The late Roger Cowen was educated at the University of Manchester and received an MBA from Columbia University Business School. He pursued a very creative and successful business career, and had a wide range of interests in the arts and communal activities. He died in 1986.
A keen photographer, Roger Cowen, with Anne Cowen, visited many small provincial synagogues in the United Kingdom and researched their histories. Their visits to antiques shops and bookshops proved a pleasurable activity and yielded much of the material used in this book.
