Created: 2003
Latest revision or update: 3 January 2012

Brighton & Hove Jewish Community

City of Brighton & Hove

The Sussex seaside resort of Brighton (originally known as Brightelstone) and adjoining Hove to its west, on England's south coast, have a population of nearly 250,000. Until 1974, Brighton was a county borough and Hove, a the municipal borough in the county of East Sussex. They were then united to form the district of Brighton & Hove in the county of East Sussex. In 1997, Brighton & Hove became a unitary authority, and in 2000 it was granted city status.

Jewish Community

Brighton & Hove has the fifth largest Jewish community in the United Kingdom, and there exists a Brighton & Hove Jewish Representative Council. There were Jewish residents in Brighton from the second half of the 1700's, the earliest Synagogue (in Jew Street) having been established in 1792. The following congregations are, or were, considered to be part of the Brighton & Hove Community

• Brighton's first Jewish congregations

• Brighton & Hove Hebrew Congregation

• Brighton & Hove Progressive Synagogue

• Brighton & Hove Reform Synagogue

• Hove Hebrew Congregation

The following are former or alternative names of the above congregations:

• Brighton & Hove Liberal Synagogue - see Brighton & Hove Progressive Synagogue

• Brighton & Hove New Synagogue - see Brighton & Hove Reform Synagogue

• Brunswick Terrace Synagogue - see Brighton's first Jewish congregations

• Devonshire Place Synagogue - see Brighton's first Jewish congregations

• Holland Road Synagogue - see Hove Hebrew Congregation

• Middle Street Synagogue - see Brighton & Hove Hebrew Congregation

• New Church Road Synagogue - see Brighton & Hove Hebrew Congregation

• West Hove Synagogue - see Brighton & Hove Hebrew Congregation

Articles on the Brighton & Hove Community

Brighton  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 - Brighton by Cecil Roth, 1950. Available on JCR-UK as part of the Susser Archive.

Jewish Population Data

Other Brighton & Hove Information

Holocaust Memorial at Brighton Meadowview Jewish Cemetery

 (© 2011 Gina Marks)

Cemetery Information:

IAJGS - Cemetery Project
Photograph of the Brighton Florence Place Cemetery
Photographs of Headstone from Brighton Meadowview Cemetery (Browsable)

Other Information

Jewish Property and Heritage & Places of Local Interest
Bibliography, Local Research Libraries and other sources

Jewish Communities of England home page