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Latest revision or update: 22 December 2011
Merthyr Tydfil Community
The town of Merthyr Tydfil (also spelled Merthyr Tudful),
with a population of about 55,000, is in the county borough of Merthyr Tydfil,
which, from 1974 until 1996, was a district of the county of Mid Glamorgan.
Prior to 1974, it was a county borough in the old county of Glamorganshire.
It is located on the river Taff in the centre of the valleys of south Wales.
Jewish Community
Merthyr once had a large and prosperous Jewish community
dating from at least the 1820's. The descendants of the 19th and 20th century
community now are scattered. The last Jew of Merthyr, George Black, died in
Manchester around 1998. The
Merthyr Tydfil community had the following congregation:
Articles of the Merthyr Tydfil Community
How 'Greeners' Came to the Valleys.
Wallach, M., Jewish Chronicle Colour Magazine, 1975 (posted on JCR-UK).
The Jews of Merthyr Tydfil.
Bellany, W., Shemot, September 2001.(JGSGB) (posted on JCR-UK).
Merthy Tydfil Cemetery Information
Merthyr Jewish Cemetery - a poem written and
read by Grahame Davies (published in his anthology,
"The
Chosen People - Wales and the Jews"), with pictures contributed by Wendy Bellany.
IAJGS
Cemetery Project - Merthyr Tydfil
Cemetery
Jewish Population Data
1848
1934
1946 |
400
175 |
First Jewish settlement.
(The Jewish Year Book 1935)
(The Jewish Year Book 1947) |
Other
Merthy Tydfil Information
Jewish
Property and Heritage & Places of Local Interest
Local Research Libraries, Biblography and other sources
Newspaper Articles
School Registers
Naturalised Citizens
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