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Redcliffe Press, 81g, Pembroke Road, Clifton, BRISTOL BS8 3EA

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Price: £15.00 (includes p & p), for a large bound paperback, approximately 340 pages, 60+ illustrations.

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This book fills a major gap in both Anglo-Jewish and Cornish history, and draws together for the first time over sixty years of research by major Jewish scholars and Cornish researchers. The book updates and revises earlier publications and contains previously unpublished concerning these 18th and 19th century communities from 1720 to 1913.

The contents include

• The Jews in Cornish Folklore [Venetia Newall]

• The Jews, Cornish Tin Mining and the 'Jews Houses' [David Giddings and Keith Pearce]

• The Jews and Cornish Place Names [Keith Pearce]

• The Jews of Falmouth [Alex Jacob]

• Penzance: the decline and fall of a Jewish Community {Cecil Roth]

• The Jews of Truro [Godrey Simmons and Keith Pearce]

• The People: occupations and trades; the Cornish-Jewish families; migration and emigration [Godfrey Simmons and Keith Pearce]

• The Falmouth and Penzance Jewish Cemeteries

• The Rabbis [Godfrey Simmons and Keith Pearce]

• The Synagogues and their Religious Artefacts [Evelyn Friedlander and Helen Fry]

Illustrated throughout with comprehensive appendices, bibliographies and detailed index.

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