January 2025

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Sunday 12 January 2025 • Start at 15:00:

Klezmer concert by Klezmerish.

Classically trained musicians Concettina Del Vecchio, Thomas Verity, Rob Shepley and Marcel Becker who

met whilst playing with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra will perform a very special concert with

guest vocalist Darren Abrahams. Klezmer-ish, drawing inspiration from the music of bygone travellers, will

take their audience on a seamless musical journey, always on the move with their trademark twist to whatever

genre takes their fancy and with an informal performance style that has proved to be an enormous hit with

their audiences. The concert will feature a brand-new arrangement of "Rhapsody on Moldavian Themes"

alongside other works from Klezmerish’s new CD ‘Echoes Across Borders’.

(Princes Road Synagogue)

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Monday 13 January 2025 • Start at 14:15:

Artisans, Jewellers and Watchmakers

Illustrated talks on Liverpool social history with aspects of Jewish interest. (Princes Road Synagogue)

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Sunday 19 January 2025 • Day event:

Retailers

Rabbi Shaul Rosenblatt (Tikun); Mark Addlestone (Beaverbooks) and Arnold Lewis (former archivist of the

Liverpool Jewish community). Event in conjunction with Tikun

(Princes Road Synagogue)

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Tuesday 21 January 2025 • Start at 18:00:

Glaziers, Glassmaking and stained-glass

Event in conjunction with Liverpool Anglican Cathedral. (Princes Road Synagogue)

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Monday 27 January 2025 • Start at 18.30:

Holocaust Memorial Day

'The Genocide Of Europe's Roma 1935 - 1945' by Professor Eve Rosenhaft

Labelled for generations with the contemptuous term ‘Gypsies’, Romani people were subject to persecution all

over Europe in the 1930s and during the Second World War. Under the Nazis, everyday discrimination

spiralled into genocide in Germany and in the territories that Germany occupied and dominated: Roma

suffered forced sterilisation, internment under deadly conditions, deportation and mass murder. This is a

history that was long forgotten or denied. Professor Eve Rosenhaft offers a brief outline of the events.

(Princes Road Synagogue)

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Monday 27 January 2025 • Start at 19:15:

Holocaust Memorial Day

Between The Notes Of Life: Testimony to the Romani Genocide. A reading with music by Swing Trio Manouche (Manolito Steinbach and Donny Schwarz on guitar and Sorin Ferat on the violin).

A reading by Manolito Steinbach with musical interludes by the Swing Trio Manouche (Manolito Steinbach

and Donny Schwarz on guitar and Sorin Ferat on the violin).

Among the victims of Nazi racism were hundreds of thousands of European Roma – interned, murdered,

sterilised and driven from their homes. Manolito Steinbach is a German Sinto, born in Berlin, and a

professional musician. He grew up hearing about the Nazi persecution of the Roma from his grandmother, who

survived Ravensbrück concentration camp and Auschwitz. His life has been shaped by the Holocaust

experiences and memories of his own family and friends. It has also been marked by the continuing prejudice

and discrimination against Roma, which exists all over Europe and has been described as the last respectable

form of racism.

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February 2025

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Sunday 02 February 2025 • Day event:

Drama

Co-ordinated by Dr Ros Merkin (Liverpool John Moores University)

‘Frankie Vaughan’ (Frank Fruim Abelson – former choir member of Liverpool Old Hebrew Congregation)

including ‘Mr Moonlight’ (a reading of Kim McCusker’s play);

‘I Have a Beetle in my Black Box’ – by Fanchon Fröhlich; and ‘One Hope Place: A Love Story’ – an animation

of the building telling the story of the Hebrew School.

(Joe H Makin Drama Centre, Hope Place – formerly Liverpool Hebrew School).

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Sunday 09 February 2025 • Afternoon event:

Art, Architecture, monuments and sculpture

Co-ordinated by Dr Lee R Kendall including The Development of Synagogue Architecture in Liverpool by Ronnie Gonshaw, Dip Arch (Lpool) RIBA; Solomon J Solomon’s Samson and Delilah by Julian Treuherz (former Keeper of the Walker Art Gallery); and Faith in Sculpture by Stephen Broadbent (Sculptor). (Joe H Makin Drama Centre, Hope Place – formerly Liverpool Hebrew School )

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​Monday 10 February 2025 • Start at 14:15:

Art

Illustrated talks on Liverpool social history by Dr Lee R Kendall with aspects of Jewish interest.

(Princes Road Synagogue)

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Sunday 16 February 2025 • Day event:

Films with Liverpool Jewish connections

Co-ordinated by Dr Ruth Doughty and including Professor Nathan Abrams and Dr Julia Wagner with talks about and clips from The Ten Commandments (1923 and 1956); Let’s Make Love (1960); Hester Street (1975); Chariots of Fire (1981); and Yentl (1984). (Venue to be advised)

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Sunday 16 February 2025 • Day event:

' Yentl'

‘The Real Yentl’ by Dr Aviva Dautch; and ‘Barbara Streisand’s Yentl and the Liverpool Jewish community’

introduced by Dr Lynn Learman with reminiscences and discussion.

(Venue to be advised)

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Sunday 23 February 2025 • Day event:

Music finale

(Princes Road Synagogue)

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Monday 24 February 2025 • Start at 14:15:

Architecture, monuments and sculpture

Illustrated talks on Liverpool social history with aspect of Jewish interest. (Princes Road Synagogue)

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Other events / activities being considered

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Monday 24 February 2025 • Evening:

Celebration kosher dinner

(Venue to be advised)​

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