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Guide to the Papers of Lucien Wolf (1857-1930) and David Mowshowitch (1887-1957),
(1708-1963) (bulk 1880-1930)

RG 348

Processed by David Wolfson and Cecile E. Kuznitz

with the assistance of a grant from the S.H. and Helen R. Scheuer Family Foundation

YIVO Institute for Jewish Research

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Machine-readable finding aid was created by Cecile E. Kuznitz as a WordPerfect document in November 1993. Electronic finding aid was converted to EAD 2002 by Stanislav Pejša in February 2004. Description is in English.

Descriptive Summary

Creator: Wolf, Lucien (1857-1930) and Mowshowitch, David (1887-1957)
Title: Lucien Wolf and David Mowshowitch Papers
Dates: 1708-1963
Dates: Bulk 1880-1930
Abstract: Lucien Wolf (1857-1930) was a diplomat, foreign affairs expert, journalist, and historian. As the secretary of the Joint Foreign Committee of the Board of Deputies of British Jews and the Anglo-Jewish Association (earlier the Conjoint Foreign Committee), Lucien Wolf took a leading role in the efforts of Western Jewry to aid persecuted Jews in Eastern Europe. He was also a delegate to the Paris Peace Conference (1919), where he helped to draft the minorities treaties guaranteeing the rights of Jews and other ethnic and religious minority groups. David Mowshowitch (1887-1957) was Lucien Wolf's secretary and aide at the Joint Foreign Committee for many years and continued to work for the Joint Foreign Committee until the 1950s. The collection consists of the papers of Lucien Wolf and David Mowshowitch, as well as fragmentary records of the Joint Foreign Committee. The material includes personal papers, correspondence, reports, memoranda, minutes of meetings, copies of articles, and press clippings. The documents pertain to the situation of persecuted Jews throughout the world, most notably the efforts of the Joint Foreign Committee of the Board of Deputies of British Jews and the Anglo-Jewish Association to aid the Jews of Eastern Europe, and to the Peace Conference at Paris in 1919 and the minorities treaties. There is also material on Lucien Wolf's and David Mowshowitch's other activities, most importantly Lucien Wolf's career as a journalist and as a historian of the Jewish community in Britain.
Languages: The collection is in English, French, German, Russian, Yiddish, Polish, Hebrew, and Hungarian.
Quantity: 13.2 linear feet
Identification: RG 348
Repository: YIVO Archives
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Biographical and historical note

Lucien Wolf was born in London in 1857, the son of a Bohemian political refugee and his Austrian wife. Lucien Wolf began a career in journalism at an early age, becoming a writer for The Jewish World in 1874. He held this position until 1894. Lucien Wolf soon began writing for the general as well as the Anglo-Jewish press; for example, he became an assistant editor of The Public Leader in 1877. Later he served as an editor of The Jewish World from 1905 to 1908.

As a journalist, Lucien Wolf specialized in foreign affairs and diplomacy and became a highly respected expert in these areas. From 1890 to 1909 he served as foreign editor of The Daily Graphic, where his articles on foreign affairs were published under the pseudonym "Diplomaticus." He also wrote under this name for The Fortnightly Review during the years 1895-1905. Lucien Wolf's column "The Foreign Office Bag" ran in The Daily Graphic from 1907 to 1914.

Lucien Wolf first became interested in Russian-Jewish affairs after the outbreak of pogroms in 1881. He became an advocate for Russian Jews and a critic of the Czarist regime. In particular, he drew attention to the plight of persecuted Jews at the time of events such as the Kishinev pogrom (1903), the Beilis trial (1912), and the Polish economic boycott of the Jews (1912). Because of his sympathy for his suffering coreligionists, Lucien Wolf's writing was critical of Czarist Russia and favorable to the more liberal German government. In 1912 Lucien Wolf founded Darkest Russia, which chronicled the disabilities of Jews under the Czarist government, as a supplement to The Jewish Chronicle. However, with the outbreak of World War I, Lucien Wolf's perceived anti-Russian and pro-German position undermined his standing as a foreign affairs expert and effectively ended his career in journalism. He lost his position at The Daily Graphic and halted publication of Darkest Russia out of deference to the Anglo-Russian alliance.

