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Jewish East End Celebration Society (JEECS)

Categories: History, Religion

From the picture source website: "Our aim is to raise awareness of the history and culture of London's Jewish East End, to preserve what remains and record what has now gone."

Note: the symbol they use on their website, and copied here, is that on the building at 88 Whitechapel High Street, left behind by a Jewish newspaper. (We will publish it soon.)

This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
Jewish East End Celebration Society (JEECS)

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Daniel Mendoza

Mendoza's burial site, "a spot nearby", is the Nuovo Sephardi cemetery in the...

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Sidney Street siege and fire

Our colleague Alan Patient decoded JEECS into ‘Jewish East End Celebration So...

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