Tag: 1930s
THE RAG TRADE
This is the tailoring workshop of Woolf Shapiro in East London – the father of Anne Shapiro who married Philip Rozelaar in 1948. Circa: 1920s
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MATHIAS, BROS
MAHOGANY & TIMBER IMPORTERS Photo of the family timber merchants, Mathias & Sons, at 100a Brick Lane. The older man is Jacob Mathias the grandfather of Norman Mathias. Norman married Rosa Steinberg in 1936 (click here). Circa: early 1920s
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ON THE MENU
A selection of menus including summaries of the music and what’s available at the bar. Provided by A Morrow (top and middle) and Andrea Katz (bottom)
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REQUESTS THE PLEASURE OF YOUR COMPANY
Mrs M Finegold requests the pleasure of the company of… …to celebrate the Marriage of her Daughter Bertha to Jack Courtesy of A Morrow
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ART DECO
Presented by Mrs Ruth Cohen, this beautifully printed album cover is a great example of how the Boris studio followed and embodied all the current style and fashion trends.
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EVA SPECTER and SAMUEL GOODSTEIN
were married on 30 March, 1933 at Jubilee Street Great Synagogue. The reception was held at La Boheme Ballrooms in Mile End Road and was catered by M. Stern and Sons of Dalston with music provided by Leavey’s Oxford Orchestra. The brides parents were born and married in Russia and arrived in the UK in […]
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SIDNEY LONG
Boris’s photo of Sidney Long who was employed as a commissionaire. He not only kept the crowds back on busy days but was there to ensure that the right car with the bride and her entourage arrived and departed at the right time to and from the studio. He wore a wine-coloured uniform resplendent with gold […]
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KATE FINEMAN and SIMON COHEN
were married 26 July 1939 at Philpot Street Synagogue in Whitechapel. Both Kate and Simon’s parents came from Russia in the early 1900’s. Simon was a fur salesman and the couple initially lived on The Highway in Stepney.
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JESSIE ‘JOY’ RAY MAURICE and SAMUEL SIMON
(changed from Volcovitch) were married on 19 October 1939 at the Bayswater Synagogue. Samuel was a Master Furrier as was his father, Isaac Volcovitch. Joy was a secretary at the time. After their marriage, the couple lived at Arkwright Mansions on the Finchley Rd NW3 and had a daughter, Roberta and a son, Anthony. Samuel […]
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GERTRUDE ‘GERTIE’ VOLCOVITCH and JACK PRESS
(changed from Prashker) were married on 28 June 1939 at Philpot Street Synagogue, Stepney. Jack had a hosiery shop in Roman Rd which was bombed during the war. He joined the fire service and after the war set up a stall in Roman Rd Market and was called ‘The Stocking King’. Gertrude was a twin […]
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BEATRICE ‘BETTY’ EVANSKY and SOLOMAN ‘SIDNEY’ SYMONS
were married on 26 February 1939 at the Great Synagogue, Bethnal Green Rd with the reception at the Princes Galleries in Piccadilly. It was catered by M.Stern & Sons of Dalston with dancing to the Embassy Band. Sidney was a ‘poultry dealer’ & unusually for those days owned a car. Betty’s father, Symon, was a […]
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BELLA DAVIDSON
aged 26, a bridesmaid at the wedding of her sister Esther (click here) in 1939. Bella was a milliner living at the time in Stoke Newington. The floral dresses were all made by Bella’s mother, Betsy. Bella married Josif Goltman on 8 December 1946 at Walm Lane Synagogue, Willesden with the reception at the Grovesnor […]
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MONTY HUBBERSGILT
at his Barmitzvah in April 1938 with his sister Sylvia and parents, Alec and Rachel (née Kafitz). At the time, the family lived at Wellington Ave, Stamford Hill and Monty attended Tottenham Grammer School. The Hubbersgilt family came to the UK in 1901 from Vitebsk in Lithuania with Alec being brought over 9 years later […]
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MIRIAM ZACK and LOUIS ROSENBLATT
were married on 18 September 1938 at the East London Synagogue, Rectory Square in Stepney Green with the reception at Westminster Palace Rooms, Victoria St, SW1. Miriam’s family lived & ran their business, Zack shoe shop, in Ilford. Louis joined his three brothers (click here & here) in running the family shoe manufacturing business, R. […]
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LILLY SPATZ and MICHAEL HARRIS
were married on 26 June 1938 at the Great Synagogue in Dukes Place with reception at the Trocadero. During WWII, Michael was in the army manning anti-aircraft batteries while Lilly drove an ambulance. Michael manufactured ladies suits/coats in Aldgate. A second factory was later located near Newcastle.
