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NOTE: We are not the official website for this community.
City of Brighton and Hove
The Sussex seaside resort of Brighton (originally known as Brighthelmstone) and
adjoining Hove to its west, on England's south coast, have a population of
nearly 250,000. Until 1974, Brighton was a county borough and Hove, a the
municipal borough in the county of East Sussex. They were then united to form
the district of Brighton & Hove in the county of East Sussex. In 1997, Brighton
& Hove became a unitary authority, and in 2000 it was granted city status.
The Brighton and Hove
Jewish Community(iii)
Brighton & Hove has the fifth largest Jewish community in the United Kingdom,
and there exists a local Jewish Representative Council, which now covers all of
Sussex. The first record of a Jewish resident in Brighton was in 1766(iv) and the earliest
Synagogue (in Jew Street) was established in 1792.
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Jewish Congregations
The following are the Jewish congregations that exist or existed in
Brighton and Hove:
* An active congregation.
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The following are former or alternative names of the above congregations:
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Online Articles and Other Material
relating to the
Brighton and Hove Jewish Community
on JCR-UK
Some Notable Jewish Connections with Brighton and Hove
(compiled with the assistance of Steven Jaffe)
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Tony Bloom MBE (b. 1970 in Brighton), businessman, is the majority owner and chair of Brighton and Hove Albion FC.
He is the principal funder of the redevelopment of the Brighton and Hove Hebrew Congregation’s New Church Road site into
a state of the art Jewish community campus and hub.
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Ivor Kieth Caplin (b. 1958) was the Labour MP
for Hove (1997-2005) and the first Jewish MP for a Brighton or
Hove constituency.
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Levi Emanuel Cohen (1796-1860), son of Emanuel Hyam Cohen, who is credited as the founder of the Brighton Jewish community,
was the founding editor of the Brighton Guardian, a radical local newspaper which ran from 1827 to 1901 and at its peak had a circulation of 60,000.
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Sir Michael Fabricant MP (b. 1950 in Brighton), son of
Rabbi Isaac Fabricant, served as Conservative MP for Lichfield in Staffordshire,
formerly Mid Staffordshire, from 1992 to 2024. He was appointed Knight Bachelor in 2023.
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Sir Isaac Lyon Goldsmid, 1st Baronet, (1778-1859), financier, advocate for Jewish emancipation and who helped establish University College Hospital
in London, purchased the Wick estate in Brighton in 1830. He built a mansion there called Wick Hall (which was demolished in the 1930s).
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Sir Julian Goldsmid, 3rd Baronet, (1838-1896), grandson of Sir Isaac Goldsmid, a lawyer, businessman and Liberal (later Liberal Unionist) MP
between 1866 and 1896, lived at Wick Hall and died in Brighton. Julian Road in Brighton is named after him.
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Sir John Howard (1831-1917), born in Liverpool, a railway and water engineer, in 1898 established a company to complete
the construction of the Palace Pier in Brighton which had been damaged by a storm. A local philanthropist,
the John Howard cottages at Roedean Road, Brighton, for former nurses and carers, were funded from his estate.
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David Jacobs (1913-1969), Hove resident, was solicitor to celebrities, including the Beatles, Judy Garland, Zsa Zsa Gabor,
Marlene Dietrich and Shirley Bassey.
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Natasha Kaplinsky OBE (b. 1972 in Brighton),
newsreader, TV presenter, studio anchor and journalist, was appointed president of the British Board of Film Classification in 2022.
In 2014 she became a Holocaust Commissioner, leading a project which interviewed 112 survivors.
Her paternal grandfather's family came from Slonim in Poland.
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David Land (1918-1995), impresario and producer, who backed Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber's earliest musicals,
owned and ran the Theatre Royal in Brighton up until his death.
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Sir Ivan Lawrence (b. 1934 in Brighton), leading criminal barrister, was Conservative MP for Burton 1974-1997.
He was Chairman of the Home Affairs Select Committee from 1992 to 1997.
His private member's bill in 1991 instigated the UK's national lottery.
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Ruth Lawrence-Neimark (b. 1971),
was a child maths prodigy born in Brighton, who joined St Hughs College, Oxford, in 1983, aged 12.
She graduated in 1985 with a starred first as the youngest graduate of the university in modern times.
She teaches at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel.
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Harry Leader (1906-1987), one of Britain's best known bandleaders and songwriters (signature: "Music Maestro Please"),
was resident bandleader at the Regent Ballroom in Brighton in the 1950s and
1960s. He died in Brighton where he spent his latter years teaching and performing.
