Jewish “ghettoes” Reported Disappearing in Large Cities in England

The Jewish “ghettoes” in the big cities in this country, where large numbers of Jews have concentrated, are breaking up as more and near Jews move to the suburbs, the Zionist Federation of Great Britain was told at its conference here today by its honorary president, Israel Sieff.

Stressing the education of Jewish youth, Mr. Sieff told the conference that Jews no longer live in many areas formerly thickly populated by them in Leeds, Manchester and other cities. Jews are also moving oil of London’s East End–all going to the suburbs.

Five Jewish Day Schools opened in England during recent years, and a sixth school of that type to be opened soon, “will be copied everywhere in the Western world,” Mr. Sieff declared. “The Jewish child trained in a Jewish Day School is going to be the invincible core of the Zionist movement that is to come.”

Emigration from England to Israel, he continued, it’s mere trickle, because even Zionists are not yet able to make that sacrifice in order to go to live in Israel and build their lives there. ” The main task ahead for British Zionists, Mr. Sieff stated, “is to build up Jewish communities permeated, through and through, with Jewish consciousness and the will to live.”