Updated 2 March 2006
The officially-named City of Bradford Metropolitan District, in northern England, has a population of nearly half a million. The present boundaries date from 1974, when the county borough of Bradford was merged with a number of other localities from West Riding of Yorkshire (including the district of Ilkley) to form the metropolitan district within the then new metropolitan county of West Yorkshire. Bradford became a unitary authority in 1986 when West Yorkshire lost its administrative status, becoming purely a ceremonial county.
The following Congregations are, or were, considered to be part of the Bradford Community:
The following are former or alternative names of the above
congregations:
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Articles on the Bradford Community
Paper on Bradford from "Provincial Jewry in Victorian Britain" - papers for a conference at University College, London, convened by the Jewish Historical Society of Great Britain. Prepared by Aubrey Newman - 6th July 1975. Reproduced here with his kind consent.
Photographs of the Bradford Community
Bradford City Jewish Population Data
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1838 1895 1900 1909 1934 1946 1949 1955 1965 1990 2004 |
- First Jewish inhabitant (Jacob Behrens) - 30 families (The Jewish Year Book 1896) - 300 (Paper by Aubrey Newman) - 750 (The Jewish Year Book 1910) - 750 (The Jewish Year Book 1935) - 490 (The Jewish Year Book 1947) - 700 (The Jewish Year Book 1950) - 700 (The Jewish Year Book 1947) - 700 (The Jewish Year Book 1966) - 430 (The Jewish Year Book 1991) - 356 (The Jewish Year Book 2005) |
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