Previous update 9 August 2009
Latest update or revision: 22 December 2011
 

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

Other Southampton Information

Jewish Property and Heritage & Places of Local Interest

Bibliography, Local Research Libraries and other sources

Southampton Cemetery Information