jc archive

From the JC archive, May 8 1936

Letters to the Editor, January 16 2026

From the JC archive 1906: A blood red dawn in Kent as new controls on migrants sail into law

On January 1, 1906 the UK’s first immigration legislation passed into law – after a campaign against Jewish refugees from Eastern Europe. The JC sent Simon Gelberg to meet the first boat due in London

Letters to the Editor, December 12 2025

From the JC archive: April 13 1945

The grim toll of the death camps; a Jewish flag brings hope

Long before Jewface arguments, Jewish comedians were playing up to stereotypes

Julian Rose, an American comedian popularised the early form of Jewish caricature comedy

PM to mark 80 years since parliament learned of Holocaust

On 17 December 1942, Parliament spontaneously fell silent after Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden confirmed that the Jews of Europe were being exterminated

From the archive: The Yom Kippur War in Israel and the UK

From the JC archive on October 12, 1973

From the JC archive: November 15, 1918

Peace, pogroms and starvation in Syria

From the JC archive: November 2, 1956

The Suez crisis, a schoolgirl’s experiment and a synagogue stowaway

From the JC archive: October 22, 1985

Murder of a hostage; Sugar bucks the trend; Margaret Thatcher backs the JC

From the JC archive: October 19 1962

Currently featured in the BBC series Ridley Road, here's the JC's report on the trial of British Nazi Colin Jordan - and in Germany, Nazis go on trial for the murder of tens of thousands of people

From the JC Archive: October 5 1900

Dreyfus’s plight, Boer war soldiers and the election

From the JC archive: October 4 1974

Three circus clowns and a first ‘girl rabbi’

A hijack, a church and a ban for Civilisation 24pt if copy is long

Hidden treasures from the archives

A new initiative from the Board of Deputies will bring together material on Jewish history from all over the UK