Edward Patnick
Edward Patnick
START – Great Grandfather came to UK as a Hebrew teacher mid-1800s. Died in Sheffield.
Grandfather came in 1900. Lithuania. Father born in Sheffield 1897. Came due to problems in their countries with Jewish people.
3:00 – Grandmother arrived in 1901, died in the Blitz, only spoke Yiddish and some Hebrew, never spoke a word of English. Edward doesn’t speak Yiddish.
8:00 – Mother went to school on Allen Street in Netherthorpe. Father went to Park School, didn’t speak Yiddish.
9:45 – Born on Gleadless Road in a bungalow 5 acres due to disabled brother who died age 5.
18:00 Not evacuated during the war. Lived at Langsett Road.
19:30 – Remembers the time when Sheffield was blitzed whilst he was at the cinema. He and he family were nearly bombed.
21:00 – Attended Walkley County Primary School but never went to secondary school.
22:30 – Joined forces aged 19 then left to join father’s business as junk dealer.
23: 00 – Parents wanted him to be an accountant and solicitor.
24:00 –Serious illness aged 12, spent 3 months in hospital. Learnt Hebrew with difficulty - knows rituals well, but couldn’t take a service in Hebrew.
27:00 – Jewish education on Wednesday and Sunday.
29:00 – Experience of forces: Treatment, food, treated as a spy due to his religion.
33:30 – Anti-Semitism at school. Saw it more as anti-Patnick than anti-Semitism. Italians had it worse.
35:00 – Relationship between Freemasonry and Judaism.
42:00 – Refereeing and Jewish football. Was a social opportunity to meet Jewish people in other cities. Dance and meal afterwards. Boys would play sport and girls would make the food.
47:30 – Meeting his wife through football in Leicester. A friend of a cousin. Common to meet wives through football.
49:30 – Chairman of McCabe.
52:00 – Demographic of Jewish Sheffield. Only 2 members of Synagogue of working age.
53.30 – Following a kosher diet. Difficulties of being Jewish in Sheffield. Every provincial community is suffering apart from Manchester.
56:30 - Arrival of the Patnick family in Sheffield, arrival of the Jewish community in Sheffield and Leeds from the 18th century onwards.
59.00 – Different jobs and industries
1.00 – Staying in Sheffield, rather than moving away, social life
1.00.01 – Keeping kosher when eating out
1.02.45 – Starting in Freemasonry
1.03.10 – No tension between Freemasonry and Jewish identity
1.05.50 – Founding of a Jewish lodge
1.06.28 – Muslim friends, ‘we all pray to the same God’
1.07.25 – Integrating into wider society
1.08.02 – Leicester synagogue, Psalter Lane in Sheffield
1.08.37 – Synagogue congregation in Sheffield
1.09.03 – Personal synagogue attendance
1.09.48 – Jewish liturgy
1.01.02 – Synagogue merger with United Synagogues: finances
1.12.10 – Past president of the Synagogue, current senior warden
1.12.55 – Past family religious observance/involvement
1.15.20 – Personal religious faith/way of life
1.16.39 – Conversion very difficult
1.19.00 – Circumcision
1.20.40 – Mother, involvement in community and business organisation
1.24.50 – Primary school memories
1.25.29 – Playing Shylock at secondary school
1.28.40 – Writing the book for charity