UK JEWISH HERITAGE PROJECTS
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Sheffield Jewish Heritage Walking Trail
The Jewish Community in Sheffield The history of the Jewish community in Sheffield goes back to the beginning of the 18th century. It produced a rich and vibrant heritage and culture which had a determining impact on the social,...
Jews residing in Guernsey 1933–1940
‘You are requested to ascertain the nationality of Jews residing in Guernsey’: analysing an artefact of collaboration from the Channel Island of Guernsey, 1933–1940 Author - Gilly Carr Associate Professor and Academic Director in...
Medieval Lincoln Jews Group
Dr Dean Irwin is currently working with Joshua Outhwaite, Tash Jenman and Luka Liu on a new research initiative to reconstruct the lives of Lincoln’s Jews, employing the extant records. Regular updates from the group can be found on...
Myer Jacobs first Mayor of Taunton
FINDING MYER JACOBS A film made by Vivien and Paul Stewart, prompted by the following essay written by Jane Warner for the JSCN project 'Connecting Small Histories' Bernard Susser* identified that in the 1880s there was a mayor of...
Scottish Jewish Heritage Centre
The Scottish Jewish Heritage Centre is based in Garnethill Synagogue, the first purpose-built synagogue in Scotland and a beautiful Category A listed building in the heart of Glasgow. Our displays show the development and contribution...
Jewish History in Northern Ireland
A project of Belfast Jewish Heritage showcasing aspects of Jewish history in Northern Ireland. This website displays a searchable map of Jewish locations across Northern Ireland. ...
Welsh Jewish Heritage Centre
It is expected that the Welsh Jewish Heritage Centre will convey the life and contribution of the Welsh Jewish community and this will cover its history; religious, educational and social activities; Jewish culture and values; Jewish...
BFI Jewish Britain on Film
Jewish life on screen: a century of insights and hidden histories.This collection uncovers insights, injustices and hidden histories across a century of Jewish life on British screens. It brings together documentary and first-person...
Jewish Heritage Europe (UK)
The Survey of the Jewish Built Heritage in the UK and Ireland, begun in 1997, recorded more than 350 synagogues and Jewish sites that date from before World War II This website includes regularly updated news on UK Jewish Heritage...
Licoricia of Winchester
Licoricia of Winchester: The Jewish businesswoman who funded the rebuilding of Westminster Abbey Licoricia has been described by Robert Stacey as ‘the most important Jewish woman in medieval England’. The sculpture will be a beautiful...
South Wales Jewish Memorials WW1
Jewish Memorials to the First World War in south Wales In the first months of the First World War, the South Wales Daily News printed a page of photographs every day showing the latest developments in the war, in particular focusing...
Insiders Outsiders
Insiders/Outsiders is a nationwide arts festival paying tribute to the indelible contribution of the artists, photographers, writers, architects, designers, actors, film-makers, dancers and musicians, as well as art historians, dealers...
Records of Jewish refugees
World Jewish Relief can help you discover your Jewish genealogy with free access for family members to the records of Jewish refugees we helped in the 1930s and 40s. These include many of the 10,000 children who came on the...
Our Hidden Histories : Sandy Row
Sandys Row Synagogue was founded in 1854 by Dutch immigrants from Amsterdam and is now London’s oldest Ashkenazi Synagogue and the last still functioning in Spitalfields, in the heart of the former Jewish East End.The Hidden Histories...
Merseyside Jewish Community Archives
Liverpool Record Office holds the archives of the Merseyside Jewish Community from the 18th century to the present day. The records are of tremendous significance as the Liverpool community was the first organised Jewish community in...
Jews of the RAF
The archive of the Jewish personnel who died serving in the many RAF commands including Fighter, Transport, Bomber, Coastal, Far East, Ferry and Middle East. Included are ground crew, WAAF’s, air crew, support crew and Special...
Hebrew Collections : British Library
Assembled over the past 250 years first by the British Museum and since 1973 by the British Library, the Hebrew collection comprises holdings of material written and printed in Hebrew characters, ranging from manuscripts copied over...
