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Bibliography, Local Research Libraries and Other Sources
The Jews of the UK, Ireland and Gibraltar

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    References used in the Bibliography:

  • BIU = Bar-Ilan University Library, Ramat Gan, Israel

  • BL = British Library

  • BLO = Bodleian Library, Oxford

  • The Cable = the magazine of the Jewish East End Celebration Society

  • JCL = Jews' College Library, London School of Jewish Studies

  • JGSGB = Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain Library

  • JGSGB Newsletter = Newsletter of the Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain Library

  • LBL = Leo Baeck Library, Leo Baeck College, Centre for Jewish Education, London

  • LSE = London School of Economic Library, London

  • PL-US = The Parkes Library, University of Southampton

  • Shemot = the quarterly magazine of JGSGB (for the index, by year, of subjects for each year from 2003, see Shemot)

  • Susser Archives =  Documents, papers and computer disks of the late Rabbi Dr Bernard Susser. Now available on JCR-UK through the kind offices of Frank J. Gent of Exeter Hebrew Congregation.

  • Trans JHSE = Transactions of the Jewish Historical Society of England.  A set of these work is to be found in nearly all the UK Libraries listed here.

  • UCL = University College London Library

If you have any other information relating to local research, libraries or other sources then please contact us at: JCR-UK

TABLE OF CONTENTS

United Kingdom

General        Middle Period        Medieval (pre-1290 expulsion) - general
 

England (other than London)

Banbury     Bath     Bedford     Birmingham     Bishop Auckland     Bolton     Boston     Bournemouth     Bradford     Brighton     Bristol     Bury St. Edmunds     Cambridge     Canterbury     Chatham     Chelmsford     Cheltenham     Colchester     Coventry     Darlington     Dover     Dudley     Durham     Eastbourne     Exeter     Falmouth     Gateshead     Gloucester     Gravesend     Great Grimsby     Great Yarmouth     Grimsby    Harrogate     Hartlepool     Hereford     Hull     Ilfracombe     Ipswich     King's Lynn     Kingston−upon−Hull     Leeds     Leicester     Letchworth     Lincoln     Liverpool     Lynn     Manchester     Medway     Middlesbrough     Newcastle upon Tyne     Northampton     North Shields     North Tyneside     Norwich     Nottingham     Oxford     Penzance     Plymouth     Portsmouth     Preston     Ramsgate     Reading     Rochester     Sheerness    Sheffield     Southampton     South Shields     Stockport    Stockton−on−Tees     Stoke-on-Trent     Stroud     Sunderland     Swale     Torquay     Warwick     West Hartlepool     Whitley Bay     Whitehaven     Wigan     Yarmouth     York
 
 

London

General          Medieval (pre-1290 expulsion) 

City of London     
Barnet      Brent     Camden     Enfield     Greenwich     Hackney     Hammersmith & Fulham      Haringey      Harrow      Islington       Kensington & Chelsea      Lambeth      Lewisham      Newham      Richmond upon Thames      Southwark      Tower Hamlets      City of Westminster
 

Wales

General      Bridgend      Brynmawr      Cardiff      Llanelli      Merthyr Tydfil      Swansea      Tredegar      Valleys of South Wales
 

Scotland

General      Edinburgh     Glasgow
 

Ireland

General       Belfast     Cork     Dublin 
 

Channel Islands

Jersey
 

Isle of Man

Douglas
 

Gibraltar

General
 

GENERAL

Bibliographical References

  • The Jewish Chronicle - London

  • The Jewish Year Books - published annually since 1897. [by Valentine Mitchell, previously published by the Jewish Chronicle Publications]

  • Alderman, Geoffrey - Controversy and Crisis - A History of Jews in Modern Britain.  [2008 - Academic Studies Press]

  • Berger, Doreen - The Jewish Victorian - Genealogical Information from the Jewish Newspapers 1861-1870.  [2004]

  • Bermant, Chaim - Troubled Eden - An Anatomy of British Jewry.  [1969 - Vallentine Mitchell, London] (UCL)

  • Bermant, Chaim - The Counsinhood: Anglo-Jewry Gentry.  [1971 - Eyre & Spottiswoode, London]

  • Black, Eugene C. - The Social Politics of Anglo-Jewry 1880-1920 [1988]

  • Black, Gerry - Lender to the Lords, Giver to the Poor [1992]

  • Bunt, Sidney - Jewish Youth Work in Britain [1975]

  • Cesarani, D.  - The Jewish Chronicle and Anglo-Jewry, 1941-1991. [1994, London]

  • Cesarani, D.  - Making of Modern Anglo-Jewry. [1990]

  • Cohen, A.& R.  - Victorian Jews Through British Eyes. [1986] (BIU)

  • Croner, G. - England - The History of the Anglo-Jewish Community.  [Keter Books, Jerusalem]

  • Endelman, Todd M. - The Jews of Georgian England 1714-1830.  [1979]

  • Englander, D. - A Documentary  History of Jewish Immigrants into Britain 1840-1920.  [1994] (BIU)

  • Finestein, Israel - Studies and Profiles in Anglo-Jewish History from Picciotto to Bermant.  [2008 - Vallentine Mitchell, London]

  • Gartner, Lloyd P. - The Jewish Immigrant in England 1870-1914. [1960, 1973] (BIU)

  • Hartfield, G. Eugene - Commercial Directory of the Jews of the  United  Kingdom [1894] (JCL)

  • Henriques, H.S.Q. - The Return of the Jews to England [1905]

  • Hyamson, Albert Montefiore - History of the Jews in England. [1928, Forgotten Books]

  • Hyamson, Albert Montefiore - Jews College. [1955, Jews College]

  • Hyamson, Albert Montefiore - The Jews of England.  [1947, Union of Liberal and Progressive Synagogues]

  • Hyamson, Albert Montefiore - The Sephardim of England: a history of the Spanish and Portuguese Jewish community, 1492-1951. [1951, Methuen & Co., London] (LBL)

  • Jacobs, Joseph - Studies in Jewish Statistics  [1891]

  • Jacobs & Wolf - Bibliotheca Anglo-Judaica - a Bibliographical Guide to Anglo-Jewish History  [1888, Jewish Chronicle Office]

  • Jolles, Michael  - British Jews: Their Biographical Record. [The Jewish Year Book 2006 - Essays, pp xi-xv] (BL, JCL, LBL, UCL)

  • Kadish, Sharman - Jewish Heritage in England, An Architectural Guide. [2006 English Heritage]

  • Katz, David S. - Philo-Semetism and the Readmission of the Jews to England, 1603-1655. [1982 Oxford University Press]

  • Katz, David S. - The Jews in the History of England, 1485-1850. [1994 Oxford University Press]

  • Kershen, Anne J. and Romain Jonathan A. - Tradition and Change - A History of Reform Judaism in Britain 1840-1995.  [1995] (LBL)

  • Kershen, Anne J - 150 Years of Progressive Judaism in Britain.  [1990, London Museum of  Jewish Life]

  • Langham, Raphael - The Jews in England - A Chronology [2006, Palgrave Macmillan] 

  • Lipman, Vivian D. - A Survey of Anglo-Jewry in 1851. [Trans JHSE XVII 1951/2, published 1953]

  • Lipman, Vivian D. - Social History of the Jews in England 1850-1950. [1954 Watts & Co., London] (BIU)

  • Myers, Asher I. - Jewish Directory for 1874. [1874] (JGSGB)

  • Newman, Aubrey. - Provincial Jewry in Victorian Times.  [1975 JHSE] (JGSGB, UCL)

  • Picciotto, J. - Sketches of Anglo-Jewish History [Trübner]

  • Pollins, Harold - Economic History of the Jews in England. [1982, Fairleigh Dickenson University Press] r

  • Prais, S. J. - Synagogue Statistics and the Jewish Population of Great Britain 1900-19700.  [The Board of Deputies of British Jews]

  • Roberts, Marcus  - The Story of England's Jews - The First Thousand Years. [2007, sponsored by B’nai B’rith, 1st Lodge, England] copy freely down-loadable here from JTrails.org.uk.

  • Roberts, J. A.  - The Jews of England. [1988, previously published as Anglo-Jewry in Evidence. 1985. Michael Goulston Educational Foundation, The Sternberg Centre for Judaism, London.]

  • Roth, Cecil - A History of the Jews in England.  [1941 Oxford Univ. Press] - available on-line

  • Roth, Cecil - The Rise of Provincial Jewry.  [1950.] (JGSGB, LBL, UCL, Susser Archive - available on-line)

  • Rumney, Joshua (Dr.) - Social and Economic Development of the Jews in England 1660-1930. (LSE)

  • Salnstein, M. C. N. - Emancipation of the Jews in Britain: The Question of the Admission of the Jews to Parliament, 1828-1960.  [1982]

  • Stokes, H. P.  - Studies in Anglo-Jewish History. [1913, Ballantyne Hanson & Co, Edinburgh]

  • Tropp, Asher - Jews in the Professions in Great Britain, 1891-1991.  (JGSGB)

  • Wenzerul, Rosemary (Contributing Editor) - Jewish Ancestors - A Guide to Jewish Genealogy in the United Kingdom  - [2006, published by JGSGB] (JGSGB)

  • Wolf, Lucien - A Plea for Anglos-Jewish History.  [Trans JHSE VI 1894, pp1-7]

  • 1851 Census of Worship (National Archives, HO 122)

Articles on the Internet

  • Jacobs, Joseph - Jewish Encyclopaedia - article on England.  c-1906.

  • Newman, Aubrey - Trains and Shelters and Ships  -  (Paper presented at a seminar under the auspices of the Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain, April 2000) http://www.le.ac.uk/hi/teaching/papers/newman1.htm.

Web Sites

Middle Period (1290 - 1655)

Bibliographical References

  • Dimock, A. - The Conspiracy of Dr. Lopez. [Trans JHSE IX 1894, pp. 440-472]

  • Katz, David S. - The Jews in the History of England, 1485-1850. [1994 Oxford University Press]

  • Lee, Sidney - Elizabethan England and the Jews.  [Transactions of the New Shakespeare  Society, 1887-1892, Series 1 Part1]

  • Meyers, Charles - Elizabethan Marranos Exposed. [Shemot December 1997 vol. 5/6 pp21-24] (BL, JGSGB)]

  • Roth, Cecil - The Middle Period of Anglo-Jewish History (1290-1655) Reconsidered.  [Trans JHSE XIX 1960, pp1-12]

  • Schischa, A. - Spanish Jews in London in 1494, [1975 MJSHE 9]

  • Shapiro, James - Shakespeare and the Jews.  [1996, Columbia University Press, New York]

  • Sisson, C. J. - A colony of Jews in Shakespeare's London.  [1938, Essays and Studies, 23]

  • Wolf, Lucien - Jews in Elizabethan England.  [Trans JHSE XI 1928, pp1-91]

  • Wolf, Lucien - Jews in Tudor England.  [Essays in Jewish History (Ed: Cecil Roth) 1934 pp71-90]

Articles on the Internet

Medieval (pre-1290 expulsion) - General

Bibliographical References

  • Abrahams, Barnett Lionel - Expulsion of the Jews from England in 1290. [1895, Oxford Prize Essays]

  • Abrahams, Barnett Lionel - The Condition of the Jews in England at the Time of their Expulsion in 1290. [Trans JHSE II 1893, pp76-105]

  • Harris, Oliver D. - Jews, Jurats and the Jewry Wall: a Name in Context [2008, Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society, vol 82, pp. 113-33]

  • Jacobs, Joseph - The Jews of Angevin England.  [1893, reprinted 1969 by Gregg International Publishers]

  • Romain, J. A. - The Jews of England, pp. 10-61.  [1988. Michael Goulston Educational Foundation, The Sternberg Centre for Judaism, London]

  • Roth, Cecil - A History of the Jews in England, pp. 1-131, 269-278.  [1941]

  • Tovey, D'Blossiers - Anglia Judaica or the History and Antiquities of the Jews in England.  [1738, Oxford]

Articles on the Internet

  • Jacobs, Joseph  - Jewish Encyclopedia - article on England.  pp. 1-8. [c-1906]


List of Pre-Expulsion Jewish Communities (England & Wales)

ENGLAND (other than London)

 Banbury

Bibliographical References

  • Mound, Gloria - 'The Hitherto Unknown Jews of Banbury' - vol 12 no 3, pp.66-74 [1992, Cake & Cockhorse] (JGSGB)

Bath

Bibliographical References

  • Brown, M. & Samuel, J.  - The Jews of Bath.  [Trans JHSE XXIX 1982/1986]

  • Roth, Cecil - The Rise of Provincial Jewry, pp. 27-29 [1950] (JGSGB, LBL, UCL, Susser Archive - available on-line)

Bath Jewish Community

Bedford

Bibliographical References

  • Bell, P. L.  - Bedford's Second Jewish Community. (1787-1883) [1994] (JGSGB)

  • Roth, Cecil - The Rise of Provincial Jewry, pp. 29-31 [1950]  (JGSGB, LBL, UCL, Susser Archive - available on-line)

Bedford Jewish Community
Pre-Expulsion Bedford Jewish Community

Birmingham

Bibliographical References

  • Bermant, Chaim - Troubled Eden - An Anatomy of British Jewry,  pp. 52-53. [1969, Vallentine Mitchell, London] (UCL)

  • Joseph, A. - The Birmingham Jewish Community (Pamphlet No. 36). (JGSGB)

  • Joseph, A. - The Genealogy of Ethnic Minorities: The Birmingham Jewish Community. (Pamphlet - 1). (JGSGB)

  • Joseph, Anthony - Birmingham's Jewish Community. "Shemot" December 2010 vol. 18/3, pp. 32-33 (BL, JGSGB) 

  • Josephs, Z. (ed) - Birmingham Jewry 1749-1914. [1980] (BL)

  • Josephs, Z. (ed) - Birmingham Jewry - More Aspects 1740-1930.  [1984 pub., The Birmingham Jewish History Research Group, ISBN 0-9507402-1-7] (BL, UCL)

  • Josephs, Z. - Survivors: Jewish refugees in Birmingham, 1933-1945.  [1988] (UCL)

  • Levy, E.L.  - Birmingham Jewry 1870 and 1929. (JGSGB)

  • Roth, Cecil - The Rise of Provincial Jewry, pp. 32-33. [1950] (JGSGB, LBL, UCL, Susser Archive - available on-line)

  • The Singers Hill Synagogue, 25 years on from the 1956 centenary, Programme with adverts (JGSGB)

Birmingham Jewish Community

Bishop Auckland

Bibliographical References

  • Olsover, L. - The Jewish Communities of North-East England, 1755-1980, pp. 299-302. [1981] (BL, UCL)

