Hidden Treasures
@seethetreasures.bsky.social
Celebrating archives across the UK telling the story of Jews and the Jewish community in Great Britain, Northern Ireland and the Isle of Man. https://linktr.ee/jewishhiddentreasures
The London Jewish Bakers’ Union was the longest-lived Jewish trade union, operating from 1905 to 1970.
The banner reminded shoppers to buy bread with the union label, which guaranteed it was baked under acceptable working conditions.
The banner reminded shoppers to buy bread with the union label, which guaranteed it was baked under acceptable working conditions.
November 24, 2025 at 11:08 AM
The London Jewish Bakers’ Union was the longest-lived Jewish trade union, operating from 1905 to 1970.
The banner reminded shoppers to buy bread with the union label, which guaranteed it was baked under acceptable working conditions.
The banner reminded shoppers to buy bread with the union label, which guaranteed it was baked under acceptable working conditions.
"That’s the magic of archival work — it layers history onto the everyday"
We spoke to Frankie Drummond Charig, who has just completed a project looking at Jewish Sheffield.
Read the first Archivist in the Spotlight blog here: celebratingjewisharchives.org/blog/archivi...
#Archives #JewishHistory
We spoke to Frankie Drummond Charig, who has just completed a project looking at Jewish Sheffield.
Read the first Archivist in the Spotlight blog here: celebratingjewisharchives.org/blog/archivi...
#Archives #JewishHistory
October 24, 2025 at 11:53 AM
"That’s the magic of archival work — it layers history onto the everyday"
We spoke to Frankie Drummond Charig, who has just completed a project looking at Jewish Sheffield.
Read the first Archivist in the Spotlight blog here: celebratingjewisharchives.org/blog/archivi...
#Archives #JewishHistory
We spoke to Frankie Drummond Charig, who has just completed a project looking at Jewish Sheffield.
Read the first Archivist in the Spotlight blog here: celebratingjewisharchives.org/blog/archivi...
#Archives #JewishHistory
G’mar Chatima Tova and fast well to everyone marking Yom Kippur this week.
#YomKippur #JewishStudies #JewishHistory #JewishCulture #Archives
#YomKippur #JewishStudies #JewishHistory #JewishCulture #Archives
September 29, 2025 at 12:26 PM
G’mar Chatima Tova and fast well to everyone marking Yom Kippur this week.
#YomKippur #JewishStudies #JewishHistory #JewishCulture #Archives
#YomKippur #JewishStudies #JewishHistory #JewishCulture #Archives
This letter, dated 25 September 1546, is proof that sometimes you need to take a second look.
Find out more here: celebratingjewisharchives.org/blog/researc...
📷 The Mysterious Letter • The London Archives
#JewishHistory #JewishStudies #Archives
Find out more here: celebratingjewisharchives.org/blog/researc...
📷 The Mysterious Letter • The London Archives
#JewishHistory #JewishStudies #Archives
September 26, 2025 at 10:48 AM
This letter, dated 25 September 1546, is proof that sometimes you need to take a second look.
Find out more here: celebratingjewisharchives.org/blog/researc...
📷 The Mysterious Letter • The London Archives
#JewishHistory #JewishStudies #Archives
Find out more here: celebratingjewisharchives.org/blog/researc...
📷 The Mysterious Letter • The London Archives
#JewishHistory #JewishStudies #Archives
📷Langside Hebrew Congregation poster • Collections of the Scottish Jewish Archives Centre.
Lastly, this poster advertising High Holy Day services for Langside Hebrew Congregation in Glasgow, 1922. The text is a mix of English, Yiddish and English written in Yiddish letters.
#RoshHashanah #Archives
Lastly, this poster advertising High Holy Day services for Langside Hebrew Congregation in Glasgow, 1922. The text is a mix of English, Yiddish and English written in Yiddish letters.
#RoshHashanah #Archives
September 22, 2025 at 11:36 AM
📷Langside Hebrew Congregation poster • Collections of the Scottish Jewish Archives Centre.
Lastly, this poster advertising High Holy Day services for Langside Hebrew Congregation in Glasgow, 1922. The text is a mix of English, Yiddish and English written in Yiddish letters.
