IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0074 P93/ELM
Held at: London Metropolitan Archives
Title: EAST LONDON MISSION TO THE JEWS, STEPNEY: COMMERCIAL ROAD, TOWER HAMLETS
Date(s): 1892-1898
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 0.04 linear metres
Name of creator(s): East London Mission to the Jews
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
The East London Mission to the Jews was the creation of the Reverend Michael Rosenthal, who in 1899 became Vicar of Saint Mark's Church, Whitechapel. Rosenthal was a rabbi from Lithuania, who converted to Christianity and trained at the college of the London Society for Promoting Christianity among the Jews. The East End of London had a high Jewish population and the East London Mission to the Jews worked among them. The Mission also supported curates, male and female layworkers and nurses.
A note on the flyleaf of this volume, made by Reverend Lionel Lewis, Rosenthal's successor at Saint Mark's, says that after this date baptisms of persons connected with the Mission took place at Saint Mark's. He also states that he removed the volume, together with a font, from the mission address at 97 Commercial Road.
For more information about the mission to the Jews in the East End see: http://www.stgite.org.uk/media/jewishconverts.html
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Register of baptisms from the East London Mission to the Jews, Commercial Road, Stepney.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
The records have been sorted into categories which reflect divisions between the different functions and operations of the parish and its administration. Order within these categories reflects chronology.
Conditions governing access:
Available for general access.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copyright to these records rests with the depositor.
Physical characteristics:
Fit
Finding aids:
Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Deposited by the Vicar of St Paul's Church, Dock Street, Stepney in the Greater London Record Office, 28 April 1965.
ALLIED MATERIALS
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.
Date(s) of descriptions: April to June 2010.