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Belfast Jewish Community

City of Belfast

The city of Belfast (Béal Feirste in Irish) is the capital of Northern Ireland and the largest city in the Irish province of Ulster (which comprises the six counties of northern Ireland and three counties of the Irish Republic). Situated in County Antrim, Belfast has a population of 275,000 within the city limits and 550,000 within the Greater Belfast area.

Belfast Jewish Community

Although there was a Jewish community in Belfast in 1771, the present community dates from about 1864. There were no other Jewish communities in Northern Ireland, apart from small communities (no longer extant) in Londonderry and Lurgan.

Jewish Congregations

The following Congregations are, or were, considered to be part of the Belfast Community:

       Articles on the Belfast Jewish Community

Belfast 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..

Jewish Encyclopaedia article on Belfast by Joseph Jacobs, c-1906.

Jewish Population Data

Other Belfast Jewish Information

Bibliography and other sources

Stone Inscriptions at Carnmoney Cemetery

Other Belfast Cemeteries Information - IAJGS Cemetery Project

Jewish Communities of Ireland home page

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