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Title: James Joseph Sylvester
Category: Oxford
Description: James Joseph Sylvester was born 3 Spetember, 1814, in London, as James Joseph, and was an English Mathematician. He added the name Sylvester when his brother emigrated to the USA requiring a proper su...
Category: Oxford
Description: James Joseph Sylvester was born 3 Spetember, 1814, in London, as James Joseph, and was an English Mathematician. He added the name Sylvester when his brother emigrated to the USA requiring a proper su...
Title: Jack Michel and England's 'Manhattan Project'
Category: Northampton
Description: Jack Michel, the eldest son of Leon Michel, trained as an actuary and as a statistician. He also had a sound scientific skills and was recruited by the government on the early stages of the atom bomb...
Category: Northampton
Description: Jack Michel, the eldest son of Leon Michel, trained as an actuary and as a statistician. He also had a sound scientific skills and was recruited by the government on the early stages of the atom bomb...
Title: ISAAC BEN PEREZ OF NORTHAMPTON
Category: Northampton
Description: Isaac Ben Perez was a notable 13th century medieval Scholar from Northampton, whose opinions were highly regarded in his day and some of which still survive.
Category: Northampton
Description: Isaac Ben Perez was a notable 13th century medieval Scholar from Northampton, whose opinions were highly regarded in his day and some of which still survive.
Title: Irene Silver
Category: Bradford
Description: Irene Silver recalls being brought up in Bradford and her son Jonathan's connection with artist David Hockney and his role in the founding of the Hockney Gallery at Salt Mills. The cover photo shows ...
Category: Bradford
Description: Irene Silver recalls being brought up in Bradford and her son Jonathan's connection with artist David Hockney and his role in the founding of the Hockney Gallery at Salt Mills. The cover photo shows ...
Title: Herbert Loewe
Category: Oxford
Description: The focal point of Jewish Oxford, from 1920, and indeed its main continuity, was Herbert Loewe (1882-1940), who lived in 29 Beaumont Street. Loewe was a lecturer in Oriental Languages at Exeter Colle...
Category: Oxford
Description: The focal point of Jewish Oxford, from 1920, and indeed its main continuity, was Herbert Loewe (1882-1940), who lived in 29 Beaumont Street. Loewe was a lecturer in Oriental Languages at Exeter Colle...
Title: Henry Winkler
Category: Miscellaneous
Description: Imagine the Fonz putting on his cuppel, lighting his Chanukah lights and singing Ma’oz tsur? Hard huh? But that’s just what Happy Days king of cool was planning to do when he was in London last De...
Category: Miscellaneous
Description: Imagine the Fonz putting on his cuppel, lighting his Chanukah lights and singing Ma’oz tsur? Hard huh? But that’s just what Happy Days king of cool was planning to do when he was in London last De...
One of the leading medieval communities in England, Northampton's Jews were given the boot in 1290. However, seven centuries later they would return to give the boot to Northampton. Read More
