Jewish Heritage UK

Jewish Heritage UK is dedicated to caring for the historic buildings, sites and collections of Britain’s Jewish community.
Jewish Heritage UK is a registered charity (UK registration number 1118174).

The task of Jewish Heritage UK is the protection of British Jewry’s material cultural heritage, covering synagogues and cemeteries and also movable property such as archives, artefacts and ritual silver.

The Director is Dr Sharman Kadish. Active in Jewish heritage conservation since the mid 1980s, she has served as Project Director of the Survey of the Jewish Built Heritage since 1997 and has published several books on Anglo-Jewish history and heritage.

Jewish Heritage UK fills an important gap in providing independent professional support to individual congregations, trustees and synagogue organisations which are responsible for historic buildings, sites and collections. They can turn to Jewish Heritage UK for advice when faced with the challenges posed by the maintenance and management of historic buildings and the practicalities of carrying out repairs to recognised conservation standards, for guidance through the Listing and Planning process and above all, for help in finding imaginative ways of keeping fine old buildings usefully alive.

Jewish Heritage UK promotes British Jewry’s cultural heritage to the wider public through encouraging participation in The Civic Trust’s Heritage Open Days and the European Jewish Heritage Day, organised by B’nai Brith, which since 2000 has become a popular annual event in the UK.

Jewish Heritage UK operates nationally, in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. Where appropriate, Jewish Heritage UK also assists in the protection of the material cultural heritage of the Jewish communities of the Channel Islands, the Irish Republic and Gibraltar, which have close historic and current links with the Jewish community on the UK mainland.

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