Category: heritage

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 soon as it is safe to do so. In the meantime, …

‘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 – as a focus for research, a site of European memory and a …

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 forms. Our four permanent galleries showcase the vibrancy of Jewish life in …

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 secure settlement unrivalled anywhere in Europe, Britain’s Jewish community, the oldest non-Christian …

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.

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 of Jews in Scotland since the eighteenth century. It provides a research facility and an educational resource for …

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 and the Jewish community has enjoyed a history of continuous settlement in England since …

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 the history of the Jewish community in North East England. Our vision is to …

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 surrounds. They were expelled from Oxford and …