Bishop Auckland Jewish Congregation & Community

Bolton

Bibliographical References

  • Thomas, Hilary & Cowell, John - An Industrious Minority, a history of the Bolton Jewish Community. [2012, self-published]

Bolton Jewish Congregation & Community

Boston, Lincs

Bibliographical References

  • Pollins, Harold - The Jews of Boston, Lincolnshire [2010, The Jewish Journal of Sociology, volumn LII, pp. 57-68] with Addendum [2011, The Jewish Journal of Sociology, volumn LIII, pp. 81-82]

  • Roth, Cecil - The Rise of Provincial Jewry, pp. 33-34. [1950] (JGSGB, LBL, UCL, Susser Archive - available on-line)

Boston Jewish Congregation & Community

Bournemouth

Bibliographical References

  • Cowan, E. (ed) - "EMET": A collection of Member's true life stories. [1999, Bournemouth Reform Synagogue]

Bournemouth Jewish Community

Bradford

Bibliographical References

  • Aronsfeld, C C. - German Jews in nineteenth century Bradford. [1981, Yorkshire Archaeological Journal, 1981 Vol 53:111]

  • Harris, S.  - A History of the Jewish Community in Bradford between 1870 and 1970. [1992, University of Sheffield (PhD thesis)]

  • Hamilton-Melkie, N. - Some Jewish Families in Bradford. "Shemot" April 1996 vol. 4/1  (BL, JGSGB)

  • Bradford: A Vital Community [1955, Jewish Chronicle Supplement of 1 July 1955] (JGSGB)

  • Follow Bradford's Jewish Trail. And "Why Jewish Bradford?" (JGSGB)

Bradford Jewish Community

Brighton and Hove

Bibliographical References

  • Spector, D. - The Jews of Brighton 1779-1900. [Trans JHSE XXII 1968/9]

  • Spector, D.  - Brighton Jewry Reconsidered. [Trans JHSE XXX 1987/8]

  • Roth, Cecil -  The Rise of Provincial Jewry, pp.34-39. [1950] (JGSGB, LBL, UCL, Susser Archive - available on-line)

  • In Search of Jewish Life in "Sussex by the Sea": the Jews of Brighton. "Shemot" June 2001 vol. 9/2 [2001] (BL, JGSGB)

  • Brighton Middle Street Synagogue, WW1 and WW2 Memorials (JGSGB)

Brighton Jewish Community

Bristol

Bibliographical References

  • Adler M. - The Jews of Bristol in pre-expulsion days, etc. [Trans JHSE Vol XII 1928/31 also as "Reprinted from Transactions of the Jewish Historical Society" London, 1931.] (BL)

  • Emanuel R.R. - The History of Bristol Jewry (Pamphlet No. 35). (JGSGB)

  • Frinfeld, J. - Shefford. The story of a Jewish school community in evacuation 1939-1945. (JGSGB)

  • Roth, Cecil - The Rise of Provincial Jewry, pp. 40-46 [1950] (JGSGB, LBL, UCL, Susser Archive - available on-line)

  • Samuel, Judith - Jews in Bristol. The history of the Jewish Community in Bristol from the Middle Ages to the present day. [1997, Sansom & Co., Bristol] (BL, JGSGB)

  • Catalogue of Burials in the Jewish Cemeteries in Bristol. [1997, Bristol Chevra Kadisha]

  • History of Bristol's Jewry. "Shemot" - II/3/13 Samuel, J. 1994. (BL, JGSGB)

Catalogues, Lists and Indexes

  • Jacobs, S and others - Jewish Burials at Barton Road, Bristol. Full tombstone inscriptions listings by row & alphabetical  (JGSGB)

  • Tobias, A and others - A Catalogue of Burials in the Jewish Cemeteries of Bristol. (JGSGB)

  • Tobias, A and others - A Catalogue & Index of Graves in the Jewish Cemetery at Fishponds, Bristol. (JGSGB)

  • Index of surnames of Bristol Jews and miscellaneous extracts from the Jewish Chronicle & census mainly relating to Blackensee. (JGSGB)

  • Bristol Synagogue Death Registers 1849-1893 with one entry for 1828. (JGSGB)

Bristol Jewish Community
Pre-Expulsion Bristol Jewish Community

Bury St. Edmunds

Bibliographical References

  • Brown, M. - The Jews of Norfolk and Suffolk before 1840. [Trans JHSE XXXII 1990/92]

  • Gallancz, H.  - Further Paper on Moyse Hall. [Trans JHSE III 1896/8]

  • Haes, D. - Moyse Hall, Bury St Edmunds. [Trans JHSE III 1896/8]

  • Martin, C.T., Abrahams, B.L., Myers, A.I. - Report of Sub-Committee on Moyse Hall. [Trans JHSE III 1896/8]

  • Samuels, E.R. - Was Moyse Hall, Bury St. Edmunds, a Jew's House. [Trans JHSE XXV 1973/75]

Pre-Expulsion Bury St. Edmunds Jewish Community

Cambridge

Bibliographical References

  • Dobson, R.B.H. - The Jews of Medieval Cambridge. [Trans JHSE XXXII 1990/92]

  • Roth, Cecil - The Rise of Provincial Jewry. [1950] (JGSGB, LBL, UCL, Susser Archive - available on-line)

  • Frazer, J. - How Cambridge twins two freedoms. [Jewish Chronicle, 3 July 1987, p. 25]

  • Frankel W. and Miller H. - Gown & Tallith. ed.. in Commemoration of the founding of the Cambridge University Jewish Society. [1989]

Cambridge Jewish Community
Pre-Expulsion Cambridge Jewish Community

Canterbury

Bibliographical References

  • Adler M. - The Jews of Canterbury. [A paper read before the Jewish Historical Society of England. Edinburgh, 1912] (BL) and Trans JHSE Vol VII 1911/14.

  • Cohn-Sherbok, D and Grace, L. - The Jewish community of Canterbury. [Kent Life, November 1978, pp. 42-43]

  • Cohn-Sherbok, D. - Sir Moses Montefiore and the Canterbury Jewish community. [Bygone Kent, II, no. 5, 1981, pp.309-312]

  • Cohn-Sherbok, D. - The Jews of Canterbury 1760-1931.  [1984] (BL, JGSGB, UCL)

  • Haes, F. - The Canterbury Synagogue. [Trans JHSE Vol IV 1899/1901]

  • Roth, Cecil - The Rise of Provincial Jewry, pp. 46-49 [1950]  (JGSGB, LBL, UCL, Susser Archive - available on-line)

  • Jolles, M. - Samuel Isaac, Saul Isaac and Nathaniel Isaacs. [Jolles Publications, London 1998] (JGSGB)

  • Krinsky, C. H. - The Synagogues of Europe, pp. 410-412.  [1985, The M.I.T. Press, Cambridge MA]

  • Williamson S. - The Jewish community of Canterbury. [Bygone Kent, IV, no. 3, 1983, pp.174-176]

Catalogues, Lists and Indexes

  • Webster, Martin - Jewish Cemeteries of Kent.  Inscriptions at Canterbury, Chatham, Dover, Sheerness. (JGSGB)

Canterbury Jewish Congregation
Pre-Expulsion Canterbury Jewish Community

Chatham & Rochester
(Medway Towns)

Bibliographical References

  • Green G.L. - The Royal Navy and Anglo-Jewry 1740-1820. (1989)

  • Jolles, M. - The Chatham Hebrew Society Synagogue Ledger 1836-1865 [2000] (JGSGB)

  • Jolles, M. - Samuel Isaac, Saul Isaac and Nathaniel Isaacs. [1998, Jolles Publications, London] (JGSGB)

  • Roth, Cecil - The Rise of Provincial Jewry, pp. 49-51. [1950]  (JGSGB, LBL, UCL, Susser Archive - available on-line)

  • Shub, Irina- Jewish Life in the Medway towns. "Shemot" March 2009 vol. 17/1, pp.14-17 [2009] (BL, JGSGB)

Catalogues, Lists and Indexes

  • Webster, Martin - Jewish Cemeteries of Kent.  Inscriptions at Canterbury, Chatham, Dover, Sheerness. (JGSGB)

Chatham Jewish Congregation & Community

Chelmsford

Bibliographical References

  • Brown, M. - The Jews of Essex before 1900. [Trans JHSE XXXIII]

  • Weisman, M. - The Smaller Jewish Communities – Chelmsford, pp. 14-17.  [Menorah, vol 5, no. 1, 1978]

Chelmsford Jewish Congregation & Community

Cheltenham

Bibliographical References

  • Roth Cecil - The Rise of Provincial Jewry, pp. 51-2 [1950] (JGSGB, LBL, UCL, Susser Archive - available on-line)

  • Shepherd, M A. - Cheltenham Jews in the nineteenth century,  [The Jewish Journal of Sociology, vol 21 no. 2, 1979, pp. 125-33]

  • Torode, B. - The Hebrew Community of Cheltenham, Gloucester and Stroud. [1999, private publication] (JCL, JGSGB, UCL)

Cheltenham Jewish Congregation & Community

Colchester

Bibliographical References

  • Brown, M. - The Jews of Essex before 1900. [Trans JHSE XXXIII]

  • Roth, Cecil - An Eighteenth-Century Jewish Community in Colchester.  [AJA Quarterly, vol 3, no. 2, 1957, pp. 22-25]

  • Weisman, M. - Colchester and District Jewish Community.  [Menorah, vol 16, no. 2, 1967, pp. 20-23]

Colchester Jewish Congregation
Pre-Expulsion Colchester Jewish Community

Cornwall

Bibliographical References

  • Newall, V. - The Jews of Cornwall in Local Tradition.  [Trans JHSE XXVI 1974/78]

  • Pearce, K and Fry, H. - The Lost Jews of Cornwall   [2000, ISBN 1 900178 27 3] (JGSGB, UCL)

  • Susser, Bernard - Census Returns for Jews in Devon Cornwall and Stroud. [1996, private publication]

  • The Jews of Devon and Cornwall. [2000, The Hidden Legacy Foundation. 2000 ISBN 1 900178 82 6]

  • The Jews of South West England. [Susser, Bernard. University of Exeter Press, 1993] (JGSGB, UCL)

Cornwall Jewish Congregation (Truro)
Falmouth Jewish Community
Plymouth Jewish Congregation

Coventry

Bibliographical References

  • Jackson, G N. - Coventry Community's Struggle for Survival. [The Birmingham Jewish Recorder, vol 33, no 9, pp, 5, 7]

  • Levine, H. - The Jews of Coventry. [1970]

  • Roth, Cecil - The Rise of Provincial Jewry, pp.53-4. [1950] (JGSGB, LBL, UCL, Susser Archive - available on-line)

Coventry Jewish Community

Darlington

Bibliographical References

  • Olsover, L. - The Jewish Communities of North-East England, 1755-1980, pp. 316-320.  [1981] (BL, UCL)

Darlington Jewish Congregation & Community

Dover

Bibliographical References

  • Green G.L.- The Royal Navy and Anglo-Jewry 1740-1820.  [1989]

  • Roth, Cecil - The Rise of Provincial Jewry, pp.54-55. [1950] (JGSGB, LBL, UCL, Susser Archive - available on-line)

Catalogues, Lists and Indexes

  • Webster, Martin - Jewish Cemeteries of Kent. Inscriptions at Canterbury, Chatham, Dover, Sheerness.  (JGSGB)

Dover Jewish Congregation & Community

Dudley

Bibliographical References

  • Pollins, Harold   - The Jews of Dudley.  [2009 Shemot Vol. 17 No. 2.] (BL, JGSGB)

Dudley Jewish Community

Durham

Bibliographical References

  • Olsover, L. - The Jewish Communities of North-East England, 1755-1980, pp. 294-299. [1981] (BL)

Durham Jewish Congregation & Community

Eastbourne

Bibliographical References

  • Community Profile: Eastbourne. Jewish Chronicle, 10 November 1978, p. 14

Eastbourne Jewish Community

Exeter

Bibliographical References

  • Adler M. - The medieval Jews of Exeter. [Reprinted from the Transactions of the Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature, and Art., Exeter, 1931.] (BL)

  • Roth, Cecil - The Rise of Provincial Jewry, pp.59-61 [1950] (JGSGB, LBL, UCL, Susser Archive - available on-line)

  • Susser, Bernard - The Jews of South West England - The Rise and Decline of their Medieval and Modern Communities. [1993, University of Exeter Press] (JGSGB, UCL)

  • The Jews of Devon and Cornwall. [2000, The Hidden Legacy Foundation. 2000 ISBN 1 900178 82 6]

Exeter Jewish Congregation & Community
Pre-Expulsion Exeter Jewish Community

Falmouth

Bibliographical References

  • Jacob, A.M. - Jews of Falmouth. [Trans JHSE Vol. XVII 1951/1952.]

  • Newall, V.  - The Jews of Cornwall in Local Tradition. [Trans JHSE XXVI 1974/78]

  • Pearce, K and Fry, H. - The Lost Jews of Cornwall. [2000, ISBN 1 900178 27 3] (JGSGB, UCL)

  • Roth, Cecil - The Rise of Provincial Jewry, pp. 61-63 [1950] (JGSGB, LBL, UCL, Susser Archive - available on-line)

  • Susser, Bernard - Census Returns for Jews in Devon Cornwall and Stroud. [1996, private publication]

  • Susser, Bernard - The Jews of South West England - The Rise and Decline of their Medieval and Modern Communities. [University of Exeter Press, 1993] (JGSGB, UCL)

  • The Falmouth Packet - Newspaper Articles. [January 1994 Shemot 2/1]  (BL, JGSGB)

  • The Jews of Devon and Cornwall. 2000. [The Hidden Legacy Foundation. 2000 ISBN 1 900178 82 6]

Falmouth Jewish Congregation & Community

Gateshead

Bibliographical References

  • Berkovits, B. - The Jerusalem of England: a centenary study of Gateshead Jewry. [Jewish Chronicle, 19 June 1987, p. 27.]

  • Bermant, Chaim - Troubled Eden - An Anatomy of British Jewry.  pp. 44. [1969, Vallentine Mitchell, London] (UCL)

  • Dansky, M. - Gateshead, its Community, its Personalities, its Institutions. [1992] (JGSGB)

  • Horowitz, E. - Centenary of the Gateshead Kehilla. [Jewish Tribune, 18 June 1987, p. 6/]

  • Levy, Arnold - The Story of Gateshead Yeshiva.  [1952]

  • Olsover, L. - The Jewish Communities of North-East England, 1755-1980, pp. 221-250. [1981] (BL, UCL)

  • Shaw, P. - Gateshead: a powerhouse of Judaism. [Jewish Chronicle, Colour Magazine, 2 September 1977, pp. 8-10, 12, 17.]

