THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

40 Friday, January 21, 1977

SouthfieldSwitchesElection

The Southfield City
Council Monday night
voted to switch the city's
1977 primary election
date from Rosh Hashana
to Aug. 2.
Council President Mar-
tin Hollander said that of-
ficials in Lansing "did not
think they could act fast

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lation permitting South-
field to hold the election
at a later date.
"The Election Commis-
sion wasn't that thrilled
with the idea," he said.
The Aug. 2 date was al-
ready available according
to state election laws.
Southfield had wanted a
later date to shorten the
time between the primary
and the November general
election.
City Clerk Patrick
Flannery said that the
Aug. 2 date means that
potential candidates
must file nominating pet-
itions by June 14.

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Non-Jewish British Historian
Collects English Jews' History

BY MAURICE
SAMUELSON
(Copyright 1977, JTA, Inc.)

LONDON — Every
Saturday evening the
telephone begins to ring
in a large house in South
Manchester. It is an-
swered by a bearded his-
tory scholar from Man-
chester Polytechnic, 45-
year-old Bill Williams.
The calls are from
readers of a local Jewish
paper -which, for the past
18 months, has published
weekly articles about the
early days of Manches-
ter's 30,000-strong Jewish
community. They are an-
swering Williams' re-
quest for personal recol-
lections of their family, of
the community and its re-
lations with the outside
world.
It is from contacts like
this that Williams, a
Roman Catholic of Welsh
origin, obtains much of
the material for the mas-
sive history of Manches-
ter Jewry which he is
writing.
He has already pub-
lished the first volume,
covering the period until
1875. Now he is dealing
with the period up to the
Second World War. It will
take another two years to
complete. Williams and
an assistant have already
interviewed 200 people
and there are another 80
on the waiting list.
The whole work, being
published by the Manches-
ter University Press, was
commissioned by a com-
mittee of the local Jewish
Historical Society which
Williams helped to estab-
lish. But the impetus and
inspiration was his alone.
It grew out of his work as
head of the Polytechnic's
local history department.
Already, Williams is a
household name among
Manchester Jewry. Apart
from his weekly news-
paper accounts of life in
the "good old days" in

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Cheetham Hill and
Strangeways, he is a reg-
ular speaker at Jewish
gatherings, such as the
opening of new lodges of
Bnai Brith.
He also leads guided
tours of the traditional
Jewish areas, pointingto
places of special interest,
many of which are now
buried under new hous-
ing and industrial de-
velopments. The interest
has spread far beyond
Manchester itself.
Williams is called on to
address local history en-
thusiasts in Liverpool
and Leeds, which also
have sizeable and well-
establisPhed Jewish com-
munities. In Birming-
ham, which has a smaller
but old community, he
has helped to found a
local Jewish Historical
Society, and has in-
structed it in research
methods.

Williams' work brings
him into contact with many
of the community's older
synagogues and charitable
and educational institu-
tions. Thans to him, many
of their records have been
saved for posterity. In one
disused synagogue, he
found the records of a cen-
tury of Jewish life scat-
tered by vandals from one
end of the building to the
other.

The period on which he
is now working is of more
than local interest. It
covers Chaim Weiz-
mann's residence in Man-
chester and what is
known as "the Manches-
ter school of Zionism," as-
sociated with men like
Harry Sacher and Sir
Leon Simon.

Williams has discov-
ered the copies of a previ-
ously little known news-
paper in Manchester,
"The Zionist Banner,"
printed by the late Joseph
Massal and with which
Sacher and Simon were
associated. On a trip to
Liverpool, he also came
across the first minute
book of that city's
Hovevei Zion group, dat-
ing from the 1890s.
A professional histo-
rian, Williams' motive is
research for its own sake.
But by alerting Manches-
ter Jewry to its fast dis-
appearing heritage he is
helping to ensure its sur-
vival in the future.

Kollek Urges
Celebrations

NEW YORK — Mayor
Teddy Kollek of
Jerusalem, meeting last
Thursday with leading
American and Canadian
rabbis, called upon them
to take the initiative in
having their congrega-
tions throughout North
America take part in spe-
cial events to mark the
10th anniversary of the
reunification of the Holy
City.
The Jerusalem mayor
was the principal speaker
at a luncheon of the Na-
tional Rabbinic Cabinet
of the Israel Bond Or-
ganization at the Waldorf
-Astoria hotel.

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