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Congregation Data |
Name: |
The Settlement Synagogue
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Former Names: |
St. George's Settlement Synagogue
(from about 1924 until about 1978)(i)
Oxford & St George's Settlement Synagogue
(from formation until about 1924)(ii)
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Most Recent Addresses: |
from 1976 to 1996:
2 Beaumont Grove (now Raine House), Stepney Green, London E1 4NQ(iii)
This
was the location of Stepney Jewish Girls Club and later the Stepney
Jewish Settlement, which hosted the congregation upon its relocation following the
closure of the Brady Clubs until the 1996 merger of the congregation (see
below). (Following the merger, services continued to be held at
these premises for some years, but as the Stepney Branch of the
South West Essex and Settlement
Reform Synagogue.(iv))
from 1973 to 1976:
192-196 Hanbury Street, E.1.(v)
This was the location of the Brady Club, which hosted the congregation
during this period, until the Club closed in 1976 and moved to the
northern suburbs. |
Principle Former Address: |
The Bernard Baron Settlement(vii), 33 Berners Street (renamed Henriques Street), London E1.
This was the home of the the Oxford and St George's Settlement and of
the congregation from 1929 until the Bernard Baron Settlement was sold
in 1973. The Settlement housed the Oxford and St. Georges Clubs for
Jewish youth and included some 125 rooms for sport, education,
recreation and prayer. During the period prior to World War II, the
congregation was one of the largest non-orthodox
congregations in the UK.(viii) |
Original Address: |
The congregation was located at, and formed part of, the Oxford and St George's Settlement and Youth Club, Betts Street, London E1
from the founding of the congregation until 1929, when it moved to
the new facilities in Berners Street.(ix) |
Formation: |
In 1914, Basil Henriques
(later Sir Basil Henriques) established a Jewish boys' club, the Oxford and St Georges Club(x)
in Cannon Street and in the following year a Jewish girls' club was
opened in Betts Street, run by Rose Loewe,. In 1916, the couple were
married and in 1919 were able to acquire a building(xi)
(next to the girls' club), in which they set up the settlement and club.
A room was set aside at the club as a synagogue. The date of establishment of the congregation is variously
given as 1919, when services were first held, or 1921, when the
congregation appears to have become more formally established.(xii) |
Current Status: |
Merged with South West Essex Reform Synagogue in 1998 to form South West Essex and Settlement Reform
Synagogue (SWESRS). Although all administrative activities moved to
SWESRS's facilities in Ilford, for some years following the merger,
Sabbath services were also held (as the Stepney Branch of the merged
congregation) at the premises in Beaumont Grove, last used by the
congregation. |
Ritual: |
Reform/Progressive. The Settlement Synagogue
used prayer books specifically written for the congregation, in many
instances by either Basil Henriques or his wife, Rose Henriques. |
Affiliation: |
Affiliated to both the Reform Synagogues of
Great Britain (now the
Movement for Reform
Judaism), being one of the six founding members in 1942 and to the
Union of Liberal and Progressive Synagogues (now
Liberal Judaism) from
shortly following its founding, the flagship synagogues of both
organisation having assisted in the founding of the congregation. It was
the only congregation ever to be concurrently affiliated to both
organisations. |
Ministers:
(To view a short profile of a minister whose name
appears in blue - hold the cursor over his name.) |
Basil Lucas Quixano Henriques
- Hon. Minister from formation (about 1919) until about 1937(xiv)
A. Pulverness(xv)
- Hon. Minister from about 1924 until about 1937
Rev. Camillus Angel(xvi)
- from about 1937 until at least 1938
Rabbi Bruno Italiener
- early 1940s(xvii)
Rev. Ernest Konrad Sawady
- from 1946 until 1956(xviii)
Rabbi Dr. André Ungar
- from about 1957 until about 1958(xx)
Rev. Lionel Blue
- from about 1958 until about 1961(xxi)
Rabbi Michael D. Standfield
- from about 1969 until about 1971(xxii)
Rabbi Jeffrey Gale
- from about 1982 until about 1985(xxiii)
Rabbi Lawrence Rigál
- from 1985 until the 1998 merger (and he then continued to serve as minister of the South West Essex and Settlement Reform Synagogue
until about 2006)(xxiv)
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Membership Data: |
Jewish Year Books(xxv)
1946 |
1947 |
1950 |
1951
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1955 |
360 familes |
500 families |
over 600 familes |
630 families |
740 families |
National Reports of Survey(xxvi)
1977 - 400 male (or household) members and 50 female members
1983 - 335 male (or household) members and 82 female members
1990 - 381 members (comprising 135 households, 75 individual male and 171 individual female members)
1996 - 298 members (comprising 80 households, 67 individual male and 151 individual female members)
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Former Charitable Status: |
The Settlement Synagogue
was a registered charity (no. 236663), registered on
10 May 1965, the governing document being the congregation's
Constitution, as amended 30 Setember 1999. It appears on the merger in
1997, the new merged congregation assumed this registration.(xxvii) |
Local Government District: |
All the former addresses of the Settlement Synagogue are
in the area known as the "East End" of London and are now in
the London Borough of Tower Hamlets(xxviii)
and were previously (until 1965) in the former Metropolitan Borough of
Stepney.
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Cemetery
Information: |
It is unclear as to exactly which cemeteries
were available to members of the congregation and during what periods.
There is reference in Jewish Year Books in the early 1950s(xxix)
to the congregation using the
Western Synagogue Cemetery at Montagu
Road, Edmonton, London N.18. See
also
London Cemeteries of Liberal Judaism and
London Cemeteries of the Movement for Reform Judaism |
Notes & Sources (↵ returns to text above)
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Bibliography, On-line Articles and Other Material relating to this Congregation
on JCR-UK
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Selected Bibliography:
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St Georges Jewish Settlement 50th Anniversery Review 1914-1964
(1964)
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150 Years of Progressive Judaism by A. Kershen (1990,
London Musuem of Jewish Life) -
Chapter on The Settlement Synagogue by Rabbi L. Rigal
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The Story Of A Synagogue, 1919-1996: A history of the Settlement Synagogue, as told by its members,
edited by Rabbi L. Rigal (1990, published in two forms, a 90
minute cassette and a booklet)
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The Sounds of the Settlement, compact disc complilation of music from the Settlement Synagogue and the youth clubs associated with it,
produced by the congregation.
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Basil Henriques - a portrait based on his diaries, letters and speeches as collated by his widow Rose Henriques by L.L Loewe
(1976, Routledge & Kegan Paul).
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The Lost Synagogues of London by P. Renton (2000) pp. 148-150
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Other London Borough of
Tower Hamlets sources
on Third Party websites
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Congregational Records |
Registration District (BMD): |
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Marriage Registers: |
One Marriage Register, relating to the Settlement Synagogue,
(first entry 6 July 1930; last entry 15 August 1974) deposited with Tower Hamlets Register Office (ref: s15).
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List of Liberal Judaism Congregations
List of Reform Judaism Congregations
Street Directory of Synagogues in London East End and City of London
Jewish Congregations of the London East End
Greater London home page
Page created: 16 November 2006
Data significantly expanded and notes added: 26 October 2018
Latest revision or update: 5 August 2020
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