Bath Jewish Community

City of Bath

Bath is an historic and elegant city of about 90,000 inhabitants in southwest of England, renowned since Roman times for its hot mineral springs. It forms the principal urban area of the district of Bath and Northeast Somerset, which is unitary authority created 1996 and placed for ceremonial purposes in the county of Somerset. Until 1996, Bath was a district of the now defunct county of Avon, which had been formed in 1974. Prior to then, Bath was a borough in the county of Somerset.

Jewish Community and Congregations

The following Congregations were considered to be part of the Bath Community:

Jewish Population Data

1742
1946

Community founded
40 (The Jewish Year Book 1947)

Articles on the Bath Community

The Rise of Provincial Jewry - Bath by Cecil Roth, 1950.
(available on JCR-UK as part of the Susser Archive)

Other Bath Information

Bibliography, Local Research Libraries and other sources

Bath Cemetery Information

Jewish Communities of England home page

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