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 and British historians. Citizens and visitors alike may therefore be unaware that Northern Ireland has a rich Jewish …
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 between the Jewish and non-Jewish communities and its strengths lie in the following areas: Anti-Semitism …
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 the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries and for the relations between Jews and non-Jewish worlds. The Anglo-Jewish …
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 Formed in 1933, the Library’s unique collection of over one million items includes published and unpublished works, press cuttings, photographs and eyewitness testimony. Our vision is of a continuously developing …
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 who remained to enrich England’s culture. We discovered many diffuse strands and the site …
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 their own stories. Hidden Treasures is a project of the Board of Deputies …
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 digital archive and interactive website, which will become a permanent record of the lives …
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 Jewish community for worship and educational purposes since 1897. Currently the building welcomes over …
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 place throughout mainland Europe during the same period. The …
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 buildings, the UK’s first national Jewish war memorial and three tombs were listed Grade II …