#RoshHashanah #Archives
Lastly, this poster advertising High Holy Day services for Langside Hebrew Congregation in Glasgow, 1922. The text is a mix of English, Yiddish and English written in Yiddish letters.
#RoshHashanah #Archives
📷 Rosh Hashanah postcard • London Jewish Museum
This postcard from the late 1920s shows immigrants waiting for a ship sailed by a figure representing the New Year. Themes of immigration were popular as more and more Eastern European Jews were moving to the UK and America.
This postcard from the late 1920s shows immigrants waiting for a ship sailed by a figure representing the New Year. Themes of immigration were popular as more and more Eastern European Jews were moving to the UK and America.
September 22, 2025 at 11:36 AM
📷 Rosh Hashanah postcard • London Jewish Museum
This postcard from the late 1920s shows immigrants waiting for a ship sailed by a figure representing the New Year. Themes of immigration were popular as more and more Eastern European Jews were moving to the UK and America.
This postcard from the late 1920s shows immigrants waiting for a ship sailed by a figure representing the New Year. Themes of immigration were popular as more and more Eastern European Jews were moving to the UK and America.
Shanah Tovah🎉
Here's a host of Rosh Hashanah celebrations from Ben Uri, @jewishmuseumldn.bsky.social and the Scottish Jewish Archives Centre.
📷Blowing the Shofar, Stanislaw Brunstein,1983, Ben Uri Collection 1987-55, (c) The Estate of Stanislaw Brunstein benuri.org/artworks/171...
#RoshHashanah
Here's a host of Rosh Hashanah celebrations from Ben Uri, @jewishmuseumldn.bsky.social and the Scottish Jewish Archives Centre.
📷Blowing the Shofar, Stanislaw Brunstein,1983, Ben Uri Collection 1987-55, (c) The Estate of Stanislaw Brunstein benuri.org/artworks/171...
#RoshHashanah
September 22, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Shanah Tovah🎉
Here's a host of Rosh Hashanah celebrations from Ben Uri, @jewishmuseumldn.bsky.social and the Scottish Jewish Archives Centre.
📷Blowing the Shofar, Stanislaw Brunstein,1983, Ben Uri Collection 1987-55, (c) The Estate of Stanislaw Brunstein benuri.org/artworks/171...
#RoshHashanah
Here's a host of Rosh Hashanah celebrations from Ben Uri, @jewishmuseumldn.bsky.social and the Scottish Jewish Archives Centre.
📷Blowing the Shofar, Stanislaw Brunstein,1983, Ben Uri Collection 1987-55, (c) The Estate of Stanislaw Brunstein benuri.org/artworks/171...
#RoshHashanah
It's back to school for many this week.
This photograph from @thelondonarchives.bsky.social is a girls' Hebrew lesson at the Jews' Free School in 1908. The school has been educating the community since 1732 and continues today.
Find out more here: celebratingjewisharchives.org/treasures/jf...
This photograph from @thelondonarchives.bsky.social is a girls' Hebrew lesson at the Jews' Free School in 1908. The school has been educating the community since 1732 and continues today.
Find out more here: celebratingjewisharchives.org/treasures/jf...
September 1, 2025 at 9:28 AM
It's back to school for many this week.
This photograph from @thelondonarchives.bsky.social is a girls' Hebrew lesson at the Jews' Free School in 1908. The school has been educating the community since 1732 and continues today.
Find out more here: celebratingjewisharchives.org/treasures/jf...
This photograph from @thelondonarchives.bsky.social is a girls' Hebrew lesson at the Jews' Free School in 1908. The school has been educating the community since 1732 and continues today.
Find out more here: celebratingjewisharchives.org/treasures/jf...
The balance sheet is from the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research shows £100 was given by the Dock Labourers Strike Committee who showed solidarity with the tailors.
After five weeks, the strikers’ demands for a 10½ hour day and a limit on overtime were agreed.
After five weeks, the strikers’ demands for a 10½ hour day and a limit on overtime were agreed.
August 29, 2025 at 10:19 AM
The balance sheet is from the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research shows £100 was given by the Dock Labourers Strike Committee who showed solidarity with the tailors.