  • Wise, Dr. Yaacov - Historian discovers first Jew in Gateshead lived in Saltwell Park in 1855 [JCR-UK]

Archives & Records

Gateshead Jewish Community

Gloucester

Bibliographical References

  • Roth, C. - The Rise of Provincial Jewry, pp. 67-70 [1950](JGSGB, LBL, UCL, Susser Archive - available on-line)

  • Torode, B. - The Hebrew Community of Cheltenham, Gloucester and Stroud. [1999, private publication] (JCL, JGSGB)

Gloucester Modern Jewish Congregation & Community
Pre-Expulsion Gloucester Jewish Community

Gravesend

Bibliographical References

  • Brown, M. - The Jews of Gravesend before 1915. [Trans JHSE XXXV 1996/98]

  • Larkin, Tony - Jewish Schools in Northfleet and Gravesend [1997, Transactions of the Gravesend Historical Society, no.43,  pp.21-32]

Great Yarmouth

Bibliographical References

  • Brown, M. - The Jews of Norfolk and Suffolk before 1840. [Trans JHSE XXXII 1990/92]

  • Roth, Cecil - The Rise of Provincial Jewry, pp. 105-108. [1950] (JGSGB, LBL, UCL, Susser Archive - available on-line)

Catalogues, Lists and Indexes

  • Shire, A. - Great Yarmouth Cemeteries. Details of standing stones. [1996]. (JGSGB)

Great Yarmouth Jewish Congregation & Community
Pre-Expulsion Yarmouth Jewish Community

Grimsby

Grimsby Central Library

The Grimsby  Central Library is an excellent source of material, they hold copies of both the Grimsby Observer & Grimsby News in addition they also have a valuable street directory information collection (this covers various times between 1852 - 1917) this reference contains residents listed alphabetically by street and also includes profession.  Copies are available. The Library are extremely helpful with postal enquires.

Central Library
Town Hall Square,
Grimsby,
North East Lincolnshire. DN31 1HG
Tel - 01472 - 323600
Fax - 01472 - 323618

Bibliographical References

  • Berman, John - Grimsby Hebrew Community Records.  [2000. Shemot Vol. 8 No.2]  (BL, JGSGB)

  • Gerlis, D. & L. - The Story of the Grimsby Jewish Community. [1986] (UCL, JGSGB)

Catalogues, Lists and Indexes

  • Grimsby Synagogue Marriage Registers 1875-1972. (Photocopy of the register certificates) Great Yarmouth Cemeteries. Details of standing stones. (JGSGB)

  • Grimsby Hebrew Congregation Burial Board Register 1896-1997. (Photocopy of the register). (JGSGB)

Web Sites

Grimsby Jewish Community

Harrogate

Bibliographical References

  • Livshin, Roslyn D. - The History of the Harrogate Jewish Community. [1995] (BL, JCL, UCL)

Harrogate Jewish Congregation & Community

Hartlepool
(including West Hartlepool)

Bibliographical References

  • Olsover, L. - The Jewish Communities of North-East England, 1755-1980, pp. 302-306. [1981] (BL, UCL, UCL)

Harlepool Jewish Congregation & Community

Hereford (pre-1290)

Bibliographical References

  • Abrahams, B.L. - Debts and houses of Jews in Hereford, 1290. [Trans JHSE I 1893/4]

Hereford Jewish Congregation & Community
Pre-Expulsion Hereford Jewish Community

Hull

Bibliographical References

  • Allerston, J. , Schneider, & Paradise, E. - Hull Old Hebrew Congregation Burial Ground, Hedon Road from 1858 and Hull Western Synagogue Burial Ground, Delhi Street, Hedon Road from c.1903  (JGSGB)

  • Allerston, J.  - Hull Hebrew Cemetery, Church Lane, Marfleet Lane, (adjoining St. Giles Church) from 1938 & Central Hull Hebrew Congregation & Hull Western Street from 1855. (JGSGB)

  • Bennett, Allen  - Early Jewish Immigrants to Hull 1793-1815.  [2005  Shemot Vol. 13 No.4] (BL, JGSGB)

  • Bennett, Allen  - Hull Jews in court, 1851.  [2009 Shemot Vol. 17 No. 2.] (BL, JGSGB)

  • Cuckle, Howard - Hull Jewish Archive Meeting.  [2007, Shemot Vol. 15 No.3] (BL, JGSGB)

  • Finestein, I.  - The Jews in Hull between 1766 and 1880. [Trans JHSE XXXV 1996/8.]

  • Feinstein I. - Scenes and Personalities in Anglo Jewry 1800-2000, pp 112-163.  [2002, Valentine Mitchell]

  • Oppel, Elliot - The History of Hull Orthodox Synagogues (and the people connected to them). [2000] (JGSGB, UCL, UCL)

  • Roth, Cecil - The Rise of Provincial Jewry, pp. 70-71. [1950] (JGSGB, LBL, UCL, Susser Archive - available on-line)

  • Ulyatt, Michael E. - Be Still and Know Thyself More - the flight of the Eastern European Jews to Hull and beyond, [2012, Mike Ulyatt Enterprises, Willerby, Hull, ISBN 987-0-9561757-1-7]

Catalogues, Lists and Indexes

  • Delhi Street Jewish Burial Ground. Notice of application to relocate remains with list of names. [From Hull Daily Mail. 8.11.2000.] (JGSGB)

The Hull Jewish Representative Council produces a monthly Newsletter, "The Watchman".  Readers interested should contact Michael Westerman m.westerman@tiscali.co.uk

Hull Jewish Community

Ilfracombe, North Devon

Bibliographical References

  • Fry, H. - The Jews of North Devon During the Second World War.  [2005] (JGSGB)

Ilfracombe Jewish Congregation & Community

Ipswich

Bibliographical References

  • Brown, M.  - The Jews of Norfolk and Suffolk before 1840. [Trans JHSE XXXII 1990/92]

  • Coleman, A. - An Investigation into the 19th century Jewish Community of Ipswich. (JGSGB)

  • Roth, Cecil - The Rise of Provincial Jewry, pp. 71-74. [1950]  (JGSGB, LBL, UCL, Susser Archive - available on-line)

Catalogues, Lists and Indexes

  • Ipswich Jewish Community notes and cemetery inscriptions from about 1811 to 1850. (JGSGB)

Ipswich Jewish Congregation & Community

King's Lynn
(known as Lynn or Bishop's Lynn in the medieval period)

Bibliographical References

  • Brown, M. The Jews of Norfolk and Suffolk before 1840. [Trans JHSE XXXII 1990/92

  • Roth, Cecil - The Rise of Provincial Jewry, pp. 77-78. [1950] (JGSGB, LBL, UCL, Susser Archive - available on-line)

King´s Lynn Jewish Community
Pre-Expulsion Lynn Jewish Community

Leeds

Bibliographical References

  • Bermant, Chaim - Troubled Eden - An Anatomy of British Jewry.    pp. 49-52. [1969, Vallentine Mitchell, London] (UCL)

  • Buckman, J. - Immigrants and the Class Struggle. The Jewish immigrants in Leeds 1880-1914. (JGSGB)

  • Burgess, E. E. - The Soul of the Leeds Ghetto - a series of articles in the Yorkshire Evening News [19 January 1925 to 16 February 1925]

  • Freedman, Murray  - Leeds Jewry – A Demographic and Sociological Profile. [1988] (JGSGB)

  • Freedman, Murray  - Leeds Jewry  –  The First Hundred Year. [1992, JHSE Leeds branch] (JGSGB)

  • Freedman, Murray  - Leeds Jewish Community –  The Early Years. "Shemot" Spring 1993 vol. 1/2  (BL, JGSGB)

  • Freedman, Murray  - 1891 Census – Leeds – List of Jewish Residents. [1994] (JGSGB)

  • Freedman, Murray  - Leeds Jewry – A History of its Synagogues. [1995] (JGSGB)

  • Freedman, Murray  - The Jewish “Schools” of Leeds 1880-1930. [2001]

  • Freedman, Murray  - Leeds Jews in the 1901 Census.  [2002]

  • Freedman, Murray  - Chapeltown and its Jews. [2003]

  • Freedman, Murray  - Essays on Leeds and Anglo-Jewry History & Demographic. [2003]

  • Freedman, Murray  - 25 Characters in Leeds Jewish History. [2004]

  • Freedman, Murray  - Further  Essays on Leeds & Anglo-Jewish History & Demography. [2005]

  • Freedman, Murray  - Sarah Lyons - the Leeds Connection. [2005 Shemot Vol. 13 No. 4]  (BL, JGSGB)

  • Grizzard. Nigel -  Leeds Jewry and the Great War 1914-1918. [1979, JHSE Leeds branch]

  • Grizzard. Nigel -  A survey of Jews still living in the Leeds inner city. [1981] (BL)

  • Krausz, Ernest - Leeds Jewry, Its History & Social Structure. [1964, The Jewish Historical Society of England] (JGSGB)

  • Lightman, Ann - The Lightman Family of Leeds. "Shemot" December 2010 vol. 18/3, pp. 9-12 (BL, JGSGB) 

  • Roth, Cecil - The Rise of Provincial Jewry, pp. 81-82. [1950] (JGSGB, LBL, UCL, Susser Archive - available on-line)

  • Saipe Louis - A History of the Jews of Leeds. [1985, Leeds Jewish Representative Council]

  • Skyte, H. - Care in the Jewish community. The story of the Leeds Jewish Welfare Board and the Leeds Jewish Housing Association (1878 - 1998). [Pub: Leeds Jewish Welfare Board]

  • Sterne Ernest C. - Leeds Jewry and the Great War 1914-1918 – The Home Front.. [1982, JHSE Leeds branch.]

  • Sterne Ernest C. - Leeds Jewry 1919-1929. [1990, JHSE Leeds branch.]

  • Walsh. J.S. -  Mrs. Sheinbloom's Kitchen. [1982, JHSE Leeds branch]

  • Leeds Jewish Community. [Spring 1993, Shemot Vol. 1 No. 2]  (BL, JGSGB)

  • Deciphering an Old Gravestone in Leeds. [October 1994, Shemot Vol. 2 No. 4]  (BL, JGSGB)

Web Sites

Leeds Jewish Community

Leicester

Bibliographical References

  • Harris, Oliver D. - Jews, Jurats and the Jewry Wall: a Name in Context [2008, Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society, vol 82, pp. 113-33]

  • Levy, S. - Notes on Leicester Jewry. [Trans JHSE Vol V 1902/5]

  • Newman, A. & Lidiker P.  - Portrait of a community, a history of the Leicester Hebrew Congregation. (JGSGB)

  • Newman, Aubrey - Leicester Hebrew Congregation - a centenary record.  [1974, Leicester Hebrew Congregation Centenary Committee]

  • Minerva, or Fried Fish in a Spongebag.  The story of a boarding school for Jewish girls.  (JGSGB)

Leicester Jewish Community

Letchworth

Bibliographical References

  • Fachler, Yankie - The Vow - Rebuilding the Fachler Tribe after the Holocaust.

Letchworth Jewish Community

Lincoln (pre-1290)

Bibliographical References

  • Haes, F. - Lincoln, 1898. [Trans JHSE III 1896/8]

  • Jacobs, J. - Little Saint Hugh of Lincoln. [Trans JHSE I 1893/4]

  • Jacobs, J. & Levy, S. - Aaron of Lincoln. [Trans JHSE III 1896/8]

  • Roth, Cecil - Medieval Lincoln Jewry and its Synagogue. [1934, The Jewish Historical Society of England] (LBL).

Lincoln Jewish Community
Pre-Expulsion Lincoln Jewish Community

Liverpool

Bibliographical References

  • Benas B.B. - A Survey of the Jewish Institutional History of Liverpool and District. [JHSE Transaction XVII 1951-52]

  • Benas B.B.  - Later Records of the Jews of Liverpool. [13 December 1928, Reprinted in Transactions of the Historical Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, 1929.]

  • Bermant, Chaim - Troubled Eden - An Anatomy of British Jewry. pp. 53-54. [1969, Vallentine Mitchell, London] (UCL)

  • Ettinger P. - Hope Place, Liverpool Jewry 1836-1930. [1930] (UCL)

  • Goldman H. - Short History of the Allerton, Liverpool, Hebrew Congregation. [1965]

  • Green, G L. - The Royal Navy and Anglo-Jewry 1740-1820. [1989]

  • Hershon, C P. - To make them English.  [1983 Palavas Press, Bristol] (UCL)

  • Hudaly D. - Liverpool Old Hebrew Congregation, 1780-1974. [1974]

  • Marks, Saul - Deane Street Cemetery Restoration Project. [June 2008 Shemot Vol. 16 No. 2]  (BL, JGSGB)

  • Moonman, Eric  - Reflections on Liverpool Jewry. [The Jewish Year Book 2008 - Essays, pp xx-xxvi] (BL, JCL, LBL, UCL)

  • Roth, Cecil - The Rise of Provincial Jewry, p. 82. [1950] (JGSGB, LBL, UCL, Susser Archive - available on-line)

  • Wolfman, J. - Liverpool Jewry in the eighteenth century. [1987/88 in Year Book].

  • Pub: Liverpool Old Hebrew Congregation.

  • Merseyside Jewish Community Archives. [June 2006 Shemot Vol. 14 No. 2]  (BL, JGSGB)

Catalogues, Lists and Indexes

  • Roche, H.  - Notes on the old registers now deposited in the Liverpool City Library. (JGSGB)

Archives & Records

  • Project POOL (Photographs of Old Liverpool): 20,000 photographs from the City Engineers Department, 1897-1960 with 2,000 attached images. Catalogued with the support of the Heritage Lottery Fund.

  • Liverpool City Council: The Corporation archives including minute books from 1550, education records including school records and cemeteries interment registers.

  • Merseyside Jewish Community Archives: Includes records of synagogues, organisations, schools, businesses and personal papers. Catalogued with the support of the Heritage Lottery Fund and the Jewish Community.

  • Ecclesiastical Records: Includes full details of Roman Catholic and Non-conformist archives together with summary details of Anglican parish holdings.

  • Imperial Tobacco Company, Ogden Branch: Full listing of this important business archive. Catalogued with the support of Imperial Tobacco plc.

  • Merseyside Record Office: Brief details of all catalogued collections plus full listings of Non-conformist church and Coroner's records.

