![Bustling Petticoat Lane in London early in the 20th century](https://www.mmu.ac.uk/sites/default/files/styles/page_header_half/public/2021-04/image-20210426-135450.png?h=602a36b5&itok=e6Iw1Ws8)
Research: Mapping the Jewish history of London and Manchester
Two new websites are helping to preserve and open up the history of Jewish communities in East London and Cheetham Hill in Manchester.
Summary
Research summary
A new approach to presenting the intangible heritage of Jewish communities in London and Manchester is opening up past lives and previously hidden experiences to a new international audience.
Researchers have turned hundreds of archive documents, photos and interviews with current and former local residents into interactive online maps.
The maps capture details about the communities from the Victorian era onwards - through the Second World War and the tumultuous decades that followed it.
Visitors to the sites can access new and previously unseen accounts from people who lived and worked in the two cities and listen to oral history recordings.
The memories and testimony provided are grouped around dozens of prominent locations, helping to bring the past to life for modern audiences.
The Memory Map of the Jewish East End launched in March 2020, and lets visitors explore four themes: business, community, education and religion.
It includes recordings from Dr Lichtenstein’s archive of interviews with former and current Jewish residents of East London, as well as oral testimony from the Sandys Row collection, new and archival photographs, original research, and essays from the Survey of London.
A similar memory map focusing on the former Jewish area of Cheetham Hill in Manchester will launch in October 2021.
A collaboration with the Manchester Jewish Museum and local history expert Dr Ros Livishin, it will include oral testimony gathered in the 1970s and 1980s.
![A map of Whitechapel in London from the mid-twentieth century](https://www.mmu.ac.uk/sites/default/files/styles/16_9_two_column/public/2021-04/Whitechapel%20map.png?h=029cfac6&itok=xvaF7b9z)
Voices from the past
Listen to excerpts from interviews for the London map.Research outputs
Websites
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Memory map of Cheetham Hill, Manchester (launching October 2021)
Team
Research team
London
The project is a collaboration between the artist and writer Dr Rachel Lichtenstein and members of Bartlett Faculty for the Built Environment, University College London:
Manchester
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Dr Rachel Lichtenstein, Manchester Met
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Dr Duncan Hay, UCL
Collaborating with:
Funding
With funding from
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Jewish Historical Society England
Contact
Contact us
For general enquiries about the Religion, Race, Ethnicity and Community research group, please contact its leads, Dr Andrew Crome and Dr Rachel Lichtenstein.