Synagogue Ministers
(Updated 5 June 2003)
Details of the Ministers of Bristol Hebrew Congregation,
are given in the table below. This has been assembled from the pre-1900 information
provided by Judith Samuel (Jews in Bristol, Redcliffe Press of Bristol, ISBN
1-900178-16-8) together with post-1900 data extracted from the Congregation's Minute Books.
| 1765-1785 | Isaac Collish or Zvi Hirsch Kalisch |
| 1798-1803 | Moses Levy |
| 1829-1830 | Solomon Levy |
| 1829-1838 | Rev Abraham Barnett |
| 1833-1835 | Prof D M Isaacs |
| 1838-1851 | Aaron Levy Green |
| 1844-1880 | Rev Joseph Benjamin |
| 1851-1855 | Rev Jacob Lindiner |
| 1855-1858 | Rev Samuel Landeshut |
| 1859-1864 | Rev Isaac Samuel |
| 1867-1878 | Rev Meyer Mendelsohn |
| 1871-1878 | Rev Barnett (Berman) Berliner |
| 1872-1879 | Rev Abraham Muller |
| 1880-1884 | Rev David Fay |
| 1880-1893 | Rev A H Eisenberg |
| 1893-1896 | Rev A H Eisenberg at Bridge St |
| 1893-1896 | Rev E Ritblatt at Bridge St |
| 1885-1889 | Rev Joseph Leonard Levy, BA |
| 1890-1892 | Rev Moses Hyamson |
| 1894-1895 | Rev Lewis Mendelsohn, BA |
| 1897-1902 | Rev A H Eisenberg |
| 1897-1927 | Rev Emanuel Ritblatt |
| 1894-1899 | Rev A Levinson |
| 1899-1906 | Rev Joseph Abelson |
| 1907-1916 | Rev Hyman Goodman |
| 1907-1919 | Rev Bernard Paletz |
| 1920-1924 | Rev Arthur Barnett |
| 1925-1934 | Rabbi Harry Swift |
| 1934-1944 | Rev Simon L Sussman |
| 1935-1947 | Rev Louis Sanker |
| 1944-1959 | Rev Freedman |
| 1949-1955 | Rev H Lerner |
| 1956-1957 | Rev Wolfson |
| 1959-1961 | Rabbi Dr A Ehrman |
| 1962-1987 | Rev Max Moddel |
| 1990-1992 | Rabbi Mike Morris |
| 1993-2002 | Rabbi Hillel Simon |
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