Congregation Data |
Name: |
Central Synagogue, Hull (or Hull
Central Synagogue)
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Formation: |
The congregation was founded in 1886.(iii)
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Last Address: |
Cogan House,
Park Street, Hull, from about 1951.(iv)
The building was previously the Alderman Cogan School, situated opposite
the then Hull Children's Hospital.(v)
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Previous Addresses: |
School Street, Hull
The congregation's first synagogue was
at School Street, off Waltham Street, Hull, from 1886 until 1914.(vi)
Cogan Street, Hull
In 1914, the congregation moved to Cogan Street, Hull,
to a building that was formerly
the Salem Congregation Chapel.(ix)
In 1940, the building was destroyed in a German air raid.
West Parade, Anlaby Street, Hull
Following the destruction of the congregation's synagogue, the
congregation moved in 1940(x)
to a large house used as a temporary
synagogue, used possibly until 1951, although, from at least 1946,
the congregation held services in the Linnaeus Street schoolroom by
permission of the Western Synagogue.(xi)
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Final Status: |
Closed in about 1976.(xii) |
Ritual: |
Ashkenazi Orthodox
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Affiliation: |
Congregation was unaffiliated but under the
aegis of the Chief Rabbi.
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Ministers and Readers:
(To view a short profile
of a minister or reader whose name appears in blue - hold
the cursor over the name.) |
Rev. Bernard Ginzburg
- reader from 1887 until about 1890.(xvii)
Rev. Simon Chassim
- reader from 1898 until about 1901.(xviii)
Rev. Leopold Wolf Klein
- reader from about 1901 until 1905.(xix)
Rev. S.H. Lipschitz
- reader in and about 1905.(xx)
Rev. Isaac Levine
- reader from 1907 until 1923.(xxi)
Rev. H. Bergin
- reader from about 1923 until about World War II.(xxiv)
Rev. Harry Abrahams
- reader from about 1951 until about 1954.(xxv)
Rev. R. Berg
- reader from about 1955 until about 1957.(xxvi)
(Rabbi Eliezer Simcha Rabinowitz, BA
served as Communal Rabbi of Hull from 1956 until 1959, although the
extent of his involvement with this congregation is uncertain.)
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Lay Officers
(from 1900):(xxix) |
Presidents
1900-1901 - Jacob Marks(xxx)
1901-1905 - J. Harris
1905-1907 - S. Berkowitz
1907-1910 - no data
1910-1911 - A. Marks
1912-1924 - Jacob Marks(xxx)
Hon. Presidents(xxxi)
1924-1925 - S. Berkowitz
1925-1931 - W. Miller
1931-1932 - J. Levi
1932-1935 - J. Marks
Presidents
1933-1935 - S. Jaffe
1935-1938 - J. Marks
1938-1939 - J. Silver
1939-1946 - H. Mostyn(xxxii)
Chairmen
1946-1949 - H. Mostyn
1950-1953 - J. Marks
President
1953-1956 - J. Marks
Vice Presidents
1925-1928 - J. Mostyn, BSc
1928-1931 - D. Rock & S. Barnett
1931-1935 - D. Rock
1935-1938 - S. Jaffe
1938-1947 - no data
Vice Chairmen
1947-1949 - Issy Appleson
1949-1950 - J. Marks
1950-1953 - Maurice Lipman
Vice Presidents
1953-1955 - Maurice Lipman & Issy Appleson
1955-1956 - Maurice Lipman
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Treasurers
1900-1902 - S. Berkowitz
1902-1907 - A. Thompson
1907-1915 - no data
1915-1923 - M. Sugarman
1923-1925 - H. Goldstein
1925-1928 - N. Levinson
1928-1945 - no data
1945-1946 - L. Westerman
1946-1949 - M. Taylor
1949-1953 - Issy Appleson
1953-1956 - S. Mostyn
Hon. Secretaries
1900-1901 - H. Dobson
1901-1902 - J. Robins
1902-1905 - H. Simmons
1905-1907 - Lewis Davis
1907-1908 - M.J. Davis
1908-1915 - Lewis Davis
1915-1919 - L. Spectorovski
1919-1920 - S. Klein
1920-1923 - no data
1923-1924 - S. Morris
1924-1925 - J. Marks
1925-1931 - P. Seltzer
1931-1945 - no data
1945-1947 - P. Fisher
1948-1951 - I.M. Hart
1951-1953 - S. Charnah
1953-1955 - W. Abrahams
1955-1957 - M. Cobden
1957-1963 - I.M. Hart
1963-1972 - G. Sugarman
1972-1976 - H. Vinegrad
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Membership Data: |
Number of Seatholders - Board of Deputies Returns
Number of Seatholder - as
reported by Jewish Year Books
1900 |
1905 |
1909 |
1911 |
1938 |
1946 |
90 |
75 |
70 |
72 |
120 |
60 |
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Institutions associated with the Congregation: |
Central Synagogue Chevra Kadisha,
established by 1925.(xxxiii)
[jyb1926-1936] |
Cemetery
Information: |
The Congregation used Hull's Ella Street Cemetery, opened in May 1889. For details, see
Cemeteries Information
on the Hull Jewish Community home page. |