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Alfred Montefiore Hyamson Collection

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Alfred Montefiore Hyamson 1875-1954 (Creator of the archive)
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The collection comprises twenty-one exercise books containing the handwritten manuscript of the first edition of Alfred Hyamson's book "History of the Jews in England". There are some loose sheets of typed pages, which are later versions of some of the chapters and they have some handwritten corrections on them. Among the pages of some of the exercise books are library slips Hyamson used to order books to his seat in the reading room of the British Museum. In the first pages of the first notebook the text has been edited in another handwriting in red. This corrected version is what appears in the printed volume of the book. There are a few newspaper cuttings amongst the exercise books including one from the Jewish Chronicle dated 1901.

Reference Code
V 3554
Dates
1901
Consists of
0.2 m..
Languages
English;
location
  • The Archives Collection of the National Library of Israel The Archives Collection of the National Library of Israel
Title Alfred Montefiore Hyamson Collection.
Additional Titles כותרת בעברית: אוסף אלברט מונטפיורי חיימסון.
Notes Copies/עותקים: The work was published in 1907, 1908 and 1928.
Citation Note V 3554, Alfred Montefiore Hyamson Collection, Archives Department, the National Library of Israel.
Host Item Alfred Montefiore Hyamson Collection.
Level of Description Fonds Record
Copies The work was published in 1907, 1908 and 1928.
Biographical summary Hyamson was a scholar of English history, specialising in Anglo-Jewish history. He who wrote books and articles on many subjects in these two fields, but in his professional life he was an English civil servant, first in the Post Office and then until he retired in 1934, in the Government of Palestine, as the Director of the Department of Immigration. Hyamson was a cultural Zionist, rather than a political one. He was active in the Jewish Historical Society, the Palestine Exploration Fund, the British School of Archaeology in Jerusalem and was a member of the board and secretary of the Journal of Jewish Studies.
Ownership history A note accompanying the exercise books is addressed to Dr. Bergmann, Hebrew University, Mt. Scopus, with a stamp dated 4 Sep. 1932 and the comment in Hebrew that the package was a present from the author. The collection was transferred from the manuscript section of the Avraham Schwadron autograph collection in May 2015.
Language Note The notebooks are all written in English.
National Library system number 990038253080205171

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