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: 24 February 2016
Latest revision: 24 August 2016

Papers on South Wales

PONTYPRIDD (South Wales)

Published Data
1901[b]	1900 - Jewish population, 100.    1900 - 3 marriages, 6 burials. Synagogue, Wood Road. There are 35 seatholders and the weekly income averages about £2. Hebrew School, Wood Road.     [in 1898 the yearbook recorded - eighteen children attend the school, 12 boys and 6 girls]     [in 1901] 59 children attend the school (26 boys and 33 girls)
[b - Jewish Year Book]