Kehillah

Bradford's Jewish community dates from the mid-nineteenth century. Never large, in 2013 its dwindling congregation had to face the prospect of their last synagogue closing down as its 1881 Grade II listed building was in need of expensive and unaffordable repair. The local Muslim community stepped in to help raise funds and eventually a Lottery grant followed. Aware of this local Jewish culture, which decades earlier had thrived in the city, Nudrat Afza, a Muslim woman, decided to document it. With... Zobrazit více