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: 17 August 2016
Latest revision: 7 May 2017

Papers on East Anglia

KING'S LYNN (Norfolk)

Published Data

A  -  A new synagogue was built at 9 High Street in 1826, and the cemetery was opened in 1830. In 1842 there were 7 families. The income was £21.10s.9d. a year. The rent of the synagogue was £6. The Ladies' Charitable Society clothed poor families, In 1843 there were 16 seatholders, but the last entry in the congregation records is dated 28 February 1846. The community disappeared shortly after that date. [Primarily, The Rise of Provincial Jewry by Cecil Roth (1950)].