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City of Nottingham
The city of Nottingham, in the English East Midlands, lies on the river Trent.
The city has a population of about 270,000, although there are over 600,000
people living in the Greater Nottingham area. It was a county borough
until 1974, when it became a district of the administrative county of
Nottinghamshire. In 1996, the city of Nottingham became a unitary authority.
The Nottingham Jewish Community
The modern Jewish community was founded in the early 1800's, although there had
been a Jewish community in medieval times.
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Jewish Congregations
The following are the Jewish congregations that exist or existed in Nottingham in modern times:
* An active congregation.
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Online Articles and Other Material
relating to the
Nottingham Jewish Community
on JCR-UK
on Third Party websites
Notable Jewish Connections with Nottingham
(courtesy Steven Jaffe)
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Martin Brandon-Bravo (1932-2018) was Conservative MP for Nottingham South from 1983 to 1992. He was President of the UK's Amateur Rowing Association.
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Sir Julien Cahn, 1st Baronet (1882-1944) was a
British businessman, philanthropist and cricket enthusiast. Born
in Cardiff, he grew up and lived Nottingham, son of synagogue
president Albert Cahn. He owned the chain stores, Jays and
Campbells, which he sold to Great Universal Stores (GUS) in
1943. He rescued Newstead Abbey, the twelth century ancestral home of Lord Byron,
and donated it to the Nottingham City Council to help preserve Byron's legacy.
In 1935 he presented the Waverley Mount Club as a youth and recreational centre for the Jewish community. He lived at Stanford Hall, near Loughborough,
some fifteen miles south of Nottingham.
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Jonathan Charles, former BBC news presenter, was born in Nottingham in 1964.
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Sir Harry Djanogaly CBE (b.1938), merged his Nottingham Manufacturing Company with other textile interests in 1986 to form Coats Viyella.
He has helped found the following Nottingham institutions: Djanogly City Academy; Djanogly Community Leisure Centre;
Djanogly Community Orchestra; Djanogly Recital Hall; Djanogly Theatre, and the Djanogly Gallery. He is also a benefactor to both Nottingham universities.
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Jack Dunnett (1922-2019) was Labour MP for two Nottingham constituencies between 1964 and 1983. He was chairman of Notts County FC from 1967,
elected President of the Football League 1981-86 and 1988-89, and was Vice-President of the Football Association for the same period.
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Col. Louis Gluckstein QC (1897-1979), whose family owned J Lyons and Co, was Conservative MP for East Nottingham from 1931 to 1945.
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Saul Isaac (1823-1903), MP for Nottingham (1874-80), was the first Jewish MP to be returned for the Conservative Party.
In 1870 he opened the Wilford Bridge and Clifton Collieries, providing a local supply of coal
which facilitated the industrial growth of Nottingham.
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James Alfred Jacoby, a Nottingham Lace manufacturer, was Sheriff of Nottingham in 1877 and Liberal MP for Mid Derbyshire from 1885 to his death in 1909.
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Felix Joseph (1840-1892) arts patron, is described as the greatest benefactor of art work to the city of Nottingham, including a collection of
over 1,400 pieces of Wedgwood porcelain held by the Castle Museum
(Portrait).
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Hilda Winifred Lewis (1896–1974) was a British author of historical and children's fiction. Her husband
Professor M. Michael Lewis
of the University of Nottingham, was a specialist in the education of the deaf.
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David Pleat (b. Nottingham in 1945), played for Nottingham Forest
FC, and four other Football League clubs. He was manager at Luton Town and
Tottenham Hotspur, and was for a time consultant to Nottingham Forest. He is a football broadcaster and writer.
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Jacob Weinberg (1830-1900) born in Hamburg, proprietor of Simon May and Co, one of the largest firms of lace finishers in Nottingham,
was for many years president and lay leader of the Nottingham Hebrew congregation. He was responsible for building two mikvaot in Nottingham.
For some time towards the end of his life he hosted a private minyan at his home. He was president of both Nottingham and Dundee chambers of commerce.
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Lord Mayors of Nottingham
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Lewis Heymann (d.1869), proprietor of Heymann & Alexander, which designed and manufactured lace curtains, helped to make Nottingham
the lace capital of the world. Heymann was Lord Mayor in 1857. He abandoned Judaism and became a member of the Unitarian chapel.
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Edward Goldschmidt, Lord Mayor of Nottingham in 1881 and again in 1889, was also a Jewish convert to Unitarianism.
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Other Nottingham Jewish Institutions & Organisations
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Educational
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Jewish Day School,
from 1877 to 1884, in rented premises at People's Hall,
founded by Rev. David Meyer.(xxi)
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Welfare Organisations
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Hebrew Philanthropic Society,
founded 1885, for relief of resident poor and strangers;
medical assistance.(xxii)
This developed into the Jewish Board of Guardians by the
early 1920s(xxiii)
and later became the
Jewish Welfare Board.(xxiv)
(xxv)
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Ladies' Benevolent (or
Philanthropic) Society,
founded 1886.(xxviii)
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Orphans Aid Society,
later the Norwood Society,
founded 1892.(xxix)
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The Dorcas Society
- founded in the 1920s and active until wound up in
the late 1950s.(xxx)
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Nottingham Council for Refugee Children
and Nottingham Committee for Refugees,
both founded by 1939.(xxxi)
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Miriam Kaplowitch House
(Jewish Rest Home), corner Mansfield Road and
Mapperley Hall Drive, opened 1986, although the official ceremony was not until
June 1988.(xxxiii)
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Social and Literary Associations
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Jewish Social Club,
founded by 1891.(xxxvi)
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Literary and Debating Society,
founded 1904.(xxxvii)
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Nottingham Social Club Ltd, founded 1923 at Carrington Street, surviving
until mis-1950s.(xxxviii)
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Waverly Mount Community Centre, opened in 1934,
requisitioned by the Armed Forces in 1940 and reopened in 1947 until
about 1967.(xxxix)
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Friendship Club,
founded in 1962.(xl)
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Friendly Societies, Lodges, etc.
