Jewish Manchester: An Illustrated History

Bill Williams

Jewish Manchester: An Illustrated History will narrate and interpret the development of the Jewish community from its foundation in the 1780s to the present day. This will embrace the earliest Jewish settlers (all of them ex-pedlars), immigration from Germany in the early 19th century, from Eastern Europe after 1840, and from Nazi Europe in the 1930s.
The book will seek to emphasise the links between demographic and social change in the evolution of communal intervention in what remains the largest Jewish community in provincial Britain.
The book will be essential reading for everyone who is interested in the Jewish community and in the cultural diversity of Manchester and Britain.

April 2008 • £16.99 • HB • 192pp
260 x 195mm • 300 illus.
ISBN 978 1 85983 615 6

About the Author

BILL WILLIAMS was educated at Stonyhurst College and Trinity College, Cambridge. He has taught in schools and teacher-training colleges in Malaysia, Birmingham, Liverpool and Manchester. He was Director of the Manchester Studies Unit, Manchester Polytechnic 1975-80 and part-time lecturer at the Centre for Jewish Studies at the university from 1980 until retirement in 2006.
Founder of the Manchester Jewish Museum, he is now honorary president and historical adviser to the museum and an honorary fellow of the University.