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.
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