In 2006, THE HERITAGE LOTTERY FUND funded Pascal Theatre Company to produce a video archive of Jewish women’s experiences. Women of various ages, professions and of diverse backgrounds were interviewed for an exhibition that took place at London Jewish Cultural Centre’s Ivy House. This record has been made accessible to universities, schools, museums and community centres.

The filmed archive is now deposited with The Jewish Museum, The British Library, the Imperial War Museum, London Metropolitan Archives, The Women’s Library, The Jewish Museum, The Wiener Library – and, of course, our partner for this project,
London Jewish Cultural Centre.

You can view a clip of the film below:

Jewish Mothers and Daughters: A Film Archive from Julia Pascal on Vimeo.

The women interviewed are well-known and lesser known personalities. These include:

Geraldine Auerbach	Helen Bamber	Linda Bellos
Ruth Cecil	Natalie Clein	Judith Cohen
Norma Cohen	Edwina Currie	Ruth Deech
Eugenie Dodd	Dr Marta Elian	Rachel Garfield
Renee Goddard	Ros Goldfarb	Naomi Gryn
Helene Hayman	Eva Hoffman	Pamela Howard
June Jacobs	Miriam Karlin	Oona King
Rabbi Laura Janner-Klausner	Katherine Klinger	Susannah Kraft Levene
Irma Kurtz	Maureen Lipman	Nancy Meckler
Rebecca Mills	Abigail Morris	Edith Newman
Susie Orbach	Ursula Owen	Julia Pascal
Melanie Phillips	Ruth Posner	Rosalind Preston
Dina Rabinovitch	Claudia Roden	Habie Schwarz
Janet Suzman	Liselle Terret	Faynia Williams
Carole Woddis