Lucien Wolf's concern for persecuted Jews and his knowledge of foreign affairs led to his long and fruitful involvement with the Conjoint Foreign Committee of the Board of Deputies of British Jews and the Anglo-Jewish Association (after 1917, the Joint Foreign Committee). Lucien Wolf first became a member of the Conjoint Foreign Committee in 1888 and was appointed secretary of the committee around the time of the outbreak of World War I. In this position, with the aid of his long-time secretary David Mowshowitch, he brought his diplomatic skills and his contacts at the British Foreign Office to bear on his work.

Lucien Wolf's most important contribution came with the end of World War I, when he attended the Paris Peace Conference as part of the Anglo-Jewish delegation. Lucien Wolf was instrumental in drafting the minority treaties, which guaranteed rights for the ethnic, religious, and linguistic minority populations of the defeated and newly-independent states of Eastern Europe. Lucien Wolf saw these treaties as a tool whereby the various groups of these multi-ethnic countries - notably Jews - could live in harmony and their governments be led to develop in the liberal, democratic traditions of Western Europe.

The Jewish delegations at the Peace Conference were themselves split along ideological lines. Most of the delegates from Eastern Europe supported the goals of Diaspora nationalism and sought for the Jews the status of a separate national minority. The majority of American delegates were Zionists. Lucien Wolf, however, like most West European delegates, opposed both Diaspora nationalism and Zionism. When a majority of the national Jewish delegations united to form the Comité des délégations juives, the English and French delegates, led by Lucien Wolf, refused to join. Whatever his differences with the other delegates, Lucien Wolf worked along with members of the Comité des délégations juives to secure Jewish rights through the minorities treaties. He used his diplomatic skills and personal contacts to facilitate negotiations, distributing copies of his Notes on the Diplomatic History of the Jewish Question to the delegates in order put the events of the conference in historical perspective and to disseminate his views.

Lucien Wolf worked to secure the rights set forth in the minorities treaties in the years following the Paris Peace Conference. However, despite his efforts, the treaties proved to be largely unenforceable. The League of Nations was charged with overseeing the treaty guarantees, but a member nation had to bring a treaty violation to the attention of the League of Nations before it could take action. Predictably, most countries were reluctant to antagonize a foreign government by complaining that that government was abusing its citizens.

Throughout the 1920s, Lucien Wolf continued his efforts on behalf of persecuted Jews as secretary of the Joint Foreign Committee. In 1925 he travelled to Poland to inspect the situation of Jews there, and in 1926 he visited Portugal and became involved in aiding Portuguese Marranos. With the outbreak of anti-Semitic violence in Romania in 1927, Lucien Wolf worked to alleviate the situation of Romanian Jews. Wolf also served in Geneva as an expert on minority rights at the League of Nations. He was a founder of the Advisory Committee of the High Commissioner for Refugees, and became head of that organization in 1929.

As a diplomat, Lucien Wolf's approach was always cautious. He preferred to work quietly with individuals whom he felt shared his views, rather than to put direct pressure on the Foreign Office or on foreign governments. As a loyal Englishman, he feared that any too aggressive action on behalf of foreign coreligionists might call into question his and other Jews' allegiances to their homelands and cause a backlash of anti-Semitism. Moreover, as a Western European liberal, he was confident that the governments of Eastern Europe could and would eventually be reformed into enlightened regimes where Jews enjoyed full equal rights, as they did in France and Britain.

Lucien Wolf's position on the issues of Diaspora nationalism and Zionism appeared to shift somewhat over the years. He met with Theodore Herzl at the time of the latter's visit to London in 1896, and when Israel Zangwill founded the Jewish Territorial Organization in 1905 he became an early member. However, Lucien Wolf later became a leader of the anti-Zionist camp, staunchly opposing the suggestion that Jews had a national identity other than as citizens of their country of residence. Lucien Wolf later seems to have modified his stance and become more sympathetic to the idea of Diaspora nationalism, possibly under the influence of David Mowshowitch. In an article of April 1917, Lucien Wolf wrote that over the past 35 years a new "Jewish secular nationality" had developed in Eastern Europe.