Cork Jewish Cultural Virtual Walk
Take a look at a virtual walk through the Jewish heritage and history in Cork, Ireland, a city whose only remaining synagogue was closed in 2016 due to the dwindling number of Jews. The Walk, and its web page is a project by the...
Connecting Histories
Britain today is commonly portrayed as a multicultural nation. However, the diverse historical experiences which constitute the story of this ‘new’ Britain are less well known. The history of the West Midlands in the 20th century is...
The Battle of Cable Street
It is 80 years since the Jewish community of East London and its allies blocked the streets in order to prevent Oswald Mosley and his British Union of Fascists marching through. The Fascists were subjected to a humiliating defeat as...
The Maurice Rosenbaum Letters
The Maurice Rosenbaum Letters is a collection of letters written by Maurice Rosenbaum to his friend, Cecil Lubell. The letters are written from Maurice, in London, to Cecil, on the East Coast of America, between 1935 and 1987. They...
Jewish Memory Maps
A digital resource where you can explore former sites of Jewish memory in East London. By 1900 around a hundred thousand Jewish migrants had settled in East London, after fleeing their homelands in Russia and Eastern Europe, following...
Gathering The Voices
Gathering The Voices project has gathered and made available online oral and video testimony from men and women who sought sanctuary in Scotland to escape the racism of Nazi-dominated Europe.Many made remarkable journeys to get to...
Jewish Heritage Centre for Children
Based in Leeds, The Jewish Heritage Centre for Children is a unique facility which brings Jewish history, values and traditions to life for adults and children to experience and enjoy in a fun and entertaining way. With our heritage...
The Jews of Wales: A History
This study of Jews in Wales, by Cai Parry-Jones and published by University of Wales Press, is the first nationwide historical survey of Judaism in Wales since the first Jewish community was established in 1768. Minority groups such as...
Caledonian Jews: A Study of Seven Small Communities in Scotland
This is the first full history of the Jews in Scotland who lived outside Edinburgh and Glasgow. The work focuses on seven communities from the borders to the highlands: Aberdeen, Ayr, Dundee, Dunfermline, Falkirk, Greenock, and...
Lake District Holocaust Project
In 1945 the people of Lakeland welcomed three hundred child Holocaust Survivors into their community. The children were to spend a period of recuperation in the Lakes before setting out on new lives. Arriving in the Lake District was...
The National Archives
We are a non-ministerial department, and the official archive and publisher for the UK Government, and for England and Wales. We are the guardians of over 1,000 years of iconic national documents. We are expert advisers in information...
Jewish Bangor
A map showcasing Llandudno’s Jewish history has been completed by Nathan Abrams,Professor in Film, at Bangor University. “The City of Bangor and surrounding areas have had a rich Jewish history,” said Professor Abrams. “But...
Lincoln Jewish Heritage Trail
Discover Lincoln's exceptional Jewish heritage on a trail through the city taking in its many surviving Medieval Jewish houses. Lincoln is home to three of the five surviving Medieval Jewish houses in England (the other two being in...
Foundation for Jewish Heritage : Sunderland
Sunderland was home to a community primarily descended from Lithuanian Jews who immigrated to the area in the mid to late 19th century. The community reached its zenith in the 1960s of around 1,500 and it played an important part in...
Synagogue in Merthyr Tydfil Wales
Merthyr Tydfil was the industrial powerhouse of Wales in the 19th century and its largest town. There has been a Jewish presence in Merthyr since the 1830s and the construction of the synagogue in the 1870s reflected a community that...
The Hull Jewish Community : Hull History Centre
Over the 300 years since the Jewish community first put down roots at a former Catholic chapel in Posterngate, its presence in Hull has brought a vitality to the city.Sports clubs, drama societies, and welfare organisations established...
East End To Essex
Jewish Migration Routes "Why did we pick Redbridge? I think mainly because there was an established Jewish community. And of course, it was known as Greenbadge Valley. Every other house had a taxi outside. And I just felt at home."...
