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Title: ‘The Treasure’ by Sholom Aleichem (1976-77)
Category: Oxford
Description: This was a play first performed by Oxford students in 1970
Category: Oxford
Description: This was a play first performed by Oxford students in 1970
Title: Woodman, Spare that Tree!
Category: Sheerness & Blue Town
Description: To get a flavour of the songs of Henry Russell, the lyrics of 'Woodman, Spare that Tree!' are reproduced below. This song has a suprisingly modern ecological sentiment.
Category: Sheerness & Blue Town
Description: To get a flavour of the songs of Henry Russell, the lyrics of 'Woodman, Spare that Tree!' are reproduced below. This song has a suprisingly modern ecological sentiment.
Title: The White Slave Trade and the Rothschild's 'Fallen Women'
Category: Miscellaneous
Description: In the 19th century and early 20th century, the East End was both a staging post and destination of the international trafficking of many young Jewish girls and women. The girls and women were system...
Category: Miscellaneous
Description: In the 19th century and early 20th century, the East End was both a staging post and destination of the international trafficking of many young Jewish girls and women. The girls and women were system...
Title: THE SYNAGOGUES OF BRIGHTON
Category: Brighton & Hove
Description: In this article Godfrey Gould reviews the fascinating history of the synagogues of Brighton and Hove.
Category: Brighton & Hove
Description: In this article Godfrey Gould reviews the fascinating history of the synagogues of Brighton and Hove.
Title: The Story of Moses Montefiore
Category: Ramsgate
Description: This article briefly tells the story of Moses Montefiore and is by the Montefiore scholar and authority, Dr. Abigail Green.
Category: Ramsgate
Description: This article briefly tells the story of Moses Montefiore and is by the Montefiore scholar and authority, Dr. Abigail Green.
Title: The Mikvaot of Oxford
Category: Oxford
Description: In the annals of Oxford and Oxford University it is extremely difficult to do anything that is either completely original or new. The stones of Oxford do seem to some to have a slightly cynical ‘se...
Category: Oxford
Description: In the annals of Oxford and Oxford University it is extremely difficult to do anything that is either completely original or new. The stones of Oxford do seem to some to have a slightly cynical ‘se...
Title: Sydney Cohen - 'The King of Lampedusa' and Brackley
Category: Brackley
Description:
Category: Brackley
Description:
© Marcus Roberts (2009)
Brackley has a little known link to one of the strangest escapades of the War. In 1941, Sergeant Sydney Cohen, a RAF pilot, quite unwittingly and single-handedly, ca...
Title: Richard Gorer
Category: Miscellaneous
Description:
Category: Miscellaneous
Description:
'Richard Gorer: an Anglo-Jewish Musicologist, Garden Writer and Scholar of Horticulture'
While many may not be familiar with the name of Richard Gorer, thousands already kno...
Title: Reflections on the Oxford Medieval Synagogue
Category: Oxford
Description: One of the known sites of medieval Jewry in Oxford is the location of the synagogue, currently the site of Christ Church, established in 1532 by Henry VIII. I would like to outline the history of the...
Category: Oxford
Description: One of the known sites of medieval Jewry in Oxford is the location of the synagogue, currently the site of Christ Church, established in 1532 by Henry VIII. I would like to outline the history of the...
Title: Oxford Jews and Enigma Code Breaking at Bletchley Park
Category: Oxford
Description: Some of Oxford's resident Jewish community provided an unusual contribution to the war effort. A number of Oxford Jews were recruited to work at the Bletchley Park Government Code and Cipher School, d...
Category: Oxford
Description: Some of Oxford's resident Jewish community provided an unusual contribution to the war effort. A number of Oxford Jews were recruited to work at the Bletchley Park Government Code and Cipher School, d...
Title: Nathaniel Isaacs - Explorer and a Founder of Natal
Category: Canterbury
Description: Nathaniel Isaacs (1808-1872) is an undeservedly neglected historical figure - as an explorer he was one of the first white men on the African continent in the 1820s and 30s. He also wrote an important...
Category: Canterbury
Description: Nathaniel Isaacs (1808-1872) is an undeservedly neglected historical figure - as an explorer he was one of the first white men on the African continent in the 1820s and 30s. He also wrote an important...
Title: Murder at the Tower in Gloucester
Category: Gloucester
Description: The following resources are new translations from records in Latin held at the National Archives. They throw light on the murder of Solomon Turbe at Gloucester Castle through legal documents of the t...
Category: Gloucester
Description: The following resources are new translations from records in Latin held at the National Archives. They throw light on the murder of Solomon Turbe at Gloucester Castle through legal documents of the t...
