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Friday, November 13, 2009 10:58:06 PM GMT Friday, November 13, 2009 4:57:13 PM GMT

Alwayswriteagain: The Toast of Birmingham

Alwayswriteagain: The Toast of Birmingham
 
wwwalwayswriteagain.blogspot.com -- The sort of mid-Autumn day which makes poets warble saw us wend our way to Birmingham for the saddest, most tender of family reunions. The diminished ranks of the Wood and Hawkins families were gathering to pay tribute to two family matriarchs who had been loved nearly as much by assembled cousins and friends as by their own children. Both Audrey and Cynthia, though some years my  parents’ senior, had survived them by more than a decade and as the veils were removed from their respective double headston...
tags: A Guide To Jewish Knowledge, Anglo-Jewry In Changing Times, Audrey Hawkins, birmingham, Birmingham Hebrew Congregation, Cynthia Wood, Frank Baigel, Judge Israel Finestein, Macavity The Mystery Cat, Michael Davies, Rabbi Jonathan Wittenberg, Rabbi Yossi Jacobs, Rev Dr Chaim Pearl, Rev Reuben Brookes, Sir Moses Montefiore, T.S. Eliot, Witton Jewish Cemetery

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