JEWS' FREE SCHOOL

This deposit contains letters, school magazines, newspaper cuttings and an attendance register. Some material relates to Anglo-Jewish historian Myer David Davis (also spelt Davies), who started his career as a teacher at the Jews' Free School as Talmud Torah master, where he was also a pupil.

These records have been arranged into the following subseries;

The Jews' Free School. These records have a direct relationship with the school itself, that is, they were produced by the school for the school.

Dr. Douglas Woolf. He is the likely former owner of these records and some material remains as a result of his own concerns and activities, such as the arrival of Russian Jewish immigrants to London.

Myer David Davis. As an ex-pupil and teacher at the School there was a lot of sadness on the death of this pioneer of Jewish clerical history at 81 years old. The newscuttings and copy of a magazine he edited reflect just how active he was in the promotion of Jewish culture and its past to others.

Open Access

LMA/4297 is an additional deposit to the collection from a separate depositor.

The material seems to have belonged originally to Dr. Douglas Woolf, before being passed on to Dr. G. Black and later London Metropolitan Archives in April 2001.

Please refer to LMA/4046 for biographical history of the Jews' Free School.