by Sonny Kosky The Grand Order of Israel and Shield of David Friendly Society the last surviving Jewish friendly society in the friendly society movement has been dissolved and its assets have now been distributed to its last remaining members. It was evident over the past few years that the society was regularly losing members through death and resignation and the final nail in the coffin has been the 2019 Covid pandemic which severely curtailed its activities which were in

The Tower of London, 30 June 2025 Academic historians and members of the public met to hear the most up-to-date research on the...

JHSE New Generation Group select an article from the recently published Jewish Historical Studies: A Journal of English Speaking Jews and...

Congratulations to the nine award winners, who successfully applied to the JHSE Award Committee for funding in support of excellent...

A Spotlight Blog piece, written by Tony Zendle This is a story pieced together from a myriad of sources about a fairly unique bunch of...

We are excited to announce that the JHSE New Generation Group will be hosting the very first NGG conference "Re-reading, re-framing, and...

A Spotlight Blog, written by Julia Pascal, PhD. Blackpool. From 1945 to the late 1960s. What was it like growing up Jewish in this...

On 3 June 1893, our Jewish Historical Society of England was founded. It is the longest-lived Jewish History Society in Europe. It was a...

The JHSE Board of Trustees has recently appointed a new Advisory Board for the society's journal, Jewish Historical Studies and are...

Caroline Gurney of the University of Bristol has won the 2022 JHSE David Hyman Prize of £5000 for her work on Mapping Bristol’s Jewish...