JCR-UK - Bristol Hebrew Congregation

Details of the Ministers of Bristol Hebrew Congregation, are given in the table below. This has generally 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.


Dates	Ministers

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 Barnett 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

Bristol Hebrew Congregation

Bristol, Bristol

Synagogue Ministers