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Sir George Lewis, 2nd Baronet (1868-1927), solicitor, bought the Grange, originally the vicarage in the village of Rottingdean,
and had it extended and the gardens developed by the architect Sir Edwin Lutyens. Today the Grange is a library, a tearoom,
art gallery and a museum run by Rottingdean Heritage. Sir George is buried in Rottingdean.
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Samuel Lewis (1837-1901), born in Birmingham, a self made millionaire, maintained a home at Brunswick Terrace in Hove.
The Samuel Lewis Housing Trust provided affordable housing for rent in London and across the South East (later known as the Southern Housing Group).
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Eleanor Marx (1855-1898), socialist activist and literary translator, youngest daughter of Karl Marx, who identified strongly
with her Jewish heritage, lived in Brighton briefly in the 1870s and worked as a teacher. A grey plaque at 6 Vernon Terrace Brighton marks where she lived.
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David Mocatta (1806-1882),
architect of the London and Brighton railway, who designed Brighton Train station
and other stations along the line, as well as Brighton's Regency
Synagogue and other synagogues.(v)
Mocatta House, a modern office development in Trafalgar Place, Brighton, is named afer him.
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Harold Poster (c.1912-1978), a London businessman who became a hotelier and developer in Brighton, was a pioneer of the conference
and exhibition trade and one of the earliest backers of the Brighton festival which launched in 1967.
At one point he owned the Norfolk, Bedford and Metropole hotels (the Norfolk he sold to the Feld family).
Poster built the highest building in Brighton, Sussex Heights. He also owned Brighton's West Pier but his plans
for its development were refused by the Council and it became dilapidated. A philanthropist and fundraiser
both in the UK and Israel, Harold Poster house at Kingsbury, north west London, was home for the JNF charity from 1977 until about 1997.
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Sir Albert (Abdullah) Sassoon, 1st Baronet, (1818-1896), born in Baghdad, businessman, banker and philanthropist,
set up a home at Eastern Terrace in Brighton where he died and
was initially buried in the Sassoon
Mausoleum in Brighton.
Sir Edward Albert Sassoon, 2nd Baronet, (1856-1912), son of Sir Albert Sassoon, born in Bombay (now Mumbai),
businessman and Liberal Unionist MP for Hythe in Kent, vice president of Jews' College and the Anglo Jewish Association,
maintained the family home in Brighton and died there.
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Ben Sherman (born Alfred Sugarman) (1925-1987), who grew up in Brighton returned there in 1962 having lived in North America.
He established a shirt and fashion factory in Brighton. Ben Sherman's distinctive shirts became a prominent feature of the 1960s fashion scene.
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Sir Hans Singer (1910-2006), German born, came to the UK as a refugee from Nazism. An international development economist,
he was knighted in 1994 and awarded the United Nation's Food for Life award in 2001 for his work combating hunger.
In 1969 he joined the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex and he died in Brighton.
The Hans Singer Memorial Lecture on Global development alternates between Bonn and Brighton on an annual basis.
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Dr Herzl Sless MBE (1922-2002), born in Cork, for over 50 years a GP in Hove, was Brighton and Hove Albion FC’s honorary
medical officer for 42 years. He was also chairman for many years of the Jewish Representative Council in Sussex and life president of Hove Synagogue.
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Henry Solomon (1794-1844) a London born watchmaker turned police officer, became the first chief constable of Brighton Borough Police.
He was murdered in his police station by a suspect during an interrogation.
At the time of his death Henry Solomon was vice president of the Brighton Hebrew congregation.
His grave at the Florence Place cemetery was restored in 2018.
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Jack Solomons OBE (1902-1979), born in
Petticoat Lane, East London, boxing promoter, lived for many
years at Furze Court in Hove.
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Solomon Teff (1892-1979), a solicitor, was president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews from 1964 to 1967.
He was a member of the Hove Hebrew Congregation.
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Edward Zeff MBE, Croix de Guerre (1904-1974), a British agent of the Special Operations Executive
during the Second World War, was born in Brighton. A plaque in Brighton marks his post war home.
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Jewish Mayors of Brighton or Hove:
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Lewis Cohen (1897-1966), Labour councillor, Mayor of Brighton
(1956) and founder of the Alliance Building Society, was made a life peer in 1965
and took the title Lord Cohen of Brighton.
