Records of Cricklewood Synagogue, consisting of minutes, ledgers of membership payments and an admission card.

Material in more recent deposits included Board of Management minute books, committee minutes; administrative papers relating to membership, marriages, finances, officers, elections and the management of the synagogue; income and expenditure account books; cash books; petty cash books; marriage registers; lists and registers of members; newsletters and other printed items; and photographs.

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Records of Clayhall Synagogue including minutes, agendas and meeting papers.

Records of the Central Synagogue, Great Portland Street, consisting of minute books of the sub-committee for Building the Central Synagogue, 1866-1871; architect's report to the Building Committee, 1856; seat book; financial records and photograph of the synagogue interior, 1928.

Material added in 2010 included Board of Management minute books; seatholders minute books; book of Laws of the Synagogue; marriage authorizations; registers of members; press cuttings, brochures, circulars, orders of service, reports, flyers, appeals, correspondence and death notices; a history of the congregation; photographs of Second World War bomb damage; designs for fittings; blank certificates; a seating plan; and photographs of notable members of the Synagogue.

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Records of Chiswick Synagogue, consisting of administrative papers including Board of Management minutes, financial records and a kethuba [marriage contract] register.

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Records of Dalston Synagogue, consisting of minutes, cash book and registers of kethubot [marriage contracts] and chalitzah.

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Records of Dunstable Synagogue, consisting of an account book.

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Records of Edgware Synagogue, consisting of an undertaking to observe the provisions and conditions of the United Synagogue, annual report for 1947/48, and an accounts book.

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Records of the East Ham and Manor Park Synagogue, consisting of Board of Management minutes; correspondence; kesubah [marriage contracts] books; membership applications and account books; reserved grave spaces; orders of service; and fundraising cards.

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Records of the East London Synagogue, consisting of Board of Management minutes, other administrative records, financial accounts, membership records, marriage contracts and index of social services cases.

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Records of Edmonton and Tottenham Hebrew Congregation, consisting of a lease for property in Landsdowne Road.

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Records of the Ellis Wolfe Charity, consisting of minutes and a cash book.

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Records of the Finchley Synagogue, consisting of registers of kethubot [marriage contracts] and marriage authorization certificates, issued by the Chief Rabbi.

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Records of Finsbury Park Synagogue, including correspondence; kethubot [marriage certificates]; membership payment registers; memorial book; accounts book; educational pamphlets; certificates; and photographs of Synagogue officers.

Records of Gladstone Park Synagogue, consisting of a minute book.

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Records of the Great Synagogue, consisting of minutes of the Committee of the Great Synagogue; Vestry minutes; Financial Committee minutes; Building Committee minutes; laws and rules of the Great Synagogue; letter books; wills and bequests; registers of distribution of unleavened bread at Passover and of Passover flour; title deeds for property at Duke's Place; financial accounts; financial accounts of the Burial Society; papers relating to charities; notices and circulars; and registers of kethubot [marriage contracts] and chalitzah undertakings.

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Records of the Hackney and East London Synagogue including Board of Management minute book; committee meeting minute books; administrative correspondence; legal papers; insurance policies; agreements; financial accounts; membership registers; registers of seatholders; marriage registers [kethubot]; religious class registers; decorated prayer book; history of the Hackney Synagogue by Reverend Dr Barnett Joseph; orders of service; newsletters; fundraising; papers of the Association of Jewish Ex-Servicemen and Women Hackney Branch; youth activities; plan of the seating galleries; plan of the Synagogue; and photographs.

Records of the Hambro Synagogue, consisting of administrative records including minutes and letter books; financial records; membership payments; records of charities; records of the Burial Society; photographs and registers of kethubot [marriage contracts].

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Records of the Hammersmith Synagogue, consisting of minutes and a kethubah book [marriage certificates].

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Records of Hampstead Synagogue, Dennington Park Road, Hampstead, including minutes of Board of Management and committees; early correspondence relating to the founding of the synagogue; administrative files for the synagogue and its community Centre; annual reports; membership records; Ladies Guild records; material relating to music provision; synagogue magazines; orders of service; brochures and ephemera; photographs.

Annual report for Ilford Synagogue, 1947-48.

Records of the Initiation Society, consisting of an account book with register of circumcisions.

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Records of the Joel Emmanuel Charity, consisting of a minute book.

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Records of the Association of Jewish Friendship Clubs, consisting of administrative and financial records (including minutes, enquiries and reports) for the association itself, and for specific areas and clubs. Also correspondence files for individual clubs, both overseas and in Britain.

A further deposit included an extensive run of office files regarding both the administration of the AJFC and relations with affiliated clubs; a large number of photographs of AJFC events such as a handicrafts exhibition, talent competitions, holidays, celebrations and meetings; copies of the "Friendship Club Magazine"; circular letters; club programmes; press cuttings; obituaries and club badges.

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Records of the Jews' Orphan Asylum, consisting of minutes of the Ladies Society and the Education Committee.

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Records of Jews' Hospital, consisting of minutes.

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Records of the Kings Lynn Jewish Congregation, consisting of minutes and a charity register.

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Records of Kenton Synagogue, consisting of correspondence about the construction of the synagogue, 1938; and a kethuba register [marriage contracts].

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Records of the Mile End and Bow Synagogue, consisting of minutes, a kethuba register [marriage contracts] and a register of donors to the Building Fund.

