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Ref NoJA/2/K/2/3
TitleCorrespondence concerning burial rights in Witton and Brandwood End cemeteries.
LevelFile
Date1935 - 1966
DescriptionCorrespondence between George L Joseph [Secretary, Liberal Jewish Synagogue, Birmingham] and Leon Salberg and S.I.Solomons [Secretary, Birmingham Hebrew Congregation] concerning the Liberal Jewish Congregation's application for burial rights in the Birmingham Hebrew Congregation cemetery at Witton, 1935-1936; typed copies of an agreement between the Liberal Synagogue and the Birmingham Hebrew Congregation concerning burial rights at Witton, copy of 1936 document; typed copy of an agreement between the Central Synagogue and the Birmingham Hebrew Congregation regarding membership lists, burial rights, terms and conditions of funerals, maintenance of cemeteries, marriages, representation on the Shechita Board, and maintenance of the Mikveh [immersion pool], which modifies an agreement made in 1919, nd; typed copies of a document entitled 'Revised Recommendations passed by the Council, in respect of the Agreement existing between the Congregation and the Beth Hamedrash, Wrottesley St, 9 March 1919'; carbon copy of an agreement made in 1946 between the Birmingham Hebrew Congregation and the New Synagogue, Hurst St regarding burial rights at Witton, nd; letters from the Liberal Jewish Synagogue to the Birmingham Hebrew Congregation concerning payment of subscriptions to the Cemetery Fund, 1946-1955; correspondence between Sidney Gold [Chief Minister, Hebrew Congregation] and Harry, probably Harry Gompertz [Chairman, Birmingham Hebrew Congregation Cemeteries Committee] re planting a hedge to delineate the Liberal portion of the Witton Cemetery from the Birmingham Hebrew Congregation portion, and possible objections to this, 1966; carbon copies of an agreement between the Birmingham Hebrew Congregation and the New Synagogue, Hurst St regarding burial rights at Witton and Brandwood End cemeteries, 1953; typed copy of an agreement between the Birmingham Hebrew Congregation and the Liberal Jewish Synagogue regarding burial rights and charges for burials, 1935; Letter from J Tobias [President, New Synagogue] renewing the agreement with the Birmingham Hebrew Congregation concerning the burial of non-members of the Birmingham Hebrew Congregation cemetery at Brandwood End, 1954; Letter to S.I. Solomons from Joseph Cohen [Chairman, Law Revisions Committee] regarding burial charges made to members of other Congregations, 1945;

Agreement between Birmingham Hebrew Congregation and the New Synagogue, Hurst St, regulating the burial of non-members, with related correspondence and drafts of the agreement, 1946.
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