Jewish History Month: The Vanishing Street & Granada Television

March is Jewish History Month, and the first event to be announced in our area is a double-bill talk at 70 Oxford Street (the former Cornerhouse). The acclaimed writer Rachel Lichtenstein (pictured) will deliver an illustrated presentation about the filmmaker Robert Vas. Brought up in a ghetto in Nazi occupied Hungary, in the 1960s Vas made two documentaries which explored London’s Jewish East End. The Vanishing Street captured a market in Whitechapel just before the area was redeveloped, and Belonging followed the lives of three artists, including the noted Yiddish poet Avram Stencl. Following this, Isabel Taube, a PhD researcher in History, will discuss the history of Granada Television. She will provide an insight into how the Jewish background of the company’s founders, Sidney and Cecil Bernstein, shaped the ethos of Granada and helped it carve out a distinctive cultural identity. The talks will be followed by a conversation between the two speakers about their respective research.

Tue 12 March, 70 Oxford Street, Manchester, M15 5NH, Tel: 0161 2471398, 6.30pm – 9pm, £8-£10, www.eventbrite.co.uk