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Until 6 January 2025 at the Manchester Jewish Museum To celebrate 150 years, many photos and objects are on display. These include 14 objects from the museum’s collection. The Manchester Jewish Museum, which opened in 1984, is housed in the city’s former Spanish and Portuguese synagogue. The synagogue was opened in 1874 as a result of the growing Sephardic Jewish population in ...
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Until February 2024 at the Manchester Jewish Museum The exhibition “Take a Load Off” offers visitors to the museum a taste of the Sabbath. As a day of rest, a time for gathering, praying, singing, eating and talking together. Every Saturday, the museum offers visitors two special sound installations. The work has been created from oral history clips from the museum’s ...
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With 30000 Jews, Manchester has the highest Jewish population in Great Britain after London. The Jewish presence in Manchester seems to date from the late 18th century, with many of them coming from Liverpool. Its first synagogue was built at this time, under the leadership of the brothers Lemon and Jacob Nathan. It moved to Garden Street in 1794, then to Ainsworth Court in 1806, to Halliwell ...
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