Metadata: London Society for Promoting Christianity amongst the Jews Papers (now Church's Ministry Among Jewish People)
Collection
- Country:
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
- Holding institution:
- University College London
- Holding institution (official language):
- University College London
- Postal address:
- POST:UCL Library Services, UCL (University College London), Gower StreetLondonGreater LondonUnited KingdomWC1E 6BT
- Phone number:
- Telephone: +44 (0) 20 7679 7792
- Web address:
- https://www.ucl.ac.uk/library/special-collections
- Email:
- Email: library@ucl.ac.uk
- Reference number:
- SPCJ
- Title:
- London Society for Promoting Christianity amongst the Jews Papers (now Church's Ministry Among Jewish People)
- Title (official language):
- London Society for Promoting Christianity amongst the Jews Papers (now Church's Ministry Among Jewish People)
- Date(s):
- 1815/1963
- Language:
- English
- Extent:
- 6 boxes
- Scope and content:
- Papers of the Society for Promoting Christianity amongst the Jews, 1815-1963, consisting of foundation papers, 1840-1842, including _Original by-laws and proposed alterations 1840_ and _By-laws as revised and adopted by the General Committee 1842_; minutes of the Jews and School Committee, 1815-1819, the School and Chapel Sub-Committee, 1854-1874, 1883-1890, the Jewish Refugees Aid Society Committee, 1883-1900, and various minutes of Business of the Committee, 1912-1921; certificates of baptism at Jews Chapel, Bethnal Green, 1885-1894, and health certificates and parents' signed admission conditions for children admitted to Hebrew Schools, 1891-1899; catalogue of the Society's Library, founded in 1827 by Rev Lewis Way; collection of various printed papers concerning the centenary of the Society, 1908-1909; acquired printed papers, including _The immortality of the soul_ and _Zillah_ by Rev H L Harris, 1874, _The Jewish Quarterly Review_ with inserted papers, 1899; missionary journals, reports and newsletters from Mission Stations in Birmingham, Manchester, Leeds and Liverpool in the United Kingdom, Paris in France, Hamburg in Germany, Warsaw in Poland, Lwow (Lemberg) in the Ukraine, Bucharest in Rumania, Casablanca and Mogador in Morocco, Algiers in Algeria, Ethiopia in East Africa, Tehran and Isfahan in Iran, 1925-1939; correspondence and various other papers, 1914-1963, including _Birmingham Jewish Prayer Union Quarterly, _1936-1939,_ Requests for Praise and Prayer_, 1936-1939, and general correspondence of The Church's Ministry Among the Jews, 1962-1963.
- Archival history:
- Donated by Mrs Kranat, executor of Mrs Lask-Abrahms who had possession of the papers.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The Society for Promoting Christianity amongst the Jews was founded on 15 February 1809, with only one missionary in London. By its centenary in 1909, the Society had 222 workers in various parts of the world - Europe, Asia, Africa and the United States of America - and many were converts from Judaism. The Society also set up mission schools for Jewish children. The Society produced two monthly publications, Jewish Missionary Intelligence and Jewish Missionary Advocate, and a quarterly publication, Quarterly Notes.
- Access points: locations:
- Algiers
- Birmingham
- Bucharest
- Casablanca
- Ethiopia
- Hamburg
- Isfahan
- Leeds
- Liverpool
- Lwów
- Manchester
- Mogador
- Paris
- Tehran
- Warsaw
- Subject terms:
- Conversion to Christianity
- Proselytisation
- Refugees
- Access, restrictions:
- Open.
- Finding aids:
- Online catalogue.
- Yerusha Network member:
- AIM25
- Author of the description:
- Compiled by Annabel Dodds as part of the RSLP AIM25 project.
- University College London
