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The Anglo-Jewish Community and Its Archives

2010 marks the twentieth anniversary of the arrival at the University of Southampton's Library of many of the collections gathered by the AngloJewish Archives in its work over the preceding three decades to preserve the written heritage of Anglo-Jewry. This development marked both a culmination of previous endeavours to deal with what was termed the 'vanishing heritage' of Jewish archives and the commencement of new initiatives. In 1988, the British Library hosted a symposium to discuss the plight of Jewish archives, out of which a working party was formed which produced guidelines for the Anglo-Jewish community on the preservation of material and recommendations for depositing archives. As part of these recommendations, a framework was set up to deal with the preservation of archive material: UK archive offices and libraries agreed to become repositories for broad areas of Jewish manuscript material. London Metropolitan Archives became the repository for material of London based organisations, while the University of Southampton consented to collect material relating to Anglo-Jewry which had a national or international basis. The archives of local communities and organisations were to go to local authority record offices. Here, Manchester had acted as an ideal model, with material collected by the Manchester Studies Unit of Manchester Polytechnic (now Manchester Metropolitan University), deposited at local repositories, helping to develop the rich historiography of Britain's second largest Jewish community. As part of its remit the British Library would consider papers of Jewish individuals who had achieved prominence in British society. The Scottish Jewish Archives Centre, which was set up in 1987 as an initiative of the Jewish community itself, has been the major repository for archival material relating to the Jewish communities in Scotland. Sadly, the situation in Wales was less satisfactory, although more recently attempts have been made to locate surviving material across the country.