Jewish Telegraph
Regional Jewish weekly newspaper published in Manchester since 1950, with Leeds, Liverpool and Glasgow editions
| Jewish Telegraph
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|---|---|
| Type | Weekly newspaper; published by The Jewish Telegraph Limited, private limited company no. 00626689 |
| Founded | December 1950 |
| Founder(s) | Frank Harris and Vivienne Harris |
| Headquarters | Holland House, 12 Holland Road, Manchester, M8 4AA (registered office) |
| Industry | Newspaper publishing |
| Services | Manchester, Leeds, Liverpool and Glasgow editions; website |
| Parent | The Jewish Telegraph Limited |
| Homepage | jewishtelegraph.com |
The Jewish Telegraph is a weekly Jewish newspaper based in Manchester, founded in December 1950 by Frank Harris and Vivienne Harris.[1][2] It publishes separate editions for Manchester, Leeds, Liverpool and Glasgow.[2] Its publisher, The Jewish Telegraph Limited, is controlled by the founders' son Paul Harris, who has edited the paper since 1979.[3][4]
The paper's website describes it as "still under the same independent family ownership" and as "Britain's only regional Jewish newspaper".[2]
History
In a 2000 article for The Guardian, Paul Harris wrote that his parents, Frank Harris and Vivienne Harris, started the paper "with a borrowed typewriter and £50 capital" to compete with the free Jewish Gazette and The Jewish Chronicle in the north of England.[1] The Manchester Evening News reported that the couple founded it from their dining room in Salford, after Frank Harris, a freelance journalist from London, found that the only Jewish publication in Manchester was a free sheet.[4]
According to Harris's account, The Jewish Chronicle acquired the Jewish Gazette in 1960, moved it to city-centre offices and started a Leeds edition. He wrote that by the early 1960s the Telegraph was selling more copies in Manchester than the Gazette and the Chronicle combined.[1]
Regional editions
Harris wrote that a Leeds edition was launched in 1976, and that five years later the monthly Liverpool Jewish Gazette was acquired and incorporated into the Telegraph as a weekly.[1] The paper's website says it incorporates the Jewish Gazette, "which it acquired in February 1995".[2]
The sources differ on the date of the Glasgow edition. Harris's 2000 Guardian article says the paper moved into Glasgow "in 1991, as the Glasgow Jewish Echo collapsed".[1] A Herald report quoting Harris says that the edition began after the Echo closed in 1992, and gives its circulation as 3,000 a week.[5]
Audience
The paper's website says the Manchester edition "circulates among a 50,000 Jewish population" in Greater Manchester, the Fylde Coast, Southport and the Midlands. It also claims "almost blanket coverage" of the 20,000-strong Jewish communities of Yorkshire through the Leeds edition, and says the Glasgow edition covers "virtually all the 12,000 Jews north of the border". The pages are undated.[2]
Ownership
The paper is published by The Jewish Telegraph Limited (company number 00626689), incorporated on 24 April 1959 and named Jewish Telegraph Limited (The) until 25 September 2020. Its registered office is Holland House, 12 Holland Road, Manchester, M8 4AA.[6] Paul Harris has been registered since 6 April 2016 as its only person with significant control, owning 75% or more of the shares.[3] The company files micro-company accounts.[7]
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| Paul Harris | Director | before 9 July 1991 | current |
| Alexander Farrell Harris | Director | 11 March 2022 | current |
| Alexander Farrell Harris | Secretary | 6 January 2012 | current |
| Vivienne Harris | Director | before 9 July 1991 | 4 March 2011 |
| Vivienne Harris | Secretary | before 9 July 1991 | 4 March 2011 |
| Walter Isaac Hubert | Director | before 9 July 1991 | 28 July 1998 |
The Manchester Evening News reported that Vivienne Harris was working as the paper's financial director until shortly before her death in January 2013, aged 89, and that she had been awarded an MBE for services to journalism and the community.[4]
Editors
A Herald report quoted Harris as saying that the paper had had only two editors in 50 years, Frank Harris and his son Paul.[5] Paul Harris wrote that his father died "suddenly on press day in July 1979", and that he took over at the age of 28.[1]
| Editor | From | To |
|---|---|---|
| Frank Harris | December 1950 | July 1979 (died)[1] |
| Paul Harris | July 1979 | present (listed as "Editor/ Director")[1][2] |
The paper's Manchester contact page lists Mike Cohen as deputy editor and arts editor and Geoff Kuhillow as managing editor.[2] In 2000 Harris wrote that his arts editor also edited the Leeds and Liverpool editions, and that his deputy edited the Glasgow edition[1]
See also
External links
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 Paul Harris, All hands on deck The Guardian, 11 December 2000, accessed 7 November 2026.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 Jewish Telegraph, Contact Manchester office staff accessed 7 November 2026.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Companies House, The Jewish Telegraph Limited: persons with significant control accessed 7 November 2026.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Alice McKeegan, Founder of Jewish Telegraph, Vivienne Harris, dies aged 89 Manchester Evening News, 11 January 2013, accessed 7 November 2026.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 The Herald, Fifty years of informing the faithful The Herald (Glasgow), accessed 7 November 2026.
- ↑ Companies House, The Jewish Telegraph Limited: overview accessed 7 November 2026.
- ↑ Companies House, The Jewish Telegraph Limited: filing history accessed 7 November 2026.
- ↑ Companies House, The Jewish Telegraph Limited: officers accessed 7 November 2026.