Witness (Sheffield)
The Witness Project is based at the University of Sheffield’s Department of History. Witness was set up in 2011 by two of the department’s historians, Charles West and Andrew Heath, to collect and preserve Sheffield’s past through the...
JEWISH LIVES, SCOTTISH SPACES: JEWISH MIGRATION TO SCOTLAND, 1880-1950
As Jews in Scotland moved between and within, into and out of local and transnational spaces, the objects they saved, used and created reveal how Jews self-identified as they negotiated issues such as antisemitism, assimilation,...
How to explore the history of a London synagogue and community
This guide will explain how to explore the history of a synagogue and its community. It will describe the research process you might go through and the kinds of sources that will be useful. It also suggests how you might publish the...
Twilight People
Stories of Faith & Gender Beyond the Binary‘Twilight People’ is a landmark project that discovers and celebrates the hidden history of transgender and gender-variant people of faith in the UK past and present. This collection is...
SAMS Roots Project
The SAMS Roots project shares memories and experiences of a selection of members of the St Albans Masorti Synagogue, including what brought them to SAMS. A professional biographer, Caroline Pearce, interviewed 12 members of SAMS and...
Jewish Survivors of the Holocaust
The British Library has launched Jewish Survivors of the Holocaust, an online resource giving worldwide access to 289 audio interviews with Holocaust Survivors.The interviews are a vast collection of powerful accounts of the Holocaust...
Rainbow Jews
Launched in October 2012, Rainbow Jews is a pioneering project that records and showcases Jewish lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) history from the 1950s to today. It captures the voices and experiences of Jewish LGBT...
JEWISH HISTORY ASSOCIATION OF SOUTH WALES
The Jewish History Association of South Wales / Cymdeithas Hanes Iddewig De Cymru (JHASW / CHIDC) was established in January 2018 with the aim to uncover, document, preserve, and share the tangible and intangible cultural heritage of...
Lily’s Legacy
Lily’s Legacy examines how Liberal Judaism embodies the vision of its founders – Lily Montagu, Claude Montefiore and Rabbi Dr Israel Mattuck – both today and throughout its history. It will document, share and celebrate Liberal...
Galkoff’s and the secret life of Pembroke Place
Galkoff's and the Secret Life of Pembroke Place is an exhibition at the Museum of Liverpool, in partnership with Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM). It is also the culmination of research, archaeological digs, a painstaking...
Jewish Gilroes
Lives Behind the StonesThis was a Heritage Lottery funded project with the original aim of preserving records of early burials at the Jewish Gilroes site in response to some worrying signs of subsidence and deterioration of the land....
Sephardi Voices UK
We record and capture the experiences of Jews from the Middle East, North Africa and Iran who settled in the UK. We've carried out over 100 interviews to date. Please get in touch if you'd like to share your story, or if you have...
Jewish Voices Leicester
Memories of the Jewish Community in Leicester during the 1940s and 50s. Throughout the summer of 2008, 70 people, who formed part of Leicester’s Jewish population back in the 1940s and 50s, delved into their memories, raided attics and...
Shalom Sussex
Shalom Sussex – The Jewish Community in WWI will profile the contribution Jewish people in Sussex made during the First World War – both on the home-front and abroad on the battlefield. Jewish people make up a small part of the Sussex...
Jewish Heritage in Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland is an increasingly multicultural society today, but as a country so strongly associated with Christian denominational conflict, the existence of non-Christian groups has, until recently, been largely neglected by Irish...
Parkes Library
The Parkes Library was established by James Parkes, a tireless campaigner against anti-Semitism, and is a major resource for the study of Jewish/non-Jewish relations across the ages. The focus of the collection is the relationship...
Southampton Anglo-Jewish Archive
The Anglo-Jewish Archives Division at Southampton University has more than 850 collections of manuscripts of Anglo-Jewish archives. This makes Southampton an important centre in Western Europe for the study of Anglo-Jewish history in...
Weiner Holocaust Library
The Wiener Holocaust Library is one of the world's leading and most extensive archives on the Holocaust and Nazi era. Formed in 1933, the Library's unique collection of over one million items includes published and unpublished works,...