Web Sites

Liverpool  Jewish Community

Manchester

Bibliographical References

  • Bermant, Chaim - Troubled Eden - An Anatomy of British Jewry. pp. 44-49. [1969, Vallentine Mitchell, London] (UCL)

  • Collins, L in collaboration with Bierbrier, M.  - The Sephardim of Manchester: Pedigree and Pioneers. [2006, Shaare Hayim, the Sephardi Congregation of Manchester]

  • Dobkin, Monty - Tales of Manchester Jewry and Manchester in the Thirties. [1986, Neil Richardson,  Manchester] (JGSGB, BL)

  • Dobkin, Monty - More Tales of Manchester Jewry. [1994, Neil Richardson,  Manchester] (JGSGB, BL)

  • Dobkin, Monty - Rothschild in Manchester & other tales from the history of Manchester Jewry. (JGSGB)

  • Dobkin, Monty - It's All Different Now, some Manchester memories. [1989, Neil Richardson] (JGSGB)

  • Dobkin, Monty - Broughton and Cheetham Hill in Regency and Victorian Times. (JGSGB)

  • Friedman, D.  - Manchester Jews Benevolent Society, a comprehensive history, 1905-1952. (JGSGB)

  • Goldberg, Percy Selvin (Rabbi) The Manchester Congregation of British Jews 1857-1957.  [1957, Norbury, Lockwood & Co.]

  • Gotliffe Harvey - My Father was Born on Trafalgar Street, An American Finds His Way Home to England [1997, Cogitator Publications, Santa Cruz, CA]

  • Jacobs, Louis - Four Rabbinic Positions in Anglo-Jewry - The Central Shul, Manchester. [The Jewish Year Book 2000 - Essays, pp 77-79] (BL, JCL, LBL, UCL)

  • Liedtke, Rainer - Jewish Welfare in Hamburg and Manchester, c.1850-1914. [1998, Clarendon Press, Oxford] (BL)

  • Livshin, Roslyn - Manchester Jewry - A Guide for the Family Historian.   [Shemot Autumn 1993 vol. 1/4]  (BL, JGSGB)

  • Pereira, B R and Mendoza, J P. - History of the Manchester Congregation of Spanish & Portuguese Jews, 5633-5683 (1873-1923).  [1923, Manchester Congregation of Spanish and Portuguese Jews pp. 60. Manchester] (BL)

  • Roth, Cecil - The Rise of Provincial Jewry, pp. 83-84. [1950] (JGSGB, LBL, UCL, Susser Archive - available on-line)

  • Williams, Bill - The Making of Manchester Jewry 1740-1875 [1931,
    1976 & 1985, Manchester University Press]

  • Williams, Bill - Sir Sidney Hamburger and Manchester Jewry. Religion, City and Community. [1931, 1999] (BL)

  • Williams, Bill - Manchester Jewry, A Pictorial History 1788-1988. [1988, Archive Publications, Manchester] (UCL)

  • Williams, Bill - Jewish Manchester - An Illustrated History. [2008, Breeden Press]

  • Williams, Bill - Sir Sidney Hamburger and Manchester Jewry, Religion, City and Community [1999, Valentine-Mitchell, London]

  • Almonds and Raisins, The Rise and Fall of the Manchester Jewish Quarter. [The Manchester Jewish Museum, Manchester]

  • Our Blitz, Red Skies Over Manchester, A Wartime Facsimile. [1945, Kemsley Newspapers Limited, Aurora Publishing, Manchester

  • They Came From the Haim: a History of Manchester Jewry from 1867. [1995, Jewish Social Services (Greater Manchester)]  (JGSGB, BL)

  • Supplement on the occasion of the seventy-fifth anniversary of the consecration of the Synagogue, 5709-1949. [1949, 1998, Manchester Congregation of Spanish and Portuguese Jews. Manchester] (BL)

  • A Social History of North Salford Synagogue (Rumanian Shul) based on its Marriage Records. [Shemot March 1999 vol. 7/1] (BL, JGSGB)

  • From Krakow to Manchester. [Shemot September 1999 vol. 7/3] (BL, JGSGB)

  • Jewish Holdings at Manchester Central Library. [Shemot June 2001 vol. 9/2] (BL, JGSGB)

  • Kolbuszowa to Manchester. "Shemot" December 2009 vol. 17/3-4  (BL, JGSGB)

Trade Directories

  • Kelly's (Slater's) Directory of Manchester, Salford and Suburbs, 1934 – [1934, Kelly's Directories Ltd., London]

  • Kelly's (Slater's) Directory of Manchester, Salford and Suburbs, 1927 – [1927, Kelly's Directorie, Ltd., London]

  • Royal National Commercial Directory of Manchester and Salford, with their vicinities –  Isaac Slater [1884, Manchester]

  • Slater's General and Classified Directory and Street Register, of Manchester and Salford, with their vicinities –  Isaac Slater, [1855, Manchester]

Catalogues, Lists and Indexes

  • Jewish holdings at Manchester Central Library.

  • 1851 Surname Index of Manchester – No 2 Market Street sub-district. (JGSGB)

  • 1851 Surname Index of Manchester – No 7 Cheetham & Failsworth districts. (JGSGB)

  • Name files held at the Manchester Jewish Museum. (JGSGB)

  • Tapes held at the Manchester Jewish Museum (JGSGB)

  • Index of Jewish names in Manchester City News, 1875-1923 A-C. (JGSGB)

  • Watch Committee Index A-F. Notes by Williams, B.(JGSGB)

Web Site

Greater Manchester Jewish Community

Middlesbrough

Bibliographical References

  • Bookey, B. - Middlesbrough Hebrew Congregation Old and New Cemeteries. (JGSGB)

  • Olsover, L. - The Jewish Communities of North-East England, 1755-1980 pp. 310-316. [1981, Extract on Middlesbrough available on-line through the Kehilat Middlesbrough Newsletter and Archives website.] (BL, UCL)

  • Wiseman, Donald - Kehilat Middlesbrough - Past, Present & Future. [2007]

  • 1874-1974 One Hundred Years of Jewish Worship. A short history of the Middlesborough Hebrew Congregation, 1974.  (JGSGB)

Middlesbrough Jewish Congregation & Community

Newcastle

Bibliographical References

  • Bermant, Chaim - Troubled Eden - An Anatomy of British Jewry. pp. 44-45. [1969, Vallentine Mitchell, London] (UCL)

  • Guttentag, G D. - The beginnings of the Newcastle Jewish Community. [Trans JHSE XXV 1973/5]

  • Olsover, L. - The Jewish Communities of North-East England, 1755-1980, pp. 17-213. [1981] (BL, UCL)

  • Roth, Cecil - The Rise of Provincial Jewry, pp. 84-85. [1950] (JGSGB, LBL, UCL, Susser Archive - available on-line)

Archives & Records

 

Newcastle Jewish Community

Northampton

Bibliographical References

  • Collins, A.J. - 18th Century Northampton Jewry and its Cemetery. [Trans JHSE Vol. XV 1939/1945]

  • Jolles, Michael - Northampton's Jewish Perspective. [Shemot October 1997 vol. 5/3 pp. 17-19] (BL, JGSGB)

  • Jolles, Michael - A Short History of the Jews of Northampton, 1159-1996. [1996] (BL, JGSGB)

  • Jolles, Michael - The Northampton Jewish Cemetery. (The Jewish section of Towcester Road Cemetery.   (JGSGB)

Northampton  Jewish Congregation & Community
Pre-Expulsion Northampton Jewish Community

North Shields - see North Tyneside

North Tyneside
(including North Shields and Whitley Bay)

Bibliographical References

  • Olsover, L. - The Jewish Communities of North-East England, 1755-1980.  North Shields pp. 251-256 Whitley Bay, pp. 261-264 [1981] (BL, UCL)

  • Pollins, Harold - The Jewish Community of North Shields.  [Jewish Journal of Sociology, volume XLIX, Nos. 1 & 2, 2007, pp.47-70.]

Archives & Records

North Tyneside Jewish Community

Norwich

Bibliographical References

  • Brown, M.  - The Jews of Norfolk and Suffolk before 1840. [Trans JHSE XXXII 1990/92]

  • Levine, H. - The Norwich Hebrew Congregation 1840-1960, A Short History. [1961, Norwich Hebrew Congregation: Norwich] (UCL)

  • Levy, S. - Norwich Day-Book. [Trans JHSE V 1902-5]

  • Lipman, Vivian D. - The Jews of Medieval Norwich. [Trans JHSE 1967]

  • Roth, Cecil - The Rise of Provincial Jewry,  pp. 85-87. [1950]  (JGSGB, LBL, UCL, Susser Archive - available on-line)

Norwich Jewish Community
Pre-Expulsion Norwich Jewish Community

Nottingham

Bibliographical References

  • Fisher, N. - Eight hundred years. the story of Nottingham's Jews.  [1998] (BL, JCL, JGSGB, UCL)

  • Roth, Cecil -  The Rise of Provincial Jewry, pp. 87-89. [1950] (JGSGB, LBL, UCL, Susser Archive - available on-line)

  • Spungin, J. - A Short History of the Jews of Nottingham. [1951, Prepared at the request of the Nottingham Hebrew Congregation for the Diamond Jubilee of the consecration of the Synagogue, Chaucer Street.] (BL)

Nottingham Jewish Congregation

Oxford

Bibliographical References

  • Brown, Reva Berman, and Sean McCartney - David of Oxford and Licoricia of Winchester - glimpses into a Jewish family in thirteenth-century England.  [Trans. JHSE, Vol. XXXIX 2004]

  • Cohen, S.  - Oxford Jewry in the 13th Century. [Trans JHSE Vol. XIII 1932/1935]

  • Dann, Uriel - Jews in 18th-Century Oxford: Further Observations.  [1991, Oxoniensia, vol 56, pp. 345-53, 1989]

  • Gershfield, Edward M. - Oxford and the Jewish Problem.  [1965, Conservative Judaism, vol 20, no. 1, pp. 30-35, Student Life]

  • Glasser, Ralph - Gorbals Boy at Oxford. [1988]

  • Jackson, Freda - Then and Now: A Collection of Recollections. [1992]

  • Lewis, David M. - The Jews of Oxford. [1992] (BL, UCL)

  • Loewe, Michael - A Jewish Home in Oxford and Cambridge in the 1920s and 1930s. [1999, The Magazine of the Cambridge Society, pp. 40-44.]

  • Loewe, R.  - Hebrew books and “Judaica” in medieval Oxford and Cambridge. [In J.M. Shaftesley (ed.) Remember the Days: essays on Anglo-Jewish History presented to Cecil Roth, 1966]

  • Mound, Gloria - The Hitherto Unknown Jews of Banbury. [Cake & Cockhorse, vol 12 no 3, 1992, pp.66-74]

  • Mundill, Robin R. - Lumbard and Son: the business and debtors of two Jewish moneylenders in late thirteenth-century England. (Note: The two moneylenders were based in Oxfordshire and had a great deal to do with the city of Oxford. Harold Pollins) [The Jewish Quarterly Review, Vol. LXXXII, Nos. 1 & 2 (July-October) 1991, pp. 137-170]

  • Neubauer, A.  - Notes on the Jews in Oxford. [1890, Oxford Historical Society, Collecteana, 2nd series]

  • Pollins, Harold - A quantity of articles posted to the JCR-UK website and listed on the Oxford Community Page

  • Pollins, Harold - A Travelling Jeweller's Doppelganger.  [2000 Shemot Vol. 8 No. 3. pp 32-33] (BL, JGSGB)

  • Pollins, Harold - A Travelling Jeweller's Doppelganger, an Addendum.  [2002 Shemot Vol. 10 No. 2. p 29] (BL, JGSGB)

  • Pollins, Harold - Herbert Martin James Loewe in Oxford. [2006, Jewish Journal of Scociology, Vol 48, nos. 1 & 2, pp. 34-49]

  • Pollins, Harold and Lockyer, K.Q. - The Slapoffski Families of Oxford and Australia.  [2005 Shemot Vol. 13 No. 4.] (BL, JGSGB)

  • Roth, Cecil - The Rise of Provincial Jewry, pp. 89-90. [1950] (JGSGB, LBL, UCL, Susser Archive - available on-line)

  • Roth, Cecil - The Jews of Medieval Oxford. [1951] (LBL)

  • Roth, Cecil - Oxford Starrs. [1957, Oxoniensia, vol 22, pp. 63-77, 1957]

  • Roth, Cecil - Jews in Oxford after 1290. [Oxoniensia, vol 15, pp. 63-80] (JGSGB, LBL)

  • Salter, H.E. - Was there a Domus Conversorum in Oxford?  [Miscellanies of the JHSE II, 1935.]

  • Stokes, H.P. (canon), M.N. - A 13th Century Jewish Family in Oxford. [J. Trans JHSE X 1921/3]

  • Sam. Lord Segal of Wytham 1902-1985, Anon., privately printed, n.d.

Archives & Records

  • The Bodleian (the University Library) has much material on the community, including some MS minutes from the 1880s, and much ephemeral material, including annual reports of the congregation, located in the John Johnson Collection, relating to the period since about the 1970s. It has copies of published items on the community's history.

  • The Oxfordshire County Council Record Office has a major collection of MS material relating to the community and to its various organisations, mainly from the 1940s.

