Metadata: Papers of Michael Sherbourne
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 434 A4249
- Title:
- Papers of Michael Sherbourne
- Title (official language):
- Papers of Michael Sherbourne
- Creator/accumulator:
- Sherbourne, Michael
- Date(s):
- 1870/2014
- Date note:
- 1870s/2014
- Language:
- English
- Russian
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Photographic images
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- Personal, biographical and family papers, photographs, Russian translation and textual criticism work; Women's Campaign for Soviet Jewry papers; research papers.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Born on 22 February 1917 in London, Michael Sherbourne’s family name was Sheinbaum. His father’s parents were from Poland and his mother’s Sephardi family had lived in England since the seventeenth century. Michael Sherbourne left school at sixteen and joined the British Civil Service. He served in the Royal Navy in the Second World War and with the Israeli army in 1948. He subsequently trained as a teacher and worked in this profession until his retirement in 1979. He worked supporting pressure groups working on behalf of Refusniks, working particularly closely with the Women's Campaign for Soviet Jewry.
- Access points: locations:
- London
- Access points: persons/families:
- Sherbourne, Michael
- Subject terms:
- 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
