"A Striking Modern Fact"

Image:The Birmingham Post, Rev. Cohen Speech (an extract) 1933. Rev Abraham Cohen gave many memorable and powerful speeches on behalf of the Je...

A Legacy of Anti-Fasicm

Image: Civil Liberties in Britain, (extract) 1965. Jewish activists would continue to play a significant role in Birmingham throughout the twent...

A Nineteenth Century Jewish Obituary

A Jewish Obituary, dated 22/9/75 (newspaper unknown). A. S. Blanckensee was another significant figure of the nineteenth century Birmingham Hebr...

A Record of the Birmingham Hebrew Congregation Council

This is one of the very first entries contained in the archive of the Birmingham Hebrew Congrebation (reference: Birmingham City Archives, JA) date...

Anti-Jewish Conversion Society

A Jewish form of resistance to organisations such as the Birmingham auxillary of the 'Society for Promoting Christianity Amoung the Jews' was to en...

Arts and Charities

Image: Birmingham Jewish Arts Society scrapbook, 1924-1931. Jewish interest in drama, literature and the Arts would countinue in many differnt t...

Arts and Charities

Image: Jenny Lind Historical sources show that in the Birmingham Jewish community, drama, literature, music and the arts have always been inte...

Bearwood Holocaust Survivor

Image: Harry Levine Jewish Community Press Book Cuttings, 1939-42 no 519406. Why was it necessary to offer refuge and work to Jewish migrants i...

Birmingham Council For Refugees

Image:Birmingham Hebrew Congregation Singers Hill Year Book; Annual Report, 31st Dec, 1942. Zoe Josephs has written that one of the first san...

Birmingham Trade Directory 1862

Birmingham's First Jewish Synagogue

William Hutton's 'History of Birmingham' (1780). This interesting description of Birmingham’s first Jewish synagogue is important as it marks on...

Early Jewish Presence In Birmingham

‘A House Inhabited by Jews’ (1750). In one Birmingham’s early ‘levy books’, a number of Jews can be seen living together as early as 1750. T...