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 …
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 allow us to store and display their stories to ensure that they are available …
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 from Jewish survivors living in Britain and that now, thanks to this new project, have been …
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 people in the UK through oral histories and archive creation. The diverse materials will …
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 the Jewish communities of south Wales. Histories of the Jewish communities of south …
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 Judaism’s rich heritage as well as its contribution to British society, while preserving our …
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 conservation project and the assistance of more than 70 volunteers.At the heart of the …
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. The project developed into cataloguing the entire Jewish Cemetery so that the …
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 resources or events you’d like us …
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 blew the dust from their photograph albums to create a personal, …