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Records of the North London Synagogue, consisting of correspondence and a kethuba register [marriage contracts].

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Records of the New Synagogue, Leadenhall Street, consisting of administrative and financial records, including laws and byelaws, minutes, annual reports, letter books, membership records and photographs; an extensive run of correspondence files, registers of memorials; chalitzah books and registers of kethubot [marriage contracts].

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Annual report for Palmers Green and Southgate Synagogue, 1947-48.

The records within this section comprise those items which do not technically belong within the United Synagogue or its member synagogues or related charities and societies. They consist largely of trading accounts of various Jewish merchants, and accounts of the Beth Hamedrash, Chief Rabbi and small Jewish bodies.

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Records of the Russian Jews Committee, consisting of minutes of the Executive Committee and a letter book.

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Records of Romford Synagogue consisting of an account book for membership contributions.

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Records of the South East London Synagogue, consisting of minutes, including those of the Ladies Guild, and registers of kethubot [marriage contracts], membership register, 1935-40; and book of weekly payments by members.

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Records of Stoke Newington Synagogue, consisting of minutes and registers of kethubot [marriage contracts].

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Records of the South West London Synagogue, consisting of administrative and financial records (including minutes and annual reports), and documents relating to Jewish education and synagogue membership.

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Kethubah book [marriage contracts] for Upton Park District Synagogue.

Records of the Union of Synagogues, consisting of articles of agreement, minutes of the conjoint committee of the Great, New and Hambro Synagogues, minutes of the Conjoint Committee for managing the West Ham Burial Ground, correspondence, accounts and burial returns.

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Wembley Synagogue annual report for 1947-48.

Records of the New West End Synagogue consisting of minute books.

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Records of the Willesden Green Synagogue, consisting of minute books.

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Records of the West Ham Synagogue, including a register of reserved graves; Board of Management minutes; administrative files relating to premises, marriages, classes, staffing, centenary celebrations and the closure of the synagogue; financial records; membership lists; kethubah books [marriage contracts]; centenary exhibition boards; and a design for a hall.

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Records of the Western Synagogue, Marylebone, consisting of registers of kethubot [marriage contracts].

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Records of the Watford and District Synagogue consisting of an account book for membership contributions.

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Records of Wanstead and Woodford Synagogue consist of an account book for membership contributions.

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Records of the Central British Fund for World Jewish Relief, predecessor organisations and associated organisations. The archive details the work of the Fund in shelters, hostels, internment camps, schools and foster homes.

Records include correspondence; reports; appeals; records relating to relief organisations including the Jewish Committee for Relief Abroad, the Pioneer Welfare Fund; the Medical Committee for Relief Abroad and the Jewish Board of Guardians; records relating to refugee organisations including the Central Committee for Refugees; the Central Office for Refugees; Jewish Refugees Committee and Children's Refugee Movements; records relating to the Agudas Israel World Organisation and the Israel Colonisation Organisation; administrative papers including Committee minutes and papers; and case files for Afghan, Argentine, Austrian, Belgian, British, Czech, Egyptian, Ethiopian, German, Hungarian, Iranian, Lebanese, Moroccan, Polish, Rumanian, Russian, South African, Syrian, American and Yugoslavian cases.

LMA also holds case files for the "Kindertransporte" through which children were evacuated from Germany and Austria in 1938 and 1939. PLEASE NOTE: These case files are only accessible in digital form and by application to World Jewish Relief.

The archive consists of the official working papers of the Chief Rabbinate from the mid-nineteenth century onwards. Files, volumes, bundles of papers, photographs, prints, video tapes, publications and leaflets make up the bulk of the collection. The Chief Rabbis represented in this collection are Nathan Adler (1868-1901), Hermann Adler (1868-1921), Joseph Hertz (1899-1946), Israel Brodie (1917-1967), Immanuel Jakobovits (1913-1992) and Jonathan Sacks (1988-2004). Also included are some papers of the Deputy for the Chief Rabbi, Harris Lazarus (1942-1950).

The archive is primarily concerned with the activities of the Chief Rabbinate. Because of the cosmopolitan nature of the office there are files on Jewish congregations overseas which are of interest, also some papers on the Holocaust and its immediate aftermath (ACC/2805/06/05/1-11). The varying interests of individual Chief Rabbis are reflected in the collection: for instance Immanuel Jakobovits' role in Jewish medical ethics.

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General records of the Office of the Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth, including letter books; appointment books; statistics; minutes of the Chief Rabbinate Council; minutes, correspondence and proceedings of the Conference of Anglo-Jewish Preachers; papers of the Provincial Jewish Ministers Fund including correspondence, minutes, financial accounts and reports of inspections of Hebrew classes; orders of service for national and royal occasions, synagogue foundations, consecrations, jubilees and anniversaries; funerals and memorials, marriages, Holocaust memorials, and dedications of hospitals and schools; and photographs. ACC/2805/01/110 records the results of the survey into Hebrew Congregations in the British Empire commissioned by Chief Rabbi Nathan Adler soon after he took office.

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Correspondence of Chief Rabbi Nathan Adler, 1868-1901. A small number of records survive from around 1868 for the Chief Rabbinate of Nathan Adler and more from the late 1870s onwards - around the time Hermann Adler began to undertake many of his father's duties for him. The records consist of bundles of letters to the Chief Rabbi from communal organisations and individuals in Britain and overseas.

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