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SARAH ‘MINNIE’ BEERMAN and MEYER ‘MICK’ COHEN
were married on 2 January 1938 at the Hendon Synagogue in Raleigh Close with the reception at Folman’s West Central Rooms, Noel St, W1. At the time, Minnie was a seamstress for a gown manufacturer of wedding dresses & Mick was a tailor’s cutter. The couple had three children, Ros, a graphic artist married Monty […]
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ELLEN COHEN and HYMAN ROBERTS
were married on 20 June 1937 at Walm Lane Synagogue with the reception at the Royal Palace Hotel in West Kensington. Ellen was born in Birmingham & worked in the family clothing accessories shop there. Hyman was a furrier and served in the Army during WWII. The couple lived in Brondesbury Park. In the photo, […]
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ESTHER BLUSTON and GERALD STANTON
(previously Judah Stolerman) were married on 31 May 1936 at Egerton Road Synagogue, Stamford Hill. Gerald was a company director of a furniture shop and Esther worked with her parents in their gown shops (Blustons) with branches in Dalston, Kentish Town and Oxford Street until her marriage.
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ROSA ‘ROSE’ STEINBERG and NORMAN MATHIAS
were married on 23 August 1936 at Brondesbury Synagogue with the reception at Westminster Palace Rooms. Norman worked for the family timber merchants in the Hackney Road.
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DAVID and RACHEL ‘RAY’ SCHAMA
in 1936 with daughters, Gina, Sheila and Sybil. David and Ray (née Dombrowski) were married on 22 January 1929 at Nelson Street Sphardish Synagogue in Stepney. David (‘Gidale’), born in the UK in 1903 and lived in Stamford Hill, was a manufacturer of neckties. His brother Arthur was the father of Professor Simon Schama. Rachel […]
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CECILIA ‘CISSIE’ COHEN and ABRAHAM ‘ALF’ ROSENBLATT
were married on the 5 January 1936 at the East London Synagogue, Rectory Square, Stepney with the reception at The Cafe Royal, Regent Street. Alf’s parents, Sarah & Reuben, a shoe-maker from Russia, lived in Stamford Hill & had four sons & three daughters. Cissie was the middle daughter of Millie & Abraham Cohen who […]
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ANNE COHEN and DAVID LEWIS
were married on 2 September 1935 at Dukes Place Synagogue in the City of London. Both Anne and David were born in the UK. David’s parents came from Poland and Anne’s from Russia. At the time of their marriage, Anne was a couturier making wedding dresses including her own from silver lame and ostrich feathers […]
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RITA JEFFRIES and DAVID KINGSLEY
were married on 23 June 1935 at the Great Portland Street Synagogue with the reception at the Savoy. Both Rita & David were born in the UK. David’s parents were born & married in Crakow, Poland and had 4 daughters, Ginnie, Cissie, Edie & Dora & 2 sons, David & younger brother, Sidney, who founded […]
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FAY KOMITZ and NAT ISSACS
were married on 14 July 1935 at Harley Grove Street Synagogue in Bow. Both were born in the UK and at the time of their marriage, Fay worked in a shop and Nat was a job buyer for C&R Strong in Toynbee St E1. During WWII, Nat served in the 8th Army & Fay was […]
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FAY KAUFMAN and SIDNEY CROUP
were married on 17 March 1935 at Philpot Street Synagogue in Whitechapel. Sidney, whose parents came from Lithuania, was a self-employed men’s tailor as was his brother Morris (click here). Fay did the button holes for the suits made by her husband. The couple lived in Stepney and in 1960 moved to Ilford. The young […]
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HETTIE GOLDSTEIN and LESLIE JACOBS
were married on 21 August 1935 at Philpot Street Synagogue in Whitechapel. Hettie, whose parents came from Russia was a secretary while Leslie was a furniture salesman. The couple lived in Chingford. The two bridesmaids were Hettie’s cousins, Lily Minsky (on the left) and Phyllis Minsky (on the right).
