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 […]
Dear Friends, Some dates and events for your diary: This Sunday (September 21st) as part of the Heritage Open Days Programme the Bradford Synagogue (7 Bowland Street BD1 3BW) is open from 14.00 – 15.00 and this is a unique chance to see Yorkshire’s oldest purpose built synagogue. At 15.00 there is a guided walk […]
Infiltrating the Israel Free Zone In the wake of the comments of Bradford West M.P. George Galloway and the GallowGate / Galloway-Gate, the following short film has emerged…. Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1sLw-QUj9Y
Friends, we have had so many requests to repeat our tours that we have added the following two events over the Bank Holiday weekend. We look forward to meeting friends old and new, Nigel Grizzard Sunday August 24th Two Jewish Heritage Walking Tours: 11.00 Sunday morning: Leeds City Centre and the Leylands We meet at […]
Sunday July 27th: Bradford’s Historic Synagogues, the Merchants’ Houses and the Kindertransporte Hostel – Visit Yorkshire’s oldest synagogue, see the historic houses in the Manningham area and hear how Jewish Refugees made new homes in Bradford in 1939. Meet at 14.30 at the Bradford Synagogue, Bowland Street, Bradford, BD1 3BW. […]
Picture Source: http://m.jmb.sagepub.com/content/18/3/158/F1.expansion Sir Arthur Hurst was born at 3 Oak Mount, Manningham, where he lived until 1894 when his family moved to Manchester. The family name was Hertz until 1916 when it was changed to Hurst because of the war Germany and the ensuing anti-German feeling. The family was of German-Jewish origin and had […]
