Jewish life in Hampstead, London: Shylock, Nazis and a cup of tea

Ivy House (London Jewish Cultural Centre). Photo from the London Ballet School. I’ve been to Ivy House in Hampstead before, for three weeks of Hebrew classes. (I was not very good and dropped out.) The ballerina Anna Pavlova lived here in the 1910s-20s, and since then it’s been remodelled like a university building, with white walls and fluorescent lights, to become the London Jewish Cultural Centre.