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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

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


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

1813
1896
1909
1934
1945
1955
1965
1990
1999
2003 

  only 9 adult male Jews
  about 60 families
  about 100 families
 1,525
  2,500
  4,500
  4,500
10,500
  8,000
  3,358

(Brighton Herald 1813)
(The Jewish Year Book 1896-7)
(The Jewish Year Book 1910)
(The Jewish Year Book 1935)
(The Jewish Year Book 1946)
(The Jewish Year Book 1956)
(The Jewish Year Book 1966)
(The Jewish Year Book 1991)
(The Jewish Year Book 2000)
(The Jewish Year Book 2004)

 

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
 

 


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