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Page created: 23 August 2005
Latest revision or update: 17 February 2013
The Town of Great Yarmouth
The coastal town and seaside resort of Great Yarmouth,
frequently just known as Yarmouth, is
situated on the eastern coast of East Anglia and has a population of
approximately 60,000. It forms the main town of
the Borough and district of Great Yarmouth in the county of Norfolk.
Great Yarmouth Jewish Community
There was a
medieval Jewish community in Great Yarmouth. The modern Jewish community dates
from the eighteenth century.
Congregation Data
Only one Jewish congregation, the Great Yarmouth Jewish Congregation,
is known to have existed in Great Yarmouth in modern times.
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Name: |
Great Yarmouth Jewish Congregation |
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Address: |
Row 42 Market Place, known as Synagogue Row.
In 1846/7, the new synagogue building was consecrated in place of an
earlier one that had become dilapidated. It was closed in 1877, although
services continued for some time in private houses. In 1899, the
congregation was reconstituted. The synagogue was taken over again, but
was later closed. |
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Date Formed: |
In eighteenth century |
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Current Status: |
Closed |
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Ritual: |
Ashkenazi Orthodox |
Articles on the Great Yarmouth Community
Press Reports about the Great Yarmouth Community 1847 - 1970.
The Rise of Provincial Jewry -
Great Yarmouth by Cecil Roth, 1950. Available
on JCR-UK as part of the
Susser Archive
ewish
Encyclopaedia article on
Yarmouth by Joseph Jacobs and Victor Rousseau Emanuel, c-1906.
Notes on the Jews of Yarmouth by Rev. Michael Adler, BA,
Jewish Chronicle 13 September 1895 (PDF files)
first page,
second page
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Statistical Accounts of all the Congregations in the British Empire, 1845 |
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YARMOUTH, No. of individuals 48. M. Cohen,
Shochet |
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Are Mitzvot sold? |
Yes |
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Is there a Mikvah? |
Sea-Baths |
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Burial Ground? |
Yes |
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Charitable Institutions |
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EDUCATION AND GENERAL REMARKS. ‘Want of
Union, often serious disturbances.’ |
Jewish Population Data
1842
1900
1934 |
10 families (Jewish Chronicle, 22 August)
10 families (The Jewish Year Book 1900/1)
50 (The Jewish Year Book 1935) |
Other Great Yarmouth Jewish Information
Jewish Congregations in Norfolk
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