Marian Prinsley

Marian Prinsley grew up on a remote farm in Swaziland but has lived in the UK since the age of 14. She is an educational psychologist with nearly 40 years’ experience. Twenty-six years ago Marian and her husband Peter moved to the medieval city of Norwich with their family. They became part of the small Jewish community in the city and have been members of the Norwich Hebrew Congregation ever since. Marian has been instrumental in fundraising and renovating the outdated synagogue buildings in Norwich and establishing a Jewish Heritage Group in the city. This is a new and important collaboration between the Jewish community, the University of East Anglia, and the Norfolk Record Office. The community vision is to establish a Jewish Heritage Center at the synagogue. Living in the shadows of medieval Jewish persecution, which includes the Blood Libel, the Jewish community of Norwich is keen to tell the story of its own history.