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How useful is the Jewish museum to the historian studying the living and working conditions of Jews in Manchester in the early 20th Century?
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History Coursework Lauren Wood How useful is the Jewish museum to the historian studying the living and working conditions of Jews in Manchester in the early 20th Century? The Jews in Manchester came from Eastern Europe, but the synagogue the museum is set in, was for Spanish and Portuguese Jews in Manchester. The Jews moved to Manchester as Industrialisation was taking place, and they thought that they would have a better life in England. Also at the beginning of the twentieth century, Jews were moving west out of Eastern Europe to avoid poverty and persecution from Nazis. At first, when some of the Jews first came to Manchester, there were just twenty families around the cathedral, and they had got to Manchester buy peddling stuff that they had made and buying and selling cheap second hand stuff. The number of Jews grew slowly and by 1840 there were only three hundred Jews living...
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