PREFACE

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

ABBREVIATIONS EMPLOYED

INTRODUCTION - THE BEGINNING OF THE COMMUNITIES

i. The Setting

ii. The Expansion from London

iii. The Earliest Communities

iv. Conclusions

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THE EARLY COMMUNITIES

BATH

BEDFORD

BIRMINGHAM

BOSTON

BRIGHTON

BRISTOL

CAMBRIDGE

CANTERBURY

CARDIFF

CHANNEL ISLES (See Jersey)

CHATHAM

CHELTENHAM

CORK

COVENTRY

DOVER

DUBLIN

EDINBURGH

EXETER

FALMOUTH

GLASGOW

GLOUCESTER

GREAT YARMOUTH (See Yarmouth)

HULL

IPSWICH

IRELAND (See Dublin)

JERSEY AND THE CHANNEL ISLANDS

KING'S LYNN

LEEDS

LIVERPOOL

MANCHESTER

NEWCASTLE

NORWICH

NOTTINGHAM

OXFORD

PENZANCE

PLYMOUTH

PORTSMOUTH

RAMSGATE

SCOTLAND (See Edinburgh, Glasgow)

SHEERNESS

SHEFFIELD

SOUTHAMPTON

SUNDERLAND

SWANSEA

WOOLWICH

YARMOUTH (GREAT)

APPENDIX: TABLE OF PROVINCIAL JEWISH COMMUNITIES

 

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PREFACE

This monograph, based on my Presidential Addresses delivered before the Jewish Historical Society of England in 1941 and 1942, originally appeared in serial form in The Jewish Monthly, volumes ii and iii. It is reprinted now in response to a widespread request to present it in more permanent form. I have to thank many correspondents - in particular Drs. Redcliffe N. Salaman and Vivian D. Lipman, and Messrs. Albert M. Hyamson, O.B.E., N. L. Hyman, A. M. Jacobs, Harold Rubinstein, Wilfred Samuel, Harold Soref, Rev. L. Susman and The City Librarian, Plymouth - for supplementary information generously sent to me, which gives this reprint considerably more value than the original publication. For technical reasons, these supplementary data have sometimes been appended to rather than embodied in the original account. My thanks are also due to Mr. Evan Senior for compiling the comprehensive Index to this volume. The reader must be warned that he is not to expect here a consistent account of the history of the communities dealt with. In certain cases, I have attempted to provide only some materials upon which that story can be based, and I have not scrupled to accumulate details which in other circumstances might be considered petty. But the material used is almost all entirely new; and I feel that I have succeeded in providing in these pages, for the first time, a basis for writing the history of the settlement of the Jews in England as a whole.

CECIL ROTH.

Oxford, July 1950

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ILLUSTRATIONS, LIST OF;

 

THE PLYMOUTH SYNAGOGUE

"THE BIRMINGHAM MOSES" (LORD GEORGE GORDON)

"JEW TRAVERS" AT BRIGHTON

ARK OF THE EXETER SYNAGOGUE

SARAH LYON, THE IPSWICH CENTENARIAN

J. ABRAHAM(S), OF BATH AND CHELTENHAM

RABBI MOSES ABRAHAM, OF PLYMOUTH

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ABBREVIATIONS

J.C. -- Jewish Chronicle.

G.M. -- Gentleman's Magazine.

Bibl. -- Magna Bibliotheca Anglo-Judaica: a Bibliographical Guide to Anglo-Jewish History, ed. C. Roth (London 1937).

Trs., etc -- Transactions of the Jewish Historical Society of England.