After five weeks, the strikers’ demands for a 10½ hour day and a limit on overtime were agreed.
After five weeks, the strikers’ demands for a 10½ hour day and a limit on overtime were agreed.
With the football season starting again this past weekend, revisit this blog that highlights the connection between Anglo-Judasism and the game.
Read more here: celebratingjewisharchives.org/blog/jews-an...
#JewishHistory #JewishCulture #Football #NewSeason #Archives #OldPhotos
Read more here: celebratingjewisharchives.org/blog/jews-an...
#JewishHistory #JewishCulture #Football #NewSeason #Archives #OldPhotos
August 18, 2025 at 9:51 AM
With the football season starting again this past weekend, revisit this blog that highlights the connection between Anglo-Judasism and the game.
Read more here: celebratingjewisharchives.org/blog/jews-an...
#JewishHistory #JewishCulture #Football #NewSeason #Archives #OldPhotos
Read more here: celebratingjewisharchives.org/blog/jews-an...
#JewishHistory #JewishCulture #Football #NewSeason #Archives #OldPhotos
📷 Memorial Prayer for the Victims of the mass massacres of Jews in Nazi occupied lands to be recited on Tisha B’Av. This was published in London by the Office of the Chief Rabbi in 1942.
August 1, 2025 at 1:02 PM
📷 Memorial Prayer for the Victims of the mass massacres of Jews in Nazi occupied lands to be recited on Tisha B’Av. This was published in London by the Office of the Chief Rabbi in 1942.
📷 Lamentations For the Night of Tisha B’Av printed in Jerusalem in 1927. This later version of the same text was printed in Jerusalem in 1927, presumably for both the domestic and international markets as the addresses provided for further purchasing are in English.
August 1, 2025 at 1:02 PM
📷 Lamentations For the Night of Tisha B’Av printed in Jerusalem in 1927. This later version of the same text was printed in Jerusalem in 1927, presumably for both the domestic and international markets as the addresses provided for further purchasing are in English.
This weekend marks Tisha B'Av, a solemn time for the Jewish community that commemorates tragedies throughout history from the destruction of The First Temple to the holocaust.
These texts from the London School of Jewish Studies library show some of the lamentations and prayers.
#TishaBAv
These texts from the London School of Jewish Studies library show some of the lamentations and prayers.
#TishaBAv
August 1, 2025 at 1:02 PM
This weekend marks Tisha B'Av, a solemn time for the Jewish community that commemorates tragedies throughout history from the destruction of The First Temple to the holocaust.
These texts from the London School of Jewish Studies library show some of the lamentations and prayers.
#TishaBAv
These texts from the London School of Jewish Studies library show some of the lamentations and prayers.
#TishaBAv
📷 Memorial Prayer for the Victims of the mass massacres of Jews in Nazi occupied lands to be recited on Tisha B’Av. This was published in London by the Office of the Chief Rabbi in 1942.
August 1, 2025 at 12:37 PM
📷 Memorial Prayer for the Victims of the mass massacres of Jews in Nazi occupied lands to be recited on Tisha B’Av. This was published in London by the Office of the Chief Rabbi in 1942.
📷 Lamentations For the Night of Tisha B’Av printed in Jerusalem in 1927. This later version of the same text was printed in Jerusalem in 1927, presumably for both the domestic and international markets as the addresses provided for further purchasing are in English.
August 1, 2025 at 12:37 PM
📷 Lamentations For the Night of Tisha B’Av printed in Jerusalem in 1927. This later version of the same text was printed in Jerusalem in 1927, presumably for both the domestic and international markets as the addresses provided for further purchasing are in English.
Our friends at Liverpool Record Office currently have a display in Liverpool Central Library (@Liverpoollib) celebrating 50 years of Jewish community collecting in the city.
We visited them last year and got a unique look at some of the materials in our Collections Encounter.
We visited them last year and got a unique look at some of the materials in our Collections Encounter.
July 4, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Our friends at Liverpool Record Office currently have a display in Liverpool Central Library (@Liverpoollib) celebrating 50 years of Jewish community collecting in the city.
We visited them last year and got a unique look at some of the materials in our Collections Encounter.
We visited them last year and got a unique look at some of the materials in our Collections Encounter.
