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The history of the Jews in Manchester, England, has its origin in the 18th century when Manchester was a rapidly growing town. By the end of the century the small Jewish community had a place of worship and some members had set up businesses. The history of Manchester's Jewish community is told in displays at the Manchester Jewish Museum in Cheetham Hill. ==First settlers== In the 1750s Jews had no political rights in England and in particular were not allowed to purchase property. Attached as country members of the Great Synagogue, they traded as peddlars and hawkers. Small groups coalesced around safe Jew-friendly lodging houses where they organised temporary minyanim to observe the Shabbat. It was in Liverpool rather than Manchester that served as a focus for the first Jewish settlement in the north west, with communities in Cumberland Street which moved in 1775 to a room in Turton Court. Manchester was expanding rapidly and in 1758 one family in trade became prosperous enough to acquire a private carriage. Manchester became an increasing important market and Liverpool-based Jewish hawkers worked in Manchester during the week, returning to Liverpool to celebrate Sabbath. The Manchester press was anti-Semitic. Jews traditionally traded in slop, jewellery and calligraphy and became pawnbrokers, quack doctors, seal cutters, engravers, watchmakers and miniature painters. The trades were profitable but a miscreant could use the same skills for forgery, lockpicking and fencing stolen goods. In Manchester there was a fear of travelling plagiarists who could reveal the profitable secrets of cotton to foreign rivals and seduce cotton workers to take their skills abroad. ''Prescott's Manchester Journal'' of 1774 warned: :''several JEWS and OTHER FOREIGNERS have for some months past frequented the town under various pretences and some of them have procured Spinning machines, looms, dressing machines, cutting knives and other tools used in the manufactures (sic) of fustians, cotton velvets, velveteens and other Manchester goods. ... And frequent attempts have been made to entice, persuade and seduce artificers to go foreign parts out of His Majesty's dominions... (This) will be the destruction of the trade of this country, unless timely prevented.'' No Jew was ever convicted. The presence of increasing wealthy slop dealers and hawkers was noted, and in 1788 Simon Solomon, jeweller and Hamilton Levi a flower dealer took shops in Long Millgate and Shudehill. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「History of the Jews in Manchester」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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