JEWISH EAST END OF LONDON PHOTO GALLERY & COMMENTARY

London's East End Synagogues, cemeteries and more......

My personal journey through the Jewish East End of London

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A Walk around Jewish Soho in London's West End - can you follow my route?

 

Covent Garden fruit and veg market remembered on the corner of Southampton Street and Henrietta Street - have you ever noticed it?	The plaque was erected by former Covent Garden traders - many of whom were Jewish, including my friend Paul Emanuel of Barnet Emanuel Ltd.
Lithuanian born Zvi Mosheh Skikne is remembered in the Actors' Church in Covent Garden.	The 'Hebrew Comic' is also remembered in this Church. He wasn't Jewish...or was he? At one time the C.I.A. thought he was.

Walk from Covent Garden to Godwins Court.  Walk through to St Martin's Lane and then Charing Cross Road.	Walk up Charing Cross Road and maybe stop for a salt beef sandwich at Gaby's Deli.
Soho Theatre in Dean Street - formerly the West End Great synagogue - now amalgamated with the Western Marble Arch synagogue.	A Mizrach (Google it) inside the former synagogue on the Eastern Wall - a reminder of the theatre's former use.  Climb the stairs to see it..but ask first.
Approaching Soho Square - one of the prettiest and most unexpected open spaces in the West End.	Soho Square - location for Jewish impresarios, producers, directors, synagogues, Jewish charities and more. Bernard Delfont and Michael Balcon had offices here.
Soho hospital for women - many Jewish patients passed through here, including my aunt.	Former Beit HaSepher synagogue, Soho Square.  A mezuzah is still on the front door.
14 Manette Street - West End Talmud Torah and Bikkur Holim synagogue.  It amalgamated with the West End Great synagogue, Dean Street in 1948.	Inside cover West End Talmud Torah and Bikkur Holim synagogue siddur (prayer book).
St Anne's Court - Jewish tailoring workshops once lined this pretty alleyway.  Take a look at Clarion House if you walk through.	A curious plaque on Clarion House, St Anne's Court.  Can anyone shed light on this?
Berwick Street market, Schleppers (women who work the street), dress shops and cloth merchants once lined the street.  A few Jewish traders still remain.	Walker's Court at the bottom of Berwick Street - an interesting place...French model 2nd floor etc...
Peter Street School, off Berwick Street. Before the War the majority of its pupils were Jewish	In 1905 Rachel Isaacs won a prize in Peter Street school's Hebrew school.  I hope she had a good life.
Westminster Jews Free School, Hanway Place.  Closed in 1940 when most of the community had moved away.	Another view of Westminster Jews Free School, Hanway Place.  Well worth the walk!