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SARAH ‘SADIE’ GOLDSTEIN and HYMAN COHEN
were married on 20 June 1934 at Philpot Street Synagogue in Whitechapel. Both were born in the UK of parents born in Russia and Poland. At the time of their marriage, Hyman, aged 26, was a fruit salesman & Sadie, aged 23, a costumiers’ shop assistant. In the photo from the far left was Beryl, […]
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ESTHER ‘HETTY’ SALTER and HENRY VINACOUR
were married on 14 January 1934 at Philpot Street Synagogue in Whitechapel. At the time of their marriage, both Esther & Henry were hairdressers. Esther’s parents both came from Poland in the late 1890’s – her father was described as a ‘journeyman tailor’. Henry’s father, born in Kupiskis, Lithuania, was a lithographic printer.
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LILY SELETSKY and ISRAEL ‘ISSY’ GOSCHALK
were married on the 28 August 1934 at Bonn’s Hotel in Great Prescott St in Stepney. Issy, the son of a butcher, was a dress manufacturer.
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SARAH BARDONIS and ALEC KARGER
(previously Zalic Carriger), both aged 24, were married on the 17 September 1933 at Jubilee Street Great Synagogue in Stepney. Both were born in the UK from parents of Polish/Russian origin. At the time of the wedding, Sarah was a costumiers shop assistant while Alec, like his father, was a freelance tailor. Alec set up […]
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LEAH ‘LIBBY’ GROSS
circa 1933, was born in 1874 in Poland – the family name was Hirschkowitz. She was first married to Meir Frankel who died in 1902. They had one daughter, Golda, born in 1901. At the time, Meir was a paper-hanger and Libby a cook. Libby re-married Lewis Gross, an immigrant from Russia, on 14 December […]
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MONTE POSNER
aged 5, at the wedding of Ada Ornstein & Henry Silver, a mantle & gown manufacturer, on 19 June 1932 at Cricklewood Synagogue. This was a big society wedding. Ada was a daughter of the coat & gown manufacturer, D.L.Ornstein. The Ornsteins were one of three major clothing manufacturers which dominated the East End Jewish […]
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FRANCES COHEN
in March 1932 aged 4 months. Frances & her elder brother, Murray, lived with their parents Sarah (née Morovitch) and Solomon Cohen above their chemist shop in Redmans Rd, Stepney. Family were evacuated to Letchworth in 1941, returning to Amhurst Park in 1949. Frances later became a barrister and married Henry Field, a psychiatrist, from […]
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LEAH ‘LILY’ LANDROFSKY & HERSCHEL ‘HARRY’ HECKMAN
were married on 5 June 1932 at the East London Synagogue in Rectory Square, Stepney Green. Both Lily & Harry were born in the UK. Lily’s parents came from Siemiatycze in Poland and Harry’s from Kremenchug, near Odessa in the Ukraine. At the time of their marriage, Lily was a dressmaker and Harry a cabinet […]
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ANNIE GRODZEN
born in 1888 in Minsk, Russia & Soloman Shulman, born in 1880 in Lithuania, were wedding guests in 1932. The couple were married in 1903 at Stepney Green Synagogue & lived in Columbia Road E2 in a flat above their shoe shop. Rent on the shop was £1/week paid to the Church. Later moved to […]
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SYLVIA SWIRSKY and MOSES ‘MO’ BLOK
were married on 18 December 1932 at the Stamford Hill Beit Hamedrash Synagogue. Sylvia was born in Kirsanov, Lithuania in 1908 and came to the UK with her parents, Abraham & Udice, in 1912. Mo was born in Groningen, Holland in 1908. He joined the family sack business & as part of his training came […]
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FANNY BORONA
(also known as Felice Flatto), a shop assistant, married Morris Winter, a tailor’s cutter, on the 1 May 1932 at The Great Synagogue, Dukes Place in the City of London. Fanny died on the 27 January 1996 in Hove, aged 88, following a ‘tragic accident’.
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ELSIE ABRAHAM and LIONEL CLYNE
( previously Hyman Klein) were married on 17 July 1932 at Philpot Street Sphardish Synagogue. Lionel started work as a tailor in the family business. He won a scholarship to Cambridge University but could not afford to take it up. Became a salesman for Lyons Chocolates to cinemas, then a cinema manager for J.Arthur Rank, […]
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MARIE JACOBS and ABRAHAM RABINOWITZ
were married on 27 November 1932 at Mile End & Bow District Synagogue in Poplar. Abraham, born in 1901, was a tailors machinist & Marie, born in 1904, a milliner. Marie’s father, Joshua, was a taxi driver.
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MILLIE HARRIS and MYER DOBBER
were married on 1 November 1931 at the Mile End & Bow District Synagogue. Myer at the time was aged 31 and was a fish fryer. The two bridesmaids are Stella Clyne (on left) and Thelma Harris, Millie’s neice. The page boy is Alan Cass.
