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Title: Tamar Yellin
Category: Bradford
Description: Tamar Yellin, children's author and writer talks about her Bradford Jewish connection. (Interview David David)
Category: Bradford
Description: Tamar Yellin, children's author and writer talks about her Bradford Jewish connection. (Interview David David)
Title: Stephen Fry
Category: Miscellaneous
Description: An emotional Stephen Fry had tears rolling down his cheeks as he retraced his Jewish roots in the BBC series Who Do You Think You Are?
Category: Miscellaneous
Description: An emotional Stephen Fry had tears rolling down his cheeks as he retraced his Jewish roots in the BBC series Who Do You Think You Are?
Title: Rudi Leavor
Category: Bradford
Description: Ruid Leavor recounts his escape from Nazi Berlin to Bradford with his family. (Interview and photograph David David)
Category: Bradford
Description: Ruid Leavor recounts his escape from Nazi Berlin to Bradford with his family. (Interview and photograph David David)
Title: Roy Stroud OBE
Category: Bradford
Description: Roy Stroud OBE, recalls how his grandfather was the first Bradford Rabbi and his family's work in the famous Bradford textile industry.
Category: Bradford
Description: Roy Stroud OBE, recalls how his grandfather was the first Bradford Rabbi and his family's work in the famous Bradford textile industry.
Title: Rachel Goulcher
Category: Bradford
Description: Rachel Goulcher gives her experiences of living in Bradford
Category: Bradford
Description: Rachel Goulcher gives her experiences of living in Bradford
Title: Rachel
Category: Bradford
Description: Rachel, a teacher, talks about her Bradford Jewish connection. (Interview and Photograph, David David)
Category: Bradford
Description: Rachel, a teacher, talks about her Bradford Jewish connection. (Interview and Photograph, David David)
Title: Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook
Category: Oxford
Description: Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook was born in Griva, Latvia in 1865. In 1904, he moved to Ottoman Palestine to assume the rabbinical post in Jaffa. The outbreak of the First World War caught him in Europe, and...
Category: Oxford
Description: Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook was born in Griva, Latvia in 1865. In 1904, he moved to Ottoman Palestine to assume the rabbinical post in Jaffa. The outbreak of the First World War caught him in Europe, and...
Title: Nigella Lawson
Category: Miscellaneous
Description: She may by a ‘domestic goddess’, and daughter of a former Chancellor, but for all her charm and class, Nigella Lawson is descended from a petty thief.
Category: Miscellaneous
Description: She may by a ‘domestic goddess’, and daughter of a former Chancellor, but for all her charm and class, Nigella Lawson is descended from a petty thief.
Title: Mr and Mrs Dyson
Category: Bradford
Description: Mr and Mrs Dyson tell David David about their memories of living in Bradford.
(Interview and Photograph David David)
Category: Bradford
Description: Mr and Mrs Dyson tell David David about their memories of living in Bradford.
(Interview and Photograph David David)
Title: Lady Margaret Kagan
Category: Bradford
Description: Lady Margaret Kagan, wife of the late Sir Joseph Kagan, who was close to Prime Minister Harold Wilson in the 1970s, tells how she and Joseph escaped the Holocaust and came to Bradford and how her husb...
Category: Bradford
Description: Lady Margaret Kagan, wife of the late Sir Joseph Kagan, who was close to Prime Minister Harold Wilson in the 1970s, tells how she and Joseph escaped the Holocaust and came to Bradford and how her husb...
Title: Karen Garrad
Category: Bradford
Description: Karen Garrad recalls a more recent Jewish connection with Bradford
Category: Bradford
Description: Karen Garrad recalls a more recent Jewish connection with Bradford
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: James Joseph Sylvester
Category: Oxford
Description: James Joseph Sylvester was born 3 Spetember, 1814, in London, as James Joseph, and was an English Mathematician. He added the name Sylvester when his brother emigrated to the USA requiring a proper su...
Category: Oxford
Description: James Joseph Sylvester was born 3 Spetember, 1814, in London, as James Joseph, and was an English Mathematician. He added the name Sylvester when his brother emigrated to the USA requiring a proper su...
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: Irene Silver
Category: Bradford
Description: Irene Silver recalls being brought up in Bradford and her son Jonathan's connection with artist David Hockney and his role in the founding of the Hockney Gallery at Salt Mills. The cover photo shows ...
Category: Bradford
Description: Irene Silver recalls being brought up in Bradford and her son Jonathan's connection with artist David Hockney and his role in the founding of the Hockney Gallery at Salt Mills. The cover photo shows ...
