An Autonomous Community in Georgian London: The Sephardim & their Welfare

Ali Erginsoy tells the hidden story of the Portuguese Jewish community in Hanoverian London, as they strove to maintain their independence.
About this Event

Curious Histories is delighted to present a previously untold tale of East London's Sephardic population in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Using much original archive material, Ali Erginsoy brings to light the inner workings of a disapora community as it struggled to maintain its cohesion and administer a novel system of poverty relief entirely separate to the statutory poor law.

We're asking for a small donation to attend the lecture, but all proceeds will go to help the charity work of the Pituitary Foundation. A few days before 8th May, you will receive an email that will give you the Zoom link and instructions to join the event. If you have any queries you can contact the organiser on our facebook page.

Our speaker:
Ali Erginsoy is an independent scholar based in Edinburgh. After a career in journalism at the BBC, he completed an MA in local history at the Open University and will presently be starting a PhD. Outside of his academic research, Ali is a trustee of A Nação Hebraica (SCIO), an educational charity that uses machine learning software to help transcribe and publish early modern manuscript sources relating to the western Sephardic diaspora.