Extract from papers on
Provincial Jewry in Victorian Britain

Papers prepared by Dr. (later Prof.) Aubrey Newman for a conference at University College, London, convened on 6 July 1975 by the Jewish Historical Society of England
(Reproduced here with Prof. Newman's kind consent)

Paper first published on JCR-UK: 21 February 2004
Latest revision: 11 December 2016

CAMBRIDGE

(For the Community's early history, see "Cambridge" in Cecil Roth's "The Rise of Provincial Jewry", 1950)

Published Data
A  -  In the spring of 1847 there was a cemetery (sic. - this should read synagogue) at 7 Hobson Street, average Sabbath attendance was 15. In 1850 services were temporarily discontinued.  Subsequently the synagogue was transferred to Petty Curry where it remained until 1889
1874[a]	No entry
1901[b]	Population of 50 Jews Synagogue, Great St. Mary's Passage (founded 1888).  Seatholders 25.  Annual income averages £40. Time of service on Saturday is arranged at the beginning of each term.
[A - Primarily from The Rise of Provincial Jewry (1950), by Cecil Roth] [a - The Jewish Directory for 1874, by Asher I. Myers] [b - Jewish Year Book]