Title: JEWISH MEDIEVAL BUSINESSWOMAN TO BE CELEBRATED WITH WINCHESTER STATUE Date: 20/04/2019 Category: Miscellaneous Description: Licoricia of Winchester was an outstanding Jewish medieval businesswoman. To mark the importance of the Jewish community in historic Winchester, and the role of its women, a statue of her is to b...
Title: JTrails Presents the History of Mirabel of Gloucester Date: 10/09/2017 Category: Miscellaneous Description: On Tuesday, JTrails Director, Marcus Roberts, presented a talk on 'Mirabel of Gloucester and the Jewish history of Gloucester', as part of the Gloucester History festival. The talk, attended by 140 pa...
Title: JTrails Leads Jewish Tours of Lincoln and Celebrates Conclusion of Lincoln HLF Project. Date: 03/09/2017 Category: Miscellaneous Description: On the 3rd and 12th of September, JTrails Director, Marcus Roberts, lead two groups on walking tours of Lincoln, to celebrate the European Days of Jewish Heritage and the Heritage Open Days, respectiv...
Title: JTrails Leads Jewish Tours of Canterbury Date: 27/08/2017 Category: Miscellaneous Description: On Sunday 27th August, JTrails Director, Marcus Roberts, lead a group from Romford Synagogue, on a tour of the Jewish Trail of Canterbury, which included a visit to the historic restored cemetery, the...
Title: JTrails Contributes to Alderney Land Use Plan as Part of Campaign to protect Alderney Sites of Memory. Date: 07/08/2017 Category: Miscellaneous Description: As part of JTrails long-term work to protect 'Sites of Memory' on Alderney - the sites of slave labour camps, key work sites, burial sites and execution sites, we made a formal contribution of the ARU...
Title: Death of David Shentow - Holocaust Survivor Date: 12/06/2017 Category: N/A Description:
It is with sadness we relay the news of the death of David Shentow. I have worked with David Shentow and his wife Rose, in telling his story of survival while he was a captive of the Nazis in a Je...
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