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"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 Jewish community. His arguments were remarkable not just ...

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 twentieth century. This is an article by Maurice Ludmer, in ...

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 Hebrew Congregation. He was president of its council between ...

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) dated 1826. It displays a list of members, who have decided ...

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 engage with social debate. The mission of this society ...

Arts and Charities

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

Arts and Charities

Image: Jenny Lind Historical sources show that in the Birmingham Jewish community, drama, literature, music and the arts have always been integral. As well as an important form of self expression, ...

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 in the 1930's? This newspaper article features the profoundly ...

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 sanctuaries for refugees was a house on Duchess Road, Edgbaston, ...

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 one of the first published accounts of Jewish life in Birmingham. ...

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. This is an important piece of evidence. It proves that ...

Education, Rights and Resistance

Image: Birmingham's Hebrew School (Cornish's Guide to Birmingham and its Manufactories, 1856. Local Studies and Archives) The quest for Jewish rights and education played an important role in the ...

Engraving of Singer's Hill Interior

The Midland Illustrated News (1869). After the Severn Street Synagogue would come the famous Singer's Hill Synagogue, opened in 1856. The architect Yeoville Thomson was commissioned for the design. ...

Faiths, Journeys, Jewels: Jacob Jacobs and Birmingham

[Submitted by Dr Andy Green] Introduction: Rediscovering the Past From a sign on a wall, it is sometimes possible to uncover a whole history. Buildings that we walk past every day can often hold ...

Fighting Prejudice

In the twentieth century, the 'Birmingham Hebrew Congregation' of Singer's Hill faced a humanitarian crisis- the rise of Hitler and the Nazi party in Germany. In WWII, Hitler's brutal regime would ...

Finding Refuge

It has been estimated that Birmingham received approximately 700 Jewish refugees between 1933 and 1945.There are a number of different archive sources and historical accounts to help us get a better understanding ...

Inside Singer's Hill Synagogue Today

Photograph of Singer's Hill Today (taken by Brigitte Windsor) This contemporary image of Singer’s Hill shows how little it has changed since the nineteenth century. The synagogue, built in 1856, ...