IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0074 LMA/4475
Held at: London Metropolitan Archives
Title: LEAGUE OF JEWISH WOMEN
Date(s): 1940-1999
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 4.61 linear metres
Name of creator(s): League of Jewish Women
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
The League of Jewish Women was founded in 1943 to provide help to both the Jewish and wider communities. It was established as a non-political, non-fund raising voluntary welfare organisation. League members were organised into local groups. The groups were mostly centred on London but there were some elsewhere, for example around Manchester, the first Manchester group being established in 1944.
The help that the League offered was in the form of voluntary work, ranging from hospital and home visiting to working in prisons and running day centres for older people. Through Head Office committees, provision was also made for education and training in various skills. In the early 1950s, an attempt was made to raise the League's profile through the formation of a Publicity Committee. By the time of the League's 25th anniversary in 1968 an in-house magazine, "Around the League" had been launched and in 1970 charitable status was granted.
The League became affiliated to national organisations such as the Women's National Commission. In addition, the League was the UK affiliate of the International Council of Jewish Women. In this capacity the League took part in, and occasionally helped organise, international conferences. The League's own tri-annual conference had first taken place in Bournemouth in 1975.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Organisational papers of the League of Jewish Women, including meeting minutes from various committees; reports; general administrative records; correspondence; papers relating to the organisation of various events and conferences; magazines and press cuttings; and films and photographs.
PLEASE NOTE: to access this collection written permission is required from the depositors.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
The material is arranged into papers relating to the running of the organisation; events and conferences involving the organisation, and printed and audio-visual items. Where possible the organisation's system of filing has been retained although some sorting by the cataloguing archivist has been necessary. It has not been possible to identify any original numbering sequence.
Conditions governing access:
Access by written permission only.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copyright to these records rests with the depositor.
Finding aids:
Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Deposited in July 2003.
ALLIED MATERIALS
Publication note:
For further information please consult the LMA Information Leaflet: "Records of the Anglo-Jewish Community at London Metropolitan Archives"; available to download here: http://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/Corporation/LGNL_Services/Leisure_and_culture/Records_and_archives/Visitor_information/free_information_leaflets.htm (URL correct Feb 2010).
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Date(s) of descriptions: Description prepared in March 2010. Updated May 2015