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Description: | This photograph shows Abe and Bertha Grodzinski in the doorway of their baker's shop in Whitechapel. The first Grodzinski bread in London was sold in 1888 from a barrow in Petticoat Lane Market, by Abe's parents Harris and Judith Grodzinski. Before they came to England, the couple had been bakers in Vilna in Lithuania. By 1896 they had a shared bakery at 20 Bedford Street, E1. The shop was re-named 'F Grodzinsky and Son' in 1904 by Abe's mother, who changed her name from Judith to Fanny. Abe married Bertha Jeidel in 1908 and they had five children. Unfortunately he died at the age of 32 in the 'flu epidemic of 1918, leaving Bertha to run the business and bring up a young family. By the 1970s Grodzinski had become the largest kosher bakery in Europe. In 1988 there were 18 Grodzinski stores across north, east and central London, and many of these are still open today. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ | Publisher: | Jewish Museum, London | Rights holder: | Out of copyright. | Subjects: | work Communities | Temporal: | 1914-1916 | Source: | Jewish Museum | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Go to resource |
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