There's just one day left to apply for Rothschild Foundation Hanadiv Europe's grants.
If your collection tells the story of the Jewish People in Europe find more information and apply here: rothschildfoundation.eu/grants-page/...
#HeritageGrants #JewishHeritage #JewishHistory #archives
If your collection tells the story of the Jewish People in Europe find more information and apply here: rothschildfoundation.eu/grants-page/...
#HeritageGrants #JewishHeritage #JewishHistory #archives
June 30, 2025 at 10:51 AM
There's just one day left to apply for Rothschild Foundation Hanadiv Europe's grants.
If your collection tells the story of the Jewish People in Europe find more information and apply here: rothschildfoundation.eu/grants-page/...
#HeritageGrants #JewishHeritage #JewishHistory #archives
If your collection tells the story of the Jewish People in Europe find more information and apply here: rothschildfoundation.eu/grants-page/...
#HeritageGrants #JewishHeritage #JewishHistory #archives
This is Elena Lederman with one of her celebrity customers, Elizabeth Taylor.
Find out more about her life (including providing chocolates for the Royal Family) with AJR Refugee Voices Testimony Archive here: celebratingjewisharchives.org/treasures/el...
#JewishLife #JewishHistory #Archives
Find out more about her life (including providing chocolates for the Royal Family) with AJR Refugee Voices Testimony Archive here: celebratingjewisharchives.org/treasures/el...
#JewishLife #JewishHistory #Archives
June 27, 2025 at 10:02 AM
This is Elena Lederman with one of her celebrity customers, Elizabeth Taylor.
Find out more about her life (including providing chocolates for the Royal Family) with AJR Refugee Voices Testimony Archive here: celebratingjewisharchives.org/treasures/el...
#JewishLife #JewishHistory #Archives
Find out more about her life (including providing chocolates for the Royal Family) with AJR Refugee Voices Testimony Archive here: celebratingjewisharchives.org/treasures/el...
#JewishLife #JewishHistory #Archives
Chag Sameach 🎉 Shavuot is next week - the festival commemorates when G-d gave the Torah to the Jewish people from Mount Sinai and is one of the three pilgrimage festivals with Passover and Sukkot.
#Shavuot #JewishFestivals #OldPhotographs #Archives #JewishHistory
#Shavuot #JewishFestivals #OldPhotographs #Archives #JewishHistory
May 30, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Chag Sameach 🎉 Shavuot is next week - the festival commemorates when G-d gave the Torah to the Jewish people from Mount Sinai and is one of the three pilgrimage festivals with Passover and Sukkot.
#Shavuot #JewishFestivals #OldPhotographs #Archives #JewishHistory
#Shavuot #JewishFestivals #OldPhotographs #Archives #JewishHistory
Born this day, 1909, Sir Nicholas Winton was a British stockbroker who organised a small group of people that transported 669 children from Czechoslovakia to Britain just before the outbreak of World War II.
#JewishHistory #JewishRefugees #WorldWarII #Archives #BornThisDay
#JewishHistory #JewishRefugees #WorldWarII #Archives #BornThisDay
May 19, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Born this day, 1909, Sir Nicholas Winton was a British stockbroker who organised a small group of people that transported 669 children from Czechoslovakia to Britain just before the outbreak of World War II.
#JewishHistory #JewishRefugees #WorldWarII #Archives #BornThisDay
#JewishHistory #JewishRefugees #WorldWarII #Archives #BornThisDay
This week, the 80th anniversary of victory in Europe has been celebrated and commemorated. Our archive network has many treasures associated with World War II and the stories of British Jews' and Jewish refugees' experiences.
celebratingjewisharchives.org/the-treasures/
#VE80 #VEDay #WorldWar2
celebratingjewisharchives.org/the-treasures/
#VE80 #VEDay #WorldWar2
May 9, 2025 at 10:45 AM
This week, the 80th anniversary of victory in Europe has been celebrated and commemorated. Our archive network has many treasures associated with World War II and the stories of British Jews' and Jewish refugees' experiences.
celebratingjewisharchives.org/the-treasures/
#VE80 #VEDay #WorldWar2
celebratingjewisharchives.org/the-treasures/
#VE80 #VEDay #WorldWar2
“Brady was my life. To be quite honest, if I didn’t have the Club, I don’t know what I would have done...” - Florrie DaCosta, former Brady Girl, 1960s.
