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