Chicken Soup and Scouse
Michael Swerdlow
The documentary is 1hr 15 minutes in duration and is ideal for family viewing and for education, reference resource and archive. The programme contains live and archive footage, archival still photographs and interviews. The story will be of particular interest to families abroad who can trace the migration of their ancestors on the steamships out of the port of Liverpool.
The story traces the history of the Jewish community in Liverpool, through early businessmen, establishment of a communal infrastructure and synagogues. Russian Pogroms and mass immigration. Settlement in the Brownlow Hill area. Tradesmen and shop keepers.
|
|
.
..
The move from the city to the suburbs. Service to the community at large; The Zionist ideal and some of the pioneers. The decline of todays community. A look into the future. The film name drops some of the Liverpool Jewish Community's famous sons and daughters who have gone on to excel nationally and internationally in the fields of medicine, politics, business, science, the arts and entertainment.
The film has been made to coincide with Liverpool's celebration as European Capital of Culture in 2008, Liverpool's 800th birthday and the anniversary of the first settlement of Jews in the UK.
|
