Photographs of the remnants of Jewish life in Manchester taken in the 1970s are to be exhibited at the People’s History Museum until 16th January 2022.
The photos were taken by Shloimy Alman in 1977 when he was a young man running around Cheetham Hill. In 1978 Shloimy immigrated to Israel, and his photographs of Jewish Manchester remained in a locked cupboard at his home until May 2019 when writer and oral historian Rachel Lichtenstein visited him and scanned the images.
The exhibition also includes access to the Memory Map of Jewish Manchester, an interactive website which maps stories, histories and memories of the Jewish community who once lived in the Cheetham Hill, Strangeways and Hightown areas of north Manchester between the two world wars.