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Manchester (Photo by William McCue on Unsplash)
After a £6 million refurbishment, the Manchester Jewish Museum is going to be reopened in July. Part of it is the 1874 Sephardi synagogue and its restoration is great news.
The problem with museums, though, comes when their controllers want to support a modern view, even if it doesn’t fit in with the true history of the past. I’m not suggesting this is the case with Manchester but there is often a tendency to gloss over the historical facts and paint a picture of continual harmony. The lessons of the past are often distorted. Marie Antoinette didn’t say “Let them eat cake”.