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 […]

  Exactly 100 years ago, on the 28th June 1914, an Austrian Arch Duke was assassinated by a young Serbian anarchist. Gavrillo Principe’s shooting of heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, Franz Ferdinand sparked off a chain of events which would include the laying down of many lives, some of which were of young Jewish men […]