Metadata: Papers of Dr Schneier Levenberg
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 344 A2068
- Title:
- Papers of Dr Schneier Levenberg
- Title (official language):
- Papers of Dr Scheier Levenberg
- Creator/accumulator:
- Levenberg, Schneier
- Date(s):
- 1920/1999
- Date note:
- 1920s/1990s
- Language:
- Hebrew
- Russian
- French
- German
- Extent:
- 3.7 linear metres: 32 boxes
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Photographic images
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The collection contains sections relating to Anglo-Jewry; antisemitism and anti-Zionism; the Balfour Declaration; biographical material about Jewish individuals; the British Labour movement; geographically specific material about countries; international law and human rights; Israel and Jerusalem; Labour Zionism and Jewish Labour; language, literature and culture; the Middle East conflict; personal material about Levenberg; the USSR; the World Jewish Congress and Zionism. There are also sections for more miscellaneous material: Levenberg's original files and papers which discuss the Jewish peoples more generally. The collection contains a large amount of typescript, printed and published material including newspaper cuttings, magazine articles and reports. Much material has no clearly identifiable date. The majority of the collection appears to date from the 1960s-90s, but it also contains a smaller proportion of material from the earlier part of the twentieth century.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Schneier (also spelled Schneer, Scheier, Schneyer) Levenberg was born in Kursk, Russia, in 1907. At the age of 14, he fled to Latvia. He gained a doctorate in law at Riga University and it was while studying that he became a Zionist and chairman of the Labour Zionist students' association 'Hashachar'. A few years later he became chairman of the Labour Zionist Movement in Latvia. Levenberg settled in London in 1936 and was asked to head the Jewish Agency's research department. He was affiliated to the British Labour Party and for a number of years represented the national party on the Socialist International. He was a member of the Bureau of the Socialist International and of the British Overseas Fellowship and a long-serving President of Poale Zion. He was active in the English (later British) Zionist Federation. Levenberg was a World Executive member of the World Jewish Congress and chaired the international affairs committee and the political committee. He was a founder member of the National Yad Vashem Committee. He was extremely active in the Anglo-Jewish community, including at the Board of Deputies of British Jews, as Vice President, Chairman of the Israel Committee and a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee. Levenberg wrote several books and pamphlets on the Jews and Palestine, Labour Zionism, minority rights and Soviet Jewry. He died in 1997.
- Access points: locations:
- Jerusalem
- Access points: persons/families:
- Levenberg, Schneier
- Subject terms:
- Antisemitism
- Zionism
- Zionism--Anti-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