  • Oxford Jewish Heritage website at: http://www.oxfordjewishheritage.co.uk, profile of Oxford Jewish history from earliest records through to modern day community activities, including detailed maps of Medieval Jewish Oxford, an Inventory of Hebraica and Judaica in the Oxford Colleges, Blue Plaques for famous Oxford Jews and much more

Oxford Jewish Congregation
Pre-Expulsion Oxford Jewish Community

Penzance

Bibliographical References

  • Brock, E.  - The Jewish Community of Penzance, a brief account of their history. (JGSGB)

  • Newall, V.  - The Jews of Cornwall in Local Tradition. [Trans JHSE XXVI 1974/78]

  • Pearce, K and Fry, H. - The Lost Jews of Cornwall.   [2000, ISBN 1 900178 27 3] (JGSGB, UCL)

  • Roth, Cecil - The Rise of Provincial Jewry, pp. 90-91. [1950] (JGSGB, LBL, UCL, Susser Archive - available on-line)

  • Susser, Bernard - Census Returns for Jews in Devon Cornwall and Stroud. [1996, private publication]

  • Susser, Bernard -  The Jews of South West England - The Rise and Decline of their Medieval and Modern Communities. [1993, University of Exeter Press] (JGSGB, UCL)

  • The Jews of Devon and Cornwall. [2000, The Hidden Legacy Foundation. 2000 ISBN 1 900178 82 6]

Penzance Jewish Congregation & Community

Plymouth

Bibliographical References

  • Bermant, Chaim - Troubled Eden - An Anatomy of British Jewry,   pp. 41-42. [1969, Vallentine Mitchell, London] (UCL)

  • Black, Doris - The Plymouth Synagogue 1761-1961. [1961]

  • Conway, David - The Bland Family of Plymouth.  [2009 Shemot Vol. 17 No. 2.] (BL, JGSGB)

  • Green, G L. - The Royal Navy and Anglo-Jewry 1740-1820. [1989]

  • Lipman, Vivian D. - Plymouth Aliens Lists, 1798  and 1803. [Trans JHSE Miscellanies VI 1962]

  • Roth, Cecil - The Rise of Provincial Jewry, p. 91-93. [1950] (JGSGB, LBL, UCL, Susser Archive - available on-line)

  • Susser, Bernard - Census Returns for Jews in Devon Cornwall and Stroud. [1996, private publication]

  • Susser, Bernard - The Jews of South West England - The Rise and Decline of their Medieval and Modern Communities. [1993, University of Exeter Press] (JGSGB, UCL)

  • Susser, Bernard - Tombstone Inscriptions in the Old Jewish Cemetery on Plymouth Hoe. (JGSGB)

  • The Jews of Devon and Cornwall. [2000, The Hidden Legacy Foundation]

Plymouth Jewish Congregation & Community

Portsmouth

Bibliographical References

  • Green, Geoffrey L. - The Royal Navy And Anglo-Jewry 1740-1820. [1989]

  • Meisels, I S. - Jewish Congregation of Portsmouth, 1766-1842.  [Trans JHSE Vol VI 1908/10]

  • Neuman, Eugene - Article on the Jews of Portsmouth and Circumcision Register.  [Trans JHSE Vol XVII 1951]

  • Roche, Henry - The Jews of Portsmouth, Sources and Information, 1740-1870. [Shemot January 1994 vol. 2/1 p. 27] (BL, JGSGB)

  • Roche, Henry - Portsmouth Circumcision Register review. [Shemot March 2009 vol. 17/1 pp. 21-22] (BL, JGSGB)

  • Roth, Cecil - The Portsmouth Community and its Historical Background.  [Trans JHSE XIII 1932]

  • Roth, Cecil - The Rise of Provincial Jewry, pp. 94-95. [1950] (JGSGB, LBL, UCL, Susser Archive - available on-line)

  • Susser, Bernard - The Jews of South West England. [1993, University of Exeter Press] (BL, JGSGB)

  • Weinberg, Aubrey - Portsmouth Jewry , 1985.  [11986]

  • Wolf, Lucien - A Peep into Portsmouth Pinches.  [15 August 1890, The Jewish Chronicle]

  • Portsmouth Jewry. [Portsmouth Papers No.41, Portsmouth City Council] (JGSGB)

Catalogues, Lists and Indexes

  • Portsmouth Mendacity Society 1859 (List of Officers and Subscribers). (JGSGB)

Portsmouth and Southsea Jewish Congregation & Community

 

Preston

Bibliographical References

  • Cowell, John - Furriers, Glaziers, Doctors and Others: a History of the Preston Jewish Community. [2009 - jcowellnix@yahoo.com]

Preston Jewish Congregation & Community

 

Ramsgate

Bibliographical References

  • Cardozo, D.A.J. -  Think and Thank: the Montefiore Synagogue and College, Ramsgate 1833-1933. (BIU)

  • Krinsky, C. H.  - The Synagogues of Europe, pp. 424-426 [1985, The M.I.T. Press, Cambridge MA]

  • Roth, Cecil - The Rise of Provincial Jewry, p. 95. [1950] (JGSGB, LBL, UCL, Susser Archive - available on-line)

Ramsgate Jewish Congregation & Community

Reading

Bibliographical References

  • Krisman, Sue - Portrait of a Community, Reading Synagogue, 1900-2000. [2001] (JGSGB)

Reading  Jewish Community

Sheerness (in Swale)

Bibliographical References

  • Roth, Cecil - The Rise of Provincial Jewry, pp. 96-98. [1950] (JGSGB, LBL, UCL, Susser Archive - available on-line)

  • Webster, Martin - The Jewish Community of Sheerness. [Notes and articles collected by Martin Webster] (JGSGB)

Catalogues, Lists and Indexes

  • Webster, Martin - Jewish Cemeteries of Kent.  Inscriptions at Canterbury, Chatham, Dover, Sheerness. (JGSGB)

Sheerness Jewish Congregation & Community

Sheffield

Bibliographical References

  • Ballin, N. D. - The Early Days of Sheffield Jewry, 1760-1900. [1986] (UCL).

  • Isaacs, E. - Episodes. [1996, pub. Walker & Carson] (BL)

  • Kosmin B A., Bauer, M. and Grizzard, N. - Steel City Jews: a study of ethnicity and social mobility in the Jewish population of the city of Sheffield, South Yorkshire.  1946- 1976 (BL)

  • Krausz, A. - Sheffield Jewry: commentary on a community. [1980] (BL, UCL)

  • Roth, Cecil - The Rise of Provincial Jewry, p.99. [1950] (JGSGB, LBL, UCL, Susser Archive - available on-line)

Sheffield Jewish Community

Southampton

Bibliographical References

  • Allin, P.  - Medieval Southampton and its Jews. [Trans JHSE XXIII 1969/70]

  • Roth, Cecil - The Rise of Provincial Jewry, p.100. [1950] (JGSGB, LBL, UCL, Susser Archive - available on-line)

Catalogues, Lists and Indexes

  • Plan of the Jewish sections of Southampton Cemetery, E32, F40, F41. (JGSGB)

Southampton Jewish Community
Pre-Expulsion Southampton Jewish Community

South Shields

Bibliographical References

  • Olsover, L. - The Jewish Communities of North-East England, 1755-1980, pp. 256-261. [1981] (BL, UCL)

Archives & Records

South Shields Jewish Congregation & Community

Stockport

Bibliographical References

  • Bernstein, Harry - The Invisible Wall [2007]

  • Hilton, C. - The Stockport Jewish Community. (JGSGB)

Stockport Jewish Congregation & Community

Stockton-on-Tees

Bibliographical References

  • Bookey, B. - Stockton Hebrew Congregation. (JGSGB)

  • Olsover, L. - The Jewish Communities of North-East England, 1755-1980, pp. 307-310. [1981] (BL, UCL)

Stockton Jewish Congregation & Community

Stoke-on-Trent

Bibliographical References

  • Down, I. - A Modern History of Jewish Settlement in the Potteries [May 1954, BA Dissertation, Keele University]

  • Moreland, Shula P. - Jewish Settlement in Staffordshire: the early years, 1811-1901, [2009, Jewish Historical Studies, vol. 42,  pp.97 -120]

Stoke-on-Trent Jewish Congregation & Community

Stroud

Bibliographical References

  • Pollins, Harold - The Jewish Community of Stroud.

  • Susser, Rabbi - Census Returns for Jews in Devon Cornwall and Stroud. [1996, private publication]

  • Torode, B. - The Hebrew Community of Cheltenham, Gloucester and Stroud. [1999, private publication] (JCL, JGSGB)

Stroud Jewish Congregation & Community

Sunderland

Bibliographical References

  • Bermant, Chaim - Troubled Eden - An Anatomy of British Jewry, pp. 42-44. [1969, Vallentine Mitchell, London] (UCL)

  • Daiches, S. - An Historical Sketch of the Jewish Congregation.  [Antiquities of Sunderland Vol. XV  1914-1914, p. 82, Read to the Sunderland Antiquarian Society on 8 December 1914].

  • Davis, Harold A. - Sunderland Jewry at War - Sunderland Jewish Community Bulletin for the Forces (1942-1946) [2009] (JGSGB)

  • Leigh, Gordon - From Kretinga to Sunderland: a Jewish Chain Migration from Lithuania, a thesis.

  • Levy, Arnold - History of the Sunderland Jewish Community 1755-1955.  [1955, London, McDonald] (JGSGB)

  • Levy, Arnold - The Behr Tree. [1949, private publication, a copy can be viewed-on-line on the JewishGen ShtetLinks site for Kretinga)

  • Olsover, L. - The Jewish Communities of North-East England, 1755-1980, pp. 264-294. [1981] (BL, UCL)

  • Roth, Cecil - The Rise of Provincial Jewry, pp.100-102. [1950] (JGSGB, LBL, UCL, Susser Archive - available on-line)

  • Susser, Bernard - The nineteenth-century constitution of the Sunderland Congregation.  [Trans JHSE XL 2005]

  • Taylor, Derek & Davis, Harold A. - The Sunderland Beth Hamedresh 1889-1999 - The Road to Gateshead [2010]

  • Kretinga. [Shemot December 1996 vol. 4/4] (BL, JGSGB)

Archives & Records

Catalogues, Lists and Indexes

  • List of Memorial Lights – “Joel Intract Memorial Home of Rest” Sunderland. (Ex Annual Report) List of deaths at the home 1923-1991. (JGSGB)

Sunderland Jewish Community

Swale - see Sheerness

Torquay

Bibliographical References

  • Susser, Bernard - Census Returns for Jews in Devon Cornwall and Stroud. [1996, private publication]

  • Susser, Bernard - The Jews of South West England. [1993., University of Exeter Press] (JGSGB, UCL)

  • The Jews of Devon and Cornwall. [2000, The Hidden Legacy Foundation. 2000 ISBN 1 900178 82 6]

Torquay Jewish Congregation & Community

Warwick

Bibliographical References

  • Jews of Medieval Warwick [Victoria County History of Warwickshire, vol 8 (1969), pp. 486-7] Available online, at http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=16053

  • Jews of Warwick 1180 to 1280 [Warwickshire History - Journal of the Warwickshire Local History Society, Winter 2005/2006 edition]

Birmingham Jewish Community
Pre-Expulsion Warwick Jewish Community

Whitehaven

Bibliographical References

  • Sellick, W.R. - Whitehaven and its Jews 1774-1850. (JGSGB)

Whitehaven Jewish Congregation & Community

Whitley Bay - see North Tyneside

Wigan

Bibliographical References

  • Jackson, Richard W. - Wigan's Lost Jewish Heritage [ Past-Forward, March-December 2012, published by the Wigan Heritage Service]

Wigan Jewish Congregation & Community

York (pre-1290)

Bibliographical References

  • Adler, M.  - Aaron of York. [Trans JHSE Vol. XIII 1932/1935]

  • Birnbaum, E.  - Starrs of Aaron of York in Dean and Chapter Muniments of Durham. [Trans JHSE Vol. XIX 1955/1959]

  • Brunskill, E.  - Jews in Medieval York. [Trans JHSE XX 1959/61]

  • Dobson, R.B.  - The Decline and Expulsion of the Medieval Jews of York. [Trans JHSE XXVI 1974/78]

  • Dobson, R.D.  - The Jews of Medieval York and the March of March 1190. [1974, St. Anthony's Hall Publications, York] (JGSGB)

  • Haes, F. - Clifford's Tower, York. [Trans JHSE Vol. IV 1899/1901]

York Jewish Congregation & Community
Pre-Expulsion York Jewish Community

LONDON


London - General

Bibliographical References

  • Adler, Henrietta - New Survey of London Life and Labour. [1929]

  • Arnold, A. P.  - List of Jews and their Households in London 1695 [Trans JHSE Miscellanies VI 1962]

  • Blank, J. E. - Minutes of the Federation of Synagogues - A Twenty- five Years Review -  [1912]

  • Black, Gerry - Jewish London: an Illustrated History [2003, Breedon, Derby] (BLO, UCL)

  • Booth, Charles - The Life and Labour of People in London, including essays on London Jewry by Beatrice Potter.

  • Bueno de Mesquita, D. - The Historical Associations of the Bet Ahaim (cemetery).  [1924, pp 225-254. 29V4825. Notes: no tombstones, 1657-??, many first Sephardic families of London, community founders, ancient Sephardic cemetery at 253 Mile End Rd. Source: Tagger, Mathilde. Printed Books on Jewish cemeteries in the Jewish National and University Library in Jerusalem: an annotated bibliography. Jerusalem.]

  • Hyamson, Albert Montefiore - The London Board for Shechita, 1804-1954.  [1954, London Board for Shechita]

  • Hyamson, Albert Montefiore - Jews College London 1855-1955 [1955, Jews College]

  • Jacobs, Joseph - Statistics of the Jewish Population of London, 1873-1893  [1894]

  • Kershen, Anne  - 150 Years of Progressive Judaism in Britain. [1990, London Museum of  Jewish Life]

  • Krinsky, C. H.  - The Synagogues of Europe. [1985] (The M.I.T. Press, Cambridge MA). pp. 412-424

  • Lindsay, P. - The Synagogues of London. [1993, Valentine Mitchell, London  ISBN 0-85303-241-6] (BIU)

  • Lipman, Vivian D. - A Century of Social Service, A History of the Jewish Board of Guardians 1859-1959. [1959, Routledge & Kegan Paul]

  • Lipman, Vivian D. - The Rise of Suburbia.  [Trans JHSE XIX 1956] 

  • Mayhew, H. - London Labour and London Poor. [1851]

  • Mills, John (Rev.) - The British Jews. [London 1853]

  • Neldola, D. - Epitaph to the memory of the much lamented Abigail, third daughter of David Abrabanel Lindo. [London, 1848. 1 loose leaf. R 8‏91B4497.] [Source: Tagger, Mathilde. Printed Books on Jewish cemeteries in the Jewish National and University Library in Jerusalem: an annotated bibliography. Jerusalem:]

  • Newman, Aubrey - The United Synagogue 1870-1970. [1976, Routledge & Kegan Paul] (JGSGB) 

  • Pfeffer, Jeremy I. - From One End of the Earth to the Other - The London Beth Din 1805 to 1855 and Australian Convict Transportees. [2008, Sussex Academic Press ISBN 978-1-84519-293-8]

  • Renton, Peter - The Lost Synagogues of London. [2000, Tymsder Publishing ISBN 0-9531104-7-8]

  • Roth, Cecil - Archives of the United Synagogue. [1930]

  • Roth, Cecil - The Federation of Synagogues. [1937]

  • Roth, Cecil - Lesser London Synagogues of 18th Century.  [Trans JHSE Miscellanies III 1937]

  • Russell and Lewis - The Jews of London - Indexing of London Synagogue Records. “Shemot” ,Winter 1992 vol.1/1 and February 1995 vol. 3/1 (BL, JGSGB)

  • Shapiro, Aumie and Michael - Jewish Londoners [1992, Springboard Education Trust]

  • Tucker, Charles and Jacobs, Hannah & David - London's Jewish Cemeteries [1988, London Museum of Jewish Life]

  • White, Paul - List of Merchants in London 1677-1820 (including Residences and Occupations. Compiled from The Little London Directory 1677 and Kent's Directory 1732-1785. (JGSGB)

  • Greater London History Library - “Shemot”, Spring 1993 vol. 1/2 (BL, JGSGB)

  • Greater London Record Office - “Shemot”, June 1995 vol. 3/2 (BL, JGSGB)

  • Willesden Cemetery History - “Shemot”, July 1997 vol. 5/2 (BL, JGSGB)

  • Maiden Lane Cemetery - “Shemot” , June 2000 vol. 8/2 (BL, JGSGB)

  • Jewish Genealogical Resources at the London Metropolitan Archives  - “Shemot”, June 2001 vol. 9/2 (BL, JGSGB)

  • London Directories - the Place to Look - “Shemot”, June 2006 Vol. 14 No. 2 (BL, JGSGB)

London - Medieval (pre-1290 expulsion)

Bibliographical References

  • Adler, M. - The testimony of the London Jewry against the ministers of Henry III. [Trans JHSE XIV 1940 pp. 141-185]

  • Blair, I., Hillaby, J., Howell, I., Sermon, R. and Watson, B.  - The discovery of two medieval mikva’ot in London and a reinterpretation of the Bristol “mikveh”. [Trans JHSE XXXVII 2002, pp. 15-40]

  • Hillaby, J.  - London Jewry: William I to John. [Trans JHSE XXXIII 1992/94]

  • Honeybourne, M. B.  - Pre-Expulsion Cemetery of the Jews in London. [Trans JHSE XX 1959/61]

  • Roth, Cecil - Elijah of London: the most illustrious English Jew of the Middle Ages. [Trans JHSE XV 1946, pp. 29-62]

  • Logan, F. D.  - Thirteen London Jews and conversion to Christianity - problems of apostasy in the 1280s - [Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research, vol XLV, 1972, pp. 214-229.]

