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GB 1446 MS 15 · Collection · [mid 19th century]

Manuscript notebook comprising vocabulary lists of Western African dialects including of the Ashira, Mpongwe and Pangwe peoples, including notes on grammar and account of 'Krapf march in Eastern Africa', mid 19th century.

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GB 0074 ACC/2805/01 · Collection · 1829-1997

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.

PLEASE NOTE: Records can only be accessed with the written permission of the depositor. Contact the Chief Executive, Office of Chief Rabbi, 735 High Road, North Finchley, London NW12 OUS.

Office of the Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth
GB 0097 NADEL · Collection · 1934-1955

Fieldwork notes from Nadel's Nupe and Nuba tribal studies; diaries and papers from his time in Ethiopia and Eritrea; material relating to Nadel's lectures and papers, including draft articles, correspondence and offprints; and photographs from Nadel's expeditions.

Nadel, Siegfried Frederick, 1903-1956, anthropologist
Mandingo vocabulary
GB 1446 MS 3 · Collection · c 1880

Mandingo vocabulary comprising handwritten list of words and phrases from Mandingo and other languages used in Timbuktu, West Africa, collected by Réné Caillié (1799-1838), a French explorer, and the first to return alive from Timbuktu; also mentions African explorers Mungo Park (1771-1806), Captain [George Francis] Lyon (1795-1832) and Major [Dixon] Denham (1786-1828), [Thomas Edward] Bowditch (1790-1824), and others.

E J [or S?] Unknown: although cover of notebook mentions R. Caillié the notebook is obviously compiled by another, and includes word lists gathered by several explorers.
JEWISH MEMORIAL COUNCIL
GB 0074 ACC/2999 · Collection · 1899-2001

Records of the Jewish Memorial Council, 1899-2001. The archive mainly consists of files and volumes of minutes and working papers. The records of the Reverend Malcolm Weisman are noteworthy for the detail they provide on the survival of Judaism in small, often isolated, communities.

Jewish Memorial Council
GB 1446 MS 4 · Collection · 1854

Manuscript copy of a dictionary of the Fernandian tongue in two volumes, 12 May 1854, collected by John Clarke from the people of the island of Fernando Po and the adjacent continent, 1 Jan 1841 to 11 May 1847.

Clarke , John , fl 1841-1854 , Baptist missionary
GB 1446 MS 5 · Collection · 1841

Manuscript notebook containing a vocabulary list of a number of African languages, chiefly Hausa, written by John Clarke in Fernando Po, 1841.

Clarke , John , fl 1841-1854 , Baptist missionary
CHIEF RABBI ISRAEL BRODIE
GB 0074 ACC/2805/06 · Collection · 1917-1967

Records from the Chief Rabbinate of Israel Brodie, 1917-1967, including public messages, circular letters, prayers and appeals issued by the Chief Rabbi; orders of service; correspondence with a variety of individuals and organisations including the Anglo-Jewish Association, Aria College, the London Beth Din, the Board of Deputies, the Central Council of Jewish Religious Education, Jewish Day Schools Council, the Jewish Board of Guardians, Jews' College, the London Jewish Hospital; the Kashrus Commission; the Kosher School Meals Service, the London Board of Jewish Religious Education, London County Council, the Rabbinical Commission, the London Board for Shechita, and the United Synagogue.

Correspondence with congregations in Great Britain and Ireland, including arrangements for pastoral tours, and correspondence with congregations abroad including in America, Australia, Canada, France, India, Israel, New Zealand, South Africa and the Soviet Union.

Correspondence on subjects including anti-semitism, kosher food, marriage, relief organisations, congregations, education, yeshivot, refugees, Hebrew pronunciation, Israel, liberal Judaism and reform synagogue, Russian Jews, shechita, sopherim training, and teacher training.

Papers relating to the Committee on Calendar Reform including minutes and resolutions of protest. Papers relating to refugees and post-war reconstruction, including report on Belsen Concentration Camp, reports and correspondence of the Conference on Jewish Material Claims against Germany, Commission on the Status of Jewish War Orphans in Europe, Refugee Rabbis Relief Programme and speeches made at the League of Nations.

PLEASE NOTE: Records can only be accessed with the written permission of the depositor. Contact the Chief Executive, Office of Chief Rabbi, 735 High Road, North Finchley, London NW12 OUS.

Brodie , Sir , Israel , 1895-1979 , knight , chief rabbi
GB 1446 MS 16 and MS 17 · Collection · 1885

Two manuscript copies of a French-Yoruba dictionary by R P Baudin [Father Noel Baudin] entitled 'Dictionnaire Français-Yoruba - Dictionnaire Yoruba- Français'.

Baudin , Father , Noel , fl 1885 , Catholic missionary