Title

'The Ghetto. London', c1890. Artist: Unknown

Caption

'The Ghetto. London', c1890. Postcard showing a market in the East End of London. Between 1881 and 1914, two million Jews left Eastern Europe, fleeing poverty and persecution. Some 150,000 settled in England, many living in the East End, near the docks where their ships had arrived.
From the Jewish Chronicle Archive

Date

1890

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images

Reference

HRM19B71_226

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

50,1Mb (3,6Mb) / 17,4in x 11,2in / 5230 x 3346 (300dpi)

Keywords

London England people communications religious religion refuge Judaism Jewish immigration location century postcard B&W JEW immigrant MONOCHROME refugee ghetto postal service 19th century black & white black and white B W nineteenth century refugees Tower Hamlets East End M Ettlinger & Co TGN photograph postcard Unknown photograph postcard