Jewish History in Birmingham:
Archive Collections
Held at Birmingham Central Library - Local Studies and History:
Birmingham Hebrew Congregation Catalogue
Birmingham Jewish Literary and Arts Society
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Books
Held at Birmingham Central Library - Local Studies and History:
Julie Wooldridge, Ed. Jewish Life In Birmingham [BCOL19.8]
Zoe Josephs, Singer’s Hill Synagogue: Voices From The Past [BCOL19.8]
Zoe Josephs, Birmingham Jewry 1749-1914 [BCOL19.8]
Zoe Josephs, Birmingham Jewry Volume 2 [BCOL19.8]
Zoe Josephs, Survivors [BCOL19.8]
The Birmingham Jewish Recorder Newspaper Collection, 1935 onwards [L19.8]
Birmingham Hebrew Congregation Reports, 1867-1959 [L19.8]
Birmingham Jewish United Benevolent Board Annual Reports, 1932-85 [L19.8]
Harry Levine, Jewish Community in Birmingham. Newspaper cuttings compiled 1937-1948.
Five Volumes. [LF19.8]
Harry Levine, Singer’s Hill Centenary History 1856-1956 [LF 19.8]
Bill Williams, The Making of Manchester Jewry 1740-1875 [A301.452094272WIL]
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Websites - Birmingham Jewry
http://www.singershill.com Birmingham Hebrew Congregation- Official Website
http://www.bbc.co.uk/birmingham/faith/judaism BBC Birmingham - An introduction to Judaism
http://www.somethingjewish.co.uk/articles/498 Something Jewish website - A History of Birmingham Jewry, Arthur Chesses
http://www.somethingjewish.co.uk/articles/499 Something Jewish’ Website - Birmingham’s Synagogues
http://www.brijnet.org/birmingham Jewish Birmingham
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Websites - General Jewish History, Culture and Museums
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/gallery Guardian Unlimited - Jewish Museum immigration exhibition
http://www.movinghere.org.uk/galleries/histories/jewish Moving Here website - Migration Histories (Jewish)
http://www.jewishmuseum.org.uk/collections The Jewish Museum (London) - Jewish history in Britain
http://www.manchesterjewishmuseum.com Manchester Jewish Museum
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Migration and Settlement in Late 20th Century Birmingham
Archive Collections
The collections below (held at Birmingham City Archives) have been used in the creation of this learning resource.
Millennibrum Oral Histories [MS 2255]
Vanley Burke [MS 2192]
Material collected by Derek Bishton [MS 2478]
George Hallett [MS 2449]
The Council of Sikh Gurdwaras [MS 2303]
Papers of Henry Gunter [MS 2165]
Charles Parker [MS 4000]
Nick Hedges [MS 2399]
Dyche studio photographs [Local Studies and History: Dyche Collection]
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Books, Journals and Articles
Beckford, R (2000) Dread and pentecostal: a political theology for the black church in Britain. London: SPCK.
Beishon, S, T. Modood & S. Virdee (1994) Changing Ethnic Identities. London: Policy Studies Institute www.psi.org.uk/publications
Benjamin, I (1995) The Black Press in Britain. Stoke-on-Trent: Trentham.
Berger, J (1975) A seventh man : a book of images and words about the experience of migrant workers in Europe. Harmondsworth: Penguin.
Birmingham ILT Services (1987) Black in Birmingham. Birmingham: Birmingham ILT Services.
Bishton, D & J Reardon (1984) Home Front. Ipswich: W. S Cowell
Bloch, Alice (2002) The migration and settlement of refugees in Britain. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
Burrell, K & P Panayi (ed.s) (2006) Histories and memories : migrants and their history in Britain. London: Taurius Academic Studies.
Chinn, C (2003) Birmingham Irish. Making Our Mark. Birmingham: Birmingham Library Services.
Choudhury, Y (2001) From Bangladesh to Birmingham : the history of Bangladeshis in Birmingham. Birmingham: Birmingham Library Services.
Courtman, S (forthcoming 2006) A Journey through the Imperial Gaze: Birmingham's Photographic Collections and its Caribbean Nexus' in Ramamurthy, A & Faulkner, S eds. Visual Culture and Decolonization in Britain. London: Ashgate.
Critical Decade: Black British Photography in the 80s. Ten: 8, Vol. 2 no. 3, Spring 1992
Davison, Robert Barry (1962) West Indian migrants: social and economic facts of migration from the West Indies. London: Oxford University Press.
Edmead, P. L (1999) The Divisive Decade. A History of Caribbean Immigration to Birmingham in the 1950s. Birmingham: Birmingham City Council Department of Leisure and Community Services.
Fryer, P (1984) Staying Power. London: Pluto Press.
Grosvenor,I (1997) Assimilating Identities. London: Lawrence & Wishart.
Hall, Stuart (2001) Different, a historical context, contemporary photographers and black identity. London: Phaidon.
Hedges, N (1979) Charity Begins at Home: The SHELTER Photographs. Photography/Politics: One. Photography Workshop. London.
Hedges, N & P Lewis (1991) From the Centre. Living Through Change in an Industrial Society 1965-1990. Wolverhampton: Light House Media Centre.
Howarth, Ken (1998) Oral History. Stroud: Sutton Publishing.
Kenrick, D & S Bakewell (1990) On the Verge: The Gypsies of England. London: Runnymede Trust.
Open University Educational Enterprises (1982) Migration and Settlement. Milton Keynes: Open University Press.
Perks, R. & A. Thomson (1998) The Oral history reader. London: Routledge.
Pooley, Colin G & J Turnbull (1998) Migration and Mobility in Britain since the eighteenth century. London: UCL Press
Price, D & R Thiara (ed.s) (1985) The Land of Money? Birmingham Black Oral History Project.
Rex, J (1979) Colonial immigrants in a British city, a class analysis. London: Rotledge & Kegan Paul.
Rudge, T (2003) Brumroamin. Birmingham and Midland Romany Gypsy and Traveller Culture. Birmingham: Birmingham Library and Information Services.
Sealy, M (ed.) (1993) Vanley Burke: a retrospective. London: Lawrence & Wishart.
Smith, Roger, (1969) Migration in post-war Birmingham. Birmingham: Birmingham University School of History.
Sutcliffe, A & R Smith (1974) Birmingham Vol.3 1939-1970. London: Oxford University Press.
Thomas-Hope, Elizabeth (1979) Hopes and reality in the West Indian migration to Britain in Oral History Vol. 8. No.1
Tonkin, Elizabeth (1992) Narrating our pasts : the social construction of oral history. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Whyte, Ian D. (2000) Migration and society in Britain, 1550-1830. Basingstoke: Macmillan.
Wilson, A (1978) Finding a Voice. London: Virago.
Winder, R (2004) Bloody foreigners : the story of immigration to Britain. London: Little, Brown.
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Websites
The following websites are a useful information resource on migration, settlement, travellers and homelessness.
www.refugeestories.org.uk
www.movinghere.org.uk
www.digitalhandsworth.org.uk
www.connections-exhibition.org.uk
www.bbc.co.uk/legacies
www.refugee-action.org.uk
www.casbah.ac.uk
www.gngsmethwick.com
http://england.shelter.org.uk
www.crisis.org.uk
www.gypsy-traveller.org
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Videos
Windrush 1-5 BBC Learning Zone. [Local Studies: Black History Collection]
Birmingham Black Oral History Project. Sample clips from the bank of stories in the BBOHP Archive / Birmingham Black Oral History Project; compiled by Siobhan Nunes.
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