In addition to his diplomatic work, Lucien Wolf was an important Anglo-Jewish historian. He was one of the organizers of the Anglo-Jewish Historical Exhibition of 1887, at which time he compiled a bibliography of Anglo-Jewish history. This exhibit led to the founding of the Jewish Historical Society of England in 1893, of which Lucien Wolf was the first president.

Lucien Wolf's biography of Sir Moses Montefiore was published in 1884. He also edited Menassah ben Israel's Mission to Oliver Cromwell (1901) and a centenary edition of Disraeli's novels in 1905. Lucien Wolf published the Life of the First Marquess of Ripon (1921) and wrote on the history of the Portuguese Marrano community in 1925. He also compiled genealogies of many prominent Anglo-Jewish families.

Lucien Wolf's historical writings also reflected his concern with the persecution of Jews. He was considered an expert on anti-Semitism, and wrote The Jewish Bogey as a refutation of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. Lucien Wolf also contributed the article on "Anti-Semitism," as well as that on "Zionism," to the Encyclopaedia Britannica.

David Mowshowitch was born in Russia and settled in London around the time of World War I. Beginning in 1915 he was active on the Board of Deputies of British Jews and was appointed Foreign Secretary of that body. David Mowshowitch served as secretary and chief assistant to Lucien Wolf after the latter became the head of the Joint Foreign Committee. He remained in this position throughout Lucien Wolf's tenure and continued his work for the Joint Foreign Committee after Lucien Wolf's death in 1930.

As a native of Russia , David Mowshowitch functioned as a liaison between the members of the Joint Foreign Committee and the Eastern European Jews on whose behalf the Joint Foreign Committee was working. He often travelled abroad to report on conditions in areas of Jewish suffering. During the years 1915-1918 David Mowshowitch was the Joint Foreign Committee representative in Stockholm, Sweden. The reports he sent back to London during these years provided the Joint Foreign Committee with its main source of intelligence on conditions in Eastern Europe.

David Mowshowitch is also credited with fostering in Lucien Wolf a more positive attitude towards minority rights and the use of Yiddish of which he was a fluent speaker. An amateur historian, as well as a Yiddishist and amateur linguist, David Mowshowitch wrote a book on the Yiddish language and published translations of parts of the Bible in Yiddish. He was an active member of the London YIVO Committee, through which he donated his papers to the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research.

Historical Note

The Joint Foreign Committee of the Board of Deputies of British Jews and the Anglo-Jewish Association was, as its name implied, a body formed by these two main organizations of British Jewry for the purpose of handling initiatives in foreign policy. The Board of Deputies of British Jews, the officially recognized representative body of British Jewry, originated in 1760 from a cooperative effort of both the Sephardic and Ashkenazic communities of Great Britain. It adopted a written constitution in 1835. The Board of Deputies of British Jews fought for political emancipation and Jewish interests in British civil law dealing with marriage and divorce.

The Anglo-Jewish Association was founded in 1871 and modelled on its French counterpart, the Alliance israélite universelle. Like the Alliance israélite universelle, the Anglo-Jewish Association was a voluntary association that concentrated on educational work among the Jews of less "enlightened" countries, as well as on the promotion of rights of persecuted Jews abroad. In addition, because the Orthodox rabbinate controlled the official state-recognized organs of the Jewish community, the Anglo-Jewish Association served as means for many prominent assimilated Jews to participate in the affairs of Anglo-Jewry.

The Conjoint Foreign Committee was founded in 1878, with equal representation of the Board of Deputies of British Jews and the Anglo-Jewish Association. The Conjoint Foreign Committee worked with the British Foreign Office in its efforts to improve the conditions of Jews in foreign lands, an area of increasing concern as the situation of Jews in Eastern Europe deteriorated in the 1880s. The role of the Conjoint Foreign Committee became more important as the Alliance israélite universelle concentrated its efforts on educational work, in effect leaving the Conjoint Foreign Committee to speak for Western European Jewry in matters of diplomacy.

