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 addition to Winchester in its own right, acting as a gateway to medieval Winchester, its …
by Hilary Thomas My dear friend Corinne Eventhall, who passed away in 2003, had a strong connection with the St Annes community, but I had no idea of that when first I started working on this project. Thanks to her son David, I discovered that her father Philip played a …
My research for Connecting Small Histories, on musicians at Eastbourne’s Grand Hotel, led to a poignant story of the Holocaust and a Dutch Jewish family – writes Anne Krisman Goldstein… The Grand Hotel’s first musical director in 1903 was the virtuoso violinist, Herr Von Leer, the Viennese professional name of Simon Van …
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 upon recruiting across south Wales. A month after Britain’s …
As part of our research into Sunderland and inspired by the discovery of a short piece of silent film dating to the early 1960s, now held in the North East Film Archive (NEFA), volunteers Rachel Lewis and Trish Skinner hosted an online event. This brought together the film-maker’s son-in-law, Peter …
St Annes on Sea, part of England’s Fylde coast, was a popular holiday resort for Jewish families. During the Second World War it became home for many of them. As early as 1912 several Sephardi merchants from Manchester settled in the town and established a small congregation under the Presidency …
Here is a tribute to some of the Jewish performers in Eastbourne, linked with the Jewish Small Communities Network’s Lottery funded project on ‘Connecting Small Histories’.I’ll See You In My Dreams’ was the signature tune of the 1930s Cecil Sapseid and his Savona Dance Band and ‘Eleven More Months’ a …
The research of one of our volunteers, Hilary Thomas, has led to two wartime children meeting up again after 74 years. Both Jonathan’s family and Pauline’s family had moved to St Annes on Sea during the Second World War. Jonathan stayed with Pauline’s family briefly before he could return with …
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 and publishers, who in fleeing Nazi-dominated Europe in the 1930s so greatly enriched British culture. Running from March 2019 until …
Sedate and sunny Eastbourne has been popular as a holiday destination since the 1860s. This charming seaside resort is less well known for its many Jewish connections. Here I offer the A – Z of Jewish Eastbourne…. ~ Anne Goldstein A lbert Sandler Albert, born Abraham Sandler, directed Eastbourne’s Grand …