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Alfred Feld was Mayor of Brighton
(1978-1979)
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Norman N. Freedman was Mayor of Hove
(1969-1970)
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Barnett Marks (1863-1944), an active member
of the Brighton Hebrew Congregation and local charities
(both Jewish and non-Jewish) was the first Jewish Mayor of
Hove (1910-1913)
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Jewish Names on the Buses
Since 1999 the
Brighton and Hove Bus and Coach Company has named every new bus that
enters the fleet after a deceased person who has made a significant contribution to the area or had a strong connection during
his or her lifetime. The names of those honoured are listed
here, with a link to a short profile and, where
available, photographs. By 2016, some 200 individuals had so far
been honoured and Godfrey R. Gould(vi)
identified 22 of these as Jewish or of recent Jewish descent.
These are the following:
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School evacuations to and from Brighton during World War II:
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The Residential School for Jewish Deaf Children in
Wandsworth, South-West London, was evacuated to Brighton in
February, 1940, although in September that year, it moved
again to Marlborough. Wiltshire.
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The
West Hampstead Boarding School was evacuated to Lewes, East Sussex,
some ten miles northeast of Brighton.
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The Autumn term, 1940, also saw the popular Brighton Jewish boarding schools, which mopped up London's better-off schoolchildren,
move out en bloc. Until then, Brighton had been officially designated a safe zone.
The private Jewish schools. Mansfield College, Whittingehame College, Macaulay House College, Aryeh House School and Beaconsfield College,
all with premises in Brighton, Hove or Cuckfield, Sussex, moved to North Wales, Cornwall and Gloucestershire.
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Holocaust Memorial at Brighton Meadowview Jewish Cemetery
(© 2011 Gina Marks)
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Other Brighton Jewish Institutions & Organisations
(apart from institutions
closely connected to the Hove Hebrew Congregation)
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Educational & Theological
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Welfare Organisations
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The Brighton and Hove Jewish Welfare Board had started life in 1846 as
the Brighton Hebrew Philanthropic Society with objects for "the relief of Jewish poor".
By the 1890s it was known as the Brighton (later
the Brighton & Hove) Jewish Board of Guardians, with objects
for "the relief of residents and casual poor". Its present name was adopted in
about 1976.(xxvii)
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Jewish Children's Convalescent Home was established at 76 Montpelier Road, Brighton,
by 1919 and existed until at least 1923.(xxviii)
A Convalescent Home Aid Society had been founded by 1916.(xxix)
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Jewish Refugee Hostel. A Refugee Relief Council had
been founded by 1939(xxx)
and it appears that a Hostel for refugees, managed by the Hostel
Management Committee(xxxi)
had been established at 33 Vernon Terrace during or shortly prior to
World War II.
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A Jewish Orphanage Aid Society existed in Brighton by
about 1939 until at least
1959,(xxxiv)
with a Norwood Orphanage Junior Aid Society from at least 1954 until
1959.(xxxv)
The Brighton and Hove Aid Society for the Home and Hospital
for Jewish Incurable was active from at least 1935 until at
least 1950.(xxxvi)
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Plans had existed for some time to establish a home for Brighton's aged Jews
and by 1946, the Brighton & Hove Aid Society for a Home For
Aged Jews had been founded. The Brighton and Hove
Home for Aged Jews
was opened in 1954 at 99 Marine Parade Brighton and was later
initially renamed the Sadie Lewis Home for Aged Jews
for a number of years. In the early 1970s it was extended and
substantially rebuilt, being situated between Marine Parade and
Bristol Road, with its main entrance in Burlington Street, BN2 1AK.
There were further extensions in 1978 and the mid-1990's, when the
home became part of the London-based Jewish Care. In 2001 it was
renamed the Hyman Fine Jewish Home.(xxxvii)
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The Brighton & Hove Jewish Housing Association was founded in 1969 by
the Brighton & Hove Jewish Board of Guardians (and was until 1980 known
as the Brighton & Hove Jewish Board of Guardians Housing Association).
It was founded in order to help meet the growing need for subsidised housing for Jewish people on limited means.
