Blackpool United Hebrew Congegration

References to the Blackpool Hebrew Congregation and Community
Appearing in the Jewish Chronicle
1898-1907
Compiled by Harold Pollins

Jewish Chronicle, 13 May 1898, page 28
At a meeting held on Sunday at Mr. Latte’s Trevelyan Hotel, Blackpool, it was decided to form a Hebrew Congregation. The following were elected: Mr. S. Shiers, President; Mr. E. I. Samuels, Hon. Secretary and Treasurer; Messrs. Arnold, S. Latte, H. Kauffman, J. Alvarez, B. Wood, and A. Hesse, Committee. Rev. A. Levi, Reader, Shochet, and Teacher. The opening service will be held on Saturday 2lst inst., at the house of the Hon. Secretary, Mr. Samuels, 6 Polam Road, (near Talbot Road Station).

Jewish Chronicle, 3 June 1898, page 28
Owing to the considerable influx of Jewish visitors, a large room at the Liberal Club has been engaged as a temporary synagogue, where services are held. From the numerous promises of support and the liberal donations already made a Synagogue will be built by next season.

Jewish Chronicle, 8 July 1898, page 2
The Cemetery Committee of the Blackpool Corporation have, on the application of the Hon. Secretary of the newly-formed Congregation, decided to set apart a portion of the Burial Ground for Jewish interments.

Jewish Chronicle, 18 May 1900, page 20

 Consecration of the Blackpool Synagogue

The new synagogue in Springfield Road, North Shore, Blackpool, was announced to be consecrated yesterday afternoon by the Chief Rabbi, and a reception was to follow presided over by the Mayor.

The congregation was established on May 1st, 1898 [sic], by seven members, the founders being Messrs, Saul Shiers, President, E. I. Samuels, Hon. Secretary; J.A. Arnold, A. Latte, H. Kauffman and  J. Samter. * The first service was held at the house of Mr. E. I. Samuels …

The present membership is fourteen, but the number of visitors in the season is large, and the new synagogue will accommodate 100 …

[*Note that this list is slightly different from those who attended the meeting reported on 13 May 1898]

[Dissident congregation set up in 1905]

Jewish Chronicle, 17 November 1905
Wanted for Blackpool New Hebrew Orthodox Congregation, Shochet, Reader and Baal Korah; single preferred; salary 18/- per week. Apply, by letter, L. Morris, Hon. Secretary, 34 Central-road, Blackpool.

Jewish Chronicle, 27 April 1906, page 1
Death on 22 April of Abraham Solomon Warschawski aged 69. President of the Blackpool New Orthodox Hebrew Congregation.

Jewish Chronicle, 15 June 1906, page 43
D..L. Alexander, President of the Board of Deputies, attended service last Saturday at Springfield Road, ‘with a view to adjusting some local differences’ but was summoned home urgently.

Jewish Chronicle, 7 September 1906, page 2
(advert)

 BLACKPOOL
HEBREW CONGREGATION
SPRINGFIELD-ROAD
(opposite Metropole Hotel)

THE only Synagogue in Blackpool under the jurisdiction of the Chief Rabbi, Dr. H. Adler. The Committee will attend each Sunday morning, 11.30-12.20 to ALLOT SEATS  for the ensuing High Festivals. Applications by letter should be addressed to the Hon. Secretary.

[Advert, immediately underneath the above advert]

BLACKPOOL NEW ORTHODOX
HEBREW CONGREGATION

[This is referred to in Charles H.L. Emanuel, A Century and a Half of Jewish History. Extracted from the Minute Books of the London Committee of Deputies of the British Jews, 1910, page 174.

‘The President tendered his services as Hon. Arbitrator, to settle certain Communal differences at Blackpool, and duly delivered his award on the basis of which the two conflicting bodies of worshippers were reunited. The same result followed a similar arbitration at Woolwich’.]