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Hackney Museum collects many objects that relate to the history of Hackney's diverse communities - e.g a set of Vietnamese painted fingernails. They also collect objects that relate to communites lives in their countries of origins, such as a Nigerian catapult.

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Religious Group: Jewish

Religious Group: Jewish

There is a large display on Weinberg’s Printing Press in the "Place to do Business" part of Hackney Museum.

Objects include a Jewish printing press (large display; Samples of printed work in Yiddish; Image of Jews arriving in Hackney

Nearby text panels discuss how Jews from Russia settled in Shoreditch. In particular there's material on Barnett Weinberg who co-founded Yiddish paper Der Tzeit in Hackney in 1912. He also produced wide range of printed material from Bar Mitzvah cards to membership cards for Jewish Bankers Union. Business declined as the Jewish community gradually moved out of Hackney into the suburbs and the business finally closed in 1987.



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