Jewish Letchworth
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Jewish Letchworth

A Microcosm of the Jewish Communal Experience

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Jewish Letchworth

A Microcosm of the Jewish Communal Experience

About this book

Here, Letchworth-born Yanky Fachler explores a short-lived (1939– 1971) provincial Jewish congregation that boasted a communal infrastructure typical of much larger communities. Based during the war years around an estate built by Abba Bornstein, most of the community returned to London after the Second World War. The centre of gravity shifted to what former Talmud Torah headmaster Harry Leitner describes as the ' two pyramid houses on Sollershott East – the Sassoon/Feuchtwanger and Fachler homes.' Letchworth was home to the world-famous private Judaica library assembled by David Sassoon. His son, Rabbi Solomon Sassoon, made sure that Jewish children from across the religious spectrum attended the Talmud Torah educational programme after regular school hours. Several rabbinical luminaries were associated with Letchworth, including the communal rabbi, Asher Feuchtwanger, Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks, Rabbi Eliyahu Dessler, and Rabbi Eliyahu Lapian. Fachler describes a unique community where the orthodox coexisted harmoniously with the non-orthodox, Ashkenazi Jews lived side-by-side with Baghdadi Jews, and wealthy families rubbed shoulders with working class families.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. INTRODUCTION: ‘We’re from the same village’
  7. 1. Ebenezer, the garden city geyser
  8. 2. The Bornstein brotherhood
  9. 3. ‘Vaccies’ – compulsory and voluntary evacuation
  10. 4. Letchworth at war
  11. 5. Two parallel congregations
  12. 6. The end of the war
  13. 7. The David Sassoon Library
  14. 8. Rabbi Solomon (Suliman) and Alice Sassoon
  15. 9. Rabbi Asher (Reb Oosher) and Flora Feuchtwanger
  16. 10. Families Broch, Winegarten and Schischa
  17. 11. Hallmead and Mullway
  18. 12. Schooldays in Letchworth
  19. 13. Letchworth Talmud Torah and Letchworth Yeshiva
  20. 14. Families Kirsch, Pollock,Roth, Ward and Vanger
  21. 15. Letchworth tales
  22. 16. Letchworth pen portraits
  23. 17. ‘Sollerposh’ East – the new centre of gravity
  24. 18. The Letchworth branch of Cambridge University
  25. 19. ‘No minyan in Letchworth’
  26. 20. An outstanding legacy
  27. Yanky Fachler Selected Bibliography
  28. Dedications
  29. List of Illustrations
  30. Glossary of Hebrew/Yiddish terms