Jews' Temporary Shelter
The Jews' Temporary Shelter is a charity in London which helps homeless Jews.
Around 1879, a Polish immigrant baker, Samuel Cohen, began to shelter Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe in his bakery in Whitechapel's Church Lane. The accommodation was improvised with sacks of flour being used as bedding and, in 1885, a sanitory inspector closed it. 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. The first location was in Great Garden Street but a more permanent shelter was established in Leman Street on 11 April 1886.
