Sharing Our Heritage
Rosalind Adam, Carol Cambers, Patricia Lidiker,
and Aubrey Newman
We are proud to announce that 'Sharing Our Heritage' has been awarded the David Hyman Prize by the Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain.
'Sharing Our Heritage' is a book written by four people with one voice. They have pooled a wealth of research and personal experience to produce this inspiring history of the Leicester Hebrew Congregation. It takes the reader from the excitement of a new Heritage Centre, back in time to the early 1800s, charting two centuries of the LHC's rich history, with many fluctuations in fortune along the way. It illustrates the spirit that lives within the LHC, a spirit that has enabled the congregation to survive when other provincial Jewish congregations have not.
About the Authors
Rosalind Adam qualified as a history teacher in 1982. She coordinated two National Heritage Lottery Fund projects: Jewish Voices, a memories project, and Lives Behind the Stones, a cemetery research project.
Carol Cambers was born in Leicester and completed an MA in English Local History at the University of Leicester. She led the volunteer research team for the Lives Behind the Stones project, based on the Jewish section at Gilroes Cemetery.
Patricia Lidiker began her journalistic career at the Leicester Mercury. Continuing to write for numerous newspapers and magazines nationwide on a wide range of subjects, she was also co-author of Portrait of a Community.
Aubrey Newman, Emeritus Professor of History at Leicester University, has written extensively about Anglo-Jewish history, particularly about the history of Provincial Jewry since the middle of the eighteenth century.
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