Would you like to know more about the communities where your family once lived? This article looks at some of the historical sources used for family history, which can also be used to explore places in past times, and maybe even lead to a one-place study. One Place Study: Batley – Family Tree Magazine […]
The Making Their Mark Project has been featured in Who Do You Think You Are? Magazine (February 2014) which covers aspects of family history. The piece written by Benjamin Dunn examines Bradford’s Jewish history, covering the three main phases of Jewish migration to the city, 1830s, 1880s and 1930s. There is also a podcast from […]
What occupations and professions were there among the Bradford’s Jewish Community during the Victorian age? Writer and genealogist Benjamin Dunn examines the working life of the communities Jewish past. At the high end of the social scale there were the wealthy German merchants who arrived in the first wave of immigration from the 1830s until […]
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The deconsecration ceremony of the Bradford Hebrew Congregation happened on 7th April 2013 (27 Nissan, 5773). After 125 years, 43 of them on this site on Springhurst Road in Shipley, the Synagogue and congregation itself, was wound up. This footage is the last testament, the final set of prayers, a document to show that this […]