In 1917, the issue of Zionism, which had long divided the Anglo-Jewish community, came to the fore. The Board of Deputies of British Jews was Zionist in its orientation, while the Anglo-Jewish Association essentially opposed the creation of a Jewish state. In May of 1917, the Conjoint Foreign Committee issued a declaration stating its opposition to Zionism. This led the Board of Deputies of British Jews to withdraw its delegates from the Conjoint Foreign Committee and terminate its relationship with the Anglo-Jewish Association. By the end of 1917 a compromise was reached, whereby a new Joint Foreign Committee of the Board of Deputies of British Jews and the Anglo-Jewish Association was formed. It was agreed that the renamed Joint Foreign Committee have a majority of members from the Board of Deputies of British Jews and that it take no position on the issue of Zionism. Lucien Wolf was appointed the first secretary of the Joint Foreign Committee, a position which he held until his death in 1930. The representation of the Anglo-Jewish Association on the Joint Foreign Committee was further reduced in 1937 as the influence of the anti-Zionists diminished, and eventually was altogether eliminated.

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Scope and content note

The primary strength of the collection is the light it sheds on the situation of the Jews of Eastern Europe and the efforts of Western European Jews to aid them through political action. The material on Eastern Europe is strongest for the period 1880-1930 and broadly speaking, deals with persecution, economic conditions and legal disabilities of Jews in Russia, Poland, Romania, and elsewhere. There is also important material on the Peace Conference at Paris in 1919, in particular the drafting of the minorities treaties, and later the enforcement of the treaties and the effort to secure Jewish rights at the League of Nations and the United Nations. In addition, the papers document the conditions of Jews around the world, most notably the rise of Nazi persecution in Germany and the problem of Jewish refugees in the 1930s; the contemporary situation and history of Anglo-Jewry; and Palestine and the Zionist movement.

The collection also reflects Lucien Wolf's career as a journalist and historian and contains many examples of his work in these fields, primarily his writings on international diplomacy and the history of the Jews in England. Similarly, the papers show David Mowshowitch's various interests, such as his research into Yiddish language and literature.

There are also records of the Joint Foreign Committee and materials collected by the Joint Foreign Committee in the course of its work, including reports of the Joint Foreign Committee and of other Jewish relief organizations; diplomatic and inter-office memoranda; and minutes of meetings. The correspondence in the collection consists of both Lucien Wolf's and David Mowshowitch's personal letters and official correspondence of the Joint Foreign Committee. Similarly, the press clippings relate both to Lucien Wolf's and David Mowshowitch's various activities and to the areas of concern of the Joint Foreign Committee. The papers of Lucien Wolf, including both his personal papers and some Joint of Foreign Committee records, passed after Lucien Wolf's death in 1930 to the care of his secretary, David Mowshowitch. However, it is not possible to separate correspondence between that of Lucien Wolf and that of the organizations he represented, since the correspondence had been mixed before it reached the YIVO Archives.

The sixth and seventh series consist of records of the Conjoint Foreign Committee and Joint Foreign Committee and are the longest and most significant in the collection. They reflect a wide variety of activities undertaken by that organization over many decades on behalf of Jews throughout the world. The two series contain similar types of documents and cover many of the same subjects. Because of this overlap, the researcher should consult the two series together for material on any given topic. It may be advisable to be aware of the fact that newspaper clippings removed to Series X supplement both these series.

The papers of Lucien Wolf and David Mowshowitch cover the years 1865 to 1963, with a few earlier items, particularly pertaining to Anglo-Jewish history, dating to 1708. Lucien Wolf's papers cover the period 1865-1930 and David Mowshowitch's papers span the years 1915-1963, with the majority of material on the period from the 1880s to World War II. The collection consists of diaries, correspondence, notes, manuscripts, typescripts, copies of articles, reports, memoranda, minutes of meetings, and newspaper clippings.

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Arrangement

The collection is organized in ten (10) topical series.

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Restrictions

Access restrictions

Open to researchers.

Use restrictions

The collection is open to researchers by appointmentwith the Chief Archivist. For more information, contact
Chief Archivist
YIVO Institute for Jewish Research
Center for Jewish History
15 West 16th Street
New York, NY 10011

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Access points

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Separated material

Approximately one thousand books and pamphlets were removed to the YIVO Library.

