Congregation Data |
Name: |
North London Progressive Synagogue
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Former Names: |
North London Liberal Synagogue
(from about 1927 until about 1947)(i)
North London Liberal Jewish Synagogue
(from formation until about 1927)(ii)
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Address: |
100 Amhurst Park, London N16 5AR The building was originally a methodist church, damaged by enemy action
in World War II, restored as the Amhurst Park Halls and acquired
by the congregation in 1955. It was converted for use as a synagogue and the main hall
was reconstructed in 1961,
employing the architect
Derek J. Sharp, ARIBA.(iii) |
Former Addresses: |
30 Amhurst Park, London N16 (from about 1946 until 1955)(iv)
Prior thereto at various addresses, including 69 Stamford Hill N16,
Stoke Newington Church Street N16 and Belfast Road N16.(v) |
Date Formed: |
1921(vii) |
Current Status: |
Closed about 2002. (Part of the former
membership shortly thereafter established the North London Progressive
Jewish Community, now known as
Kehillah North London.) |
Ritual: |
Liberal Progressive |
Affiliation: |
The congregation was a constituent synagogue of
Liberal Judaism (formerly
the Union of Liberal and Progressive Synagogues and previously, the
Jewish Religious Union) from, or from shortly following, the
congregation's founding. |
Ministers:
(To view a short profile of a minister
or cantor who also served other UK congregations - name in blue - hold the curser over his
or her name.) |
Rev. Maurice L. Perlzweig, MA
- from formation in 1921 until 1938(ix)
Rabbi Dr. Rudolph Brasch
- from about 1938 until about 1948(x)
(S. Solomons
- assistant minister in about 1947/1948(xi))
Rev. Vivian George Simmons
- from 1948 until 1956(xii)
Rev. Herbert Richer(xiii)
- from about 1955 until about 1969
Rabbi Sidney Brichto
- possibly about 1969(xiv)
Rabbi Douglas Charing
- from about 1970 until about 1972(xv)
Rabbi Bernard Hooker
- from about 1975 until 1991 and thereafter emeritus rabbi until about 2000(xvi)
Rabbi Marcia Plumb, MA
- from about 1994 until about 2000(xvii)
Rabbi Dr. Michael Hilton
- from about 2000 until about 2002(xviii)
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Readers (Cantors): |
Rev. E. Lewandowski
- from about 1949 until 1967(xx)
H. Danziger(xxi)
- from about 1967 until about 1973
Rev. P. Cohen
- from about 1973 until about 1975(xxii)
R. Goring(xxiii)
- from about 1986 until about 1994 |
Past Presidents: |
The Hon. Lilian Helen (Lily) Montagu, JP,
President - from about 1928 until about 1930(xxv)
The Marchioness of Reading, President
- from about 1937 until about 1939(xxvi)
The Right Hon. Lord Melchett, Hon. President
- from about 1936 until about 1939(xxvii) |
Chairmen (to 1950s)(xxix): |
J. Amstell - c.1927 to c.1928
R. Norton - c.1928 to c.1934
Rev. Maurice L. Pertzweig, MA(ix)- c.1934 to c. 1938
S. Solomons - c.1938 to c.1947
A. Lever - c.1947 to c.1949 and c.1950 to 1952
Miss S. Korn - c.1949 to c.1950
J. Kaye - c.1952 to c.1956 |
Membership Data: |
Jewish Year Books(xxx)
1938 |
1939 |
1947 |
1948 |
1951 |
160 |
180 |
200 |
250 |
350 |
National Reports & Surveys(xxxi)
1977 - 599 male members and an estimated 599 female members
1983 - 603 male members and an estimated 602 female members
1990 - 707 members (comprising 500 households, 96 individual male and 111 individual female members)
1996 - 824 members (comprising 462 households, 137 individual male and 225 individual female members)
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Charitable Status: |
No information found as to registered charity status. |
Local Government
District: |
All
addresses of the congregation are now in the
London Borough of Hackney.(xxxii)
Until 1965, Amhurst Park
and Stoke Newington Church Street were in the former
Metropolitan Borough of Stoke Newington, and Stamford Hill and Belfast Road were in the former
Metropolitan Borough of Hackney (both established 1900).
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Registration District (BMD): |
Hackney(xxxiii) -
Link to Register Office website |
Cemetery
Information: |
See
London Cemeteries of Liberal Judaism. |
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