Title: Lady Montefiore's Cookbook, 1846
Category: Ramsgate
Description: In 1846 a kosher cookery book appeared, discreetly credited to the editorship of 'a Lady'. Research in Ramsgate has now revealed that the authoress was no less than Lady Judith Montefiore herself. T...
Category: Ramsgate
Description: In 1846 a kosher cookery book appeared, discreetly credited to the editorship of 'a Lady'. Research in Ramsgate has now revealed that the authoress was no less than Lady Judith Montefiore herself. T...
Title: Jews and Transport
Category: Miscellaneous
Description:
Category: Miscellaneous
Description:
(A brief survey of the involvement of individual Jews in the history of transport.)
The notion of ‘Jews and Transport’, may, on first reflection, invoke a particularly barren set of conno...
Title: Jews and the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
Category: Miscellaneous
Description: In September 2004, a substantial contribution to Anglo-Jewish biographical compilation was made by the publication of the new Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (“Oxford DNB”), which has full...
Category: Miscellaneous
Description: In September 2004, a substantial contribution to Anglo-Jewish biographical compilation was made by the publication of the new Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (“Oxford DNB”), which has full...
Title: Jews and the British Broadcasting Corporation (1922-1953)
Category: Miscellaneous
Description: The British Broadcasting Company was formed in October 1922, and incorporated on 1 January 1927. The most casual listener or viewer will have been apprised of the contribution made in recent decades b...
Category: Miscellaneous
Description: The British Broadcasting Company was formed in October 1922, and incorporated on 1 January 1927. The most casual listener or viewer will have been apprised of the contribution made in recent decades b...
Title: Jewish learning in medieval Oxford - the dynasty of Moses of Oxford.
Category: Oxford
Description: While Jews were entirely excluded from membership of the University in the Middle Ages, the Oxford Jewry was noted for its considerable Jewish learning and scholarship.
Category: Oxford
Description: While Jews were entirely excluded from membership of the University in the Middle Ages, the Oxford Jewry was noted for its considerable Jewish learning and scholarship.
Title: HENRY RUSSELL AND LIFE ON THE OCEAN WAVE AT SHEERNESS
Category: Sheerness & Blue Town
Description: Henry Russell (1812-1900) was born in the Jewish community in Sheerness and was a prolific and talented song-music writer, of a claimed eight hundred melodies. He was also a successfull singer and pia...
Category: Sheerness & Blue Town
Description: Henry Russell (1812-1900) was born in the Jewish community in Sheerness and was a prolific and talented song-music writer, of a claimed eight hundred melodies. He was also a successfull singer and pia...
Title: Henry Hart, Philanthropist and Three Times Mayor of Canterbury
Category: Canterbury
Description: Henry Hart (1833-1921) was an archetypal Jewish success story of the 19th century and embodied all of the virtues that were admired in Victorian public figures. He was a philanthropist and public ser...
Category: Canterbury
Description: Henry Hart (1833-1921) was an archetypal Jewish success story of the 19th century and embodied all of the virtues that were admired in Victorian public figures. He was a philanthropist and public ser...
Title: GL Michel & Sons a Jewish Leather Company
Category: Northampton
Description: GL Michel & Sons was founded by George Leopold Michel in c.1858. After moving from London, he set up business in No. 37, Newlands, Northampton, living 'over the shop' in an 18th C. stone house, with ...
Category: Northampton
Description: GL Michel & Sons was founded by George Leopold Michel in c.1858. After moving from London, he set up business in No. 37, Newlands, Northampton, living 'over the shop' in an 18th C. stone house, with ...
Title: Dover - The Wreck of the WA Sholten
Category: Dover
Description: In November 1887 the passenger ship, the W.A.Sholten, was making passage, apparently from Holland to America, when it was lost off Dover with the loss of many lives including seven Jewish victims who ...
Category: Dover
Description: In November 1887 the passenger ship, the W.A.Sholten, was making passage, apparently from Holland to America, when it was lost off Dover with the loss of many lives including seven Jewish victims who ...
Title: A Disgraceful Exhibition at Canterbury Jewish Cemetery 1863
Category: Canterbury
Description: It is strangely reassuring that Jewish communities of the past were quite as capable of falling into acrimonious dispute with one another as they are today.
Canterbury was no exception and in 186...
Category: Canterbury
Description: It is strangely reassuring that Jewish communities of the past were quite as capable of falling into acrimonious dispute with one another as they are today.
Canterbury was no exception and in 186...
One of the leading medieval communities in England, Northampton's Jews were given the boot in 1290. However, seven centuries later they would return to give the boot to Northampton. Read More
