JEWISH COMMUNITY OF
LIVERPOOL
AND DISTRICT
Liverpool, with a population of about 440,000 is major city
and port lying on northeast bank of the river Mersey estuary in Northwest
England. Historically in the county of Lancashire, it was a county borough
from 1888 until 1974, when it became metropolitan district within the then newly
formed metropolitan county of Merseyside. Liverpool became a unitary
authority in 1986 when Merseyside lost its administrative status, becoming
purely a ceremonial county.
Adjoining Liverpool are a number of other metropolitan
boroughs within Merseyside, including Knowsley, formed in 1974 by the merger of
the Huyton-with-Roby Urban District Council and several local authorities.
Details of any Knowsley congregations are included in the list below. For
other communities in, or closely connected with, Merseyside, see under
Sefton (for Bootle, Crosby and Southport),
Wirral (for Birkenhead, Hoylake and Wallasey)
and
Widnes (for Widnes in Halton).
The earliest organized Jewish community in Liverpool was in about 1740, of
Sephardi Jews, probably connected to the small Sephardi community that had been
established in Dublin. This community did not survive and a new Ashkenazi was
founded in about 1780, although little is known of its early history.
The following congregations are, or were, considered to be part of the Liverpool
& District Community
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Denotes active congregation
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Congregation pages with articles, photographs and other
contributed material. |
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The following are former or alternative names of the above
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Articles on the Liverpool Community
1750
1895
1934
1945
1965
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Earliest organized Jewish Community in Liverpool
5,000 (The Jewish Year Book 1896)
7,000 (The Jewish Year Book 1935)
7,500 (The Jewish Year Book 1945-6)
7,500 (The Jewish Year Book 1966)
6,500 (The Jewish Year Book 1977)
5,950 (The Jewish Year Book 1981)
5,000 (The Jewish Year Book 1991)
4,000 (The Jewish Year Book 1993)
3,000 (The Jewish Year Book 1999)
2,698 (The Jewish Year Book 2005) |
Databases, Websites, Online Articles, etc.
1888 Liverpool Subscription list, a
browsable list available only to members of the Jewish Genealogical Society of
Great Britain (JGSGB), accessible through
JGSGB Members' Corner.
The Changing Years
by Jeffrey Max - A series of articles published in the Liverpool
Jewish Gazette between 1968 and 1970
The Rise of Provincial
Jewry - Liverpool by Cecil Roth, 1950. Available on JCR-UK as part
of the Susser Archive.
Lancashire BMD contains, among other things, a substantial
number of marriage records of Liverpool synagogues, including:
Liverpool Old Hebrew
Congregation (1875-1967)
Progressive Synagogue, Church Road North (1939-1967)
Allerton Hebrew Congregation , Booker Ave/Mather Ave (1960-2003)
Central (Islington) Synagogue (1908-1940)
Fairfield Synagogue (1940-1966)
Fountains Road Synagogue (1893-1947)
Great Synagogue, Russell Street and Grove Street (1907-1959)
Greenbank Drive Synagogue, (Hebrew Congregation) (1937-1961)
Hope Place Hebrew Congregation (1844-1937)
New Beth Hamedresh Synagogue (1897-1908)
Nusach Ari Synagogue, 55a Crown Street (1920-1965)
Nusach Sfard Synagogue, Russell Street (1928-1939)
Seel Street Synagogue (1837-1875)
Sefton Park Synagogue, Smithdown Road (1935-1937)
Shaw Street Synagogue, Everton (1908-1939)
Childwall Synagogue, Dunbabin Road (1939-1961)
Other Liverpool Information
Jewish
Property and Heritage & Places of Local Interest
Bibliography,
Local
Research Libraries and other sources
IAJGS Cemetery Site - Liverpool
Cemetery Information
Merseyside Jewish
Community Records at Liverpool Record Office
The Records include:
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Project POOL (Photographs of Old Liverpool): 20,000 photographs
from the City Engineers Department, 1897-1960 with 2,000 attached images.
Catalogued with the support of the Heritage Lottery Fund.
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Liverpool City Council: The Corporation archives including
minute books from 1550, education records including school records and
cemeteries interment registers.
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Merseyside Jewish Community Archives: Includes records of
synagogues, organisations, schools, businesses and personal papers. Catalogued
with the support of the Heritage Lottery Fund and the Jewish Community.
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Ecclesiastical Records: Includes full details of Roman Catholic
and Non-conformist archives together with summary details of Anglican parish
holdings.
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Imperial Tobacco Company, Ogden Branch: Full listing of this
important business archive. Catalogued with the support of Imperial Tobacco plc.
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Merseyside Record Office: Brief details of all catalogued
collections plus full listings of Non-conformist church and Coroner's records.
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Created 2002
Re-formatted 13 December 2007
Last
Updated 2 August 2009