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THE RISE OF PROVINCIAL JEWRY
Cecil Roth
Published 1950
CONTENTS
PREFACE
THE BEGINNING OF THE COMMUNITIES
i. The Setting
ii. The Expansion from London
iii. The Earliest Communities.
iv. Conclusions
THE EARLY COMMUNITIES
JERSEY AND THE CHANNEL ISLANDS
SCOTLAND (See Edinburgh, Glasgow)
APPENDIX: TABLE OF PROVINCIAL JEWISH COMMUNITIES
This monograph, based on my Presidential Addresses delivered before the Jewish Historical Society of England in 1941 and 1942, originally appeared in serial form in The Jewish Monthly, volumes ii and iii. It is reprinted now in response to a widespread request to present it in more permanent form. I have to thank many correspondents--in particular Drs. Redcliffe N. Salaman and Vivian D. Lipman, and Messrs. Albert M. Hyamson, O.B.E., N. L. Hyman, A. M. Jacobs, Harold Rubinstein, Wilfred Samuel, Harold Soref, Rev. L. Susman and The City Librarian, Plymouth--for supplementary information generously sent to me, which gives this reprint considerably more value than the original publication. For technical reasons, these supplementary data have sometimes been appended to rather than embodied in the original account. My thanks are also due to Mr. Evan Senior for compiling the comprehensive Index to this volume. The reader must be warned that he is not to expect here a consistent account of the history of the communities dealt with. In certain cases, I have attempted to provide only some materials upon which that story can be based, and I have not scrupled to accumulate details which in other circumstances might be considered petty. But the material used is almost all entirely new; and I feel that I have succeeded in providing in these pages, for the first time, a basis for writing the history of the settlement of the Jews in England as a whole.
CECIL ROTH.
Oxford, July 1950
"THE BIRMINGHAM MOSES" (LORD GEORGE GORDON)
SARAH LYON, THE IPSWICH CENTENARIAN
J. ABRAHAM(S), OF BATH AND CHELTENHAM
RABBI MOSES ABRAHAM, OF PLYMOUTH
J.C. -- Jewish Chronicle.
G.M. -- Gentleman's Magazine.
Bibl. -- Magna Bibliotheca Anglo-Judaica: a Bibliographical Guide to Anglo-Jewish History, ed. C. Roth (London 1937).
Trs., etc -- Transactions of the Jewish Historical Society of England.
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