Wolf, Lucien (1857-1930) and Mowshowitch, David (1887-1957). Papers.

Title: Wolf, Lucien and Mowshowitch, David

Inclusive Dates: 1865-1957

ID: RG 348

Extent Information

12'3"; 29 5"lgl;1 2.5"lgl

Arrangement

Organization: Folders arranged numerically

Arrangement: The collection is arranged in 10 series: I) Personal Materials of L.W. (folders 1-9); II) L.W.'s Historical Writings (10-20); III) Corres. of L.W. & of the C.F.C. & the J.F.C. with Individuals (21-50); IV) Corres. of the above with Organizations (51-53); V) Corres. of the above with British Government Offices (54-56); VI) Subject Files of the C.F.C. & J.F.C. arranged chronologically (57-101); VII) Subject Files of the C.F.C. & J.F.C. arranged geographically (102-172); VIII) Files of the C.F.C. & J.F.C. regarding other Organizations (173-190); IX) Papers of D.M. (191-210); X) Press Clippings (211-245)

Biographical/Historical

Lucien Wolf was an Anglo-Jewish diplomat, journalist and historian. In 1917 he became secretary of the Joint Foreign Committee formed by the Board of Deputies of British Jews and the Anglo-Jewish Association. Wolf played an important role in efforts to assist persecuted Eastern European Jewish communities. He was a delegate to the Paris Peace Conference of 1919 and was involved in the drafting of the minorities treaties. He was regarded as an authority on minority rights at the League of Nations and in England. David Mowshowitch was secretary to Lucien Wolf as well as secretary of the Foreign Department of the Board of Deputies. Active in the London YIVO Committee.

Creators

Wolf, Lucien
Mowshowitch, David

Subjects (links to similar collections)

ANTISEMITISM_
Legal Disabilities
Legal rights
Minorities Treaties
Minority Rights
Paris Peace Conference
Pogroms
Poland
Poland - Politics and government
POLITICS AND POLITICAL PARTIES_
World War I

Administrative Information

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Other Note

In addition to the online full finding aid, an early printed catalog, Yiddish, 13 pp. is available in-house in the Record Group Registration file of this collection.

Description: The collection contains private papers of Lucien Wolf and of David Mowshowitch and records of the Joint Foreign Committee and of its predecessor, the Conjoint Foreign Committee, relating primarily to efforts to aid persecuted Jews in Eastern Europe. Papers of Lucien Wolf: Wolf's diary. Materials on English-German relations, English-Russian relations. Articles on the history of the Jews in England. Bibliography of Wolf's works on Jewish subjects. Correspondence with family and friends. Personal correspondence as well as correspondence relating to the Joint Foreign Committee, including: A. Abrahams of the League of British Jews; Cyrus Adler; Count Bernstorff, German ambassador to England; Prof. Szymon Aszkenazy; Solomon Dingol; O.E. d'Avigdor Goldsmid; Chief Rabbi Dr. J.H. Hertz; Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook; Ramsay MacDonald; Clara Melchior; Louis Marshall; Claude G. Montefiore; Sir Edward Sassoon; Jacob H. Schiff; Lord Selborne of the British Colonial Office; Nahum Sokolow; Lincoln Steffens; Oscar S. Straus; Anthony de Rothschild; Leopold de Rothschild; Maxim Vinawer; Mark Wischnitzer; Chaim Weizmann; Israel Zangwill; Alliance Israelite Universelle; American Jewish Congress; British Foreign Office; Jewish Historical Society of England; Hilfsverein der Deutschen Juden. Records of the Conjoint Foreign Committee and the Joint Foreign Committee. Reports, minutes of meetings, memoranda, correspondence, 1914-1957. Materials relating to the situation of Jews in Russia and the Soviet Union, Ukraine, Poland, Germany, England and other countries, 1914-1950s. Materials on: the Beilis trial; pogroms in the Ukraine; the Jewish question in Eastern Europe; conscription of Russian Jewish refugees into the British army during World War I; the Paris Peace Conference, 1919; enforcement of minorities treaties; press clippings. Papers of David Mowshowitch: diaries; correspondence; notes; manuscripts of articles relating to topics in Jewish history and to the Yiddish language.

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