JCR-UK: Jewish Schools in the Provinces - 13 February 1853, from Provincial Jewry in Victorian Britain

Provincial Jewry
in Victorian Britain

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)

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Jewish Schools in the Provinces,
according to the Board of Deputies Return of Schools,
13 February 1853.

			Number of Teachers	Subject Taught
Birmingham	Hebrew National School, Lower Hurst Street	42 males 20 femalest	2	Boys - English Commercial education, Hebrew and reliaious instruction daily, Girls - Hebrew and religious instruction twice weekly.
Bristol	Bristol Hebrew Ladies Benevolent Society's Free School, 23 Thomas Street	4 males 10 females	3	Hebrew and translation, English, reading, writing, spelling, grammar, geography, history, sewing.
Hull	Hull Hebrew Educational Society's School, Synagogue Buildings, Robinson Row	15 males 14 females	2	The elements of Hebrew and English and arithmetic.
Leeds	Free School, connected with the Synagogue, Back Rockingham Street	10 males	1	Hebrew
Liverpool	Liverpool Hebrew Educational Institution & Endowed Schools, 7 Slater Street	38 males 45 females	3	Hebrew reading, grammar and translation into vernacular. English, reading, writing, grammar, arithmetic, composition, geography, etc.
Manchester	No return for recent year Last year's return Manchester Jews' Free School, Cheetham Hill Road Hebrew	37 males 31 females	4	All the branches of elementary and useful knowledge. English, with the addition of needlework in case of the girls. Hebrew language and religion.

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