Sunday September 5^th 10.30 am-5.00 pm

Bnei Brith European Day of Jewish Culture and Heritage

The Museum celebrates this annual event by being open free to the public. The theme this year is “Jewish Artists”. There will be an exhibition outlining the history of Jewish Art with some local examples.

           Manchester Jewish Museum presents…

    Bobbies on the Beat!

An evening of arresting entertainment!

Come and hear the award-winning

Greater Manchester Police

Male Voice Choir, conducted by John Carr.

    On Thursday 2^nd September 2010

Doors open 7.15pm, Performance begins 7.45 pm

       Book now to avoid disappointment!

 Tickets £10

In The Red

Red Bank- A Seedbed of Modernity

Exhibition Open 18^th May- 3rd December 2010

Red Bank was the name given to a small housing complex built at the bottom of Cheetham Hill Road in the 1840s. The development was a disease ridden and over populated slum which provided a place of settlement for poor Eastern European Jewish immigrants.

Red Bank was no bigger than one square mile and yet has a symbolic importance of universal significance.

This exhibition characterises Red Bank as a ‘seedbed’. It was the seedbed of the Jewish community in Manchester in terms of its population, its religious life and its social care system. It was a seedbed of Manchester’s economy through the enterprises of Eastern European Entrepreneurs. The district was also a seedbed of working class radicalism as its residents joined and established trade unions. Red Bank’s influence reached a global stage when it featured in Friedrich Engels’s The Condition of the Working Class in England. Engels later went on to write the Communist Manifesto with Karl Marx; the foundation of European Communism.

From the 1890s the families that settled in Red Bank contributed largely, not only to Manchester’s Jewish history, but to the city’s economic, social and cultural life.

Join Bill Williams and Merton Paul as your Guides

The dates for the Heritage Trail for 2010 are as follows:-

    Sunday 19^th September, Sunday 24^th October

                                                                  Commences 2.00 p.m.

                                              See the trail in the Education Download section of this website

Step into the past with Bill Williams and Merton Paul and let them take you on a walking tour around of the old Jewish Quarter of Cheetham Hill.

Allow them to bring back to life the characters and institutions that made up this once vibrant hub of Jewish activity.

You will learn how the people of this community, often refugees from Eastern Europe, strove to bring up their families, earn a living and establish themselves as part of the fabric of Manchester, without abandoning  the Jewish religious and cultural traditions handed down to them by their ancestors

                                                 £5.25 per Adult       £3.65 Concession         £15.00 Family