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Hull Community

Updated 15 December 2006

Hull, also known as Kingston upon Hull, is a city of about 250,000 inhabitants located on the northern bank of the Humber estuary in northern England. It has been unitary authority since 1996. Prior to then, Hull was a district of the now defunct administrative county of Humberside, which had been formed in 1974. After the abolition of Humberside in 1996, Hull was placed for ceremonial purposes in the county of the East Riding of Yorkshire, having been a county borough in the East Riding until 1974.

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The Hull Jewish community dates back to the late eighteenth century. The following Congregations are or were considered to be part of the Hull Community

Adelaide Street Synagogue (closed)
Dagger Lane Synagogue (closed)
Great Passage Street Synagogue (closed)
Great Thornton Street Synagogue (closed)
Hull Central Synagogue (closed)
Hull Hebrew Congregation - active - combined congregations of Hull Western Synagogue and Hull Old Hebrew Congregation
Hull Old Hebrew Congregation (closed) - now part of Hull Hebrew Congregation
Hull Reform Synagogue - active
Hull Western Synagogue (closed) - now part of Hull Hebrew Congregation
Prince Street Synagogue (closed)
New Hebrew Congregation (closed)
Nile Street Synagogue (closed)
Parade Row Synagogue (closed) - merged into Hull Old Hebrew Congregation
Posterngate Synagogue (closed) - merged into Hull Old Hebrew Congregation

The following are former or alternative names of the above congregations:

Anlaby Synagogue - see Hull Hebrew Congregation
Cogan Street Synagogue - see Hull Central Synagogue
Great Gutter Lane Synagogue - see Hull Reform Synagogue
Linnaeus Street Synagogue - see Hull Western Synagogue
Lower Union Street Synagogue - see the New Hebrew Congregation
Ne've Shalom Synagogue - see Hull Reform Synagogue
New Hebrew Burial Society - see the New Hebrew Congregation
Osborne Street Synagogue - see Hull Old Hebrew Congregation
Park Street Synagogue - see Hull Central Synagogue
Pryme Street Synagogue - see Hull Hebrew Congregation
Robinson Row Synagogue - see Hull Old Hebrew Congregation
School Street Synagogue - see Hull Central Synagogue
Waltham Street Synagogue - see Hull Central Synagogue
West Parade Synagogue - see Hull Central Synagogue

Articles on the Hull Community

The Rise of Provincial Jewry - Hull by Cecil Roth, 1950. Available on JCR-UK as part of the Susser Archive.

Hull's Six Jewish Cemeteries by David Lewis.

Jewish Encyclopedia article on Hull by Joseph Jacobs, c-1906.

Jewish Population Data

1851
1895
1898
1900
1910
1935
1946
1955
1965
1990
2004

-     200 (Chief Rabbi's census estimate)
- 1,350 (The Jewish Year Book 1896)
- 1,500 (The Jewish Year Book 1898-99)
- 2,000 (The Jewish Year Book 1900-01)
- 2,500 (The Jewish Year Book 1910)
- 2,500 (The Jewish Year Book 1935)
- 2,000 (The Jewish Year Book 1947)
-  2,000 (The Jewish Year Book 1956)
-  2,500 (The Jewish Year Book 1966)
- 1,120 (The Jewish Year Book 1991)
-     670 (The Jewish Year Book 2005)

Other Hull Information

Hull Hebrew Board of Guardians Annual Report and Balance Sheet
1897 1898 1899

Jewish Property and Heritage & Places of Local Interest

Local Research Libraries, Bibliography and other sources

Hull Cemetery Information

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A limited amount of Birth, Death and Marriage data is available through Yorkshire BMD www.yorkshirebmd.org.uk. The dates range from 1837-1951

Other Databases

Hull Marriage Records (1400 records), a searchable database available only to members of the Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain (JGSGB), accessible through JGSGB Members' Corner.

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