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Custodial history

In 1956 David Mowshowitch began sending these materials, along with his own papers, to YIVO in New York. After his death in 1957, his widow completed the task of transferring the collection to New York with the help of the London YIVO Committee and its secretary, Michael Zilberberg. By 1958 the entire collection was received by the YIVO Archives, along with approximately 1,000 books and pamphlets which were given to the YIVO Library. A supplement to the collection was received sometime prior to 1978.

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Preferred citation

Published citations should take the following form:

Identification of item, date (if known); YIVO Archives, Lucien Wolf and David Mowshowitch Papers, RG 348, folder number.

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Processing information

Rivke Tcherikower completed the first organization of the collection after its arrival in the YIVO Archives. In 1966, the collection was arranged by Zosa Szajkowski with the help of a grant from M.E. Kalish of Philadelphia. At this time, the material was sorted into six series and the 28,433 pages numbered consecutively. Zosa Szajkowski prepared a Yiddish language catalog to the collection, which was published under the title Idishe diplomatie. katalog fun der David Mowshowitch-kolektsie in YIVO (Jewish Diplomacy. Catalogue of the David Mowshowitch Collection in YIVO) in Yidn in England: shtudyes un materyaln, 1880-1940 (Jews in England: Studies and Materials, 1880-1940). New York: YIVO, 1966. pages 283-296.

A new catalog in English was prepared in 1978 by David M. Wolfson. David M. Wolfson's catalog followed Zosa Szajkowski's arrangement, although some folders were further subdivided. It also included an additional series consisting of material received after the Yiddish catalog was published. This material was divided into folders and appended to the end of the collection. Although the supplement was described as a separate series, the folders were also identified according to where they were believed to fit in with the original series.

In 1990, the collection was microfilmed with the help of a grant from the S.H. and Helen R. Scheuer Family Foundation. At this time, the collection was rearranged according to principles of provenance and original order by Cecile E. Kuznitz, who also prepared the present catalog and concordance of old and new folder numbers.

The description of the collection was revised and converted into an EAD finding aid by Stanislav Pejša in 2004. The romanization of the Russian titles follows the ALA-LC Romanization table.

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Container list

 

Series I: Lucien Wolf - Personal, 1708-1930.

The series is in English and some documents are in Hebrew.
0.4 linear feet
Arrangement:

Arranged topically.

Scope and Content:

The series consists of Lucien Wolf's personal materials. These include his diary for most of 1919, including the duration of the Paris Peace Conference, material for a biography of Lucien Wolf prepared by David Mowshowitch, and some correspondence, typescripts, and notes. The newspaper clippings regarding Lucien Wolf's 70th birthday, as well as the obituaries and remembrances after his death were moved to folders 211, 212 respectively, of Series X: Newspaper clippings.

Folder Reel/Frame Title Date
1 1/1 Miscellaneous personal materials
Ketubah of Abraham ben Nissan and Emma bat Ya'acov (1865)
School reports (1865-1870)
Program of a lecture by Lucien Wolf on Jewish education (1885)
Invitation to a dinner in honor of Viscount Haldane chaired by Lucien Wolf and his speech on Anglo-German relations (1913)
Military citation of Lucien Wolf's son Edward Wolf (1918)
Press pass at the Paris Peace Conference (1919)
Maccabaeans' dinner in honor of Lucien Wolf: invitation, seating list, and Lucien Wolf's speech (1920)
Doctor of Hebrew honoris causa - Press Clipping
1865-1930
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2 1/41 Receptions in honor of Lucien Wolf's 70th birthday
Authors' Lodge (Freemasons)
Jewish Historical Society of England
Letters of congratulation among others: Adler, Cyrus; Ginsburgh, E.; Gottheil, Richard; Kaminka, A.; Labin, S.; Laski, Neville; Levi, Israel; Nathan, Paul; Teitel, Jacob; American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee; Alliance israélite universelle
Doctor of Hebrew Letters honoris causa - Jewish Institute of Religion (1930)
1927, 1930
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3 1/115 Letters of condolence on Lucien Wolf's death
Notes for a memorial lecture on Lucien Wolf by David Mowshowitch
1930
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4 1/137 Biography of Lucien Wolf by David Mowshowitch
Notes and outline
Parts of a typescript of the biography
"Lucien Wolf" - Typescript and printed version of article
undated, 1931-1932
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5 1/269 Correspondence of Lucien Wolf with his family and friends
Letters to his parents (1869-1882)
Letters to his daughter Veronika (1913, 1915)
Correspondence with other relatives and friends (1906-24)
1869-1882, 1906-1924
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6 1/387 Diary of Lucien Wolf and Table of Contents. Typescript, 640 pp., pp. 1-160 1919 Jan. 13- 1919 Apr. 2
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7 1/579 Diary of Lucien Wolf, pp. 161-324 1919 Apr. 3-1919 June 1
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8 1/745 Diary of Lucien Wolf, pp. 325-495 1919 June 2-1919 Aug. 6
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9 1/938 Diary of Lucien Wolf, pp. 496-640 1919 Aug. 7- 1919 Oct. 12.
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Series II: Lucien Wolf - Historical writings and related materials, 1708, 1886-1933.

