DAYAN MEYER LEW

was born in Szedlice, Poland in 1907. The son of a rabbi, he was one of nine children. He arrived in the UK with his father in 1926. In 1939, he married Doreen Esterson, daughter of Reverend Woolfe Esterson, minister of the Hambro Synagogue in Commercial Road. At the time, Dayan Lew was Minister at […]

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SIR JOHN EDWARD COHEN

(known as Jack Cohen) was born in 1898 in Whitechapel, the son of a Polish tailor. In 1917 he joined the Royal Flying Corps, serving as a canvas maker. In 1919, using £30 of his demobilisation gratuity, he set himself up as a market stall holder in Hackney by buying surplus NAAFI foodstuffs. With a […]

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Tagged: 1960s, Hackney, Whitechapel