  • Rabinowitz, L. I. - The London Get of 1287. [Trans JHSE XXI 1968, pp. 314-322]

  • Sacks, M. Y. L.  - The Writings of Rabbi Elijah of London, edited from MSS with an introduction and notes by 1956 (In Hebrew).

Pre-Expulsion London Jewish Community

City of London

Bibliographical References

      Bevis Marks Synagogue

  • Barnett, L. (ed.) - Bevis Mark Records I - The Early History of the Congregation of Spanish and Portuguese Jews in London Until 1800. [1940, Spanish and Portuguese Jews' Congregation Publication]

  • Barnett, L. (ed.) - Bevis Mark Records II - Abstract of the Ketubot or Marriage-contracts from earliest times until 1937. [1949, Spanish and Portuguese Jews' Congregation Publication]

  • Barnett, R. et al (ed.) - Bevis Mark Records IV - Circumcision Register of Isaac and Abraham de Paiba 1715-1775 [1991, Spanish and Portuguese Jews' Congregation Publication] and supplements (circumcisions 1679-1699, some marriages 1679-1689, some births of girls 1679-1699).

  • Barnett, R.D.J. - Correspondence of the Mahammad of the Spanish & Portuguese Jews Congregation of London during the 17th and 18th Centuries. [Trans JHSE XX 1959/61]

  • Barnett, R.D. and Levy, A. - The Bevis Marks Synagogue.  [1975 Society of Hashaim, London]

  • Bueno de Mesquita,  Rev  D., report of a paper read by -The Historical Associations of the Ancient Burial-grounds of the Sephardi Jews.  [JHSE Transactions Sessions 1921-1923, B.A. Spottiswoode, Balentyne & Co. Ltd., pp 225-254, 1924]

  • Diamond, A.  - The Cemetery of the Resettlement. [Trans JHSE XIX, pp 163-190, 1960]

  • Diamond, A.S.  - Problems of the London Sephardi Community 1720-33. [JHSE Trans 1962/67]

  • Goodman, P. -  Bevis Marks in History. [1934, Oxford University Press]

  • Green, A. -  Moses Montifiore: Jewish Liberator, Imperial Hero. [2010, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass.]

  • Hyamson, Albert Montefiore - The Oldest Synagoguee  (LBL)

  • Hyamson, Albert Montefiore - The Sephardim of England: a history of the Spanish and Portuguese Jewish community, 1492-1951. [1951, Methuen & Co., London] (LBL)

  • Kadish, Sharman - The Burial Grounds of the Settlement - and how to preserve them for the next 350 years. [2006, The Cable No. 1].

  • Krinsky, C. H. - The Synagogues of Europe,  pp. 412-417. [1985, The M.I.T. Press, Cambridge MA].

  • Laski, N.  - The Laws and Charities of the Spanish & Portuguese Jews Congregation of London. [1952, Cresset Press]

  • Lipman, Caron (Dr) - The Sephardic Jewish Cemeteries at Queen Mary, University of London [2012, Queen Mary, University of London].

  • Rodrigues-Pereira, M. & Loewe, C. (ed.) - Bevis Mark Records V -  The Birth Register (1767-1881) of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews' Congregation, London. [1993, Spanish and Portuguese Jews' Congregation Publication]

  • Rodrigues-Pereira, M. & Loewe, C. (ed. and Intro.) - Bevis Mark Records VI - The Burial Register (1733-1918) and the Novo (new) Cemetery of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews' Congregation, London, with some later entries [1997, Spanish and Portuguese Jews' Congregation Publication]

  • Samuel, W.S. & Castello, M.N.J. - First London Synagogue of the Resettlement.  [Trans JHSE X 1921/3]

  • Whitehill, G. (ed.) - Bevis Mark Records III - Abstracts of the Ketubot or Marriage-contracts and of Civil Marriage Registers of the Congregation, 1837-1901. [1993, Spanish and Portuguese Jews' Congregation Publication]

  • Jewish Historical Society of England - Miscellaneous Part !V: Containing the Burial Register of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews, London, 1657-1735 - [JHSE 1962]

  • Bevis Mark Records - summary [Spanish and Portuguese Jews' Congregation Publication]:

    • Part I - The Early History of the Congregation of Spanish and Portuguese Jews in London Until 1800

    • Part II - Marriage Registers 1686-1837

    • Part III - Marriage Registers 1837-1901

    • Part IV - Circumcision Register of Isaac and Abraham de Paiba 1715-1775 and supplements (circumcisions 1679-1699, some marriages 1679-1689, some births of girls 1679-1699)

    • Part V - Birth Register 1767-1881 and Circumcision Registers 1767-1881 (includes several hundred Askenazim)

    • Part VI - Burial Register 1733-1918 of the Novo (New) Cemetery (with later entries)

      Great Synagogue

  • Mayerowitsch, H. - Chazanim of the Great Synagogue, London. [Trans JHSE Miscellanies IV 1942]

  • Roth, Cecil - Membership of the Great Synagogue, London, to 1791. [Trans JHSE Miscellanies VI 1962]

  • Roth, Cecil - History of the Great Synagogue. [Susser Archive - available on-line]

  • Roth, Cecil - The Great Synagogue, London 1690-1940. [1950, Edward Goldston] (LBL)

  • Duschinsky, C. - The Rabbinate of the Great Synagogue, London from 1756 to 1842. [1921, 1971] (BIU)

  • Lewin, Harold and Miriam - Birth Records of the Great and Hambro Synagogues London. [Second Edition 2009, harmir908gmail.com]

      Hambro Synagogue and New Synagogue

  • Esterson W.  - The History of the Hambro' Synagogue on the Occasion of its 200th Anniversary. [1925. Published by the Hambro' Synagogue]

  • Lewin, Harold and Miriam - Birth Records of the Great and Hambro Synagogues London. [Second Edition 2009, harmir908gmail.com]

  • Levy A.B. - The 200-year-old New Synagogue. [1960, Published by the New Synagogue.]

      General

  • The Cable - the magazine of the Jewish East End Celebration Society, published from 2006

City of London Jewish Congregations

London Borough of
Barnet

Bibliographical References

  • Alderman, G. -  The History of the Hendon Synagogue 1928-1978 [1978] (BIU)

  • Balkin, Harry - History of the Friern Hospital Synagogue and its Congregants  - Heritage No. 4, Jewish Research Group of the Edmonton Hundred Historical Society, pp. 97-105 [1993]

  • Grose, I. - The Hampstead Garden Suburb Synagogue: the First Fifty Years. [1984] (BIU)

  • Jacobs, Louis - Four Rabbinic Positions in Anglo-Jewry - 'Munk's'. [The Jewish Year Book 2000 - Essays, pp 76-77] (BL, JCL, LBL, UCL)

  • Krinsky, C. H. - The Synagogues of Europe. pp. 422-424 - (Finchley Synagogue) [1985, The M.I.T. Press, Cambridge MA]

  • The Eruv HaMehudar in NW London [2008, Editor - Rav. T. Frand Shlit"a, published by Friends of the North West London Eruv]

  • Southgate and District Reform Synagogue, Silver Jubilee, 1961/1986 [1986]

 

London Borough of
Brent

Bibliographical References

  • Lazurus, H.  - History of the Brondesbury Synagogue. [1930, Published by the Brondesbury Synagogue]

  • Melinek, A.  - History of the Brondesbury Synagogue. [1955, Published by the Brondesbury Synagogue]

  • Lieberman B.B.  - History of the Cricklewood Synagogue. [1956, Published by the Cricklewood Synagogue]

  • Susser, B.  - The History of the Willesden & Brondesbury Synagogue 1934-1994. [1994, Published by the Willesden & Brondesbury Synagogue. (Part of the Susser Archive - available on-line)]

  • Krinsky, C. H.  - The Synagogues of Europe, pp. 419-421 (Dollis Hill Synagogue). [1985, The M.I.T. Press, Cambridge MA]

  • Lebor, Marian  - Northwest Celebrates 60 - a History of the Northwest London Jewish Day School. [2005] (JGSGB)

Jewish Congregations in Brent

London Borough of
Camden

Bibliographical References

     Hampstead 

  • Roth, Cecil - The First Jew in Hampstead.  [1932. Jewish Museum Publications No. 1. Reprinted from the Jewish Chronicle of 28.10.1932] (LBL)

  • Apple, Raymond - The Hampstead Synagogue, 1892-1967.  [1967, Valentine, Mitchell]

 

London Borough of
Enfield

Bibliographical References

  • Balkin, Harry - History of the Friern Hospital Synagogue and its Congregants  - Heritage No. 4, Jewish Research Group of the Edmonton Hundred Historical Society, pp. 97-105 [1993]

  • Baum, J. and B. - A light unto my path: the story of H N Solomon of Edmonton - Biography of Henry Napthali Solomon, proprietor of a Jewish boys' boarding school at Edmonton.  [1981, Edmonton Hundred Historical Society]

  • Baum, J. and B. - Cemeteries, Housing and Controversies: Montague Road, Edmonton  - Heritage No. 3, Jewish Research Group of the Edmonton Hundred Historical Society pp. 3-40 [1988]

  • Baum, J. and B. - Never Before, Never Again! Evacuation in the Edmonton Hundreds  - Heritage No. 4, Jewish Research Group of the Edmonton Hundred Historical Society, pp. 58-96 [1993]

  • Dalling, G. - Early Jewish Settlement in Edmonton, Enfield and Southgate -  Heritage No.4, Jewish Research Group of the Edmonton Hundred Historical Society, pp. 12-27 [1993]

  • Frayman, J. - The History of the Cockfosters and North Southgate Synagogue - Heritage No.1, Jewish Research Group of the Edmonton Hundred Historical Society, [1982]

  • Grant, A. -  Sixty Years On: The Story of the Palmers Green and Southgate Synagogue - Heritage No.3, Jewish Research Group of the Edmonton Hundred Historical Society,  pp. 46-64 [1988]

  • Grant, A. -  Palmers Green and Southgate Synagogue. Golden Jubilee 1927/1977 [1977]

  • Young, Barry -  Edmonton Federation Progress Report (on photographing and cataloguing of the stones) - JGSGB Newsletter, Issue No. 45 (JGSGB) [October 2008]

  • Southgate and District Reform Synagogue, Silver Jubilee 1961/1986 [1986]

Jewish Congregations in Enfield

London Borough of
Greenwich

Bibliographical References

     Woolwich 

  • Roth, Cecil - The Rise of Provincial Jewry - Woolwich, p.105.  [1950]  (JGSGB, LBL, UCL, Susser Archive - available on-line)

  • Jews in Early 19th-Century Woolwich - “Shemot” , June 2000 vol. 8/2 (BL, JGSGB)

Jewish Congregations in Greenwich

London Borough of
Hackney

Bibliographical References

     Dalston  (Note: Dalston Synagogue was actually in Islington)

  • Cohen, H.  - Semi-Jubilee Celebration Record: 1928 [published by the Stoke Newington Synagogue]

  • Feldman, A.  - A Link with the Past - Some Notes on the New Dalston Synagogue and Schools. [1928, Women´s Printing Society, London]

  • Rabbinowitz, J.  - An Historical Sketch of the Dalston Synagogue 1885-1935.  [1935, published by the Dalston Synagogue]

  • Wasserzug, D.  - Dalston Synagogue: A Historical Sketch. [1910, published by the Dalston Synagogue]

  • Fiftieth Anniversary Celebration Record. [author unknown, published by the Stoke Newington Synagogue]

     Hackney 

  • Beckman, Morris  - The Hackney Crucible. [c.1996, Valentine Mitchell, London, ISBN 0 85303]

  • Brown, M. - The Jews of Hackney before 1840. [Trans JHSE XXX 1987/8]

  • Hackney Archives and Local Study Library. [Shemot June 2001 vol. 9/2] (BL, JGSGB)

Stamford Hill 

  • Bernstein, M.  - Stamford Hill and the Jews Before 1915. [1976, M.S.B. Publications, London]

  • Levy A.B.  - The 200-year-old New Synagogue. 1960 [published by the New Synagogue]

  • Adass Yisroel - The History of the Congregation on its Silver Jubilee. 1936. (published by the Adass Yisroel Synagogue)

London Borough of
Hammersmith & Fulham

Bibliographical References

  • Adler, M.  - The History of the Hammersmith Synagogue. [1950, Edward Goldston]

Jewish Congregations in Hammersmith & Fulham

London Borough of
Haringey

Bibliographical References

     Tottenham 

  • Baum, J. and B. - The Jews of Tottenham before the First World War. [1982, Heritage No.1, Jewish Research Group of the Edmonton Hundred Historical Society]

