Swansea Jewish Community

On-line Articles and Other Material
relating to the Swansea Jewish Community

on JCR-UK

• Swansea Hebrew Congregation 1730 - 1980, a souvenir brochure, assembled and edited by Martin Glass, with sections on history researched and written by Neville Saunders, published by the Swansea Hebrew Congregation in 1980 to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the founding of the Swansea Jewish community. (Note: the document is a 14 MB pdf file.) We are extremely grateful to David Factor and David Simon for providing a copy of the brochure and to the Swansea Hebrew Congregation for granting their permission to publish the same.

• The Rise of Provincial Jewry - Swansea by Cecil Roth, 1950. (Part of the Susser Archive.)

• Provincial Jewry in Victorian Britain -  - Papers for a conference at University College, London, convened by the Jewish Historical Society of England, prepared by Aubrey Newman - 6th July 1975.

  • Into the Vortex: South Wales Jewry Before 1914, paper by Geoffrey Alderman.

  • Papers on Swansea, including a paper by Bernard Goldblum.

  • Chief Rabbi's Questionnaire of 1845 - Congregational Data and Educational Data & Other Remarks.

• The Swansea Jewish Community - The First Century - an article by Harold Pollins originally published in Jewish Journal of Sociology, vol 51 2009, updated January 2012.

• Article by Harold Pollins relating to Swansea, initially published in Oxford Menorah

  • Amis and the Oriental, published Winter 1999.

  • Strange Broiges Affair, published September 2017.

• Press Reports on the Swansea Jewish Community 1804-1917, 2008-10.

• Articles Relating to the Jewish Cemeteries, see above.

• Bibliography