The Lost Jews
of Cornwall
from Roman times to the 20th
century
Edited by Godfrey Simmons, Keith
Pearce and Helen Fry
Redcliffe Press,
81g, Pembroke Road, Clifton, BRISTOL BS8 3EA
Tel.0117 973
7207
A large bound paperback,
approximately 340 pages, 60+ illustrations.
[As at October 2011 this book is sold out at
the above bookseller]
This book fills a major gap in both Anglo-Jewish and
Cornish history, and draws together for the first time
over sixty years of research by major Jewish scholars and
Cornish researchers. The book updates and revises earlier
publications and contains previously unpublished
concerning these 18th and 19th century communities from
1720 to 1913.
The contents include
-
The Jews in Cornish Folklore
[Venetia Newall]
-
The Jews, Cornish Tin Mining
and the 'Jews Houses' [David Giddings and Keith
Pearce]
-
The Jews and Cornish Place
Names [Keith Pearce]
-
The Jews of Falmouth
[Alex Jacob]
-
Penzance: the decline and
fall of a Jewish Community {Cecil
Roth]
-
The Jews of Truro
[Godrey Simmons and Keith Pearce]
-
The People: occupations and
trades; the Cornish-Jewish families; migration and
emigration [Godfrey Simmons and Keith
Pearce]
-
The Falmouth and Penzance
Jewish Cemeteries
-
The Rabbis [Godfrey
Simmons and Keith Pearce]
-
The Synagogues and their
Religious Artefacts [Evelyn Friedlander and Helen
Fry]
Illustrated throughout with
comprehensive appendices, bibliographies and detailed
index.
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