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Llanelli Synagogue

Carmarthenshire, South Wales

Created 22 August 2005
Latest Update 26 November 2006

Congregation Data

The Llanelli community had the following congregation (and also had, at one time, a second congregation):
Name: Llanelli Synagogue
Address: Queen Victoria Street, Llanelli
Town Location: Llanelli is a town in South Wales situated on the on the northern coast of the Burry Inlet, near the entrance to the Bristol Channel, about 13 miles east of Swansea.
Local Government: From 1996 - the county of Carmarthenshire - a unitary authority
1974 to 1996 - the district of Llanelli in the county of Dyfed
Until 1974 - the municipal borough of Llanelli in the county of Carmarthenshire
Date Formed: 1909 (Synagogue built)
Current Status: Closed - after 1947 (now part of the Swansea Hebrew Congregation)
Ritual: Ashkenazi Orthodox
Membership Data: 1937 - 31 members (The Jewish Year Book 1938)

Llanelli was the birth place of Michael Howard, who was leader of Conservative party from November 2003 to December 2005.  Born Michael Hecht on 7 July 1941, the son of Rumanian immigrants, Michael Howard was the first Jew to lead one of the principal British political parties. (Benjamin Disraeli had had been baptized and when Herbert (later Lord) Samuel lead the Liberal party from 1931 to 1937, it had already ceased to be a major party.)

Jewish Population Data

1934
1990
300 (The Jewish Year Book 1935)
- 120 (The Jewish Year Book 1991)

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