Bristol Hebrew Congregation

Bristol

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Ministers (and Readers) of the Synagogue
from 1765 to 2016

The scroll-down table below lists known ministers of the Bristol Hebrew Congregation, which list also includes the congregation's readers (chazanim). The table has been assembled from the pre-1900 information provided by Judith Samuel (Jews in Bristol, Redcliffe Press of Bristol, ISBN 1-900178-16-8) together with post-1900 data extracted from the Congregation's Minute Books, Jewish Year Book listings or has been provided by the Congregation. In a number of instances the dates are approximate. To view a short profile of a minister whose name appears in blue - hold the cursor over his name.

Dates Ministers

1765-1785	Isaac Collish or Zvi Hirsch Kalisch
1798-1803	Moses Levy
1829-1830	Solomon Levy
1829-1832	Rev. Abraham Barnett
1833-1835	Prof. David Myer Isaacs, BA
1838-1851	Aaron Levy Green
1844-1880	Rev. Joseph Benjamin
1851-1854	Rev. Jacob Lindiner
1855-1858	Rev. Samuel Landeshut
1859-1864	Rev. Isaac Samuel
1867-1878	Rev. Meyer Mendelssohn
1871-1878	Rev. Barnett (Berman) Berliner
1872-1879	Rev. Abraham Muller
1880-1884	Rev. David Fay
1880-1893	Rev. Abraham H. Eisenberg
1893-1896	Rev. Abraham H. Eisenberg at Bridge St
1893-1896	Rev. Emanuel Ritblatt at Bridge St
1885-1889	Rev. Joseph Leonard Levy, BA
1890-1892	Rev. Moses Hyamson
1894-1895	Rev. Louis Mendelsohn, BA
1897-1902	Rev. Abraham H. Eisenberg (second term)
1897-1927	Rev. Emanuel Ritblatt
1894-1899	Rev. A. Levinson
1899-1906	Rev. Joshua (Joseph) Abelson, BA
1907-1916	Rev. Hyman Goodman
1907-1919	Rev. Bernard Paletz
1919-1920	Rev. Solomon Mestel, MA
1920-1924	Rev. Arthur Barnett, BA
1924-1925	Rev. Moses Hirsch Segal
1926-1934	Rabbi Harry Swift
1927-1930	Rev. Aaron Harry Pakman
1930-1932	Rev. H. Lev
1932-1937	Rev. A. Goldstein
1934-1944	Rev. Simon L Sussman
1935-1947	Rev. Louis Sanker
1944-1959	Rev. A. Freedman
1951-1955	Rev. Harold Lerner
1956-1957	Rev. W. Wolfson
1958-1959	Sam Lockner
1959-1961	Rabbi Dr. Arnost Zvi Ehrman
1962-1987	Rev. Max Moddel
1990-1992	Rabbi Michael Lloyd Morris
1992-2002	Rabbi Hillel Simon
2011-2013	Rabbi Dovid Ussiskin
2014-2016	Rabbi Mark Daniels

For the List of Officers of the Congregation from 1824 to 2002, see Synagogue Officers

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Page created: June 2003
Page most recently amended: 4 April 2024

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