Jewish Manchester Tour (on the day the museum reopens). Official MIF walks

Manchester’s Jewish community first appeared in numbers in the late 18th century around the parish church (!). Oy yay, is that the kind of place where a good Jewish boy or girl should live? Well, that was the old town, where people lived.Gradually Manchester Jews began to move north, first to Strangeways (the area, not the Pr*son, you schmerel), then Cheetham Hill, Hightown, Prestwich and eventually Whitefield. No further north. No Jew has ever crossed the Irwell, just like Moses with the Jordan. Alright. One or two.

Only London has a bigger Jewish population in Britain than Manchester. But only Manchester has a Torah Street (with its own bacon-curing factory; really!) and a Pr*son built like a mosque in the heart of the ghetto. And that’s apart from a history embracing that rogue Robert Maxwell, the rich-beyond-rich Nathan Meyer Rothschild, and the rabidly irreligious Karl Marx – all Yiddisher fellers. Well, Marx, oh, we'll come to that.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Victoria Station, Manchester M3 1NY, Victoria Station wallmap, Manchester, United Kingdom