"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 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...

Account of The Life of Jacob Jacobs (2)

Account of the Life of Jacobs Jacobs (1)

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 Hebrew Philanthropic Society

This image displays the opening minutes of the Birmingham Hebrew Philanthropic Society for the Relief of Indigent Jews. Starting in 1828, this char...

Birmingham Trade Directory 1862

Birmingham's Early Synagogues

Image: An Architectual Drawing of Singer's Hill by Yeovill Thomason. No visual images exist of the very first Jewish synagogue in eighteenth cen...