  • Baum, J. and Finkel, J. - Jewish Life in Tottenham, 1900-1930: A Further Study. [1984, Heritage No.5, Jewish Research Group of the Edmonton Hundred Historical Society, pp.1-65]

  • Baum, J. and B. - The Jewish Home and Hospital at Tottenham: The First 30 Years.  [1984, Heritage No.2, Jewish Research Group of the Edmonton Hundred Historical Society, pp.19-119]

  • Cohen, S. (Dr.) - The Tottenham Hebrew Congregation.  [1984, Heritage No.2, Jewish Research Group of the Edmonton Hundred Historical Society, pp. 3-10]

  • Fredman, H. - Some Memories of the Tottenham Hebrew Congregation. [1988, Heritage No.3, Jewish Research Group of the Edmonton Hundred Historical Society, pp. 94-104]

  • Mozer, H. - Some Personalities of the Tottenham Hebrew Congregation and their neighbours in caricature.  [1984, Heritage No.2, Jewish Research Group of the Edmonton Hundred Historical Society, pp. 11-15]

London Borough of
Harrow

Bibliographical References

  • Sinclair, R. - Historical Wanderings of Harrow and Pinner.  [Published by the Pinner Synagogue]

Jewish Congregations in Harrow

London Borough of
Islington

Bibliographical References

  • Bergerman, N. - The History of the North London Synagogue.  [1948, published by North London Synagogue]

  • Rabbinowitz, J. - History of the Dalston Synagogue. [1935, published by Dalston Synagogue]

  • Wasserzug, D. - Dalston Synagogue: A Historical Sketch.  [1910, published by Dalston Synagogue]

Royal London Borough of
Kensington and Chelsea

Bibliographical References

  • Chelsea Shul, Fourscore Years. [1997, Published by the congregation]

London Borough of
Lambeth

Bibliographical References

  • Cohen, L. - Fifty Golden Years, A History of the Brixton Synagogue. [1958, published by Brixton Synagogue]

Jewish Congregations in Lambeth

London Borough of
Lewisham

Bibliographical References

  • Wise, S.  - The South East London Synagogue. [1957, published by South East London Synagogue]

Jewish Congregations in Lewisham

London Borough of
Newham

Bibliographical References

  • Bloch, H.  - Earlham Grove Shul: One Hundred Years of West Ham Synagogue and Community. [1997, published by the West Ham & Upton Park Synagogue]

Jewish Congregations in Newham

London Borough of
Redbridge

Bibliographical References

  • Awaited

Jewish Congregations in Newham

London Borough of
Richmond upon Thames

Bibliographical References

  • Daiches-Dubens, R. - 18th Century Anglo-Jewry in and around Richmond, Surrey.  [Trans JHSE Vol. XVIII 1953/1955]

  • Finberg, H.F. - Jewish Residents of 18th Century Twickenham. [Trans JHSE Vol. XVI 1945/1951]

  • Howitt, A. - Richmond and its Jewish Connections. [1930, published privately]

  • History of the Richmond Synagogue. [1976, published by the Richmond Synagogue]

Jewish Congregations in Richmond upon Thames

London Borough of the
Southwark

Bibliographical References

  • Rosenbaum, M. - History of the Borough New Synagogue.  [1917, Published by the congregation]

Jewish Congregations in Southwark

London Borough of the
Tower Hamlets
(the "London East End")

Bibliographical References

  • Barden, Lena - The Chronicles of Lena Barden - 92 Years of Memories.   [2009] (JGSGB, Tower Hamlets Archive)

  • Bennett, John - E1: A Journey Through Whitechapel and Spitalfields.   [2008, Five Leaves Publications]

  • Besant, W. - East London.   [1909, Chattos & Windus, London]

  • Black, Gerry - J.F.S. The History of the Jews' Free School, London, Since 1732.   [1998, Tymsder Publishers, London]

  • Diamond, A.  - The Cemetery of the Resettlement. [Trans JHSE XIX, pp 163-190, 1960]

  • Diamond, B.  - Communal Affairs in Shoreditch. Shemot December 2006 vol. 14/4  (BL, JGSGB)

  • Fisher, William  - East End Jewish Radicals 1875-1914 [1975, Five Leaves Publications]

  • Fisher, William  - East End 1888 [1989, Five Leaves Publications]

  • Fisher, William  - The Streets of East End [1992, Five Leaves Publications]

  • Friedberg, Patricia  - 21 Aldgate [2010, Rainbow Books]

  • Goldman, Willy  - East End My Cradle - Portrait of an Environment [1949, republished 2011 by Faber Finds]

  • Green, J.  - A Social History of the Jewish East End of London  1914-39 (UCL)

  • Gutwirth, E.  - Stepney Jews in the 1670´s [Transactions of the London and Middlesex Archaeological Society vol 30, pp 135-138, 1979]

  • Herselle, C. - Synagogues of Europe - Architecture, History, Meaning, pp. 417-419 (Spitalfields Great).  [1985, Dover Publications ISBN 0 4862 9078 6.]

  • Homa, B. - Fortress in Anglo-Jewry - The Story of Machzike Hadath.  [1953, Shapiro Valentine, London]

  • Homa, B.  - Footprints on the Sands of Time. [1990, published by the author]

  • Kershen, A.  - Strangers, Aliens and Asians: Huguenots, Jews and Bangladeshis in Spitalfields 1660-2000. [2005, Taylor & Francis, London]

  • Kops, Bernard  - Bernard Kops´ East End. [2006, Five Leaves Publications]

  • Lammers, Benjamin J. - The Birth of the East End: Neighbourhood and Local Identity in Interwar East London. [2005, Journal of Social History, volume 39, number 2, page 331-344]

  • Lichtenstein, Rachel and Sinclair, Ian - Rodinsky´s Room (re Princelet Street) [1999, Granta Books]

  • Lichtenstein, Rachel - Rodinsky´s Whitechapel [1999, Granta Books]

  • Lichtenstein, Rachel - On Brick Lane [2007, Hamish Hamilton]

  • Lipman, Caron (Dr) - The Sephardic Jewish Cemeteries at Queen Mary, University of London  [2012, Queen Mary, University of London].

  • Lipman, Vivian D. - A Century of Social Service, A History of the Jewish Board of Guardians 1859-1959 [1959, Routledge & Kegan Paul]

  • Marriott, John - Beyond the Tower, A History of East London [2011, Yael University Press]

  • Newman, A. (ed.) - The Jewish East End: 1840-1939 [1981, Jewish Historical Society of England, London]

  • Palmer, Alan - The East End - Four Centuries of London Jewish Life. [1989]

  • Rodrigues-Pereira, M. & Loewe, C. (ed. and Intro.) - Bevis Mark Records VI - The Burial Register (1733-1918) and the Novo (new) Cemetery of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews' Congregation, London, with some later entries [1997, Spanish and Portuguese Jews' Congregation Publication]

  • Rosenberg, David - Battle for the East End - Jewish Responses to Fascism in the 1930´s [2011, Five Leaves Publication, London]

  • Samuel, Raphael - East End Underworld [1981]  (Bishopsgate Library)

  • Shapiro, Aumie and Michael - The Jewish East End, Then and Now [1991, Springboard Education Trust]

  • Shapiro, Aumie and Michael - Jewish Londoners [1992, Springboard Education Trust]

  • Susser, Bernard - Alderney Road Cemetery. [1997] (JGSGB)

  • Wenzerul, Rosemary - Princelet Street Synagogue. [Shemot March 2009 vol. 17/1 pp. 26-27] (BL, JGSGB)

  • Guide Map to the Jewish East End [1985, Springboard Education Trust]

  • Memories of the Jewish East End [1985, Springboard Education Trust]

  • More Memories [1987, Springboard Education Trust]

  • When We Were Young [1988, Springboard Education Trust]

  • Jewish East Enders [1992, Springboard Education Trust]

  • The Cable - the magazine of the Jewish East End Celebration Society [published from 2006]

  • The Dutch Ashkenazi Community in Spitalfields in the 19th Century. Shemot March 1999 vol. 7/1  (BL, JGSGB)

  • Maiden Lane Cemetery. Shemot June 2000 vol. 8/2  (BL, JGSGB)

  • Tower Hamlets Local History Library. Shemot March 2001 vol. 9/1 (BL, JGSGB)

Films and videos

  • East Endings, a film that celebrates the life and times of East End Cartoonist and humourist, Harry Balcker ("Nero"), 1910-1999 - 52 minutes [1993]

  • It´s a Lovely Day Tomorrow, a television mini-series about Bethnal Green Tube Disaster 3 March 1943, based upon play by Bernard Kops.director/producer: John Goldschmidt (1974)

  • Just One Kid, a television film about the loss of a child in the East End, written by Bernard Kops, director/producer: John Goldschmidt (1974)

  • The Vanishing Street, a film that chronicles the life and times of Hessel Street Market director: Robert Vas[1962]

  • Wandering Star, a film that chronicles the Yiddish theatre and features interviews with Anna Tzelniker (1922-2012, Yiddish actress), Harry Ariel (1915-1989, Yiddish actor, director lyricist and playwright) and Bernard Medelovitch.

Archives & Records

  • Bancroft Road Local History & Library

  • Raphael Samuel Archives at the Bishopsgate Library & Institute

Jewish Congregations in Tower Hamlets

London Borough of the
City of Westminster

Bibliographical References

  • Barnett, A. - The Western Synagogue through Two Centuries (1761-1961). [1961, Valentine Mitchell, London] (BIU, LBL)

  • Black, Gerry - Living Up West, Jewish Life in London´s West End.  [1994, London Museum of Jewish Life]

  • Brown, M.  - The Jews of Early St. John´s Wood. [Trans JHSE XXXV 1996/98]

  • Diamond, A.S.  - The Building of a Synagogue. [1970, Published by the West London Synagogue]

  • Jacobs, Louis - Four Rabbinic Positions in Anglo-Jewry. [The Jewish Year Book 2000 - Essays, pp 76-81] (BL, JCL, LBL, UCL)

  • Levine, E. (Rev.) - The History of the New West End Synagogue 1879-1929.  [1929, Aldershot]

  • Levy, A. - The Synagogue in Lauderdale Road. [1971, The Society of Hashaim]

  • Levy, M. - History of the Western Synagogue. [1897]

  • Levy. Nellie G. - The West Central Story and its Founders 1893-1968 [1968]

  • Montague, Lillie - My Club and I [1941]

  • Philips, O. S and Simons, H. A. - The Bayswater Synagogue 1863-1963.

  • The Bayswater Synagogue 1863-1938 [Published by the Congregation]

  • Rigal, L. - History of the West Central Liberal Synagogue.  [1978, Published by the Congregation]

  • Roth, Cecil - Records of the Western Synagogue 1761-1932.  [1932, Edward Goldston] (LBL)

  • Shine, C.I. (Rabbi) - A History of the Central Synagogue.  [1970, Published by the Congregation]

  • Maiden Lane Cemetery. [Shemot June 2000 vol. 8/2] (BL, JGSGB)

Jewish Congregations in Westminster

WALES

General

Bibliographical References

  • Alderman, Geoffrey - The Jew as Scapegoat? The Settlement and Reception of Jews in South Wales before 1914.  [Trans JHSE XXVI 1977]

  • Alderman, Geoffrey - Into the Vortex: South Wales Jewry before 1914. [1975, in Aubrey Newman, compiler, Provincial Jewry in Victorian England, Jewish  Historical Society of England]

  • Davies, G. - The Chosen People - Wales and the Jews .  [c.2002] (BIU)

  • Henriques, Ursula Q. - The Jews of South Wales. Historical Studies. [1993, University of Wales Press] (JCL, LBL, UCL)

  • Kadish, Sharman  - Jewish Heritage in England, An Architectural Guide - pp 201-203. [2006 English Heritage]

  • Liss, A.S.  - A Short History of Reform Judaism in South Wales, 1947-1970. [1977 thesis presented to University of Wales]

  • Weitzman, Hal and David  - The Jew of Wales. [The Jewish Year Book 2000 - Essays, pp 24-31] (BL, JCL, LBL, UCL)

  • The Jewish Communities of South Wales.  "Shemot"  July 1994 vol. 2/3 [1994] (BL, JGSGB)

Other Sources

Wales Jewish Communities home page

Bridgend

Bibliographical References

  • Pollins, Harold - Jews of Bridgend and District.[Morgannwg, The Journal of Gamorgan History, Cymdeithas Hanes Morgannwg, Volumn LVI 2012, pp 84-107] (JGSGB)

Bridgend Jewish Community

Bridgend Synagogue

Brynmawr - see Valleys of South Wales

Cardiff

Bibliographical References

  • Alderman, Geoffrey - The Jew as Scapegoat? The Settlement and Reception of Jews in South Wales before 1914.  [Trans JHSE XXVI 1977]

  • Bermant, Chaim - Troubled Eden - An Anatomy of British Jewry, pp. 59-61. [1969, Vallentine Mitchell, London] (UCL)

  • Henriques, Ursula Q. - The Jews of South Wales. Historical Studies.  [1993, Chapter 1, The Jewish community of Cardiff, 1813-1914, pp. 9- 44.] (JCL, LBL, UCL)

  • Roth, Cecil - The Rise of Provincial Jewry, p.104. [1950] (JGSGB, LBL, UCL, Susser Archive - available on-linee)

Catalogues, List and Indexes

  • Cardiff Jewish Roll of Honour WW1 based on 1919 Western Mail (JGSGB)

  • Association of Jewish Ex-Servicemen & Women (AJEX) consecration and unveiling of War Memorial 1939-1945 at Cathedral Road Synagogue (JGSGB)

Cardiff Jewish Community

Llanelli

Bibliographical References

  • Hirsch, Channah - My Llanelli. The Gateshead of Wales.  [2009 - Private publication, available from author +44 20 84555 8322]

Llanelli Jewish Community

Merthyr Tydfil

Bibliographical References

  • Henriques, Ursula Q. - The Jews of South Wales. Historical Studies.  [1993] (JCL, LBL, UCL)

  • Pollins, Harold - An African Jew in a Welsh Town. "Shemot" December 2010 vol. 18/3, pp. 22-24 (BL, JGSGB) 

  • The Jewish of Merthyr Tydfil.  "Shemot" September 1998 vol. 6/3.  (BL, JGSGB)

  • A Vanished Community - Merthyr Tydfil. 1830-1998. "Shemot" September 2001 vol. 9/3 (BL, JGSGB)

Merthyr Tydfil Jewish Congregation & Community

Swansea

Bibliographical References

  • Henriques, Ursula Q. - 'The Jews of South Wales. Historical Studies' (including "The Conduct of a Synagogue: Swansea Hebrew Congregation, 1895-1914" on pages 85-110).  [1993] (JCL, LBL, UCL)

  • Mars, Leonard - 'Celebrating diverse identities, person, work and place in South Wales'. [1999, in Identity and Affect: Experiences in a Globalising World. Campbell, J.R. and Rew, A.,  pp. 251-274 - Note: This is about a Jewish doctor who was a member of the Swansea community]

  • Mars, Leonard - ´Coming of age among Jews: Barmitzvah and Batmiztvah ceremonies´. [1990, in The Riddle of the Sphinx: Anthropology and the Social Construction of Ageing. Spencer, P. (Ed.)]

