Jews' Temporary Shelter

[1][2] Around 1879, a Polish immigrant baker, Samuel Cohen, began to shelter Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe (particularly Poland and Russia) in his bakery in Whitechapel's Church Lane.

[3] The accommodation was improvised with sacks of flour being used as bedding and, in 1885, a sanitary inspector closed it.

[3] A public meeting was held at the Jewish Working Men's Club and a group of wealthy Jews led by Hermann Landau, established the Poor Jews' Temporary Shelter.

[6] Today the charity provides maintenance grants rather than supplying accommodation directly.

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