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What's New
Please note we add only significant updates here, the site is updated continuously.
Unless otherwise stated, all research and
formatting since 2005 has been carried out by webmaster, David Shulman.
6 December 2024
MERTHYR TYDFIL - New Hosted Marriage Register Database
A new searchable JCR-UK-hosted
database, the
Merthyr
Tydfil Hebrew Congregation Marriage Register (1886-1950) has been added, consisting of
the marriage records
of the
former Merthur Tydfil Hebrew Congregation, South Wales,
from 1886 to 1950. The database was created through the efforts of Alan Tobias, using
information provided by Dr Cai Parry-Jones taken from the former
congregation's marriage register, now held by the Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People, Jerusalem. The
database is
hosted with the kind permission of Dr Cai Parry-Jones and the
Welsh Jewish Cultural Centre.
5 December 2024
PAGES ENHANCED FOR
ADDITIONAL WELSH COMMUNITIES - LLANELLI AND MERTHYR TYDFIL
The pages relating to
two further former Jewish communities and
congregations in South Wales -
Llanelli and
Merthyr Tydfil,
have been significantly expanded and converted to the new revised format.
The new data includes histories of these communities,
lists of the congregations' ministers and officers,
as well as additional communal material and information,
plus footnotes and details of sources.
In parallel, the Rabbinic Profiles
section has been expanded to include profiles of the rabbinical figures
serving these congregations.
18 November 2024
PAGES ENHANCED FOR SEVERAL SOUTH WALES COMMUNITIES
The pages relating to four small former Jewish communities and
congregations in the valleys of South Wales -
Abertillery,
Brynmawr,
Ebbw Vale and
Tredegar
(all now in the county of Gwent),
have been significantly expanded and converted to the new revised format.
The new data includes histories of these communities,
lists of the congregations' ministers and officers,
as well as additional communal material and information,
plus footnotes and details of sources.
In parallel, the Rabbinic Profiles
section has been expanded to include profiles of the rabbinical figures
serving these congregations.
21 October 2024
CARDIFF AND SWANSEA PAGES ENHANCED
The pages relating to the two principal Jewish communities in Wales,
the Cardiff Jewish Community and
the Swansea Jewish Community,
their active Orthodox congregations,
the Cardiff United Synagogue and
the Swansea Hebrew Congregation,
and their former congregations,
Cardiff Hebrew Congregation,
Cardiff New Hebrew Congregation,
Cardiff Beth Hamedrash and
Swansea Beth Hamedrash,
have been significantly expanded and converted to the new revised format.
The new data includes an expanded history of the two communities,
lists of the congregations' ministers and officers,
as well as additional communal material and information,
plus footnotes and details of sources.
In parallel, the Rabbinic Profiles
section has been expanded, with the valued assistance of Steven
Jaffe, to include profiles of these rabbinical figures.
18 August 2024
NEW SECTION - SYNAGOGUES AT INSTITUTIONS, ETC.
A new section has been created on JCR-UK:
Synagogues at Institutions, etc.,
which lists, with the relevant links, synagogues at British Army
Bases, RAF Stations and H.M. Prisons, based upon research of
Steven Jaffe, as well as synagogues at
Schools, Orphanages,
Hospitals and
Residential Homes.
4 August 2024
NEW SECTION - PUBLICATIONS ONLINE
A new JCR-UK section has been created:
Publications Online, which
lists, with the relevant links, books by a number of authors from whom
JCR-UK has received permission to publish such books online.
Initially the list includes the definitive works on the history of
the Jewish communities of Preston (by J. Cowell), Oldham and Wigan
(by H. Thomas) and Preston (By J. Cowell and H. Thomas).
31 July 2024
ENHANCED CONGREGATION PAGES
& RABBINIC PROFILES
Pages converted to the new revised format, with significantly
enhanced data, now include the strictly orthodox Jewish Community of
Gateshead in North East England,
together with the
Gateshead Hebrew Congregation,
Gateshead Yeshiva
and the former Gateshead New Hebrew Congregation,
as well as the North West England congregations in
Bolton,
Burnley and
Preston.
These pages include lists of ministers and
lay officers, together with additional congregational material and information,
plus footnotes and details of sources. In
parallel, the Rabbinic Profiles
section has been expanded to include profiles of the ministers from these congregations.
25 June 2024
PHOTO GALLERIES ADDED
In recent months galleries of photographs relating to a number of communities and congregations
have been added or expanded. These include photographs of
Chatham Old Jewish Cemetery;
Hull Jewish Community;
Jersey Tower Road New Cemetery;
Portsmouth and Southsea Synagogue;
Portsmouth Jewish Cemetery;
York Jewish Community; and
Sheffield Ecclesfield Cemetery:
5 June 2024
ENHANCED CONGREGATION PAGES
& RABBINIC PROFILES
Pages converted to the new revised format, with significantly
enhanced data, now include
the North West England congregations in
Chester,
Oldham,
Wallasey,
Widnes,
Wigan and
Wilmslow,
as well as
Jersey in the Channel Islands.
