The Old Jewish Ghetto of Manchester. Expert Guided Tour

Join Ed Glinert, one of the country's leading Jewish historians, on a remarkable historical tour of Jewish Manchester.

Official Manchester Tours 2025. Jewish Manchester Sunday 14 September, 12 noon, from Victoria Station wallmap. Manchester’s Jewish community first appeared in numbers in the late 18th century around the parish church (hmm). Is that the kind of place where a good Jewish boy or girl should live? Well, that was the old town, where everyone lived.
Gradually Manchester Jews began to move north, first to Strangeways (the area, not the prison, you schmerel ), then Cheetham Hill, Hightown, Prestwich and eventually Whitefield. No further north. No Jew has ever crossed the Irwell, just like Moses with the River Jordan. Alright. One or two.
Only London has a bigger Jewish population in Britain than Manchester. But only Manchester has a Torah Street (with its own bacon-curing factory; really!) and a prison built like a mosque in the heart of the ghetto. And that’s apart from a history embracing that rogue Robert Maxwell, the rich-beyond-rich Nathan Meyer Rothschild, and the rabidly irreligious Karl Marx – all Yiddisher fellers. Well, Marx, oh, we'll come to that.

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