Cohen holloway biography of abraham
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Hunger Strikes and Votes for Women
(photograph top left c. Matt Roberts. Anne Sebba outside 2, Claremont Villas, Leeds, the house where Leonora Cohen lived)
On Saturday, February 1, 1913 an elegantly dressed young woman followed a group of school boys into the Jewel House at the Tower of London. Patrolling beefeaters assumed she was a teacher until she removed an iron bar from her coat and flung it over the boys’ heads smashing a glass showcase containing insignia of the Order of Merit. Beefeaters immediately forced the woman to the ground and arrested her. Wrapped around the bar was a piece of paper stating: “This is my protest against the Government’s treachery to the working women of Great Britain.” She was charged with causing unlawful and malicious damage to an amount exceeding five pound and was bailed for trial by jury. By the time Leonora Cohen, militant suffragette, had returned home to her husband and young son in Leeds her story had made headline news.
Leonora Cohen was, I have only recently discovered, a relative of mine and, in spite of the old adage about choosing friends but not relations, one I am very proud to claim. She died in 1978 aged 105, feisty to the end. I am devastated that I never shook the hand that lobbed so power
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Rabbinical Profiles(1)
Orthodox
Surnames C
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Rev. Erich Cahn
Served both Orthodox and Non-Orthodox congregations. See under Rev. Erich Cahn in Non-Orthodox section.
Rev. S. Cahn
See Rev. S. Kahn
Rev. S. Calemanovitz
Rev. Calemanovitz (or Kalmanovitch) lived in Ottoman Palestine for thirteen years, serving as the minister of the Ekron settlement for six years. He subsequently served as minister of the Chester Hebrew Congregation, Cheshire, from about 1912 until about 1916. (JC reports and JYB listings.)
Rev. Hyman Caminetsky
(c.1840 - 12 April 1903)
Rev. Caminetsky (m. Rose) was born in Russia, served as a chazan from the age of eighteen and was a qualified shochet. He came to Britain in about 1885, where he officiated as a chazan. During the 1890s, he served in Cardiff, both at the Cardiff Hebrew Congregation, East Terrace, and the Beth Hamedrash, Clare Road. In 1894, he officiated at certain synagogues in Manchester, including the Fernie Street Great Synagogue, where he may have been their choirmaster, and the Cracow Synagogue. In 1901, he was appointed reader