For your information:

An important and interesting new website was put online today which might have
interest for many - not only in Denmark or Scandinavia:

http://www.kb.dk/simonsen/

In is based on David Simonsen's archive now at the Danish Royal Library in
Copenhagen. David Simonsen was a scholar, rabbi, philanthropist and much more

I cannot here go into details about him or his fabulous archives, but you can now
read about it on the website. But let me underscore that David Simonsen had
contacts in many countries and was deeply involved in relief work for refugees and
immigrants

- therefore check it out although you have never thought of Denmark

Just a few words about the archives >from the introduction on the website:

"Contents of the archives:

During the more than seventy years that have passed since the David Simonsen
Archives were acquired by the Royal Library, a number of attempts have been made
to make their vast contents more readily accessible to scholars.

However, none of these attempts came to fruition, and no comprehensive finding
aid has been available. The archives were kept in approximately 200 worn-down
and acidulous cardboard boxes, labelled, e.g; Private correspondence 1890-1924,
Jewish relief work 1890-1924.Particularly remarkable letters had been extracted
and sorted according to the name of the sender. The present list of correspondents
is the result of a cooperative effort between the Department for Oriental and
Judaica Collections and the Manuscript Department (by Karen Marie Jensen).

The principles of organization used in the Manuscript Department have been
followed, and the David Simonsen Archives are now subdivided thus:

Letters
Manuscripts (David Simonsen's own works)
Dispatches (communiques, bulletins, memoranda, press releases)
Files (materials regarding specific topics)
Accounts
Printed matters
Press cuttings
Miscellaneous

The greater part of the archives consists of David Simonsen's correspondence, now
made public through the present list and the website.

Best regards
- and good luck!

Elsebeth Paikin, Copenhagen, Denmark
Coordinator & webmaster of JewishGen's
SCANDINAVIA SIG
http://www.jewishgen.org/scandinavia
http://home.worldonline.dk/~epaikin/
mailto:elsebeth@paikin.dk