The association owns a number of residential properties in Brighton
and Hove which provide sheltered accommodation for those in need.(xxxviii)
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Sussex Tikva. The Sussex Jewish Society for the Mentally
Handicapped was formed in 1983 and renamed Sussex Tikva in
1999. It was initially set up as a club meeting in Ralli Hall. A
home, in Chatsworth Road, was opened in 1990 and subsequently named
Rachel Mazzier House. Since 2009, it has been run by
Norwood.(xli)
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Helping Hands was founded in 2001 to provide care and assistance, both practical and emotional, to members of the
local
Jewish community.(xlii)
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Cultural, Social, Youth and Sports Organisations
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The Brighton and Hove Jewish Literary and Social Society(xlv)
was active until about 1933 (see below). It
was the successor to
the Jewish Literary and Debating Society
(pre-World War I),(xlvi)
the Jewish Literary and Social Society
(early 1920s)(xlv)
and the Jewish Social Society
(late 1920s).(xlvii)
Later, following World War II and in the early 1950s, a Jewish Literary Society
was re-established.(xlvii)
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Brighton and Hove Maccabi was
established in June 1934 when
the Brighton and Hove Jewish Club became formally
affiliated to the British Maccabi Association. The club had been
formed a year or two earlier on the merger of the Brighton Jewish Sports Club
and the Brighton and Hove Jewish Literary and Social
Society (see above). In
1936 it had been planned that Brighton would host the Maccabi World
Games, but these were cancelled. Among its activities were a Cricket
Club and a Football Team (both active from at least 1934). It remained in existence on and off
until the 1960s and was revived in the 1990s.(xlix)
It was one of the organisations incorporated into the Brighton & Hove
Jewish Centre (see below).
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Other Sports Institutions:
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The Carmel Tennis Club, formed in the early 1950s, which
had its own tennis courts until the 1980s.(lii)
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The Sussex Jewish Golfing Society, formed in 1954
and still active.(liii)
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Other Youth Organisations:
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Scouts. The first Jewish Scout troop (the 20th Brighton (Jewish) Troop) was founded in Brighton by 1925
and probably continued until the outbreak of World War II. A scouts troop (the 52nd Brighton Scouts Troop and Cub Pack) was
reestablished at the Middle Street synagogue in 1955.
In the late 1950s it moved to the New Church Road premises and became the 15th Hove (Jewish) Troop and later moved to
a church hall near Seven Dials and subsequently to Ralli Hall. It disbanded in the late 1980s.
The was also a short-lived Brownie pack in the 1960s.(liv)
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A company of the Jewish Lads Brigade was formed in Brighton
in 1934 but appears to have been disbanded during World War II.
It was restarted in 1972 as
the Jewish Lads and Girls Brigade and continued until the mid-1980s.(lv)
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Club Shalom - formed
in 1969 as a youth club. Activities included music and discos,
talks, snooker, subbuteo as well as a football team. the club
closed in the late 1970s.(lvi)
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The Jewish Ladies Society
(1920s and 1930s)(lix)
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Ralli Hall, 82 Denmark Villa, Hove BN3 3ST, is a non-denominational community and social centre, hosting many Jewish events.
It was acquired in 1975, initially as a Jewish youth centre, by the
Brighton and Hove Jewish Youth Council,
which later changed its name to the Brighton and Hove Jewish
Community Foundation (Registered Charity number
269474,
registered on 18 June 1975) and was
formally opened by singer Frankie Vaughan on 30 June 1976. From its
earliest days it hosted the Friendship Club for
senior citizens and gradually the emphasis changed from youth to
senior activities.
It also hosted a number of services for the Hebrew Congregation, while
the synagogue in New Church Road was closed for major redevelopment (2020-2023).
The Hall was built in 1913 as a memorial to Stephen Ralli, a member of a wealthy Greek family,
and is a Grade II Listed Building (number 1298671), designated on 2 November 1992.
View description
on Historic England website.
Other institutions hosted at Ralli House include:(lx)
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the Ralli Hall Lunch and Social Club (Registered Charity number
1142922,
registered on 18 July 2011, and private company by limited by
guarantee, number 07451576);
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the Ralli Hall Amateur Theatre Society;
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the New Ralli Bridge Club;
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the Jewish Community Society; and
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Brighton and Hove Maccabi.