These pages include lists of ministers and
lay officers, together with additional congregational material and information,
plus footnotes and details of sources. In
parallel, the Rabbinic Profiles
section has been expanded to include profiles of the ministers from these congregations.
5 May 2024
SYNAGOGUE ARCHITECTS
A new section has been created and added to JCR-UK:
Architects of Synagogues
in the United Kingdom and Ireland (still in a somewhat embryonic stage),
listing architects who designed synagogues and other Jewish
community buildings, detailing such buildings and providing a link
to the relevant congregation page. In parallel, there will also be a
link to the architect's details from each of the pages for such
congregations.
16 April 2024
HULL PAGES ENHANCED
Pages significantly expanded and converted to the new revised format now include the pages for
the Hull Jewish Community,
as well as the city's current Orthodox congregation,
the Hull Hebrew Congregation,
and the earlier, now defunct, congregations:
Dagger Lane Synagogue;
Posterngate Synagogue;
Parade Row Synagogue;
the Hull Old Hebrew Congregation
(including three small rival congregations);
Hull Central Synagogue;
Hull Western Synagogue;
and the Hull New Hebrew Congregation
(includings its two predecessor congregation,
the Hull Beth Hamedrash and
Adelaide Road Synagogue).
The new data includes an expanded history of the Jewish
community, lists of the congregations' ministers and
officers,
as well as additional communal material and information, plus
footnotes and details of sources.
In parallel, the Rabbinic Profiles
section has been expanded to include profiles of the ministers from these congregations.
24 March 2024
COMMUNAL LEADERS DATABASE UPDATE
The
Jewish Communal Leaders Database (part of our
All-UK Database) has been
further expanded, with the number of communal leaders included in
the database now approaching 10,500 (an increase of some 1,500 since
the previous update). The latest update incorporates the ministers and lay officers
of all those congregations whose webpages have, to date, been
reformatted and signifantly enhanced, as mentioned in notices below.
11 March 2024
NEWCASTLE PAGES ENHANCED
Pages significantly expanded and converted to the new revised format now include the pages for
the Newcastle upon Tyne Jewish Community and
the Newcastle United Hebrew Congregation,
as well as all the city's earlier (now defunct) Orthodox congregations, including:
Jesmond Hebrew Congregation;
Gosforth & Kenton Hebrew Congregation;
Leazes Park Road Synagogue;
Ravensworth Terrace Synagogue;
Newcastle Beth Hamedrash;
Corporation Street Synagogue;
Charlotte Square Synagogue; and
Temple Street Synagogue
The new data includes an expanded history of the Jewish
community, lists of the congregations' ministers and
officers,
as well as additional communal material and information, plus
footnotes and details of sources.
In parallel, the Rabbinic Profiles
section has been expanded, with the valued assistance of Steven
Jaffe, to include profiles of the ministers from these congregations.
1 March 2024
LEEDS CEMETERIES DATABASE UPDATE:
Searchable records of the JCR-UK-Hosted Leeds Orthodox Jewish Cemeteries Databases, in respect of the
UHC Cemetery, the
BHH Cemetery and the
New Farnley Cemeteries,
have been revised and updated by Alan Tobias and uploaded to JCR-UK, and now
cover
all burials and consecrations up to 29 February 2024.
85 new burials have been recorded for these three cemeteries since
February 2023,
together with the addition of 90 new headstone images. There are
almost 22,000 burial records in the databases for the five Leeds
Jewish cemeteries, with nearly 19,000 headstone images.
14 February 2024
ENHANCED CONGREGATION PAGES
& RABBINIC PROFILES
Pages converted to the new revised format, with significantly
enhanced data, now include
Ramsgate and Ramsgate's
Montefiore Synagogue,
other Kent congregation in
Canterbury and
Sheerness,
the congregations in
Canvey Island (Essex),
Durham,
Guildford (Surrey) and
Worcester,
as well as
the Isle of Man,
with list of its World War II internees.
These pages include lists of ministers and
lay officers, together with additional congregational material and information,
plus footnotes and details of sources. In
parallel, the Rabbinic Profiles
section has been expanded to include profiles of the ministers from these congregations.
14 January 2024
SEARCH FUNCTION ADDED
A new Search function has been added enabling one to
carry out a search of the whole JewishGen website,
including JCR-UK.
24 December 2023
WEST COUNTRY - ENHANCED CONGREGATION PAGES & RABBINIC PROFILES
The new revised format, with significantly
enhanced data, has now been extended to all remaining West Country
communities and congregations, including
Plymouth and
Devonport,
Exeter,
Penzance,
Falmouth,
Barnstable,
Gloucester,
as well as the Bristol community
page. The enhanced pages include lists of ministers and
lay officers, together with additional congregational material and information,
plus footnotes and details of sources. In
parallel, the Rabbinic Profiles
section has been expanded, with the valued assistance of Steven
Jaffe, to include profiles of the ministers from these congregations.
