Photograph, portrait

This photograph shows Juda Fisher, probably with his son Morris. The Jewish Fiszer family moved to London from Warsaw. In 1907 Juda Fiszer established an umbrella business in Hanbury Street in Whitechapel. The family anglicised their name to Fisher, though Juda and his wife Malka retained their Polish nationality. During World War I the Fishers moved to Hackney. Their son Morris continued the family business, which closed in the 1930s. Morris became a market trader with a stall in the Whitechapel Road, selling umbrellas, walking sticks and handbags.