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JGSGB Chilterns RG - Mar 16th 2021 7.30pm – with Nigel Grizzard – “Northern Jewry, Yorkshire and the Humber - Finding Jewish Roots in Yorkshire”

Coming soon in the JGSGB Virtual Meeting Programme is a meeting from the JGSGB Chilterns Regional Group (RG) by Zoom. Please be careful with the links, as there is also a Beginners’ Workshop meeting on the Sunday before.

Here is the information for this meeting:

•       Date: Tuesday 16th March
•       Time: 19:30 London
(note, 14:30 New York, 11:30 San Francisco, 21:30 Jerusalem)
•       Title: Northern Jewry, Yorkshire and the Humber - Finding Jewish Roots in Yorkshire
•       Speaker: Nigel Grizzard
•       Description: Nigel helps many people find their Yorkshire Jewish roots, including Americans whose families settled in Leeds after arriving from Eastern Europe and then the next generation moved onto the USA.

He was awarded a grant by the Heritage Lottery Fund to explore the story of Bradford Jewry entitled Making Their Mark.

He is currently making a film TVINS about the Toczek brothers who arrived in Bradford in 1938 from Germany and were deported to Canada where they became lumberjacks.

After the talk, there will be an opportunity for Q&A and discussion on the talk.

About Nigel Grizzard
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Nigel Grizzard was born east of the Aldgate Pump in the Marie Celeste maternity ward of the London Hospital in Whitechapel. He comes from a Dutch family who arrived in Spitalfields in the 1850s. He grew up in Redbridge and moved north to work in the Chief Executive's Office of Bradford Council. Now he is the Jewish tour guide for Yorkshire taking heritage tours - when able - of Jewish Bradford, Harrogate, Huddersfield, Ilkley, Leeds, Saltaire and York. Nigel is a popular lecturer who has spoken in venues as varied as Bradford, Jerusalem, Toronto and Redbridge.

The invitation to register is below, but please keep it to yourself!

If you have problems joining please email chairman@jgsgb.org.uk, preferably in the 15 minutes before the meeting proper starts. In particular, if you get stuck in a registration loop, you may want to upgrade the version of Zoom on your PC, but please email me and I can help you through this…

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Hazel Atlass is inviting you to register for a scheduled Zoom meeting:
Topic: JGSGB Chilterns RG: Nigel Grizzard on "Northern Jewry, Yorkshire and the Humber - Finding Jewish Roots in Yorkshire"
When: Mar 16, 2021 07:30 PM London

Register in advance for this meeting:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEkceuopjkpHNchO21Lbqp1_t5IWU4Ibe_L

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
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Leigh Dworkin
Chairman, JGSGB

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