website design Louise Messik


Jewish Communities and Records - United Kingdom

This website contains some 5000 pages including details of more than 1000 congregations and includes current communities and those that no longer exist

a joint project between the Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain and JewishGen



pressing the button above will take you to the JCR-UK main name search page
which holds more than 100,000 records

 

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth century a number of separate Jewish trade unions were formed. Most were eventually amalgamated with larger British unions and the last to survive was the London Jewish Bakers Union.

Above is the banner of the London Jewish Bakers Union.

photograph courtesy of Harold Pollins
 


The aim of this website is to record all Jewish Communities in the United Kingdom in order to preserve the information for posterity.  We need your help to expand the details of various communities and congregations (Orthodox, Masorti, Reform and Liberal) current or no longer in existence.  If you can assist by providing community or congregational information and / or genealogical data/lists please click here
 

 

For questions or comments on this site please contact webmasters: David Shulman & John Berman
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