Comments on: Shloimy Alman, Photographer https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/09/30/shloimy-alman-photographer/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Sun, 04 May 2025 13:34:40 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Lewis Glinert https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/09/30/shloimy-alman-photographer/#comment-1718774 Sun, 04 May 2025 13:34:40 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=176987#comment-1718774 Belatedly learned of this wonderful project. What a life story.
Regarding the great Avraham Stenczl, I was involved together with my colleague Shmuel Salinger, the Hebrew librarian at SOAS, in saving his books from the tip.
Another part of commercial life in the East End was all the wholesale trade. My father alav hashalom had a drapery and toy shop at 71 Wilton Way in Dalston and went every Thursday to his wholesalers: I recall a few from the 50s and 60s: Kay’s on Commercial St, and opposite them Sami & Salim, Prevezer on Whitechapel High St, two large warehouses Goldenfeld and Rotherham, Ziggle men’s wear on Kingsland Rd, Rubinstein footwear also on Kingsland Rd near the junction with Shoreditch High St, Rosenthal on a small turning nr Brune St. Has any of this ever been documented?

]]> By: Mark Frith https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/09/30/shloimy-alman-photographer/#comment-1498575 Sun, 15 Jan 2023 17:51:28 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=176987#comment-1498575 I love these photos and these stories. I worked for an Architects in Rampart St E1 in 1987, and I remember buying sweet herring salmon balls and chopped liver from Barry Rogg. One thing he always did was encourage you to try something and when you bought something he would weight it out or count them out and takeaway one that he had let you try that you thought you were getting free.
This was my first encounter of heimish Jewish food.
I remember also going to the Jewish book store in Whitchapel Rd opposite the hospital to find out All things jewish. A lovely time to be around the east end .

]]> By: Naomi Brandler https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/09/30/shloimy-alman-photographer/#comment-1359129 Fri, 27 Nov 2020 08:11:38 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=176987#comment-1359129 Lovely piece on Shloimy and London’s East End. Thanks

]]> By: elaine black https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/09/30/shloimy-alman-photographer/#comment-1359073 Thu, 26 Nov 2020 15:51:39 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=176987#comment-1359073 Sadly Shloimy died this Sunday 22/11/2020. There is due to be an exhibition of his Jewish Manchester photos in Manchester next October. He will be sadly missed. His photographic memories will live on and be enjoyed by many. These projects were of paramount importance to our dear friend. May he rest in peace.

]]> By: Brenda Landed https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/09/30/shloimy-alman-photographer/#comment-1359060 Thu, 26 Nov 2020 11:41:09 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=176987#comment-1359060 Wonderful article about Shlomi. I am from Cardiff , but when visiting London we often went with my aun to Blooms restaurant for lunch. I also worked for a few months at the London Jewish hospital.Mile End Road. Much earlier aunt Lisa Einstein ( 2nd cousin of Albert Einstein) was tvhe chief nurse there from 1939 to 47. She had been studying to be a doctor, Albert Einstein managed to get her an emergency doument to come to London where she could be a nurse. She met my uncle who was a doctor thereand they married after the war. They spoke in Yiddish also. My uncle refused to speak German. Also my cousin Raphael Samuel lived in the East End in a houze from the 17 th century. Protected by the national trust. He was a professor of History in Oxford. I explored the East End with him in 1977 when there was still a great atmosphere . of Jewish and Yiddish culture. A

]]> By: Charlie https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/09/30/shloimy-alman-photographer/#comment-1316453 Tue, 01 Oct 2019 16:56:38 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=176987#comment-1316453 I’m amazed that these pictures are from as late as the seventies. The first time I went round the East End in 1983 there was absolutely none of this left or at least very very little.

It must have died out overnight….

]]> By: jim McDermott https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/09/30/shloimy-alman-photographer/#comment-1316438 Tue, 01 Oct 2019 15:00:40 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=176987#comment-1316438 I’m not one to demand epaulettes on my purveyors, but that white’ish vest …

]]> By: mick o'leary https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/09/30/shloimy-alman-photographer/#comment-1316433 Tue, 01 Oct 2019 13:52:07 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=176987#comment-1316433 Wonderful piece – capturing a history now virtually disappeared. A real joy to read and feast my eyes upon. Being a frequent visitor to the Brick Lane area of 2019, good to know that new stories and histories have emerged to create a new chapter in the treasure trove that is the East End of London.

]]> By: David Walker https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/09/30/shloimy-alman-photographer/#comment-1316429 Tue, 01 Oct 2019 12:52:42 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=176987#comment-1316429 Wonderful photographs.A beautifully evocative piece of writing too from Rachel Lichtenstein.

]]> By: David https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/09/30/shloimy-alman-photographer/#comment-1316421 Tue, 01 Oct 2019 11:39:47 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=176987#comment-1316421 The Wine Merchant’s shop was at 97 Commercial Road. When my great-grandfather died, my great grandmother remarried a vintner, Meyer Zigmond in 1916. Fortunately, I have a photo of them both, Meyer has some kind of medal hanging on a cord around his neck and they did indeed reside at number 97.

David

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