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, revealing and affectionate community history.
Their task was to contribute to a reminiscence writing project, supported by Heritage Lottery Fund and managed by Writing School Leicester. Through a mixture of writing and photography workshops, plus oral recordings, emails, phone calls and letters, today’s small Leicester UK Jewish community took the project to its heart.
Funny and Tender Stories
With professional writing, photography and editing support to the Jewish community, this revealing project resulted in a fascinating scrapbook of funny and tender personal stories which, taken together, chart many aspects of Jewish social history of the 1940s and 50s.