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Boston Hebrew Congregation

Boston, Lincolnshire

 

              

         
 

Created: 21 August 2005
Latest update or revision: 9 January 2012

Boston (Lincs.)

The town and small port of Boston, situated on the east coast of England, forms the main town of the Borough and district of Boston in the county of Lincolnshire. The present local authority was formed in 1974, when the former borough of Boston was merged with Boston Rural District. Until 1974, Boston was in the administrative county of Holland, one of the three Parts into which Lincolnshire was then divided.

Boston Jewish Community

A Jewish Community had existed at some time during the first half of the eighteenth century. It was subsequently revived, as the Boston Hebrew Congregation, but disappeared in the early part of the twentieth century.

Press Reports about the Boston Jewish Community 1847 - 1925

Congregation Data

Name: Boston Hebrew Congregation
Address: Boston, Lincolnshire.
Date Founded: In eighteenth or early nineteenth century, revived for a short while at beginning of twentieth century.
Current Status: Closed
Ritual: Ashkenazi Orthodox

Articles on the Boston Community

The Jews of Boston, Lincolnshire by Harold Pollins, 2010 (The Jewish Journal of Sociology, volume LII, pp. 57-68) with Addendum, 2011 (The Jewish Journal of Sociology, volume LIII, pp. 81-82)

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


Other Boston Information

Local Research Libraries, Bibliography and other sources 
Cemetery Information - there was no Jewish cemetery

Jewish Communities of England home page

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