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Penzance Jewish Congregation

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Penzance, Cornwall

 

              

         
 
 

Page created: 21 May 2004
Latest revision or update: 20 February 2013

Town of Penzance

Penzance, a port near the western end of Cornwall’s south coast in southeast England, has a population of about 20,000.

It was a municipal borough until 1974, when it was merged with neighbouring localities to form the local government (non-metropolitan) district of Penwith within the county of Cornwall. In April 2009, the district of Penwith and all other local government districts in Cornwall were abolished, and Cornwall became a unitary authority.

Penzance Jewish Community


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The records in the database associated with Penzance include:

Census

1851 Penzance (35 records).

1851 Anglo Jewry Database

Individuals in the 1851 Anglo Jewry Database who were living in Penzance or Hayle (7 miles to the northeast) during the 1780s (1 record), 1790s (2 records), 1810s (13 records); 1820s (27 records), 1830s (31 records), 1840s (47 records), 1850s (41 records), 1860s (10 records), 1870s (10 records), 1880s (10 records), 1190s (1 record) and 1910s (1 record).
 

Congregation Data

The following was the Jewish congregation to have existed in Penzance:

Name: Penzance Jewish Congregation
Address: New Street, Penzance
Current Status: Closed. Community dissolved by early 1900's
Date Founded: About 1750. Synagogue built 1807
Ritual: Askenazi Orthodox

Articles on the Penzance Jewish Community

Penzance from "Provincial Jewry in Victorian Britain"  - Papers for a conference at University College, London, convened by the Jewish Historical Society of Great Britain, prepared by Aubrey Newman - 6th July 1975.  Reproduced here with his kind consent.

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

Jewish Encyclopaedia article on Cornwall by Joseph Jacobs, c 1906.

Other  Penzance Jewish Information

Bibliography and other sources 

Penzance Cemetery Information- IAJGS Cemetery Project


Jewish Congregations in Cornwall

Jewish Communities of England home page

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