Title: Herbert Loewe
Category: Oxford
Description: The focal point of Jewish Oxford, from 1920, and indeed its main continuity, was Herbert Loewe (1882-1940), who lived in 29 Beaumont Street. Loewe was a lecturer in Oriental Languages at Exeter Colle...
Category: Oxford
Description: The focal point of Jewish Oxford, from 1920, and indeed its main continuity, was Herbert Loewe (1882-1940), who lived in 29 Beaumont Street. Loewe was a lecturer in Oriental Languages at Exeter Colle...
Title: Henry Winkler
Category: Miscellaneous
Description: Imagine the Fonz putting on his cuppel, lighting his Chanukah lights and singing Ma’oz tsur? Hard huh? But that’s just what Happy Days king of cool was planning to do when he was in London last De...
Category: Miscellaneous
Description: Imagine the Fonz putting on his cuppel, lighting his Chanukah lights and singing Ma’oz tsur? Hard huh? But that’s just what Happy Days king of cool was planning to do when he was in London last De...
Title: Hannah
Category: Bradford
Description: Hannah, daughter of Rachel, talks about her experiences as a young Jewish person in Bradford. (Interview and Photograph, David David)
Category: Bradford
Description: Hannah, daughter of Rachel, talks about her experiences as a young Jewish person in Bradford. (Interview and Photograph, David David)
Title: H.L.A. (Herbert) Hart
Category: Oxford
Description: H.L.A. Hart was born in 1907, the son of a Jewish tailor of Polish and German descent. He was educated at Bradford Grammar School and New College Oxford, where he obtained a brilliant first class in C...
Category: Oxford
Description: H.L.A. Hart was born in 1907, the son of a Jewish tailor of Polish and German descent. He was educated at Bradford Grammar School and New College Oxford, where he obtained a brilliant first class in C...
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: Frank Reiman
Category: Bradford
Description: Frank Reiman recalls his origins in Czechoslovakia and his family connections with the textile industry and his career as a wool merchant (photo shows Frank Reiman with his late wife).
Category: Bradford
Description: Frank Reiman recalls his origins in Czechoslovakia and his family connections with the textile industry and his career as a wool merchant (photo shows Frank Reiman with his late wife).
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...
Title: David Baddiel
Category: Miscellaneous
Description: Comic David Baddiel has revealed how tracing his family tree helped him gain a valuable insight into his Jewish identity.
Category: Miscellaneous
Description: Comic David Baddiel has revealed how tracing his family tree helped him gain a valuable insight into his Jewish identity.
Title: Caprice
Category: Miscellaneous
Description: Given our traditional take on Caprice Bourret – a leggy Los Angeles lovely lounging in lingerie – academia is understandably the last thing we consider when the face of Diet Coke springs to mind.
Category: Miscellaneous
Description: Given our traditional take on Caprice Bourret – a leggy Los Angeles lovely lounging in lingerie – academia is understandably the last thing we consider when the face of Diet Coke springs to mind.
Title: Bernard Manning
Category: Miscellaneous
Description: In an age of political correctness, he may have been reviled as a racist, but Bernard Manning, who died in June 2007, was extremely proud of his Jewish roots.
Category: Miscellaneous
Description: In an age of political correctness, he may have been reviled as a racist, but Bernard Manning, who died in June 2007, was extremely proud of his Jewish roots.
Title: Angie Kotler
Category: Bradford
Description: Angie Kotler recalls her Bradford connection.
Category: Bradford
Description: Angie Kotler recalls her Bradford connection.
Title: AJ Ayer
Category: Oxford
Description: Alfred Jules (Freddie) Ayer was born in 1910 and was a friend and colleague of Sir Isaiah Berlin. He was the only child of a Swiss-French father and a Dutch-Jewish mother.
Category: Oxford
Description: Alfred Jules (Freddie) Ayer was born in 1910 and was a friend and colleague of Sir Isaiah Berlin. He was the only child of a Swiss-French father and a Dutch-Jewish mother.
Title: Adolf Neubauer
Category: Oxford
Description: Adolf Neubauer was born at Bittse, Hungary, 11 March, 1831. He received a thorough education in rabbinical literature, and his earliest contributions were made to the ‘Allgemeine Zeitung des Judenth...
Category: Oxford
Description: Adolf Neubauer was born at Bittse, Hungary, 11 March, 1831. He received a thorough education in rabbinical literature, and his earliest contributions were made to the ‘Allgemeine Zeitung des Judenth...
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