The series is in English, French, Hebrew, and Yiddish.
0.2 linear feet
Arrangement:

This series is arranged in no particular order.

Scope and Content:

The second series includes material related to Lucien Wolf's work as a historian. The series contains examples of his historical writings and source materials from his research as well as correspondence, notes, manuscripts, typescripts, and bibliographies. The topics covered include the lives of Lord Ripon, Joseph Chamberlain, Benjamin Disraeli, and Israel Zangwill; the Inquisition in Portugal; and various facets of Anglo-Jewish history.

The newspaper clippings with reviews of Lucien Wolf's books and reactions to his other texts were moved in folders 216, 214, 217, 218, and 224.

Folder Reel/Frame Title Date
10 1/1084 Bibliography of Lucien Wolf's works on Jewish subjects from 1879 to 1929 by David Mowshowitch
Also including correspondence of Cecil Roth to David Mowshowitch about the bibliography
1933
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11 1/1184 Life of the First Marquess of Ripon - Materials
Listing of the contents of Lord Ripon's papers
"Lord Ripon's Conversion" - Typescript
Correspondence regarding the book
1911-1921
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12 2/1 Articles by Lucien Wolf
"Parallels of the 17th and 20th Centuries" - Typescript
"Jewish Education," A Lay Sermon - Manuscript (1886?)
"A Final Note on the Resettlement" - Typescript of article in The Jewish Chronicle (1889)
"Surrey Families (Jews in England)" - Typescript
"The City of London and the Jews" - Typescript
"Early History of the Dublin Hebrew Congregation" - Typescript
undated, 1886?, 1889
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13 2/130 Joseph Chamberlain - Materials
Correspondence with Lord ? (1902?)
"My Last Interview with Mr. Chamberlain" - Typescript (1903)
"Mr. Chamberlain" - Typescripts
"Mr. Chamberlain's Treaty Scheme" - Newspaper clipping (1909)
Excerpt from Lucien Wolf's diary (?) - Typescript (1903)
1902?-1909
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14 2/161 Notes and outlines prepared by David Mowshowitch for Lucien Wolf
Anglo-Russian Diplomatic Relations, 1496-1854
British Diplomatic Representatives in Russia
n.d.
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15 2/193 Benjamin Disraeli and purchase of the Suez Canal Shares - Materials
Correspondence of Lucien Wolf with: among others Blumgrund, A. (1907); Buckle, George Earle (1914-1916); Chisholm, Hugh (1905-1906); O'Connor, Daniel (1907); Earl of Derby (1905); O'Farrell, Miss (1906); Redesdale, Lord (1913); Rothschild, Lord (1906); De Rossi, Antonio (1904); Sanderson, Lord (1906); Smith, Gordon (1906); Editor of The Times (1905-1906)
"The Purchase of the Suez Canal Shares" - Typescript of Lucien Wolf's diary entries (?) (1905-06)
Notes on Disraeli
1905-1916
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16 2/280 History of the Jews in England, 1655-1929 - Materials and notes
Two addresses before the Jewish Historical Society
n.d., 1925, 1929
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17 2/418 Israel Zangwill - Materials
"Mr. Israel Zangwill" Literature Portraits 32 (1901)
"Israel Zangwill" - adapted article. Presented to the Jewish Historical Society (1926)
Isreal Zangwill's translation of poems by Bunin, Balmont, and Tikhobereshskii
Bibliography of Israel Zangwill's work (1926)
1901, 1926
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18 2/460 Inquisition in Portugal - Copies of documents n.d.
Folder Reel/Frame Title Date
19 2/551 Miscellaneous historical documents
The British Apollo (1708)
"Jews Free School" - Article (1887)
"Seven Jewish Members of Parliament" - Poster (1886)
Copies of correspondence involving Lord Kimberley, de Grey, Newman Hale, and Lord Frederick
Handwritten and typed copies of State documents and letters
1708, 1813-1887
Folder Reel/Frame Title Date
20 2/632 Miscellaneous materials of Lucien Wolf
Address by Lucien Wolf at a reception for Sholem Aleichem, manuscript, 18 pp. (1906?)
List of materials in the files of the League of Nations relating to Lucien Wolf (1920)
"The Montefiore Family" by Lucien Wolf, typescript, 28 pp.
Newspaper clippings in folder 224
n.d., 1906?, 1920
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Series III: Conjoint Foreign Committee and Joint Foreign Committee - Correspondence with Individuals, 1892-1930.