  • Mars, Leonard - ´Cooperation and Conflict between Veteran and Immigrant Jews in Swansea'. [1991, in  Religion and Power Decline and Growth: Sociological analyses of religion in Britain, Poland and the Americas. Peter Gee and John Fulton, pages 115-130]

  • Mars, Leonard - 'Immigration and Anglicizatin: Religious Education as an Issue in the Swansea Hebrew Congregation, 1894-1910'. [1997, Jewish Journal of Sociology, vol 39, nos 1 & 2, pages 76-86]

  • Mars, Leonard - 'The Ministry of Reverend Simon Fyne in Swansea, 1899-1906'. [1993, in Ursula R.Q. Henriques (ed.) The Jews of South Wales. Historical Studies, pages 111-130]

  • Pollins, Harold - 'The Swansea Jewish Community - The First Century' [The Jewish Journal of Sociology, Volume LI, Nos. 1 & 2, 2009, pp.35-39] (BL, BLO)

  • Pollins, Harold - An African Jew in a Welsh Town. "Shemot" December 2010 vol. 18/3, pp. 22-24 (BL, JGSGB) 

  • Roth, Cecil - The Rise of Provincial Jewry, p. 102-104. [1950] (JGSGB, LBL, UCL, Susser Archive - available on-line))

  • Saunders, N.H. - Swansea Hebrew Congregation 1730-1980 [1980]

Swansea Jewish Community

Tredegar - see Valleys of South Wales

Valleys of South Wales
General and Specific Towns
(including Brynmawr and Tredegar)

Bibliographical References

  • Alderman, Geoffrey - The anti-Jewish riots of August 1911 in South Wales. [Welsh History Review, Vol. 6, December 1972]

  • Alderman, Geoffrey - The anti-Jewish riots of August 1911 in South Wales: a response. [Welsh History Review, vol. 20 June 1991]

  • Alderman, Geoffrey - Into the Vortex: South Wales Jewry before 1914. [1975, in Aubrey Newman, compiler, Provincial Jewry in Victorian Englandd, Jewish  Historical Society of England]

  • Alderman, Geoffrey - The Jew as Scapegoat? The Settlement and Reception of Jews in South Wales before 1914.  [Trans JHSE XXVI 1974/8]

  • Davies, G. - The Chosen People - Wales and the Jews.  [c.2002] ( (BIU)

  • Evans, Neil - The South Wales riots of 1911. [Llafur, 3, 1980]

  • Glaser, Anthony - The Tredegar Riots of  August 1911. [1993, in Ursula R. Q. Henriques,  The Jews of South Wales. Historical Studies] (JCL, LBL, UCL)

  • Henriques, Ursula R.Q. - The Jews of South Wales. Historical Studies. [1993] (JCL, LBL, UCL)

  • Holmes, Colin - The Tredegar Riots of 1911. [Welsh History Review, vol. 11, December 1982]

  • Pollins, Harold - The Jewish Community of Brynmawr, Wales [The Jewish Journal of Sociology, volume L, number 1 & 2 2008, pp. 5-32]

  • Pollins, Harold - Some Thoughts on the Rhondda Valley communities [BIMAH, June 2011, pp. 32-33]

  • Rubinstein, William D. - The anti-Jewish riots of 1911 in South Wales: a re-examination. [Welsh History Review, vol. 18 December 1991]

  • Weiner A.M. - Tredegar Riots. [1976, CAJEX, vol. 26(1)]

  • The Jewish Communities of South Wales.  "Shemot"  July 1994 vol. 2/3 [1994] (BL, JGSGB)

Blaenau Gwent Jewish Communities
Rhondda Cynon Taf Jewish Communities

SCOTLAND

General

Bibliographical References

  • Abrams, Nathan - Caledonian Jews - A Study of 7 Small Communities in Scotland. [2009, London]  

  • Bermant, Chaim - Jews who Fled from Fear and Found a Brave New Face in Scotland. [12 February 1989, Observer Scotland]  

  • Collins, Kenneth E. - Go and Learn. The International Story of Jews and Medicine in Scotland 1739-1945. [1988, Aberdeen University Press] (JGSGB)

  • Collins, Kenneth E. - Scotland’s Jews. A Guide to the History and Community of the Jews in Scotland. [1999, Scottish Jewish Archives Centre]  (JGSGB)

  • Collins, Kenneth E. (ed) - Aspects of Scottish Jewry (includes details bibliography and list of sources). [1987, Glasgow Jewish Representative Counsel]

  • Collins, Kenneth E. - Jewish Medical Students and Graduates in Scotland 1732-1862.  [Trans JHSE XXIX 1982/1986]

  • Cosgrove, John - Scottish Jewry. [The Jewish Year Book 2000 - Essays, pp 13-23] (BL, JCL, LBL, UCL)

  • Cosgrove, I.K. - Feat Drove Them to Refuge in a Free Land - The Story of the Jews who Found a Haven in Scotland. [19 September 1956, Weekly Scotsman]

  • Daiches, David  - Was - A Pastime from Time Past. [1975]

  • Daiches, David  - Jews in Scotland [1997 Patterns and Images of Jewish Immigration in Scotland 10th Anniversary Magazine, Scottish Jewish Archives Centre]

  • Levy, Abraham - Origins of Scottish Jewry. [Trans JHSE XIX 1955/1959]

  • Kadish, Sharman - Jewish Heritage in England, An Architectural Guide,  pp 194-201. [2006, English Heritage]

  • Kaplan, Harvey L. - Historical Database of Scottish Jewry. "Shemot" April 1996 vol. 4/1  (BL, JGSGB)

  • Kaplan, Harvey L. - Jewish Roots in Scotland - A Guide. "Shemot" Winter 1992 vol. 1/1  (BL, JGSGB)

  • Kaplan, Harvey L. - Passage to America through Scotland. "Avotanu" No. V/4

  • Kaplan, Harvey L. - Scottish Jewish Archives Centre. "Avotanu" No. IV/2

  • Kaplan, Harvey L. - Scottish Jewish Cemetery Survey. "Avotanu" No. VII/4

  • Kaplan, Harvey L. - Scottish Jewish Roots and Where to Find Them. "Avotanu" No. IV/2

  • Kaplan, Harvey L. - Search for My Namesake - Scottish Style. "Avotanu" 1987 Proceedings of 2nd ISJG

  • Kaplan, Harvey L. - Sephardi Jews in Scotland. "Shemot" December 2010 vol. 18/3, p. 37 (BL, JGSGB) 

  • Schlesinger, Philip - The Jewish Community and the Scottish Parliament. [July 1999, Edinburgh Star No. 33]

  • Patterns and Images of Jewish Immigration in Scotland [1997, Scottish Jewish Archives Centre. 10th Anniversary Magazine.] (JGSGB)

  • Jewish Burial in Scotland. "Shemot" December 2009 vol. 17/3-4  (BL, JGSGB)

Edinburgh

Bibliographical References

  • Bermant, Chaim  - Troubled Eden - An Anatomy of British Jewry. pp. 58-59. [1969, Vallentine Mitchell, London] (UCL)

  • Daiches, David  - Two Worlds - An Edinburgh Jewish Childhood. [1997, Canongate Classics]

  • Phillips, Abel - A History of the Origins of the First Jewish Community in Scotland - Edinburgh 1816.  [1979]

  • Roth, Cecil - The Rise of Provincial Jewry, pp. 57-59. [1950] (JGSGB, LBL, UCL, Susser Archive - available on-line)

Edinburgh Jewish Community

Glasgow

Bibliographical References

  • Bermant, Chaim - Troubled Eden - An Anatomy of British Jewry.   pp. 54-58. [1969, Vallentine Mitchell, London] (UCL)

  • Braber, Ben - Jews in Glasgow, 1870-1939: Immigration and Integration [2007, Vallentine Mitchell, London]

  • Brown, J. - An Account of the Jews in the City of Glasgow [1858]

  • Collins, Kenneth E. - Second City Jewry: The Jews of Glasgow in the Age of Expansion 1790-1919.  [1990, Scottish Jewish Archives] (JGSGB)

  • Hutt, Charlotte & Kaplan, Harvey L. - A Scottish Shtetl - Jewish Life in the Gorbals 1880-1974. [1990, Scottish Jewish Archives]

  • Kaplan, Harvey L. - The Gorbals Jewish Community in 1901. [2006, Scottish Jewish Archives Centre, Glasgow]

  • Levy, Abraham - The Origins of Glasgow Jewry 1812-1895. [1949]

  • Roth, Cecil - The Rise of Provincial Jewry, pp. 64-66. [1950] (JGSGB, LBL, UCL, Susser Archive - available on-line)

Glasgow Jewish Community

IRELAND

General

Bibliographical References

  • Huhner, L. - Jews of Ireland, An Historical Sketch. , [Trans JHSE V 1902-5]

  • Hyman. L. - The Jews of Ireland from Earliest Times to the Year 1910. [1972, Irish University Press. ISBN 0 7165 2082 6].

  • Kadish, Sharman - Jewish Heritage in England, An Architectural Guide -  pp 203-208. [2006, English Heritage]

  • Keogh, D. - The Jews of Twentieth Century Ireland. Refugees, Anti-Semitism, and the Holocaust.  [1998, Cork University Press] (BLO, JGSGB, UCL).

  • Moore, Gerry - Socio-Economic Aspects of Anti-Semitism in Ireland, 1889-1905 . [The Economic and Social Review, vol 12 no 3 April 1981, pages 187-201.]

  • Ó Gráda, Comac - Jewish Ireland in the Age of Joyce: Socioeconomic History. [2006, Princeton University Press] (BLO, UCL)

  • Price, Stanley - Somewhere to Hang a Hat: An Irish-Jewish Journey [2002, New Island, Dublin] (BLO)

  • Shillman, B. - A Short History of the Jews of Ireland.  [1945]

Belfast

Bibliographical References

  • Herselle, C. - Synagogues of Europe - Architecture, History, Meaning, pp. 407-410.   [Dover 1985  Publications 1985 ISBN 0 4862 9078 6.]

  • Krinsky, C. H. - The Synagogues of Europe, pp. 407-410 .  [1985, The M.I.T. Press, Cambridge MA).

  • McIlveen, Pamela  and Roulston, William - Researching Belfast Jewish Families c.1850 -c.1930 [2004 FAMILIA: Ulster Genealogical Review, no. 20, pp. 1-15] (BLO)

Belfast Jewish Community

Cork

Bibliographical References

  • Roth, Cecil - The Rise of Provincial Jewry, p. 57. [1950] (JGSGB, LBL, UCL, Susser Archive - available on-linee)

Cork Jewish Community

Dublin

Bibliographical References

  • Harris, Nick - Dublin's Little Jerusalem [2002, A & A Farmar, Dublin] (BLO)

  • Ó Gráda, Comac - Dublin Jewish Demography a Century Ago. [2008, University College] (BLO)

  • Roth, Cecil - The Rise of Provincial Jewry, pp. 56-57.  [1950] (JGSGB, LBL, UCL, Susser Archive - available on-line)

  • Shillman, B. - Jewish Cemetery in Ballybough, Dublin.  [With postscript by Wolf, L. Trans JHSE XI 1924/7]

Dublin Jewish Community

CHANNEL ISLANDS

Jersey

Bibliographical References

  • Cohen, Frederick - The Jews in the Channel Islands during the German Occupation. [Jersey Heritage Trust and the Wiener Library.] (JGSGB)

  • Fraser, (Sir) David - The Jews in the Channel Islands and the Rule of Law 1940-1945. [2000, Sussex Academic Press, p266]

  • Gordon, Mike - Learning from the Past.  [2008 Shemot Vol. 16 No. 1.] (BL, JGSGB)

  • Kadish, Sharman - Jewish Heritage in England, An Architectural Guide,  pp 209-210. [2006, English Heritage]

  • Roth, Cecil - The Rise of Provincial Jewry, pp. 74-76 [1950] (JGSGB, LBL, UCL, Susser Archive - available on-line)

Channel Island Jewish Communities

ISLE OF MAN

 Douglas

Bibliographical References

  • Cresswell - Living With Wire - Civilian Internment in the Isle of Man during the Two World Wars.  [1994] (JGSGB)

  • Kadish, Sharman - Jewish Heritage in England, An Architectural Guide, pp 210-211. [2006, English Heritage]

  • Pollins, Harold - Tombstone inscriptions in the Jewish section of the Douglas, Isle of Man, Cemetery. [1999].  (JGSGB) - available on linee

Isle of Man Jewish Community

GIBRALTAR

General

Bibliographical References

  • Belilo, Mesod -  Talmud Torah, Gibraltar.  [1995]

  • Benady, Tito M. -  The Settlement of Jews in Gibraltar.  [Trans JHSE XXVI 1979, pp 87-110]

  • Benady, Tito M.  -  The Jewish Community of Gibraltar.  [1989, Western Sephardim (Barnett, R.D. and Schwab, W. Editors), pp 45-63, Gibraltar Books]

  • Benady, Tito M. -  The role of Jews in the British colonies of the Western Mediterranean.  [Trans JHSE XXXIII 1994, pp 45-63]

  • Benady, Tito M. -  Aaron Cardozo, life and letters  [2004, Gibraltar Books]

  • Jackson, Sir William and Cantos, Francis - From Fortress to Democracy: Political Biography of Sir Joshua Hassan  [1995, Ashford, Buchan & Enright]

  • Kadish, Sharman - Jewish Heritage in Gibraltar: An Architectural Guide. [2007, Jewish Heritage UK]

  • Lombard, Anthony - The Roman Catholic Abudarham Family. [1997, Gibraltar Heritage Journal 4, pp 75-90]

  • Lombard, Anthony - Fives Court: the Benzimra and Levy Families. [2000, Gibraltar Heritage Journal 7, pp 49-73]

  • Serfaty, Abraham B.M. - The Jews of Gibraltar under British Rule. [1933]

  • Seymour, Anthony A.D. - A Tale of Two Families. [1996, Gibraltar Heritage Journal 3, pp 49-60]

Gibraltar Jewish Community
 
 

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