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THE JEWISH COMMUNITY

Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain
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Jewish Communities & Records - UK (JCR-UK) website - http://www.jewishgen.org/jcr-uk - records of all Jewish communities and congregations throughout the United Kingdom. For Scottish communities, see Scotland.

http://www.jgsgb.ort.org/scot01.htm
Scotland's Jewish Community - Reference Page for the Jewish Genealogical Society of Britain.

http://www.haruth.com/JewsoftheWorld.html [May 2001]

Scottish Jewish Archives Centre
Garnethill Synagogue
129 Hill Street
Glasgow G3 6UB
Scotland
email:  info@sjac.org.uk
website: www.sjac.org.uk 
Tel: +44 (0) 141 332 4911 (open by arrangement)
 

THE CEMETERIES


ABERDEEN:
     The Jewish community dates from the late 19th century. For Community Information, see Aberdeen on JCR-UK. AYR:
     A very small community existed from 1902 until the 1970's.  For Community Information, see Ayr on JCR-UK.
     There were, apparently, no Jewish burials in Ayr. Source: Scottish Jewish Archive Center list of burials, 127 Hill St. Glasgow G36UB United Kingdom supplied by Harvey L. Kaplan, MA, 1/L 11 Millwood St. Glasgow, G41 3JY rvlkaplan@googlemail.com
 

DUNDEE:
     The Jewish community dates from the 1870's. For Community Information, see Dundee on JCR-UK.
     Found in Dundee Central Library: Gravestone Inscriptions from Jewish Cemeteries compiled in 1953 by Sidney Cramer, a member of the Scottish Genealogy Society. Cramer transcribed Hebrew and English, details from some 260 tombstones in Jewish cemeteries in Edinburgh and Dundee. See Edinburgh for additional information about this book. [1998].


DUNFERMLINE:
     A very small community existed from 1908 until the 1950's.  For Community Information, see Dunfermline on JCR-UK.
     There were, apparently, no Jewish burials in Dunfermline. Source: Scottish Jewish Archive Center list of burials, 127 Hill St. Glasgow G36UB United Kingdom supplied by Harvey L. Kaplan, MA, 1/L 11 Millwood St. Glasgow, G41 3JY Tel: 041-649-4526 rvlkaplan@googlemail.com
 

EDINBURGH: (Lothian)
     For Community Information, see also Edinburgh on JCR-UK..
     BOOK: Dundee Central Library has Gravestone Inscriptions from Jewish Cemeteries compiled in 1953 by Sidney Cramer, a member of the Scottish Genealogy Society. Cramer transcribed Hebrew and English, details from some 260 tombstones in Jewish cemeteries in Edinburgh and Dundee. The list of 29 burials in the oldest Jewish cemetery in Scotland-Braid Place, Edinburgh-can be compared with the list offered by Abel Phillips in his book, A History of the Origins of the First Jewish Community in Scotland-Edinburgh 1816 (1979). Cramer's list, in some cases, gives additional details of names and dates. *Burial Registers are held by Mr. J. Riffkin, Recorder, c/o The Synagogue, 4 Salisbury Rd., Edinburgh EH16 5AA; source: Scottish Jewish Archive Center list of burials, 127 Hill St. Glasgow G36UB United Kingdom supplied by Harvey L. Kaplan, MA, 1/L 11 Millwood St. Glasgow, G41 3JY rvlkaplan@googlemail.com.
     I have photocopied Mr. Cramer's manuscript records of Scottish Jewish gravestones that are in the library of the Scottish Genealogy Society (SGS, of which I am a council member). I have begun to check Mr. Cramer's records against the stones that are now visible. I photographed all the readable stones at Newington Cemetery and started on the stones at Piershill Cemetery where there are around 1200 plots. Mr. Cramer only did the earlier stones. I have asked for funding for the completion of the photography (about 190 UK pounds) and am waiting on a reply. Mr. Cramer's records did not always have the whole text of the gravestone. He wrote in cursive, some of which a bit difficult to read (also like my Hebrew cursive!) I also want to double-check everything. For instance, I found a stone from the 1920s from Newington that I cannot find in Cramer (unless it is misplaced). Once I collate all the photos with Mr. Cramer's records and produce maps, I will begin to type up the Hebrew and English text and then attempt a preliminary translation of the Hebrew. I presented this project to the committee of the SGS and await their comments at the next council meeting. I envisage finishing the photography of the stones by the end of this year [1998] and the typing up by the end of next summer. By 2001, I trust I will have finished the translation and indexing and will have incorporated the fresh burials up to then from all the Jewish internments in Edinburgh. The SGS also plans to film all the lair and burial records of all Edinburgh cemeteries in the next few years so that we can make a start on getting our volunteers to transcribe and type them up. Then, I will scan them and import them into Word for indexing. I should be able to include all the Jewish lair records, even where they do not have a stone, into my work. Source: Karl Ian Ransome, 4 Cleekim Road, Edinburgh, EH15 3HU Scotland, UK ransome@sasa.gov.uk [1998]

FALKIRK:
     A very small community existed until the 1940's.  For Community Information, see Falkirk on JCR-UK.
     There were, apparently, no Jewish burials in Falkirk.  Source: Scottish Jewish Archive Center list of burials, 127 Hill St. Glasgow G36UB United Kingdom supplied by Harvey L. Kaplan, MA, 1/L 11 Millwood St. Glasgow, G41 3JY rvlkaplan@googlemail.com.

GLASGOW:
     Community established in 1823. For Community Information, see Glasgow on JCR-UK.  Glasgow Hebrew Burial Society, 222 Fenwick Road, Giffnock, Glasgow, G46 6UE, Scotland. [December 2000]


GREENOCK:
      A Jewish community existed from 1894 until 1936.  For Community Information, see Greenock on JCR-UK. 

INVERNESS:
     A very small Jewish congregation existed until the 1960's, but is now defunct. For Community Information, see Inverness on JCR-UK. 
     “The Jewish community in Inverness have just completed an arrangement with the Town Council, by which they have acquired a piece of ground to be utilised as a cemetery. The ground is in the town cemetery. The need of a Jewish cemetery has been felt for a number of years, as former interments always took place in Glasgow over two hundred miles distant. A recent death  - that of a young lad of fourteen years who had only just arrived from his home in Russia  - determined the congregation to take this step. His body was the first buried in the new ground.” [Jewish Chronicle, 12 January 1906, page 45. Source: Harold Pollins]

 

REFERENCE BOOKS

See Section on Scotland for listing of Reference Books on Scottish Jewish Communities & Cemeteries on JCR-UK
 

 
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