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1 Late 19th century view of Jewish owned chemist’s shop, Aldgate |
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2 Hyman Weiss’s hairdressing saloon, Aldgate |
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3 J Minsky, tailors’ trimmings, Aldgate. Many immigrant Russian Jews worked in the tailoring trades |
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4 Myer Rose, hatter and tailor, Aldgate |
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5 General store, Aldgate. Note the hoardings with Hebrew writing on them advertising Yiddish newspapers |
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6. I Silkoff, General Store, Aldgate |
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7 David Cohen's closing down sale |
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8 The ‘Sweating Song’, which referred to working conditions in tailoring workshops, many of them Jewish owned and staffed |
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9 A posed photo in a Jewish East End tailoring workshop. |
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10 East End Anarchist leader and German exile Rudolf Rocker with his wife Millie Witkop and comrades
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11 Lithuanian born Aaron Lieberman, resident of Gun Street and founder of the Hebrew Socialist Union |
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12 Front page of the Hebrew Socialist Union pamphlet 1876 |
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13 Interior of Lichtenstein’s carpentry workshop
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14 Executive of the Workers Circle Friendly Society, 136 Brick Lane, Spitalfields |
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15 A group of East End girls dressed up for their Purim party |
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17 Front page of The Jewish World 2nd May 1902 celebrating the opening of a Yiddish theatre in the East End |
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18 Music Hall artist Harry Claff, son of Reverend Moses Claff. Harry Claff’s stage name was ‘The White Knight’. He died in 1943 aged 62
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19 Two Jewish comedians. The one on the left is Max Bacon, music hall artist and drummer with Ambrose and his orchestra |
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20 The 1899 front cover of The Jewish World celebrating the inauguration of the English Zionist Federation. Sir Francis Montefiore is in the chair |
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21 A 1901 letter from Theodore Herzl, founder of Zionism, to Mrs Maurburger of 39 Fashion Street, apologising for not being able to attend a meeting
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22 Saturday 11th July 1915: notice of a special meeting for 'Zionists only' organised by the Association of East London Zionists, 4 Fulbourne Street |
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23 Rabbi Nathan Marcus Adler, Chief Rabbi of the United Synagogue and opponent of East European immigration to the UK |
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24 Lord Nathan Myer Rothschild, banker and philanthropist |
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25 1908 sketch of Leonard Lionel Cohen, banker, philanthropist and President of the Jewish Board of Guardians |
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26 Jews Temporary shelter, 82 Leman Street, London E1. The shelter provided emergency accommodation for destitute Jewish immigrants |
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27 Moshe Kramer – an elderly Jewish immigrant posing as a farmer in an East End photographic studio |
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28 Morris Bilson, posing in an East End photographic studio. Perhaps he had received assistance from the Jewish Board of Guardians? |
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29 Cicely Marie with her grandson |
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30 Abraham Cassel with his parents |
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31 The Reverend Norman Halter, chazzan, mohel and minister of Cannon Street Road synagogue, photographed with pupils |
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32 Advertisement for J Bonn, cook and confectioner, 2 Wentworth Street, London E1. |
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33 A print of a Jewish secondhand boot seller in an East End bazaar – perhaps the forerunner of Petticoat Lane?
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34 The womens’ sitting room in an East End Jewish institution |
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35 38th Battalion of the Royal Fusiliers, raised from East London Jews in World War One. They called themselves 'The Royal Jewsiliers' |
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36 Royal Fusiliers tailoring for the War effort. These tailors refered to themselves as 'The King's own Schneiders'. Schneider is Yiddish for tailor |
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37 More of the King's own Schneiders at work |
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