Brief Description: The collection contains private papers of Lucien Wolf and of David Mowshowitch and records of the Joint Foreign Committee and of its predecessor, the Conjoint Foreign Committee, relating primarily to efforts to aid persecuted Jews in Eastern Europe.      Papers of Lucien Wolf:  Wolf's diary. Materials on English-German relations, English-Russian relations. Articles on the history of the Jews in England. Bibliography of Wolf's works on Jewish subjects. Correspondence with family and friends. Personal correspondence as well as correspondence relating to the Joint Foreign Committee, including: A. Abrahams of the League of British Jews; Cyrus Adler; Count Bernstorff, German ambassador to England; Prof. Szymon Aszkenazy; Solomon Dingol; O.E. d'Avigdor Goldsmid;  Chief Rabbi Dr. J.H. Hertz; Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook; Ramsay MacDonald; Clara Melchior; Louis Marshall; Claude G. Montefiore; Sir Edward Sassoon; Jacob H. Schiff; Lord Selborne of the British Colonial Office; Nahum Sokolow; Lincoln Steffens; Oscar S. Straus; Anthony de Rothschild; Leopold de Rothschild; Maxim Vinawer; Mark Wischnitzer; Chaim Weizmann; Israel Zangwill; Alliance Israelite Universelle; American Jewish Congress; British Foreign Office; Jewish Historical Society of England; Hilfsverein der Deutschen Juden.      Records of the Conjoint Foreign Committee and the Joint Foreign Committee. Reports, minutes of meetings, memoranda, correspondence, 1914-1957. Materials relating to the situation of Jews in Russia and the Soviet Union, Ukraine, Poland, Germany, England and other countries, 1914-1950s. Materials on: the Beilis trial; pogroms in the Ukraine; the Jewish question in Eastern Europe; conscription of Russian Jewish refugees into the British army during World War I; the Paris Peace Conference, 1919; enforcement of minorities treaties; press clippings.      Papers of David Mowshowitch: diaries; correspondence; notes; manuscripts of articles relating to topics in Jewish history and to the Yiddish language.

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