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REBECCA ‘BECKY’ SHOOB & ABRAHAM ‘ALF’ SOBELL
were married on 17 July 1932 at the Great Garden Street Synagogue in Whitechapel. The page boys were Becky’s nephews, Basil & Stanley Shoob & the bridesmaids were the sisters of Becky & Alf – Sarah ‘Sadie’ Shoop (later Brick) & Rachel ‘Ray’ Sobell (later Waterman). The couple started life in Brady St E1 & […]
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CLARA SOBEL and HYMAN GOLKER
a diamond dealer, were married on the 3 January 1933 at The Bethnal Green Great Synagogue. The bridesmaid on the left of the bride was Rene Golker, Hyman’s niece, who later worked in her father’s dress factory, Oberman & Golker, in Stoke Newington and married Cecil Landsman in March 1946. The boy on the right […]
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DORA ACKERMAN
a bridesmaid at the wedding of Aida Margolis & Hyman Lever (click here) in October 1931. Dora, a friend of Aida, was married in 1933 to Nathan Misner & had one daughter in 1936 and a son a year later. Both Dora & Nathan worked in the jewellery trade. During WWII, Nathan served in the […]
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DAPHNE EDITH COHEN and JOHN BENJAMIN
were married on 5 June 1932 at West Ham Synagogue. John was a printer and during WWII was a war reserve policeman stationed in Bow. The couple had one child, Shirley. The young man, Michael, seated in front was the eldest son of John’s brother, Joseph while the young girl, Esther (Essie), on the right […]
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ISABEL ‘BELLE’ MEKELBERG and ISRAEL ‘ISSY’ BENJAMIN
were married on 6 March 1932 at the Central Hackney Synagogue, Richmond Rd E8. At the time, Issy was a commercial clerk and the couple lived in Bermondsey. They had two children, Sidney and Gerald.
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ROSE GREENFIELD and ALFRED SILVER
were married on 6 September 1932 at The Great Synagogue in Dukes Place with the reception at Westminster Palace Rooms. Alfred, born in Kiev, was a jeweller in Black Lion Yard and Rose worked for a solicitor. After their marriage, the couple moved to Willesden Green.
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ZENA LYONS and MAURICE SHUREK MORRIS
were married in June 1932 at Stoke Newington Synagogue in Shacklewell Lane, Dalston with the reception held at The Savoy Hotel in the Strand. Maurice was born in Kolo, Russia in 1887 and Zena in London in 1915. The couple lived in Golders Green. Maurice was an upholstery manufacturer.
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REGINA ‘RENE’ BECKER and BARNETT ‘BARNEY’ LAZARUS
were married on 15 May 1932 at Dunstan Rd Synagogue, Golders Green. The couple were both born in London. Barney was a furniture manufacturer and Rene used to model knitwear made from the wool manufactured by her father’s company called Disneyland. Rene died in May 2014 aged 101.
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ANNIE and ISAAC ABRAHAM SEVERIN
circa 1931. Isaac was a furrier & both were born in Poland in 1884. Isaac died in 1953 & Annie two years later. Both are buried in Edmonton Cemetery.
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AIDA MARGOLIS
prior to her marriage to Hyman Lever (click here) in October 1931. Daughter of Esther & David Margolis. Mother Esther arrived in the UK in 1897 from Tarnow, Poland & father David in 1899 from Belgorod, Dnestrovsky in Georgia – near the Black Sea.
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OLGA BLUEDOVER & HYMAN WALTERS
were married on the 14 June 1931 at Dean Street Synagogue with the reception at the Northumberland Rooms. On either side of the bride & groom was Olga’s brother, Jacob,and his wife Shosha who were married in Poland in 1898. Hyman was born in London, the second youngest of eight and was a men’s tailor. […]
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LEAH ‘LILLY’ SWERIN and ABRAHAM ‘ALF’ COHEN
were married on the 25 May 1931 at the Central Hackney Synagogue on Richmond Rd, E8. Both Lilly and Alf were tailors.
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JEAN WANSOFSKY and DAVID SCHWARTZ
were married on the 19 June 1930 in the Great Garden Street Synagogue in Whitechapel with the reception at La Boheme Ballrooms on the Mile End Rd. Jean was born in Shidlovtsa, Poland in 1908 & David in the UK in 1909. Before their marriage, Jean was a dressmaker working from her home in Cable […]
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ROSE BROOK and ALFRED AMSTELL
(also known as Abraham Amsell) were married on 8 June 1930 at South Hackney Synagogue, Mare St. Rose was a secretary and Alfred, whose parents were born in Warsaw, worked as a ladies handbag maker. Rose’s father, Abraham was a hairdresser and Alfred’s father, Morris, a shoe merchant.
