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Ipswich Community

Updated 23 May 2006

Town of Ipswich

The town of Ipswich, with a population of about 120,000, is situated on the estuary of the river Orwell in East Anglia.  It was a county borough until 1974, when it became a local government district of the administrative county of  Suffolk.

Jewish Community

There had also been a Jewish community in Ipswich in medieval times. In modern times, a Jewish congregation, sometimes referred to as the Ipswich Old Jewish Congregation, had existed in Ipswich from the eighteenth and disappeared in the latter part of the nineteenth century. Recently a Liberal Jewish congregation has been formed.

The following are the Jewish congregations of Ipswich:

Articles on the Ipswich Community

The Rise of Provincial Jewry - Ipswich by Cecil Roth, 1950. Available on JCR-UK as part of the Susser Archive.

Cemetery Information

Other Information

Jewish Property and Heritage & Places of Local Interest  No Data Can You Help

Local Research Libraries, Bibliography and other sources  

Medieval Ipswich Community

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