May
6
Mon
May 6 @ 12:00 – 16:00
Open Day celebrations marking the 150th anniversary of the Manchester Jewish Museum’s Spanish & Portuguese synagogue, which was inaugurated on May 6, 1874. NOTE: Fully bookedt already.
As part of the open day, there will be the launch of a new exhibition about the history of synagogue and its communities which will run for several months.
The exhibition focuses in part on several personalities and families. They include one of the founders of our synagogue, Moses Ben Messulam, who was born in Constantinople in 1829 and was one of the earliest Sephardi migrants to visit Manchester in the 1840s. He was at the first meeting about the establishment of our synagogue in 1872.
Another key figure was Ezra Altaras, who came to England from Syria, in 1874. Ezra was president of the synagogue three times and was very active in communal affairs. When he died in 1913, his wife, Maude, donated a beautiful round stained-glass window to the synagogue.
May
19
Sun
The Together Plan is running a 36-hour crowd-funding campaign May 19-20 to finance the co structure of a Holocaust memorial at the Jewish cemetery in Brest, Belarus.
Click on the link to sign up : https://www.charityextra.com/thetogetherplan/signup
May
24
Fri
An annual event aimed at raising awareness of the importance of significant cemeteries. Exhibitions, concerts, guided tours, seminars, workshops and other activities take place.
It is organised by the Association of Significant Cemeteries in Europe.
To date, not many Jewish cemeteries are part of the Association — but there are many significant Jewish cemeteries.
May
28
Tue
May 28 @ 18:30 – 19:30
A presentation on the initiative to build a new Moravian Jewish Museum in Brno, Czech Republic.
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