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So in Part One we left The Jaffes as involved citizens in the civic life of Belfast, so what happened? Things turned sour for the Jaffe’s after the outbreak of the First World War. In August of 1914 the Government passed the Aliens Restriction Act that allowed them to control the activities of what they defined as “enemy aliens”, particularly Germans. It also covered their movements in that they could not travel more than five miles, and there were prohibited areas where they

Long ago, before I was Wee Walks Belfast I wrote an article on Sir Otto Jaffe for the journal of the East Belfast Historical Society (in 2010!) I then wrote a shorter version for City Matters which was the magazine of the Belfast City Council at the time. I've seen a lot of this information around the internet so I thought I'd reproduce the article in full here as Wee Walks Belfast very first Blog post. East Belfast’s Forgotten Philanthropist   The name Otto Jaffe has long b