BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Manchester Walks//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Manchester Walks X-ORIGINAL-URL: X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Manchester Walks BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20190122T140000 DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20190122T160000 DTSTAMP:20190723T132349 CREATED:20120625T210447 LAST-MODIFIED:20181214T172945 UID:5791@ SUMMARY:Jewish Manchester (Cheetham Hill trail) DESCRIPTION:Please book here with eventbrite. Manchester’s Jewish community first appeared in numbers in the late 18th century around the parish church (!). Well\, that was the old town\, where people lived. Gradually Manchester Jews began to move north\, first to Strangeways (the area\, not the prison\, you schmerel)\, then Cheetham Hill\, Hightown\, Prestwich and eventually Whitefield. Only London has a bigger Jewish population in Britain than Manchester. But only Manchester has a Torah Street (with its own bacon-curing factory; really!) and a prison built like a mosque in the heart of the ghetto. And that’s apart from a history embracing that rogue Robert Maxwell\, the rich-beyond-rich Nathan Meyer Rothschild\, and the rabidly irreligious Karl Marx – all Yiddisher fellers. See Walks & Tours\, History Alive\, Jewish Manchester on this website for more info or paste in the following address:   LOCATION:Victoria Station wallmap, Victoria Station Approach, Manchester, United Kingdom, M1 3NY URL: END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR