UK Jewish Communal Leaders and Employees of Jewish Communal Organisations

Jewish Directory for 1874

Compiled by Asher I. Myers, editor of the London Jewish Chronicle, and published by Asher I. Myers and Philip Vallentine. This novel 1874 publication, intended to be the first edition of periodic publications of a similar name, was never repeated, and was published more than two decades prior to the first Jewish Year Book. It contains a list of all London and provincial synagogues, Jewish schools, associations, charitable and other institutions and societies, with names and addresses of all persons holding official positions, honorary and salaried, in the Anglo-Jewish community.

The data was extracted by Louise Messik and David Shulman and includes the names and, in most instances, the addresses of every person listed in the Directory, together with details of all offices held by each person, as well as links to the JCR-UK home page of all Jewish congregations and communities named. This portion comprises 1,903 individuals holding an aggregate of some 3,500 offices in approximately 250 Jewish organisations spread throughout London and 47 cities and towns in the Provinces.

Jewish Year Book 5657 (1896–1897)

Edited by Joseph Jacobs and published in 1896 by Greenberg & Co. and Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co. Ltd. This was the very first edition of the Jewish Year Book.