the former

Ammanford Hebrew Congregation

& Jewish Community

Ammanford, Carmarthenshire, Wales

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Town of Ammanford

Ammanford (Welsh: Rhydaman), a town on the river Amman in south Wales, has a population of about 5,000. It lies about 17 miles north of Swansea.

Until 1974, Ammanford was an urban district within the then county of Carmarthenshire. From 1974 until 1996, it was part of the district of Dinefwr in the newly-formed county of Dyfed. In 1996, Dinefwr was merged with neighbouring authorities to form the reconstituted county of Carmarthenshire, a unitary authority (within the ceremonial, or preserved, county of Dyfed).

The Jewish Community

There are reports of Jewish residents in the town from at least 1914.

Congregation Data
Name:	Ammanford Hebrew Congregation
Formation:	Services were first held, for the high holy days, in 1915,⁽ⁱⁱ⁾ and the congregation was formed in the same year,⁽ⁱⁱⁱ⁾ although a synagogue was never established.^(iv)
Closure:	The congregation was defunct by about 1921.^(v)
Ritual:	Ashkenazi Orthodox
Affiliation:	The congregation was an unaffiliated provincial congregation.
Reader / Minister:	None known.
Lay Leader:	M. Cohen - President c.1916-c.1921.^(vi)
Registration District:	Carmarthenshire, since 1 April 2007^(vii) - Link to Register Office website
Cemetery Information:	There is no Jewish cemetery in Ammanford or elsewhere in Carmarthenshire, the closest being in Swansea.

Online Articles, and Other Material
relating to the Ammanford Jewish Community

on JCR-UK

Press Reports relating to the Ammanford Jewish Community 1915 - 2004.
Into the Vortex: South Wales Jewry Before 1914, paper by Geoffrey Alderman, presented at Conference on Provincial Jewry in Victorian Britain convened by JHSE at University College, London, 6 July 1975.

Notes & Sources
(↵ returns to text above)

(i) Reserved.
(ii) Jewish Chronicle report of 24 September 1915. ↵
(iii) First listed in the Jewish Year Book 1916. ↵
(iv) G. Alderman's "Into the Vortex" (p.2). ↵
(v) Final listing was in the Jewish Year Book 1921. ↵
(vi) Listed as president in Jewish Year Books 1916 through 1921. ↵
(vii) Previous Registration District: Carmarthen from 1 July 1837 to 1 April 2007. All registers would now be held by the current office. ↵

Former Jewish Communities in the current county of Carmarthenshire
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Page created: 13 May 2006
Notes first added: 7 February 2025
Page most recently amended: 17 February 2025

Research and formatting by David Shulman

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