Jewish Heritage Walks Around Bradford
Sunday 16th July
11.-30 a.m.
A guided walking tour of selected Jewish sites of interest is to take place on Sunday 16th July at 11-30 a.m.
This Jewish heritage tour will be conducted by Making Their Mark’s very own historian, Leeds based Nigel Grizzard, and esteemed Manchester based authoress and historian, Sharman Kadish, whose compendium book, the authoritative ‘The Synagogues of Britain and Ireland: An Architectural and Social History ‘ is available to buy online at http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Synagogues-Britain-Ireland-Architectural/dp/0300170513 . It comes highly recommended as both a guide to what is now and what was before, for both contemporary and nostalgic interest.
The tour will last approximatley 2 1/2 hours and will take in the following areas:
Bowland Street
See the full glory of the Norths oldest reform synagogue, Bowland Street. You’ll hear the story of the synagogue, the community and the people who made their homes in Bradford, we’ll also visit Spring Gardens across Manningham Lane, the site of the city’s first Orthodox Synagogue.
Jewish Merchants
Take stride through Little Germany, Bradford’s Historic Merchant Quarter. The early Jewish settlers came from the Ashkenazi lands to work as merchants and middlemen in the textile trade, we will see the warehouses built in the 1870s and learn about the history and the plans for the future for this unique city quarter.
Commerce & Community
Not all the Jews who came to Bradford were the Captains of commerce and industry, infact by the end of the nineteenth century there was a smattering of tailors, teachers, shop keepers, a hawker and even an optician.
Cemetery Monuments
In Bradford’s Jewish Cemeteries there are buried the founding mothers and fathers of the community. Mayors, civic and business leaders, doctors and many people who contributed to the building of Bradford, taking it from a quiet little rural backwater market town, to the “Worstedopolis”, the centre of the world wool trade it became by the end of the nineteenth century.
We’ll tell you their stories about who they were, why they came to Bradford and what they did.
