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Object 16. Members of the Oxford Jewish Congregation signing the chirograph for the reception of two Torah scrolls from the Canterbury Jewish Congregation

22 June 1931, Oxford

Description:

The Canterbury Jewish Congregation ceased to exist, and thus entrusted the Oxford congregation with the care of the two scrolls until such time as the Canterbury Jewish congregation would be re-established. The event followed the celebration of the centenary of the birth of Adolf Neubauer the eminent scholar and the sub-librarian of the Bodleian Library. The Centenary was organized by Herbert Loewe and was held on 21 June 1931.

The members signed their Hebrew name (Herbert Loewe – back row, second from the right):

Shimshon ben Yosef Dov ha-Kohen
Mosheh Zalman ben Yitshak ha-Levi
Shalom ben Yehudah
Mosheh ben Pinhas
Urshel ben Avraham
Yehudah ben Yitshak
Perets ben Avraham me-Oxford
Zalman Yosef ben Zeev, witness
Tsvi Mordekhai ben Yaakov Hayyim ha-Levi, witness (HERBERT)

Credits: Leopold Muller Memorial Library, Raphael Loewe Archive, shelfmark: AHerbert 1, 16