"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 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 ...
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 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 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 charity hightlights the problems of poverty faced by Jewish ...
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 century Birmingham. We know it was used for worship in 1779 ...
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. ...
Christadelphian Hostel
This document shows an example of different religious communities connecting with one another to find support in a moment of crisis. Here, we find Birmingham Christadelphians coming to the aid of the ...
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. ...