Eastbourne Jewish Community

On-line Articles and Other Material
relating to the Bradford Jewish Community

on third party website

• The Sunshine Coast: Eastbourne, Jews and Music (YouTube video) by Anne Goldstein, Connecting Small Histories:

Notable Jewish Connections with Eastbourne

• Alderman Joseph Angleman was mayor of Eastbourne in 1979.

• Dorit Oliver-Wolff (b. c.1936 in Yugoslavia), a child survivor of the Holocaust, who had a succesful career as a singer in Germany, and who came to England in 1962, was in 2025 admitted as an Honorary Freewoman of the Borough of Eastbourne in recognition of her role as a Holocaust educator and human rights campaigner.

• Jewish Musicians Associated with the Grand Hotel, Eastbourne (principal source: above video):

  • Leslie Jeffries (b. David Jaffa) (1894-1960) was a long-serving resident musical director at the Grand Hotel from 1934 until 1954. He died at the Grand Hotel after a return performance there.

  • Lou Morris, multi-instumentalist with Cecil Sapseid and his Savona Dance Band.

  • Abraham Sandler (1906-1948) was from 1925 a BBC radio celebrity, broadcasting as Albert Sandler and his Grand Hotel (Eastbourne Orchestra).

  • Auguste (Ezechiel) Van Biene (1849-1913), musician, actor and composer known as the "magician of the Cello".

  • Simon van Lier (1878-1966), was the Grand Hotel's first orchestra director from 1903. His wife, Flora Manheim (1877-1942), violinist and leader of ladies' Scottish orchestras, was murdered at Auschwitz.

• Registration District (BMD): East Sussex (since 1 May 2008)

  • Previous Registration District:
       Eastbourne (from 1 July 1837 to 1 May 2008).

  • Any registers would now be held by current register office

  • Link to Register Office website

The Jewish cemetery in Eastbourne:

• Eastbourne Borough Cemetery, Jewish Section, Hide Hollow, Langney, Eastbourne, BN23. Consecrated in 1930. Operated in conjunction with the Brighton Chevra Kadisha.

(For additional information, see IAJGS Cemetery Project - Eastbourne)