Jewish Affairs

Component identifier:

Series 4

Content Summary:

The series contains notes and an annotated typescript for Professor Julius Stone's open letter to Isaacs entitled Stand up and be counted. This was written in 1944 on the occasion of the twenty-sixth anniversary of the Jewish National Home. The series also includes Isaacs' booklet Palestine … political Zionism (1946); two copies, one annotated by Stone, of a memorandum, Immigration to Australia, a document prepared by the Executive Council of Australian Jewry for the Australian Government; documents of the United Emergency Committee for European Jewry on Mauritius internees in 1942; minutes taken by Isaacs at two committee meetings in 1882 of the Melbourne Jewish Young Men's Russian Relief Fund; and other articles by Isaacs written between 1938 and 1947.

Immediate source of acquisition:

The papers of Sir Isaac Isaacs received by the National Library in three parts. The major portion was deposited by Lady Isaacs in 1950. In 1968, after the death of Isaacs' daughter Mrs Marjorie Cohen, a second group of papers was received from her son Thomas B. Cohen. A further collection, used by Sir Zelman Cowen for his biography Isaac Isaacs, was deposited in April 1970.

Names:

Sir Isaac Isaacs

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