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: 3 January 2016
Latest revision: 11 December 2016

THE JEWS OF EAST ANGLIA

by Harry Levine

The region of East-Anglia - the counties of Norfolk and Suffolk is a good example of how Jewish communities begin, develop, gradually reach their maximum strength, and then slowly decay and disappear from the pages of Jewish History - leaving in their wake only disused cemeteries as evidence of a once strong and virile community.

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Papers on East Anglia

IPSWICH (Suffolk)

Published Data

A  -  There was a synagogue here in 1792, and a cemetery purchased in 1796. In 1830 there were 50 Jewish residents in the city. in 1841 20 adult male trustees of the community, even though there were only 5 resident in the town. In 1851 there were 10 appropriated seats, and 9 seatholders, with an attendance of 10 at service. The estimated population was 75. In the 1890s the community had disappeared. [Primarily, The Rise of Provincial Jewry by Cecil Roth (1950)].

Board of Deputies returns
	births	marriages	burials	seatholders
1852	1 (M)	1	1	8
1859		0	0	5
No further returns