Huddersfield Synagogue & Community

Huddersfield, Kirklees, West Yorkshire

Previous update 24 November 2008
Latest revision or update: 26 December 2011

Congregation Data

Name:	Huddersfield Synagogue
Address:	Northumberland Street, Huddersfield (until 1930's), and later 11 Albion Street, Huddersfield (1940's)
Date Formed:	Prior to 1910
Current Status:	Closed in 1920's but reformed in 1941, closed about 1970.
Ritual:	Ashkenazi Orthodox
Affiliation:	According to the Jewish Year Book (only for 1945), was affiliated with the Leeds United Hebrew Congregation

Jewish Population Data

1895
1909
1934
1945
1955
1963

50
50
45
10
70
30

(The Jewish Year Book 1896-7)
(The Jewish Year Book 1910)
(The Jewish Year Book 1935)
(The Jewish Year Book 1945-6)
(The Jewish Year Book 1956)
(The Jewish Chronicle, 16 August 1963)

Other Huddersfield Information

Newspaper Articles:
References to the Huddersfield Community in the Press Reports

Huddersfield is within the Metropolitan Borough of Kirklees

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