This series in English, French, and German.
1.4 linear feet
Arrangement:

The series is arranged alphabetically by name of correspondent.

Scope and Content:

The third series is comprised of correspondence of Lucien Wolf and of the Conjoint Foreign Committee and Joint Foreign Committee with individuals. It includes letters written by Lucien Wolf in his capacity as Secretary of the Joint Foreign Committee and thus reflects the work of that organization. It also features Lucien Wolf's correspondence with colleagues in the fields of journalism and history. This series includes letters sent to Lucien Wolf by David Mowshowitch during the years 1915-1927. He corresponded with Lucien Wolf, when David Mowshowitch was stationed in Stockholm, Sweden during World War I, and provided the Joint Foreign Committee with its main source of information on the situation of the Jews in Eastern Europe at that time.

In few instances, correspondence may also include related material. For instance, along with Lucien Wolf's correspondence with Count Bernstorff, the German ambassador in London, there is material regarding a controversy over the publication of these letters in the British press.

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21a 2/689 Abrahams, A. 1914-1925
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21b Abrahams, I. [Israel ?] 1901
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21c Adler, Cyrus 1901-1927
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21d de Alberti, L. 1924
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21e Aladin, Alexis 1915
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21f Alexander, David Lindo 1904-1916
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21g Aleksinsky, Grégoire 1915
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21h Alterman, J. 1923
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21i Archer, L. W. 1907-1915
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21j Asher, Samuel J. 1917-1921
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21k Askenazy, Szymon 1921
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22a 2/826 Bacon, Gertrude 1909
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22b Baily, Canning 1908
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22c Barnard, ? 1906
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22d Barnett, Lionel D. 1926
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22e Basch, Victor 1916
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22f Beaumont, Comyns 1908-1910
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22g Bellingham, Lelgarde 1900
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22h Bennett, Reginald 1910, 1913
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22i Berlin, M. 1897
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22j Cassel?, Ernest 1910
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22k Churchill, Winston 1910
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23 2/852 Bernstorff, Johann Heinrich, Count
Publication of Johann Heinrich Bernstorff's letters to Lucien Wolf
Also includes correspondence of Barrington, Eric, Lord Northcliffe, Tyrell, William
Copies of Lucien Wolf's letters to Johann Heinrich Bernstorff
Copy of a page of Lucien Wolf's diary from April 10, 1905
Published letters of Johann Heinrich Bernstorff
1905, 1914
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24 2/962 Blank, Reuben
Copy of an article by A. Aulard (1915)
Report of Reuben Blank's meeting with British Foreign Office officials
Copies of letters to: Montefiore, Claude Joseph Goldsmid?, ?, Alexander
Copy of a letter from S. Efran
1915-1927
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25a 2/1081 Bleackley, ? 1915
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25b Bloch, Joshua 1930
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25c Boutwood, Arthur 1918-1920
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25d Brailsford, Henry Noel 1913.
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25e Brandon, Roy H. 1915.
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25f Brando, Alexander [Braudo, Aleksandr Isaevich ?] 1908
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25g Bryce, Lord James 1906-1916
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25h Bullock, J. M.? 1909
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25i Burgess, R.W. 1913
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25j Bute, Lord 1895-1900
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26a 2/1162 Campbell-Bannerman, Henry 1906
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26b Carr, Edward Hallett 1919
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26c Chirol, Valentine 1907
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26d Clifton, A.W. n.d.
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26e Cohen, Alfred L. 1901
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26f Cohen, Arthur 1906, 1913, 1929
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26g Cohen, Donald H. 1922
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26h Cohen, Leonard 1920-1921
