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 unfortunately, as the community has declined and dissolved, and our high street has been transformed, not …
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 Norwich and Bury St Edmunds), evidence of the prominent Jewish community in …
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 the city helping to found Sunderland University and producing …
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 was growing and prospering. Merthyr Tydfil synagogue is a stone …
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 by Jewish residents have contributed much to the cultural life of the city, …
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.” Eastside Community Heritage have completed a project, recording the experiences …
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 medium of oral history. The interviews are carried out by trained history …
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, cultural loss, memory and the Holocaust, nationalism and belonging. The materiality of such Scottish Jewish …
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 history of a synagogue.
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 the first source of faith and transgender history in Britain. The project explores the …
