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Title: Juleta ('Ditta') Michel
Category: Northampton
Description: Ditta Michel (1869-1941) was the first born of GL Michel. She originally worked as a bookkeeper but she then opened 'Miss Michel's Typewriting School' in 1892, when she introduced typewriting to Nort...
Category: Northampton
Description: Ditta Michel (1869-1941) was the first born of GL Michel. She originally worked as a bookkeeper but she then opened 'Miss Michel's Typewriting School' in 1892, when she introduced typewriting to Nort...
Title: Jack Michel and England's 'Manhattan Project'
Category: Northampton
Description: Jack Michel, the eldest son of Leon Michel, trained as an actuary and as a statistician. He also had a sound scientific skills and was recruited by the government on the early stages of the atom bomb...
Category: Northampton
Description: Jack Michel, the eldest son of Leon Michel, trained as an actuary and as a statistician. He also had a sound scientific skills and was recruited by the government on the early stages of the atom bomb...
Title: ISAAC BEN PEREZ OF NORTHAMPTON
Category: Northampton
Description: Isaac Ben Perez was a notable 13th century medieval Scholar from Northampton, whose opinions were highly regarded in his day and some of which still survive.
Category: Northampton
Description: Isaac Ben Perez was a notable 13th century medieval Scholar from Northampton, whose opinions were highly regarded in his day and some of which still survive.
Title: George Leopold Michel
Category: Northampton
Description: George Leopold Michel (1835-1911) was the founder of the modern Jewish community and congregation and one of the founders of the modern boot and shoe industry in Northampton.
Category: Northampton
Description: George Leopold Michel (1835-1911) was the founder of the modern Jewish community and congregation and one of the founders of the modern boot and shoe industry in Northampton.
Title: Elizabeth Michel
Category: Northampton
Description: Mrs Elizabeth Michel 1842-1925)was born Elizabeth Harris, in Oxford in 1842 to Jewish parents born in England. Her father was Wolf Harris, a new and second hand clothes dealer, at 54 St Ebbe's, in Ox...
Category: Northampton
Description: Mrs Elizabeth Michel 1842-1925)was born Elizabeth Harris, in Oxford in 1842 to Jewish parents born in England. Her father was Wolf Harris, a new and second hand clothes dealer, at 54 St Ebbe's, in Ox...
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
