The Jewish Chronicle and The Hebrew
Observer, 22 June 1860
Leicester, 5620 - June 15th, 1860
To
The Jewish Public
Few as the Jewish Residents of LEICESTER are, they yet feel most
deeply the want of a SYNAGOGUE, in which they might regularly worship the God of
their fathers, not less for their own edification than for that of the Jewish
visitors who continually come to their town. They have for this purpose procured
a Building, and collected amongst themselves £50.
It must, however, be clear that for so small a sum - considerable
in proportion to their number and means - the Synagogue could not be
established. They therefore earnestly and hopefully APPEAL to their
Co-religionists throughout the United Kingdom, to assist them, by their
Contributions, in carrying out the pious work in which they are engaged.
Donations will be thankfully received by -
Messrs. A. SPIELMANN and Co., Bankers, Lombard street, London;
A. BLANCKENSEE, Esq., 8, Great Charles-street, Birmingham.
By the President, S. HARRIS, Esq., Granby-street, Leicester.
And by the Treasurer, Jos. LEVY, Esq., East Gates, Leicester.”
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The Jewish Chronicle, 6 November 1874
Mr. Israel Hart, the President of the Leicester Congregation - brother of
Alderman Hart, of Canterbury, who was twice in turn elected Mayor of that City -
has been elected Town Councillor of Leicester by a large majority in a ward
containing nearly 4,000 electors.
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The Jewish Chronicle, 4 June 1875
The Leicester Congregation and school have
only recently been instituted. Dr. H. Adler visited the Synagogue where he was
met by the leading members of the congregation and he afterwards examined the
school children....
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The Jewish Chronicle, 12 November 1920
Tonypandy. A general meeting of the congregation was held. Mr. O. Gold
presided. The Rev. A. Opolion, of Leicester, was elected Shochet,
Teacher, Baal Koreh, etc. He will take up his duties on January 1st
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The Jewish Chronicle, 6 January 1922
Blackburn. The Rev. A. Opolion, the newly elected minister of the Congregation,
has entered upon his duties. He was formerly minister at Tonypandy,
and for five years served the Congregation at Leicester.
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The Jewish Chronicle,
23 May 1969
By offering a bursary towards the
training of a candidate in purging
and shechita, Leicester Hebrew
Congregation has adopted a new
method to fill the post of chazan/shochet, which has been vacant for
almost a year.
The candidate is 26-year-old Mr
Salvador Benzaquen, who arrived
in Leicester last week to take up
an appointment as assistant minister to the congregation.
The son of a rabbi, Mr Benzaquen was born in Melilla, Spain,
and for the past eleven years has
studied at the Sunderland Talmudical College and the Yeshiva Etz Chaim, London.
In Leicester, Mr Benzaquen will also teach in the religion classes.
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The Jewish Chronicle,
6 August 1976
Obituary Rev Israel Joshua Kibel
[father of Rev. M.A. Kibel, former Assistant Minister of Leicester Hebrew Congregation]
The death of the Rev I. J. Kibel is mourned by friends and
colleagues, particularly in Golders Green where he lived for many years.
Mr Kibel was the son of a renowned Polish chazan, Moshe
Aron (Grodzisker). At an early age he occupied cantoral posts in
Germany before coming to England in 1924. For some time he was at
the New Synagogue, Stamford Hill, and during the war years he
served the Oxford congregation.
He was for a long period in the service of the London Board for Shechita.
A musician of considerable talent, he composed many items of liturgical music.
He is survived by a daughter, Regina, and a son, the Rev M. A.
Kibel, minister of the Swansea Hebrew congregation
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The Jewish Chronicle,
14 April 1972
A special general meeting of the
Leicester Hebrew Congregation
last week accepted the resignation
of the Rev J. Benzaquen, who is
getting married and going to
live in Belgium within the next six months.
This will leave Leicester once
again without a shochet. Before Mr Benzaquen's appointment in 1969,
the position was vacant for a year.
Mr Benzaquen's services had been
secured by the offer of a bursary
towards his training in shechita.
Mr David Jacobs, president of
the congregation, says that there
is a "very remote hope" of finding
another shochet who would also
act as reader and teacher in the
Hebrew classes. Arrangements are
therefore being made for a shochet
to attend from London once a week,
while an assistant minister/reader/
teacher is being sought.
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The Jewish Chronicle,
23 June 1972
New reader for Leicester.
From our Correspondent
The Rev Maurice A. Kibel has
been appointed as assistant
minister/reader/teacher to the
Leicester Hebrew Congregation.
A son and grandson of chazamim,
Mr Kibel was educated at the
Yeshiva Etz Chaim and Jews' College, London. He was formerly
reader at the Upton Park and
Streatham synagogues and taught
at the Ilford synagogue Hebrew
classes.
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The Jewish Chronicle, 19 January 1973
Mr Eugen Teichmann who died
in London last week in his 70th
year, was for 19 years reader,
shochet and teacher to the Leicester Hebrew Congregation,
before his retirement some five years ago.
A native of Czechoslovakia, he
studied at Miskolc, Galanta, and
other yeshivot, and was a man of
scholarship—a talmid chachim in
the truest sense of the word.
He came to England after the
last war, having survived terrible
suffering in some of Europe's worst
concentration camps. His devotion
to Judaism was all-absorbing and
he was an acknowledged authority
on ritual and shechita.
Mr Teichmann is survived by his
widow and a daughter. [On
16 February 1968, it was reported that a presentation was made on his retirement
at Leicester.]
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The Jewish Chronicle,
6 August 1976
Obituary Rev Israel Joshua Kibel
[father of Rev. M.A. Kibel, former Assistant Minister of Leicester Hebrew Congregation]
The death of the Rev I. J. Kibel is mourned by friends and
colleagues, particularly in Golders Green where he lived for many years.
Mr Kibel was the son of a renowned Polish chazan, Moshe
Aron (Grodzisker). At an early age he occupied cantoral posts in
Germany before coming to England in 1924. For some time he was at
the New Synagogue, Stamford Hill, and during the war years he
served the Oxford congregation.
He was for a long period in the service of the London Board for Shechita.
A musician of considerable talent, he composed many items of liturgical music.
He is survived by a daughter, Regina, and a son, the Rev M. A.
Kibel, minister of the Swansea Hebrew congregation
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