Dublin Jewish Community

Dublin, Republic of Ireland

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City of Dublin

Dublin (Irish: Baile Átha Cliath) is the capital city of the Republic of Ireland and the largest city of Ireland, located nearly half way down the island’s east coast, at the mouth of the river Liffey. Although geographically part of County Dublin, the City of Dublin has had a separate administration for several centuries. Although the City of Dublin has a population of about half a million, there are well over one million people in the Greater Dublin area.

The Dublin Jewish Community

The Dublin Jewish Community would appear to have been established shortly following the readmission of the Jews to England in the 1660's, and is thus the second oldest community in the British Isles. The first community was of Spanish and Portuguese (Sephardi) origin, but these elements died out and were later replaced primarily by Ashkenazi Jews.

Jewish Congregations

The following are the Jewish congregations that exist or existed in and around Dublin:

Camden Street Synagogue
Dublin Hebrew Congregation (Adelaide Road)⁽⁴⁾
Dublin Hebrew Congregation (Terenure)*⁽⁴⁾
Dublin Jewish Progressive Congregation*⁽⁴⁾⁽⁷⁾
Dublin's Old Hebrew Congregation
Heytesbury Street Congregation
Jewish Home of Ireland Synagogue*
Lennox Street Synagogue⁽⁴⁾

Lombard Street Synagogue
Machzikei Hadass Synagogue*
Oakfield Place Synagogue⁽⁴⁾
St. Kevin's Parade Synagogue⁽⁴⁾
Talmud Torah, Stratford Schools
United Hebrew Congregation
(Greenville Hall)⁽⁴⁾
Walworth Road Synagogue⁽⁴⁾
(now the Irish Jewish Museum)

* An active congregation

⁽⁴⁾ pages with photographs

⁽⁷⁾ pages with lists of ministers and/or officers

The following are former, alternative or unofficial names of the above congregations:

Adelaide Road Hebrew Congregation - see Dublin Hebrew Congregation (Adelaide Road)
Beth Hamedresh Hagadol Synagogue - see Walworth Road Synagogue
Chevra Tehillim Synagogue - see Lombard Street Synagogue
Crane Lane Synagogue - see Dublin's Old Hebrew Congregation
Dolphin's Barn Synagogue - see United Hebrew Congregation
Dublin Liberal Synagogue - see Dublin Jewish Progressive Congregation
Greenville Hall Synagogue - see United Hebrew Congregation
Grosvenor Road Synagogue - see Dublin Hebrew Congregation (Terenure)
Knessett Orach Chayim - see Dublin Jewish Progressive Congregation
Marlborough Green Synagogue - see Dublin's Old Hebrew Congregation
Mary's Abbey Synagogue - see Dublin Hebrew Congregation (Adelaide Road)
Rathfarnham Road Synagogue - see Dublin Hebrew Congregation (Terenure)
Rathmines Hebrew Congregation - see Dublin Hebrew Congregation (Terenure)
Stafford Street Synagogue - see Dublin Hebrew Congregation (Adelaide Road)
Terenure Hebrew Congregation - see Dublin Hebrew Congregation (Terenure)

Search the All-UK Database

The records in the database associated with Dublin include:

1851 Anglo Jewry Database (updated 2016)
- Individuals in the 1851 Anglo Jewry Database who were living in Dublin during the 1810s (6 records); 1820s (10 records), 1830s (64 records), 1840s (118 records), 1850s (126 records), 1860s (85 records), 1870s (47 records), 1880s (8 records) and 1890s (2 records.

Bibliography, On-line Articles and Other Material
relating to the Dublin Jewish Community

on JCR-UK

The Rise of Provincial Jewry - Dublin by Cecil Roth, 1950 - available on JCR-UK as part of the Susser Archive.
Provincial Jewry in Victorian Britain - Papers for a conference at University College, London, convened by the Jewish Historical Society of Great Britain, prepared by Aubrey Newman - 6th July 1975. Reproduced here with his kind consent:
- Chief Rabbi's Questionnaire of 1845 - Dublin Congregational Data and Dublin Educational Data & Other Remarks.
Material relating to the community's cemeteries - see below.
Dublin Bibliography

on Third Party websites

Link to the The Irish Jewish Museum, Dublin.
Jewish Encyclopedia article on Dublin by Joseph Jacobs and Isidore Harris, c-1906.

Other Dublin Jewish Institutions & Organisations

Educational & Theological

Hebrew School (founded 1893).

Other Institutions & Organisations
(that had been formed by 1900*)

Philanthropic Society (founded by 1874)..
Ladies' Benevolent Society (founded in 1888, although there was a Ladies' Society in existance by 1874), for relief of poor lying-in women
Jewish Board of Guardians (founded by 1882), for relief of poor, by loans or otherwise.
Hakhnosas Orkhim (founded 1888), for relief of strangers and to give them shelter.
Medical Relief Society (founded 1888), for relief of poor during Shiva, and medical attendance.
Chevra Kadisha (founded by 1896), for relief of poor in case of death and for inexpensive burials.
Young Men's Reading Rooms (founded 1895), to foster taste for English and Hebrew literature.

* As listed in the Jewish Directory of 1874 and the Jewish Year Books 1896/7.

Dublin Jewish Cemeteries Information

Dublin has the following Jewish cemeteries:

Dolphin Barn Jewish Cemetery, Aughavanagh Road, Dublin D8. This cemetery, opened in 1898, is the cemetery currently in use by the Dublin Orthodox Jewish community:
- Photographs of the cemetery.
Ballybough (Old) Jewish Cemetery, 67 Fairview Strand, Fairfields, Dublin D3. This is the oldest Jewish site in Ireland and dates from 1718 (the date of the original lease). The cemetery is no longer is use, having been superceded by the Dolphin Barn Cemetery. It contains some 150 marked graves and many more unmarked.
- Photographs of the cemetery
- Article - "5618 and All That" (PDF file).
- JOWBR includes some 150 burial records for this cemetery.
- 300-year-old cemetery hidden in the heart of Dublin’s Fairview - article and video in The Irish Times (on-line) dated 7 August 2017, including reference to the cemetery (and gatehouse to it) being handed over to the Dublin City Council who intendto renovate same.
Woodtown Progressive Jewish Cemetery, Oldcourt Road, Woodtown, Rathfarnham, Co. Dublin. It was opened in 1952.

Dublin Jewish Population Data
1895	2,000	(The Jewish Year Book 1895/6)
1909	2,700	(The Jewish Year Book 1910)
1915	3,500	(The Jewish Year Book 1916)
1946	5,211	(The Jewish Year Book 1947)
1955	5,200	(The Jewish Year Book 1956)
1965	3,600	(The Jewish Year Book 1966)
1975	2,800	(The Jewish Year Book 1976)
1985	2,000	(The Jewish Year Book 1986)
1995	1,300	(The Jewish Year Book 1996)
2005	1,500	(The Jewish Year Book 2006)

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