Read our new blog on The Brady Clubs here: celebratingjewisharchives.org/blog/exhibit...
#JewishCommunity #NewBlogPost #JewishHistory
Read our new blog on The Brady Clubs here: celebratingjewisharchives.org/blog/exhibit...
#JewishCommunity #NewBlogPost #JewishHistory
May 2, 2025 at 12:40 PM
“Brady was my life. To be quite honest, if I didn’t have the Club, I don’t know what I would have done...” - Florrie DaCosta, former Brady Girl, 1960s.
Read our new blog on The Brady Clubs here: celebratingjewisharchives.org/blog/exhibit...
#JewishCommunity #NewBlogPost #JewishHistory
Read our new blog on The Brady Clubs here: celebratingjewisharchives.org/blog/exhibit...
#JewishCommunity #NewBlogPost #JewishHistory
On 15th April, 1945, British forces entered the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.
Yesterday, to mark the 80th anniversary of the liberation, more than a thousand survivors and families attended commemoration events there.
#JewishHistory #Holocaust #Belsen #Archives
Yesterday, to mark the 80th anniversary of the liberation, more than a thousand survivors and families attended commemoration events there.
#JewishHistory #Holocaust #Belsen #Archives
April 28, 2025 at 9:42 AM
On 15th April, 1945, British forces entered the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.
Yesterday, to mark the 80th anniversary of the liberation, more than a thousand survivors and families attended commemoration events there.
#JewishHistory #Holocaust #Belsen #Archives
Yesterday, to mark the 80th anniversary of the liberation, more than a thousand survivors and families attended commemoration events there.
#JewishHistory #Holocaust #Belsen #Archives
#BornThisDay Victor 'Vicky' Weisz was a political cartoonist for the News Chronicle, Daily Mirror and Evening Standard.
This drawing from @hullhistorycentre.bsky.social, has little to do with politics though.
Read more here: celebratingjewisharchives.org/stories/vict...
#JewishCulture #Archives
This drawing from @hullhistorycentre.bsky.social, has little to do with politics though.
Read more here: celebratingjewisharchives.org/stories/vict...
#JewishCulture #Archives
April 25, 2025 at 11:08 AM
#BornThisDay Victor 'Vicky' Weisz was a political cartoonist for the News Chronicle, Daily Mirror and Evening Standard.
This drawing from @hullhistorycentre.bsky.social, has little to do with politics though.
Read more here: celebratingjewisharchives.org/stories/vict...
#JewishCulture #Archives
This drawing from @hullhistorycentre.bsky.social, has little to do with politics though.
Read more here: celebratingjewisharchives.org/stories/vict...
#JewishCulture #Archives
Chag Pesach Sameach!
Thanks for sharing your favourite Haggadah with us @giffordhead.co.uk
#ICYMI here are some favourites and please send us more! celebratingjewisharchives.org/news_feed/pe...
#Passover #Pesach #JewishFestival #JewishHistory #JewishCulture #Archives #Haggadah #NewBlogPost
Thanks for sharing your favourite Haggadah with us @giffordhead.co.uk
#ICYMI here are some favourites and please send us more! celebratingjewisharchives.org/news_feed/pe...
#Passover #Pesach #JewishFestival #JewishHistory #JewishCulture #Archives #Haggadah #NewBlogPost
April 11, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Chag Pesach Sameach!
Thanks for sharing your favourite Haggadah with us @giffordhead.co.uk
#ICYMI here are some favourites and please send us more! celebratingjewisharchives.org/news_feed/pe...
#Passover #Pesach #JewishFestival #JewishHistory #JewishCulture #Archives #Haggadah #NewBlogPost
Thanks for sharing your favourite Haggadah with us @giffordhead.co.uk
#ICYMI here are some favourites and please send us more! celebratingjewisharchives.org/news_feed/pe...
#Passover #Pesach #JewishFestival #JewishHistory #JewishCulture #Archives #Haggadah #NewBlogPost