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Is this really Art? Blue Route text by Jemma Logan Audio by Mr Kell


Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art (also known simply as Baltic, stylised as BALTIC) is a centre for contemporary art located on the south bank of the River Tyne alongside the Gateshead Millennium Bridge in Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, England. It hosts a frequently changing programme of exhibitions and events, with no permanent exhibition. It was originally build as a flour mill and was closed in 1981. It is called the Baltic because this was on Baltic Quay which at one time is where the ships sailed to the and From the Baltic ports. It opened as an art gallery in 2002.


The Baltic ports are an important link to the ethnic mix of the region, Gateshead on the south side of the river has a very large Jewish community


The first known Jew to settle in Gateshead was Zachariah bernstone in the 1890s, a Russian immigrant who rebelled and broke away from the lesser observant congregation of adjoining Newcastle on Tyne. With his protégé E. Adler and their families from Eastern Europe he attempted to establish a community at the beginning of the 20th century. On the initiative of a group of scholars, including shochet David Dryan, David Baddiel and Moshe David Freed, a yeshivah, now world famous with some 250 pupils, was opened in 1929 under the direction of Rabbi N. Landynski and his assistant, L. Kahan. It represented the realization of a dream of those scholars who had seen their own yeshivot in Europe destroyed in pogroms. The first students from the U.K. were joined in the 1930s by refugees fleeing Nazi Germany and later by students from all over the world. Rabbi N. Shakowitzky, formerly of Lithuania, became community leader in the 1930s, up to which time the community and its houses of learning were of a strictly Russian-polish character.

When refugees from Nazi Germany came to England only the strictly observant were attracted to Gateshead.

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