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A branch of the Anglo-Jewish Association had
existed in Brighton from as early as 1900 and as late as the late
1950s, although it is not clear whether such existence was
continuous.(lxi)
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A branch of the Association of Jewish Ex-Servicemen and Women (AJEX) was founded
in the Brighton area immediately following World War II.(lxii)
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The Jewish Arts Society (until 2003 the
Brighton and Hove Jewish Community Arts Society) was founded in 1981.(lxiii)
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The Jewish Association of Cultural Societies (JACS)
was established in Hove in 1988.(lxiv)
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Brighton Union of Jewish Students (formerly the Jewish Students Association)
- the University of Sussex Jewish Society
- was established shortly after the opening of Sussex University in
1965.(lxv)
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Brighton Hillel House
- residential accomodation for Jewish students
- was established in 1968, when two houses (former an engineering apprentice hostel) in Harrington Hill (near Preston Park)
were purchased and converted to a students residence. Student
accommodation needs gradually changed and the Harrington Road
premises were sold. In 2012 a students drop-in centre was opened at
the rear of the Middle Street synagogue.(lxvi)
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B'nai B'rith Brighton and Hove Lodge No. 1182,
founded in 1933 and active until at least the late
1970s. A young adults chapter was founded in 1964 lasting until the
mid-1970s and there was also Brighton B'nai B'rith Youth
Organisation (BBYO) started in the late 1970s, active until at least
the 1990s.(lxvii)
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B'nai B'rith Ladies Lodge No. 145, founded in about
1935 and combined with the men's lodge in the 1970s.(lxviii)
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Jewish Historical Society of England, Sussex Branch,
established in 2004.(lxix)
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Jewish Women Friends of Sussex,
an unaffiliated forum for women, founded in 2003, which meets regularly to discuss a wide range of topics and
interests.(lxx)
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Israel & Zionist Organisations
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JNF/JIA - Brighton already had Jewish National Fund
(JNF) Commission representative in the 1920s.(lxxii)
There was a joint
committee of both the JNF and the Joint Israel Appeal
- JIA (previously the Joint Palestine Appeal - JPA) in
Brighton until the 1970s, after which the were run as separate
committees. Beginning in the 1990s, funds for these organisations
tended to be raised centrally and much of the work of the local committees
ceased.(lxxiii)
There was a JIA Ladies' Committee from at least the mid-1990s until at
least 2006.(lxxiv)
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The Brighton & Hove Youth Aliya Committee (formerly
the Children and Youth Aliya Committee) was formed in 1950 and
continues to function.(lxxv)
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Zionist Organisation:
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A Zionist Society had
been formed in Brighton by 1923(lxxvi) and continued to be active until
at least World War II. There was a Zionist Central
Council from at least the early 1980s until at least
the early 1990s.(lxxvii)
World Jewish Congress (WJC)(lxxviii) was represented in
Brighton and Hove in the mid/late 1950s as well as a
Young Zionist Society.(lxxxix)
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A Women's Zionist Society
existed from at least 1929 until World War II.(lxxxii) There followed a
number of women Zionist organisations, including the
Federation of Women Zionists (mid/late 1950s)(lxxxiii), a branch
of WIZO (Women's International Zionist
Organisation) (late 1950s)(lxxxiv)
and, most recently, Sussex
WIZO Ziona (by 2005).(lxxxv)
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A Mizrachi Association
was present in Brighton from at least 1947(lxxxvi)
with a
Women's Mizrachi Organisation from at least 1949.(lxxxvii)
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Other Funding of Israeli Institutions:
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Friends of the Hebrew University
University, founded in Brighton by 1946.(xc)
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Technion Committee,
founded by 1954(xci)
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Friends of Ben Gurion
University, founded in Brighton by 1996.(xcii)
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Friends of Magen David Adom, founded in Brighton by 1996.(xciii)
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Sussex ORT, founded by
1996.(xciv)
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Religious Institutions
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Brighton and Hove Joint Shechitah Board was
founded by 1936 and existed until at least 1992.(xcviii)
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Brighton and Hove Joint Kashrut Board was
founded by 1992. (xcix)
There was also a Kashruth Committee from at least 1950
until at least 1959.(c)
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The Community's Mikva was established by 1989, at the Prince Regent Swimming Complex.(ci)
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The Chevra Kadisha was
formed by 1923.(cii)
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The Brighton and Hove Interfaith Contact Group (IFCG) was
founded by 2005.(ciii)
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Miscellaneous
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Sussex Jewish Representative Council (until about
2011, the Brighton and Hove Jewish Representative Council) was formed by
at least 1945. The council comprises and represents every synagogue
and affiliated Jewish organisation in Brighton, Hove and the rest of
Sussex (including Eastbourne, Hastings, Bexhill and Worthing).(cvi)
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Sussex Jewish News was first published in October 1993
and replaced the Jewish News, when the latter ceased publication.(cvii)
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Trade Advisory Council, active from at least 1945 until about 1953.(cviii)
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Sarid (Holocaust Survivors Group), existed from at least 2005 until about 2012.(cix)
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BNJC (Brighton & Hove Jewish
Community), opened in March 2023, is a purpose built Jewish community
complex, comprising the new Brighton & Hove Hebrew Congregation synagogue and mikveh, 45 new housing units, various dining options, including a kosher cafe,
restaurant, bakery, deli and shop, plus other recreational, educational, cultural, social, commercial and co-working facilities.
