IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 1556 WL 1436
Held at: Wiener Library
Title: Bloch, Julius (1877-1956): correspondence
Date(s): 1937-1955
Level of description: collection
Extent: 1 file
Name of creator(s): Bloch | Julius | 1877-1956 | Jewish community worker
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Julius Bloch was born in Bruehl/Baden in June 1877. He became a member of the Jewish Gemeindevorstand in Pforzheim, Baden Wuertemberg, in 1923; member of the Israelitische Kultusgemeinde, Frankfurt/ Main, where he was also chairman of the Jewish welfare committee and head of the regional office for the Hilfsverein der Juden in Deutschland. He was responsible for rationalisng the provision of welfare to Jews in Frankfurt by centralising the numerous smaller organisations into one large organisation. By May 1938 he was living in London. In 1946 he was deputy of the New Liberal Congregation, London. He died in London in 1956.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Private and official correspondence of Julius Bloch, 1937-1955.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: German and English
System of arrangement:
Chronological by material type
Conditions governing access:
Open
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copies can be made for personal use. Permission must be sought for publication.
Physical characteristics:
Finding aids:
Description exists to this archive on the Wiener Library's online catalogue www.wienerlibrary.co.uk.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:
Accruals:
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Bloch family
ALLIED MATERIALS
Existence and location of originals:
Existence and location of copies:
Related material:
Other microfilmed correspondence of Julius Bloch can be found in the Weiner Library (ref: WL 520).
Publication note:
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Archivist's note: Entry compiled Howard Falksohn.
Date(s) of descriptions: March 2008