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The former Montague Road Beth Hamedrash, now boutique apartments.
© David Newman 2017
Congregation Data |
Name: |
Montague Road Beth Hamedrash
|
Address: |
62A Montague Road, Dalston, London E8.
The building had been badly damaged in the London Blitz during World War II,
although it never closed, and was rededicated in September 1949.(ii) |
Date Founded: |
1910(iii)
(although the Jewish Year Book 1945/6 stated that it had been
founded in 1902.)
|
Status: |
Closed 1981,(iv) merged into
West Hackney Synagogue.
The former synagogue building was converted in 2001 into a residential block containing
eleven
up-market boutique flats.(v) The
frontage still retains Hebrew inscriptions (see below). |
Ritual: |
Ashkenazi Orthodox |
Affiliation: |
A member or affiliated synagogue of the
Federation of Synagogues,
since formation.(vi) |
Ministers:
(To view a short profile of a minister
or reader
whose name appears in blue - hold the cursor over his name.) |
Rabbi Jacob Rabinowitz
- from 1918 until 1932(x)
Rabbi Eliyahu Eliezer Dessler
- from about 1935 until at least 1938 possibly until 1941(xi)
Rabbi Abraham Weinstein
- from at least 1944 until about 1951(xii)
Rabbi Pesach Braceiner
- from 1953 until about 1962(xiii)
|
Readers: |
Rev. M. Garlick
- from at least 1929 until about 1933(xvi)
Rev. Avram Gotloib
- from about 1935 until 1958(xvii)
Rev. David Josovic
- from about 1960 until 1978(xviii) |
Lay Officers: |
Except where otherwise stated, the data below has been extracted from
Jewish Year Books. Generally, where a first name is
given, this has been obtained from other sources.(xxiii) |
Presidents
1911-1913 - S. Masie
1913-1914 - Mr. Gewurtz
1914-1925 - R. Clenowich
1925-1932 - L. Preiskel
1932-1934 - G. Galinsky
1934-1935 - B. Gewurtz
1935-1938 - I. Hartstein
1938-1945 - no data
1945-1947 - S. Schrieber
1947-1949 - Dr. J. Zeitlin
1949-1950 - S. Greenspan
1950-1956 - Dr. J. Zeitlin
Wardens
1927-1938 - S. Blank
1927-1938 - M. Zuckrow
1938-1945 - no data
1945-1946 - H. Fitterman
1945-1946 - C. Gorman
1953-1954 - M. Wiseman
1953-1956 - M. Cohen
1954-1956 - S. Miller
|
Vice Presidents
1935-1938 - S. Yudkin
1938-1947 - no data
1947-1948 - C. Goldman
1948-1950 - H. Cohen
1953-1956 - J. Lotsky
Treasurers
1927-1928 - J. Mathias
1928-1929 - S. Davies
1929-1933 - J. Mathias
1933-1934 - I. Hartstein
1934-1938 - I. Schrieber
1938-1946 - no data
1946-1956 - L. Littenberg
Hon. Secretaries
1927-1928 - L. Clenowich
1928-1935 - H. Ellman
1935-1936 - A. S. Hovsha
1936-1938 - M. C. Wolfson
1938-1945 - no data
1945-1958 - Rev. Avram Gotloib
1960-1965 - S. Kushner
1965-1981 - I. Bloom
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Membership Data: |
Number
of seatholders(xxiv)
1911 |
1913 |
1914 |
120 |
150 |
200 |
|
Local Government District: |
The northeast London district of Dalston is in the
London Borough of Hackney and was
previously (until 1 April 1965) in the somewhat
smaller former Metropolitan Borough of
Hackney.(xxv) |
Registration District (BMD): |
Hackney(xxvi)
-
Link to Register Office website |
Cemetery Information: |
For
Federation of Synagogues cemeteries, see Cemeteries of the
Federation of Synagogues. |
Notes & Sources - These now appear towards the foot of this page,
instead of the foot of this box. However, the note can also still be viewed in a pop-up box when the cursor is held over the note number. |
The lettering that still appears clearly on the
facade to the building,
which reads in Hebrew "Montague Road Beth Hamedrash"
© David Newman 2017
Bibliography, On-line Articles and Other Material relating to this Congregation
on JCR-UK
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Notes and Sources:
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returns to text above)
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List of
Congregations in the Federation of Synagogues
List of Synagogues
destroyed by German air raids during World War II
Street
Directory of Congregations in Stamford Hill, Hackney and Neighbourhood
Jewish Congregations
in the London Borough of Hackney
Jewish Congregations in Greater London (other than East End)
Greater London home page
Page created: 6 December 2006
Data significantly expanded: 30 December 2020
Latest revision or update: 31 December 2020
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