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Zionist Friendly Society,
founded by 1908.(xliv)
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Mount Ephraim Beacon
No. 18 of the Order of Ancient Meccabeans,
founded by 1908.(xlv)
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Snapper Lodge No.
96 of the Grand Order of Israel,
founded by 1915.(xlvi)
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Jacob Lasky Lodge
No. 27 of the Independent Order of B'nai B'rith,
founded by 1915.(xlvii)
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Nottingham Lodge No. 1156 of the Order of B'nai B'rith,
founded by 1932.(xlviii)
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Norman Shenker Lodge
of the Order of B'nai B'rith,
founded in 1961.(xlix)
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A Women's Lodge,
founded in 1963, which merged with the Norman Shenker Lodge
in 1980.(l)
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Youth and Sports Organisations
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Young Men's Athletic Club,
founded by 1904.(liv)
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Nottingham Jewish Cricket Club,
founded by 1904.(lv)
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Nottingham Jewish Girls' Club,
founded 1914.(lvi)
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Jewish Boy Scouts,
founded by 1925.(lvii)
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Nottingham Maccabi,
founded by 1939.(lx)
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University Jewish
(later and Israel) Society,
founded 1949/50.(lxi)
In recent years, Nottingham has had one of the largest Jewish student populations in the UK outside London – on average about 1,000 Jewish students
are on campus each year, and the figure can be as high as 1,600. Separate campus rabbis and chaplains have been provided by the
University Jewish Chaplaincy service, AISH, Chabad and Jewish Learning Exchange.
See
https://www.ujs.org.uk/nottingham.
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Estorick Hillel House,
residental home for Jewish student, opened in 1994, with the offical opening ceremony
in March 1995.(lxii)
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Zionist and other Israel Organisations
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Chovevi Zion Association,
founded 1892(lxv).
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Zionist Social Club, founded at Poachy Street by 1900
and re-established at 47 Castlegate
in 1908.(lxvi)
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Nottingham Zionist Organisation or Association,
founded 1904.(lxvii)
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Palestine Association, founded 1908, to assist practical work
in Palestine.(lxviii)
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Ladies' Palestine Association, founded 1909, to assist practical work
in Palestine.(lxix)
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Federation of Zionist Youth (FZY),
founded by 1926.(lxx)
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Jewish National Fund Commission,
founded by 1927.(lxxiii)
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Women's Zionist Society, a branch of Federation
of Women Zionists (WIZO),
founded by 1939.(lxxiv)
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Nottingham Friends of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem,
founded by 1945 and relaunched in 1977 but inactive
by 1992.(lxxv)
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Nottingham Friends of Anti-Tuberculosis League of Israel,
founded by 1952.(lxxvi)
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Nottingham JPA (later JIA),
founded by 1954.(lxxvii)
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Miscellaneous
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Anglo-Jewish Association,
branch founded 1900.(lxxx)
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AJEX,
founded by 1945.(lxxxi)
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Sabbath Observance League,
founded by 1946.(lxxxii)
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Trades Advisory Council,
founded by 1946.(lxxxiii)
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Nottingham Branch of the Council of Christians and Jews,
formed 1965(lxxxiv)
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Nottingham Representative Council,
later East Midlands Representative Council,
founded by 1994.(lxxxv)
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The National Holocaust Centre and Museum, Acre Edge Road, Laxton, Newark, about 24 miles northeast of Nottingham,
opened 1995.
See website -
https://www.holocaust.org.uk/
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Nottingham Jewish Cemeteries Information
Below are the Jewish cemeteries in
Nottingham, used successively by the Nottingham (Orthodox) Hebrew
Congregtion:
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North Sherwood Street Jews Burial Ground, Nottingham, NG1 4EN, in use from 1823 to 1869.
The cemetery is
a Grade II Registered Park and Garden, listed on
21 September 2018 (number 1454260).
See Historic England Listing & Description.
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Hardy Street Jewish Cemetery, opened 1869 and closed 1947, except for reserved plots.
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Wilford Hill Jewish Cemetery, Loughborough Road, opened 1937 (first burial 1940)
and extended in 1982. Currently in use.
(For additional information, see also
IAJGS Cemeteries Project - Nottingham)
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Nottingham Jewish Population Data
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Year
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Source |
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1896
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500 |
(The Jewish Year Book 1896/7) |
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1908
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750 |
(The Jewish Year Book 1909) |
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1918
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650 |
(The Jewish Year Book 1919) |
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1946
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c.2,500 |
(The Jewish Year Book 1947) |
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1962
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1,500 |
(The Jewish Year Book 1963) |
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1985
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c.1,800 |
(The Jewish Year Book 1986) |
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1989
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1,050 |
(The Jewish Year Book 1990) |
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1990
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800 |
(The Jewish Year Book 1997) |
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2003
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627 |
(The Jewish Year Book 2004) |
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Notes & Sources
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In these notes, reference to "Eight Hundred Years")
is to Nelson Fisher's
Eight Hundred Years - The Story of Nottingham's Jews (1998)
and reference to "JYB" is the Jewish Year Books (1896-2005)
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Page created: 21 August 2005
Latest revision or update: 18 April 2025
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