Edwardian Jewish Soup Kitchen - philanthropic 5666 1906 hall , Empire St Manchester, England, UK, M3 1JB
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Empire St Manchester, England, UK, M3 1JBMore information:
Soup and Reform: Improving the Poor and Reforming Immigrants through Soup Kitchens 1870–1910 - more at https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10761-017-0403-8 Charitable soup kitchens proliferated in nineteenth-century Europe and North America. Three soup kitchens operating in England between 1870 and 1910 are compared; two were Jewish soup kitchens, the other was an English (non-Jewish) charity. Institutional buildings are often analyzed using Foucault-derived models of control based on surveillance and punishment. Such models may not explain fully charities, their buildings, or their method of reform. Historical archaeology can show how charity that coerces or dehumanizes the poor is less likely to create lasting improvements in the behaviors it is seeking to reform than charity that adopts a more positive approach. The Manchester Jewish Soup Kitchen Documentary History The Jewish soup kitchen in Manchester had its first meeting in November 1895 (Manchester Jewish Soup Kitchen 1912). The committee was formed by local rabbis; the women present formed a sub-committee to organize fund-raising. By 1904, half of the main committee was made up of women. The kitchen opened three times a week from Chanukah (i.e., in early 1896) until Passover. The committee adopted the name “The Soup Kitchen for the Jewish Poor Manchester, ” after the London soup kitchen. In 1908 the name was changed to “The Manchester Jewish Soup Kitchen.” The committee located a site on the corner of Exchange Street (now Empire Street) and Southall Street, opposite the northeast corner of Strangeways Prison, on the western side of the Jewish community. Plans were drawn up by architect Thomas Bushell. Fundraising for the new building included a penny-brick fund by which less well-off donors could sponsor a brick for the cost of one penny. Michael Marks, the co-founder of department store Marks & Spencer and an active committee member, made a substantial donation in 1905 for funding tickets