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26i Colquhoun, ? 1914
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26j Coolen, Georges 1928-1929
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26k Coumbe, ?, 1915
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26l Cox, Harold 1901-1914
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26m Crewe, Lord 1906
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27a 3/1 Davis, P.R. 1909
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27b Dicey, Albert Venn 1912
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27c Djevad, Bey 1912
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27d Dubnow, Simon 1922
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27e Dywien, Zalaman W. 1916
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27f Elkan, Gerald 1920
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27g Elzas, Barnett A. 1903
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27h Ehrenpreis, Marcus 1913
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27i Epstein, M. 1916
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28a 3/51 Feinberg, D. 1911-1912
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28b Filderman, Wilhelm 1924
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28c Finn, Joseph 1916
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28d Frank, Helena 1906
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28e Freudenthal, Max 1907
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29a 3/126 Garvin, James Louis 1914-1922
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29b Gaster, Moses 1923
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29c Gayer, Dr. 1914
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29d Gennadios, Iōannōes 1913
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29e Garfalk, A. 1908
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29f Goldsmid, Osmond Elim [ D'Avigdor-Goldsmid] 1921-1926
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29g Gollancz, Hermann 1917
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29h Goodman, Paul 1915
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29i Gottheil, Richard J. H. 1916-1921
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29j Gravenitz, ? 1904
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29k Greed, E.S. 1918
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29l Greenberg, L.J. 1907-1921
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29m Grey-Wilson, Sir William 1915
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29n Gribble, [Francis Henry ?] 1913
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29o Griffin, Lady 1913
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29p de Guenzburg, Baron A[lexandre]
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"Some Remarks on Baron Guenzburg's Letter on the Jewish Affairs in Russia"
1915-1917, 1919
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30a 3/323 Haan, Jacob Israël de 1914
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30b Haffkine, [Waldemar Mordecai ?] 1916
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30c Hall, Hammond 1900-1909
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30d Hammerton, John Alexander 1915
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30e Hardy, Thomas 1921
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30f Harcourt, Sir Cecil 1921
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30g Harmsworth, Alfred [Northcliffe, Lord] 1899-1909
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30h Hatzfeldt, Hermann von 1907
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30i Hayashi, Tadasu 1904
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30j Hertz, Joseph Herman 1892-1923
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30k Herzl, Hans 1925-1927
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30l Herzl, Theodore 1896
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30m Higginbottom, ? 1909
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30n Holland, Sidney 1900
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31a 3/431 Ilke, Charles 1902
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31b Itel'son, G. B. n.d.
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31c Jacobs, Joseph 1897, 1906-1914
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31d Janowsky, Oscar I. 1930
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31e Jochelmann, [Lev?] 1906
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31f Joseph, Nathan Solomon 1905-07
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31g Kinloch Cooke, Clement 1904
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32a 4/73 Karminski, Rita 1923
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32b Kissmann, Josef 1923
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32c Koike, ? 1907
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32d Kruk, Josef 1915-1916
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32e Kühlmann, Richard von 1909-1913
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33a 3/496 Labouchere, H. [Henry Du Pré ?] 1906