Lost Jews
Throughout 2019 and 2020, supported by The National Lottery Heritage Fund, Discovering & Documenting England’s Lost Jews explored and documented the hidden histories of the Sephardi Jews, who came to England during the 17th century and...
Hidden Treasures
Hidden Treasures is a celebration of Jewish archives in Britain. We showcase collections from across the UK that tell the story of Jews and their experiences in Britain. We also help communities and individuals discover and preserve...
British Jews in the First World War
We Were There Too is a unique cross community project created to capture, record and preserve the impact, experience and contribution of Britain's Jewish communities during the First World War era.At the centre of the project is this...
Jewish Leicester
In 2015, the Leicester Hebrew Congregation was awarded a first round grant by The Heritage Lottery Fund to preserve, celebrate and share Leicester’s rich Jewish heritage. The Leicester Hebrew Congregation Synagogue has been used by the...
We Make Our Histories
We Make our Histories is a project exploring the heritage and history of the Jewish community in the UK. It brings together people from different generations to have conversations and encounters that will be recorded and documented and...
Jewish Heritage Days B’nai B’rith
Each year, since 2000, theJewish Culture and Heritage Days in the UK have been organised. These events take place in September and are held all over the country as part of the European Days of Jewish Culture & Heritage which take...
Willesden Cemetery House Life
Willesden Cemetery is London’s pre-eminent Victorian Jewish cemetery containing 29,800 graves dating back to 1873. It is the only Jewish cemetery on the Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England. Funerary...
Manchester Jewish Museum
Building work has now started on our new museum, opening in 2021. This means the museum site is currently closed. Our ‘pop-up’ museum in Manchester Central Library has now also temporarily closed. We will open the ‘pop-up’ museum as...
Jewish Country Houses
‘Jewish Country Houses – Objects, Networks, People’ is a 4-year research project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council which aims to establish 'Jewish' country houses - properties that were owned, built or renewed by Jews...
Jewish Museum London
Jewish Museum London tells the story of the history and heritage of Jews in Britain through universal themes of migration, family, faith and culture. We exist for all people from all backgrounds and celebrate diversity in all its...
JEWISH HERITAGE UK
Jewish Heritage UK is dedicated to caring for the historic synagogues and cemeteries of Britain’s Jewish community. The Ark at Britain's oldest synagogue, Bevis Marks in the City of London, opened in 1701. After over 350 years of...
Co-curate Newcastle
Co-Curate is a community website which brings together online collections, museums, universities, schools and community groups to make and re-make stories and images from North East England and Cumbria....
Scottish Jewish Archive
Founded in 1987 and based in Garnethill Synagogue in Glasgow (Scotland's oldest), the Scottish Jewish Archives Centre aims to document and illustrate the religious, organisational, social, economic, political, cultural and family life...
Jewish Heritage in Britain and Ireland
An Architectural Guide Paperback by Sharman Kadish 2015 Britain's tiny Jewish community (about 263,000 people) is the oldest non-Christian minority in the country. In 1656 Jews returned to England after an absence of nearly 400 years...
Lahav Jewish Heritage Project
Celebrating the history of the Jewish Community in North East England in memory of Ron and Kath Lahav. Newcastle Libraries and Tyne and Wear Archives and Museums are collaborating on a joint project. To collect, preserve and celebrate...
Oxford Jewish Heritage Committee
Our project aims to raise the profile of the history of Jews in Oxford from earliest records through to the modern day. The Jews first arrived in Oxford from France in 1070s and soon developed a thriving community in the city and its...
JCR-UK hosted Cemetery databases
The general JCR-UK Database is the ALL-UK Database, which contains more than 390,000 records relating to Jews in the United Kingdom, Ireland and Gibraltar. In addition, the following separate databases are hosted by JCR-UK: – All...
Harris House diary Southport
KINDERTRANSPORT HOSTEL FOR GIRLS December 1938 saw 19 Jewish girls arrive in the resort after escaping Nazi persecution from across Germany and Austria. They came to Britain through the Kindertransport, a rescue mission that saved more...
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