo-Jewish Association, 1961-87; the Consultative Council of Jewish Organisations, 1998-2000; human rights, 1989-99; official publications and reports from the United Nations, 1993-2000; the Conference of Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, 1994-2000; Israel, 1985-2000; the British Foreign and Commonwealth Offices, 1987-99; Austria, 1991-8; the Alliance Israelite Universelle, 1978-98; the Interfaith Foundation for the United Kingdom, 1988-98; academic, 1993-7; and public events, 1976-95.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Clemens Neumann Nathan was born in Hamburg, Germany, in August 1933. His father, Kurt, was a prominent leader of the Hamburg Jewish community and for several years chairman of the Amersham community. Nathan cam to Britain as a child after his parents left Nazi Germany. He was educated at Berkhampton School, Hertfordshire, the Scottish College of Textiles and the University of Leeds where he studied textiles in international trade. From 1958 he was managing director of Rolls Textile Company Limited and the Cunart Company Limited. in 1970, he became director of Sythetic Throwsters Limited and in 1991, director of Thomas Mason Limited. In addition, he was vice chairman of the textile section of the Anglo-Israeli Chamber of Commerce; textile advisor to the economic council of Israel under Prime Minister Golda Meir; advisor on commercial and industrial developments to the School of East European and Slavonic Studies at the University of London, 1994; vice president of the textile institute and governor of the London College of Distributive Trade. Nathan was the first chairman of the Consultative Council of Jewish Organizations (CCJO), a non-Governmental body at the United Nations, founded in 1946; president (1987) and vice-president (1995) of the Anglo-Jewish Association; and a board member of the Conference of Jewish Material Claims against Germany and Austria. Clemens Nathan was married to Rachel Whitehill. He died in 2015. Clemens Nathan worked with two assistants, Elaine Leather and Amy Crafter, whose names frequently occur in his papers.
- Access points: locations:
- Austria
- Great Britain
- Israel
- Access points: persons/families:
- Nathan, Clemens
- Subject terms:
- Education
- Jewish-Christian relations
- Personal records
- 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
