On Monday, September 16, medieval Jewish studies scholar Dr Dean Irwin detailed the history of the Benas family of influential bankers, philanthropists and historians of Anglo-Jewry as well as of Liverpool Jewry, who were members of the shul.

Prussian-born Louis Benas (1820-1890) established himself as a banker in Liverpool in 1865.

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