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DORIS ‘DORA’ SWEETMAN and ISAAC FEIERSTEIN
were married on 15 June 1930 at Fieldgate Street Great Synagogue in Stepney. Isaac, born in Warsaw, Poland was a master tailor with workshop in Stoke Newington. Dora was also a tailoress.
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MILLIE COHEN and MORRIS KRUPP
(later changed to Kaye) were married on 11 June 1930 at Philpot Street Synagogue in Stepney. Morris was a master tailor & Millie a costume shop assistant. Millie’s father, Jacob, was a butcher & Morris’s father a cabinet maker. The couple lived in Stepney & after WWII, emigrated to New Zealand.
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BORIS BENNETT and JULIA VINES
(changed from Vigonsky) were married on 4 June 1930 at the New Road Synagogue in Whitechapel with the reception at the Hyde Park Hotel. Boris designed Julia’s dress himself which was made of white & pink satin, with a long train of Brussels lace. Later on, it was often used in the studio, pulled round […]
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BOOKSHNEER FAMILY
in 1932. The Bookshneer’s were the florists to Boris’s studio and had a shop in Whitechapel Road near to the River Lee. Back row from L-R were mother Rebecca, Gerard (click here to see his wedding photo), Selig, Annie, Joseph and father Nathan. Front row from L-R were Freddie, Ernie and Gertie. Nathan, born in […]
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FAY SIRETT and JUDAH OBERMAN
were married in June 1936 at Duke’s Place Synagogue in the City of London with the reception at La Boheme Ballrooms on the Mile End Rd. Fay was a machinist while Judah, brother of Hettie Oberman (click here), was a manufacturer of ladies blouses and during WWII served in Egypt as a Sergeant in the […]
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ISABEL ‘BELLE’ DA COSTA and PHILIP ‘TUBBY’ LOLOSKY
were married on 8 May, 1930 at The Great Synagogue in Duke’s Place, EC3. Phil was a professional boxer and at the same time served an apprenticeship as a process engraver. During his boxing career (1925-34), Philip had 37 professional fights at flyweight and bantam weight, of which he won 24. He appeared on an […]
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AIDA MARGOLIS and HYMAN LEVER
were married on 27 October, 1931 at South Hackney Synagogue and had their reception at La Boheme Ballrooms on Mile End Road. Following their marriage, Hyman and Aida had a grocery shop in Highbury. During WWII, Hyman served in the British Army in Italy and N. Africa and achieved the rank of Quartermaster Sergeant. After […]
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ESTHER DAVIDSON and KURT KEYEM
were married on 22 June, 1939 at the Beth Hamedrash Synagogue, Stamford Hill. Kurt, born in 1914, was director of a chemicals company. His father Jacob was a furniture upholsterer. Esther, born in 1906, was a tailor’s manageress. Esther had a brother, Alec Davidson, who married Eva Yanovitch in 1943 (p. 184) and four sisters […]
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DEBORAH NUNEZ VAZ and VICTOR MORRIS
(previously Vigoda Plotzkar) were married on 21 February, 1937 at the Clapton Federation Synagogue, Lea Bridge Road. Victor was a taxi driver and during WWII drove for the US Army. Their bridesmaid was three-year-old, Ann Lemberger, Deborah’s niece. Ann later married Sidney Posner from Brighton on 7 September, 1958 at Dunstan Road Synagogue, Golders Green. […]
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ELSIE PLISKIN and ISRAEL ‘VICTOR’ PLISKIN
first cousins aged nine and six at the wedding of their cousin Minnie Pliskin, a milliner, and Barnett Cooklin, a cabinet maker, on 11 December, 1932 at Jubilee Street Great Synagogue. Victor’s winged collar was specially made by the outfitters Mays in Whitechapel Road, next door to the famous ‘Blind Beggar’ pub. Victor later married […]
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JANE RABINOWITZ
married Cecil Levinson on 12 June, 1930 at the Mile End and Bow District Synagogue. Cecil, born in Ireland, was a travelling salesman for a clothing manufacturer and Jane had worked as a dress designer and cutter. The couple lived in Stamford Hill and then Golders Green.
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