Audio clip from an oral history with Pat Morris: Knowledge of Brynmawr Jewish community, London, 27 June 2018

Description

This is an audio clip from an interview with Pat Morris where she shares her knowledge of Brynmawr Jewish community.

In her interview, Pat notes that she does feels a strong connection to Wales given her family's connections there and her frequent visits ever since she was a child. In discussing her Welsh identity, Pat reflects that she believes religious and national identity to be distinctly separate, and therefore does not identify any differences between these two identities. Regarding her family heritage, Pat reveals that her maternal family settled in Wales from Austria during the 1880s and her paternal family moved from Russia in the early 1910s. Although Pat has never permanently lived in Wales, she has a lot of knowledge regarding Jewish communities in South Wales. Significantly, she recollects stories she has been told about the valleys and Brynmawr and how Jewish communities operated there. The depth of her knowledge rests in Cardiff where her grandparents lived and in Cardiff she can recall memories of attending Cathedral Road Synagogue.

Depository: The National Screen and Sound Archive of Wales.