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Category Archives: Jews of England
Wartime London – An Evacuees Memories
Posted by Ann Rabinowitz Gerry Wiseman Shared experiences during World War II in the United Kingdom have produced many reminiscences and memories of that time. One of these, by former Brit Gerry Wiseman of Westminster, Maryland, is to be found … Continue reading
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Ask JewishGen: Onion Boats and Emigration
Posted by Ann Rabinowitz Shirlee Finn, a reader of the JewishGen Blog, sent in the following inquiry which had been puzzling her since childhood: My booba told me that she went to England on an “Onion Boat” way back in … Continue reading
Jewish War Heroes of the British Armed Forces
Posted by Ann Rabinowitz Capt. Sir Alexander Schomberg (1720-1804) Early British Jewish Military Hero (National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Caird Fund) One of the wonderful things about the Internet is that it is always changing and adding new information. Since … Continue reading
British Soldiers of the Great War, 1914-1918
Posted by Ann Rabinowitz After my prior posting on the JewishGen Blog regarding “Fighting Back,” the new book by Martin Sugarman regarding the British Jews’ participation in World War II, I received a message from a reader. She mentioned that … Continue reading
Online British Naturalizations
Posted By Ann Rabinowitz I was writing about an entirely different topic on The Jewish Chronicle Blog when someone asked me about British naturalizations. In responding to their question, I found some interesting data on the UK National Archives site … Continue reading
Fighting Back, British Jewry’s Military Contribution in the Second World War
Posted By Ann Rabinowitz Military history has always fascinated me and now, there is a fine book just out which covers an area of it that I am personally interested in, that of the participation of British Jews in World … Continue reading
Temporary home for key Jewish archive
From the Jewish Chronicle Archives documenting the history of Manchester’s Jewish community have been moved from the central library as part of a four-month transfer of one million books, cleared from over 20 miles of shelves. The process, [completed in … Continue reading
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Walk through York’s Jewish history
From the York Daily Record York’s Jewish history dates back to the community’s earliest days. It was known that a Jewish fur trapper and trader lived in the then-frontier settlement. During the Revolutionary War era, one of the most prominent … Continue reading
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British Military Database – Finding Chelsea Pensioners
Posted By Ann Rabinowitz Jewish 38th Royal Fusiliers Marching Through LondonDaily Mail, February 5, 1918(Courtesy Martin Sugarman, Archivist of the AJEX Jewish Military Museum) The findmypast.com subscription database has announced one of its most significant database additions since the 1911 … Continue reading
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