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Page created: 21 August 2005
Latest revision or update: 7 May 2017
Norwich Jewish Community
City of Norwich
The historic city of Norwich, situated on the river Wensum in
East Anglia, has a population of over 125,000. It was a county
borough until 1974, when it became a local government district of the administrative county of
Norfolk.
Norwich Jewish Community
There was a
medieval
Jewish community in Norwich. In modern times, the first Jewish seettlement
appears to date from about 1789, with an organised Jewish community from about
1813.
Jewish Congregations
The following are the Jewish congregations that exist or existed in Norwich:
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On-line Articles
and Other Material
relating to the Norwich Jewish Community
on JCR-UK
on Third Party websites
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Other Norwich Jewish Institutions & Organisations
(Formed by 1900*)
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Educational & Theological
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Other Institutions & Organisations
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Chevra Kadisha
(did not appear in 1896 Jewish Year
Book)
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Jewish Young Men's Mutual Improvement Society
(founded by 1896)
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Chovevi Zion Tent
(founded by 1900)
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* As listed in the Jewish Year
Books 1896 & 1900. |
Norwich Jewish Cemetery Information
The following
are the known Jewish cemeteries that existed in Norwich:
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Norwich Medieval Jewish Burial Ground
Exact whereabouts unknown, but close to the ancient
synagogue. In use from some time after 1177 until 1290.
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Norwich Old Jews Burial Ground, Horns Lane,
corner Ber Street (near Mariners' Lane), Norfolk.
Only vestiges remain of this cemetery, which was opened in about 1750 and closed in 1826. The exact location (at the rear of 34 Ber Street) is uncertain.
See
Letter to the Editor
(on JCR-UK), regarding this burial grounds in Norwich, which appeared in the Jewish Chronicle of 22 April
1842
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Quakers Lane Jews' Burial Ground (also known as
Gildencroft Jewish Cemetery), St Crispin's Road (corner Talbot Square), off
Quakers Lane Norwich
Opened in 1813 and in use until 1854. No records have survived and none of the surviving headstones are legible.
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Norwich City Cemetery, Jewish Section (also known as Earlham Road Jewish Cemetery), Bowthorpe
Road, Norwich
This cemetery, of the Norwich Hebrew Congregation, dates from
1856 and is still in use. It is accessible from
Earlham
Road.
(For additional information, see also
IAJGS Cemetery Project - Norwich) |
Norwich Jewish Population Data
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1895 |
50 |
(The Jewish Year Book 1896) |
1900 |
158 |
(The Jewish Year Book 1901) |
1934 |
133 |
(The Jewish Year Book 1935) |
1944 |
150 |
(The Jewish Year Book 1945) |
1955 |
135 |
(The Jewish Year Book 1956) |
1965 |
170 |
(The Jewish Year Book 1966) |
1990 |
170 |
(The Jewish Year Book
1991) |
2004 |
239 |
(The Jewish Year Book 2005) |
Jewish Congregations in
Norfolk
Jewish Communities of England home page
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