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Hidden Treasures
📷A banner of the London Jewish Bakers Union one of only two surviving Jewish union banners in Britain and that belonged the longest lived Jewish trade union, operating from 1905 to 1970: celebratingjewisharchives.org/treasures/lo...
Image credit: 1984.126 • Jewish Museum London
📷 Balance sheet of the Great Strike of East London tailors in 1899, which was called against conditions for the Jewish immigrants working in small Whitechapel tailoring workshops:
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📷‘Illustration for ‘The Rebbe of Lodemaria’ from Issue No. 1 of Shifra, a magazine founded in 1984, Leeds, that gave a voice to Jewish Feminists:
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Image credit: With permission of Rabbi Elli Tikvah Sarah. @leedsunilibraries.bsky.social
International Archives Week from the International Council on Archives (ICA) starts today.
The theme this year is Archives For Justice and here are just some of the treasures from our network that reflect archives supporting justice and rights...
#IAW2026 #ArchivesForJustice #Archives
It's a starting point for things you might come across in catalogues and collections. The list isn't exhaustive, so if there's something you think needs adding, let us know
#Glossary #Archives #JewishCulture #JewishHistory
📷 Mother and Children in Holland Park by Dora Holzhandler • Ben Uri Archive
What is a Pinkas or a Tanakh? Which festival is when Jewish communities set up tents? What's the difference between Ladino and Yiddish?
We've created a glossary of terms, objects and more for archivists and others working with Jewish material.
Find it here: celebratingjewisharchives.org/glossary/
📷Open Letter Against the Mistreatment of Jews in Europe, published in The Daily Worker and The Times newspapers in February 1943 and signed by some of the best-known voices of the day, including E.M.Forster, George Bernard Shaw, and Rebecca West: celebratingjewisharchives.org/treasures/op...
📷A newspaper clipping showing Elaina Rothman and Miri Lawrence preparing to be ordained at the Liberal Jewish Synagogue in St John's Wood, London, in 1992:
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The 8,000 slave labourers who passed through Alderney during the course of the war were witnesses to much of what was happening on the island while it was in the hands of German forces.
Find out more about their experiences at an evening talk by Prof Gilly Carr
