Interview with Salaam Shalom and Dr Madge Dresser, Know Your Bristol, June 12th 2016
In this interview with Salaam Shalom and Know Your Bristol, Dr Dresser discusses:
- the growth of the Jewish community from the Medieval era onwards
- her move to Bristol in 1970, with comparisons between Bristol then to London and Los Angeles
- her anti-racism work
- the Bristol bus boycott
- her book Bristol: Ethnic Minorites in the City 1000-2001
- Lord Mayor Helen Bloom, the first female Jewish Lord Mayor, and the history of the Strimer family
- the history of synagogues in Bristol, and synagogues in Bristol today
- DAVAR, the Jewish Cultural Institute in Bristol
- partnership between the Bristol and West Progressive Synagogue and the Muslim community in Barton Hill
- the Torah scroll at the Progressive synagogue
- how the Jewish high holy days are celebrated in Bristol
- Jewish artefacts Dr Dresser found for M Shed
- involvement in the discovery of the bet tahorah Medieval ritual bath on Jacob's Wells Road
- the intellectual and political growth and identity of the Jewish community from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century in Bristol and the UK