The Redman’s Road Talmud Torah in Stepney, East London, was founded in 1901. The Headmaster was J. K. Goldbloom and the teaching method was simply to teach in Hebrew, with the children not allowed, if possible, to speak any other language. This was a work in progress. In the previous annual report, which I have as well, the method. was called “Eavris B’Eavris”. Now they had apparently moved on from the original Ashkenazi pronounciation.
The report, printed by Israel Narodiczky, is in English, Hebrew, and of course Yiddish, which was the mother tongue of many of the parents. The pogroms in Russia are the first thing mentioned.
What is striking is the widespread support across the Jewish community. Among those mentioned, in addition to the Chief Rabbi, Dayan Feldman and Dayan Hyamson are:
- Reverend Simon Fyne of Swansea (later of Ottawa, Canada)
- Rabbi Isaac Suwalsky, the Editor of the London Hebrew newspaper Hayehoody
- Reverend (later Dayan) Moshe Avigdor Chaikin
- Dr. Moses Gaster, the Haham of the Spanish and Portuguese community
- L. J. Greenberg, the Editor of the Jewish Chronicle
- Nachum Sokolow
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