It is supported by the Bloom Foundation, founded by Tony Bloom, chairman of Brighton and Hove Albion football
club.(cx)
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Brighton and Hove Jewish Cemeteries Information
Florence Place Jewish Cemetery
Brighton and Hove have the following Jewish cemeteries:
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Florence Place Old Jewish Burial Grounds, off Ditchling Road,
Brighton BN1 7GU. This is the original Orthodox Jewish cemetery,
opened in 1826. The land had been donated to the Jewish community by
Thomas Read Kemp.
The cemetery ohel (number 1380504), the gates and walls (number 1380505)
and a lamp post outside the cemetery (number 1380506) are all Grade II Listed Buildings since 26 August 1999.
To view descriptions on the Historic England website, click
here,
here and
here, respectively.
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Bear Road (Meadowview) Jewish Cemetery, Meadowview Road, Bevendean Road, Brighton, Brighton BN1. The Orthodox Jewish cemetery currently in use,
opened in 1920 and enlarged in 1978.
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Hove Cemetery, Jewish Sections, Old Shoreham Road, Hove This is the cemetery of Brighton's
non-Orthodox congregations, the Brighton & Hove Reform Synagogue and
Brighton & Hove Progressive Synagogue.
In addition, the structure at 83 St. George's Road and Paston Place, Kemp Town, Brighton, BN2 1EF
was the Mausoleum of Sir Albert Sassoon Family
and was situated adjacent to where the family home once stood.
It was erected in 1869 and is stated to be an enlarged replica of the marble mausoleum at the Ohel David synagogue at Poona, India.
The Mausoleum served as the family burial place until 1933 when the remains of those buried there
were transferred to the Liberal Jewish cemetery at Willesden, North London.
Subsequently the Mausoleum was used as a war-time air raid shelter, a club and is now part of Hanbury Arms public house.
It has been a Grade II Listed Building (number 1380706) since 13 October 1952.
View description
on Historic England website.
(For additional information, see
IAJGS Cemeteries Project - Brighton)
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Brighton and Hove Jewish Population Data
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Year
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Number |
Source |
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1813
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only 9 adult male Jews |
(Brighton
Herald 1813) |
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1851
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estimated 150 |
(C.
Roth - The Rise of Provincial Jewry) |
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1896
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estimated 60 families |
(The Jewish Year Book 1896/7 |
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1898
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estimated 70 families |
(The Jewish Year Book 1898/9) |
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1900
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estimated 80 families |
(The Jewish Year Book 1900/01) |
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1901
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estimated 90 families |
(The Jewish Year Book 1901/02) |
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1904
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estimated 100 families |
(The Jewish Year Book 1904/5) |
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1912
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115 families |
(The Jewish Year Book 1913) |
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1915
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150 families |
(The Jewish Year Book 1916) |
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1919
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200 families |
(The Jewish Year Book 1920) |
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1923
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350 families |
(The Jewish Year Book 1924) |
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1929
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1,525 |
(The Jewish Year Book 1935) |
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1945
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2,500 |
(The Jewish Year Book 1945/6) |
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1950
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4,500 |
(The Jewish Year Book 1951) |
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1966
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7,500 |
(The Jewish Year Book 1967) |
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1974
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10,000 |
(The Jewish Year Book 1975) |
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1987
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12,000 |
(The Jewish Year Book 1988) |
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1990
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10,000 |
(The Jewish Year Book 1991) |
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1996
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8,000 |
(The Jewish Year Book 1997) |
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2001
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3,358* |
(2001 Census results) |
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2011
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2,670* |
(2011 Census results) |
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2021
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2,455* |
(2021 Census results) |
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*The 2001, 2011 and 2021 census result figures represent those who answered the voluntary question 'What is your religion?' by clicking the category
'Jewish' among the eight check-box options (another of which was 'No religion'). However, between 6.0% to 7.7% of the population nationally did not
answer the question and the figure would not have included those who considered themselves Jews by ethnicity but not by religion,
and accordingly the actual number of Jews would be higher than the figures shown.
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Notes & Sources
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Page created: 2003
Data significantly expanded and notes first added: 15 September 2022
Page most recently amended: 6 July 2025
Research and formatting by David Shulman
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