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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
