A Very British History // The Jews of Leeds // Part 2
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- Опубликовано: 12 окт 2024
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Film-maker Simon Glass explores his family history and tells the story of the Yorkshire Jews in the early 20th century. Thousands of migrants arrived by boat on the east coast of England and lived in a run-down slum area of Leeds known as the Leylands. Simon discovers stories of hardship and anti-Semitism, but also success and progress as many Jews moved out of the Leylands to the more affluent suburbs. He also travels to eastern Europe where he makes a shocking discovery about what happened to his relatives who did not migrate to Britain.
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I started work in the Personnel Office at Burtons in 1962, I was introduced to Jewish life at work. Mr Reuben who was the last of the Burton line, I seem to remember was so lovely to me. I served him his tea and coffee everyday, he always sat me down for a chat. I loved him. Burtons paid for me to go on an Outward Bound course for one month. Paid for all my clothes, paid my wages, and gave me pocket money
. A very paternalistic employer. Great canteen, doctors, dentists chiropodists all on site. Yearly visits to Blackpool. A disco available at lunchtime. A putting Green. Visiting celebrities, even there’d Atmy choir, spine tingling performance. Looking back, yes it was paternalistic, but as working environments went it was I guess quite a unique experience.
I remember going to see the Burton factory in Leeds …hundreds of machinists ..row upon row all heads down hard at work ..I worked in wage office in kilmarnock ..Burtons ..
That’s the best kind of employer. Work doesn’t have to be punitive. My dad was an Arab from Jordan and he had many Jewish friends at work.
I never for one moment realised that Burton's was a 'Jewish' company. That's because it may have been started by a person of Jewish ethnicity, but this exceptional person clearly respected and valued the British people and tried to become as 'British' as his new hosts even down to taking a very 'British' name. And the same with Marks & Spencer, etc. etc. How this contrasts completely with the utterly dismal track record of the disciples of a certain Dark Age bogus 'prophet' whose fraudulent 'creed' breeds only institutional moral decadence and criminal destruction.
By the way, what's wrong with 'paternalism' if it reflects the best of 'fatherly' motives?
@@MrJohnL21 What a ray of sunshine you are. You’ve clearly led a sheltered life.
Interesting what the lady says about the Jewish migrants to Leeds looking forward, not backward while others didn’t. Everyone who migrates misses their homeland but must focus their future on the country they migrate to. Well done the Jews of Leeds for contributing so much.
Very interesting documentary, lovely to see the old photos. I also had family in Leeds originally from Lithuania.
This is so very wonderful.
"Nothing of it left. Unrecognizable." Look down. Bricks. Brick street they walked on. I bet there's a few spirits who still are.
Jewish migrants made Leeds the city it is; Marks & Spencer,Burtons etc etc. Good hard working people.
Marks and Spencer doesn’t make a city
@@BluesJames what does instead, a whole lot of mosques?
Most interesting
My Grandmother left Holmfirth for Glamorgan in the first half of the nineteenth century. I know nothing of her family. I think it quite possible they came from Eastern Europe.
I did hear an apocryphal story once of Jews arriving at Hull on the boats and as they wanted to go to New York they were told that is where they were and they disembarked. Probably has to be taken with a pinch of salt.
6:45 Andy Statman's "Flatbush Waltz" in the soundtrack.
What a hellish time to work with such a wage tearing in one factory environment.
Fair?
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It is what it was
it wasn't the bestie 😕
Your experience are the experience of this gentleman in the documentary video is similar to mine however, I’m in the United States and primarily the port of entry was New York City for one group in Boston for the other from an Russian empire shtetl Yea
But it was about the same time period Early 1900s
If the UK And act restrictive legislation about 1905 this would kind of make sense why a lot of them went over to North America not only the United States but Canada and perhaps even South America Argentina or any place that would take them
Somehow, if I visit the UK, I don’t see myself going to Leeds or any of the other interior English cities as a first choice
I see in this video that the Jewish immigrants that went to Leeds never talked about going home
Has to understand that these people these Jewish people were basically abused by the Russian empire. They were cordoned off the idea of what they call a pale The Russian Empire was basically a region of the Russian Empire that the Jews could live in and they couldn’t live anywhere else and they couldn’t live in even certain cities they had to live in Little towns, so they were basically shut away and starved
And then they were prayed upon and beaten up, especially after 1881 by nationalist called the Cossacks
Make matters worse they started forcibly conscripting Jewish young men and boys into the military for 21 years of service for 25 years of service for this reason a lot of Jewish people starting about the 1880s way to leave the Russian Empire and they didn’t look back
This is why these particularly British Jewish people are so assimilated into British culture here in the US
All this in regards to Central European Eastern Europe
There has been an interesting phenomenon and that is Jewish people of German descent from the 20th century seem to now feel very comfortable going to places like Berlin to live
Then there is Israel that’s a whole Nother can of worms