Lander, Myer Jack (b 1874)

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 1556 WL 622
Held at	: Wiener Library   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://www.wienerlibrary.co.uk/ ›
Full title	: Lander, Myer Jack (b 1874)
Date(s)	: 1900-1945
Level of description	: collection
Extent	: 1 folder
Name of creator(s)	: Lander | Myer Jack | b 1874 | writer

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Myer Jack Landa was born in Leeds in 1874. He was a British Jewish writer and long time sketch writer in the Press Gallery at the House of Commons. He married Gertrude Gordon, sister of Samuel Gordon, the writer. The two of them published a number of novels and plays together; she often under the pseudonym of Aunt Naomi. His principal interests seem to have been the portrayal of the Jew and Jewish life in theatre and the importance of Palestine as the centre of Jewish life.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers of Myer Jack Landa, 1900-1945, including papers relating to Jewish organisations including the Jewish Association of Arts and Sciences, the Jewish Fund for Soviet Russia, the Refugee Industries Committee and the Israel Delivered from Bondage Society; correspondence, 3 Sep 1943-27 Feb 1945 and newspaper and journal articles, chiefly reviews of books with a Jewish theme, some of them by Landa, 1900-1943.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

The papers have been arranged in the following order: 622/1 correspondence; -/2 papers relation to organisations; -/3 miscellaneous journal articles; 4 newspaper cuttings. In addition there are a number of journals which have been catalogued as part of the Wiener Library periodical series and have been listed at the end.

Conditions governing access:

Open

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copies can be made for personal use. Permission must be sought for publication.

Finding aids:

Detailed description on the Wiener Library's online catalogue www.wienerlibrary.co.uk.

Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Received from the family, Dec 1983.

Allied Materials

Related material:

Publication note:

Description Notes

Archivist's note:
Entry compiled by Sarah Drewery.

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:
Mar 2008