Jewish East End Celebration Society
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The highly regarded Watford Palace Theatre wants your family stories about the Battle of Cable Street for an education programme linked to its forthcoming production of the Merchant of Venice, 1936, which is being set against the backdrop of Oswald Mosley’s thugs’ attempted invasion of the East End and the heroic efforts to keep the Blackshirts out.
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We have had an appeal for information about the ‘Committee of the Linchitzer Benevolent Society’, which was known to exist at least in 1938 and which may have had some links to the New Road synagogue in Mile End.
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Harry Landis, who has died at the age of 90, was a highly regarded actor whose long career brought him widespread acclaim, not least for his glorious portrayal of the horrible Mr Morris in the brilliant television series Friday Night Dinner. In 2013, he wrote a wonderful account of his early life and career for the JEECS magazine The Cable. Here it is below, just as it appeared in the magazine, as a tribute to a great East Ender who will be much missed.
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The remarkable story of Jewish East Ender and war hero Jack Nissenthall deserves to be more widely known. And, thanks to a recent book by his daughter Linda Nissen Samuels and an exhibition put on by Hillingdon Council, it will be.
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For over 70 years the Brady Boys’ and Girls’ Clubs provided community, friendship and mentoring to thousands of Jewish youth in the East End of London. It was a place where life-long relationships were made, where young people stepped out of underprivileged and often difficult circumstances and were supported to follow their dreams.
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Do you have information about the former Commercial Road synagogue or Israel Cohen, one of its founders? Joshua Jacobs, one of Israel's descendants, would love to hear from you.
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Can you help in uncovering information aboiut Adam Zahn, who lived in Bethnal Green in the early 1900s and owned a bakery?
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The saga of England’s so-called Jew Law of 1753, made law and then repealed within six months, is a little known episode in Anglo-Jewish history that nonetheless has considerable resonance today.
It has now been brought into sharp focus in the latest book by East End born and bred Yoel Sheridan, (whom East End contemporaries may remember as Julius Shrensky, the name he was known by in his earlier years).
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Born in Bristol but brought up in the East End, the multi-talented Isaac Rosenberg has been unduly neglected. Two of his biographers, Jean Liddiard and Jean Moorcroft Wilson, wrote articles for The Cable, the JEECS magazine, in 2006 and 2008 respectively aiming to redress the balance. Both are fascinating reads, and are now here on our website to mark the anniversary of his birth in 1890.
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We have a fascinating guided walk on Sunday November 21 commemorating the great East End war poet and artist Isaac Rosenberg. The date is the closest Sunday to the anniversary of his birth in 1890.
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The revitalisation of Petticoat Lane, London’s oldest Sunday street market still in operation, continues apace with the unveiling next week of the community banners, commemorating many aspects of market life, along Wentworth Street and into Middlesex Street.
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Petticoat Lane, on the edge of the East End, is London’s oldest existing Sunday street market. Over many decades, it played an important part in the life of Jewish London.