City of Southampton
The city of Southampton is a unitary authority with a population of about 220,000, lying geographically within the county of Hampshire. From 1974 to 1996, it formed a district in the administrative county of Hampshire and, prior thereto, it was a county borough in Hampshire. It is the major port on the south coast of England, sitting at the northern-most point of Southampton Water, approximately halfway between Portsmouth and Bournemouth.
The Jewish Community
The earliest Jewish residents are believed to have settled in Southampton as early as 1786, and a congregation may have been formed by 1817. In the nineteenth century there were, at one time, two rival congregations.
The following congregations are considered to be part of the Southampton Community:
Articles on the Southampton Community
The Rise of Provincial Jewry - Southampton by Cecil Roth, 1950. Available on JCR-UK as part of the Susser Archive.
Jewish Population Data
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1895-1900 1905 1915 1934 1945 1965 1990 2004 |
- 25 families (The Jewish Year Books 1896 through 1900/01) - 20 families (The Jewish Year Books 1906) - 60 (The Jewish Year Book 1916) - 266 (The Jewish Year Book 1935) - 250 (The Jewish Year Book 1945) - 150 (The Jewish Year Book 1966) - 105 (The Jewish Year Book 1991) - 293 (The Jewish Year Book 2005) |
Other Southampton Information
Jewish Property and Heritage &
Bibliography, Local Research Libraries and other sources
Southampton Cemetery Information
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