31 October 2023
PORTSMOUTH PAGES ENHANCED
The pages relating to
the Portsmouth Jewish Community,
the Portsmouth and Southsea Hebrew Congregation
and several small defunct secessionist congregations that existed in the city,
as well as the former local
Aria College,
have been significantly expanded and converted to the new revised
format. The new data includes an expanded history of the Jewish
community, lists of the congregation's ministers and
officers and other rabbinical and lay figures associated with
Portsmouth and Aria College,
as well as additional communal material and information, plus
footnotes and details of sources.
In parallel, the Rabbinic Profiles
section has been expanded, with the valued assistance of Steven
Jaffe, to include profiles of these rabbinical figures.
16 October 2023
OXFORD & CAMBRIDGE PAGES ENHANCED
The pages relating to
the Oxford Jewish Community
and the Oxford Jewish Congregation,
and the Cambridge Jewish Community
and the Cambridge Synagogue,
as well as the other small congregations that existed in Oxford and Cambridge,
have been significantly enhanced and converted to the new revised
format. The new data includes lists of the congregations' ministers and
officers and other rabbinical and lay figures associated,
in particular, with Oxford,
as well as additional communal material and information, plus
footnotes and details of sources.
In parallel, the Rabbinic Profiles
section has been expanded, with the valued assistance of Steven
Jaffe, to include profiles of the ministers from Oxford.
10 September 2023
NEW SECTIONS
Two new sections have been added to JCR-UK:
World War II Evacuee Communities, which details those Jewish communities and congregations
established in the UK during 1939-1945 by war-time evacuees from
large built-up areas, supplemented by refugees from Nazi oppression;
and Online Communal Newsletters
and Magazines (still in a somewhat embryonic stage),
listing newsletters, magazines and other journals of Jewish
communities and congregations in the UK and Ireland that may be
viewed online.
4 September 2023
LETCHWORTH & HITCHIN CONGREGATION PAGES ENHANCED
The pages relating to two north Hertfordshire communities that began life
as congregations formed by war-time evacuees,
the Letchworth Jewish Community
and the Hitchin Jewish Community,
have been significantly enhanced and converted to the new revised
format. The new data includes lists of the communities' ministers and
officers and other rabbinical figures associated with
Letchworth, particulars on the communities' yeshivot,
as well as additional communal material and information, plus
footnotes and details of sources. Special thanks is extended to
Yanky Fachler, whose recently published book,
Jewish Letchworth - A Microcosm of the Jewish Communal Experience, was the source of much of the data provided.
The profiles of
the numerous rabbis associated with the Letchworth community are
being added to the Rabbinic
Profiles section on an ongoing basis.
29 August 2023
NEWCASTLE (HAZELRIGG) CEMETERY DATABASE UPDATE:
Searchable records of the JCR-UK-hosted
Newcastle
Hazelrigg Jewish Cemetery Database,
which covers burials from 1908, have been updated
by Deborah Ross and collated by Alan Tobias and now cover all burials and consecrations up to 31 July 2023.
There are nearly 2,700 burial records in the databases, with over
1,730 headstone images, including GPS coordinates for each
individual grave (accurate to about one metre) as well as a feature
that provides a Google satellite image of the cemetery showing the
location of the grave.
15 August 2023
PHOTO GALLERIES ADDED
In recent months galleries of photographs relating to a number of communities and congregations
have been added or expanded. These include photographs of
Aberdeen Synagogue;
Birmingham Central Synagogue;
Coventry Synagogue;
Hull Western Synagogue;
Margate Synagogue;
Norwich Synagogue:
Southampton Synagogue;
Synagogues of the Brighton & Hove Hebrew Congregation;
Greenock Jewish Cemetery, Norfolk;
King's Lynn Jewish Cemetery, Scotland;
and Limerick Jewish Cemetery, Ireland.
7 August 2023
ENHANCED CONGREGATION PAGES
& RABBINIC PROFILES
Pages converted to, the new revised format, with significantly enhanced data, now include
the Grimsby Hebrew Congregation, Lincolnshire,
and the Harrogate Hebrew Congregation, Yorkshire.
Pages have also now been created for the
Norwood Orphanage Synagogue
and the war-time evacuee congregations in
Chatteris
and Ely,
both in Cambridgeshire.
These pages include lists of ministers and
lay officers, together with additional congregational material and information,
plus footnotes and details of sources. In
parallel, the Rabbinic Profiles
section has been expanded, with the valued assistance of Steven
Jaffe, to include profiles of the ministers from these congregations.
30 July 2023
CONGREGATIONAL NEWSLETTER POSTED
Approximate fifty issues
(1972-1981) of the
Newsletter
of the Bushey & Distrct
Synagogue have now been scanned and uploaded to JCR-UK.
25 July 2023
SWANSEA CEMETERIES DATABASE UPDATE:
Searchable records of the JCR-UK-hosted
Swansea Jewish Cemeteries Database,
which covers Swansea Hebrew Congregation's two cemeteries (the Old Cemetery, Townhill, opened 1768, and the Oystermouth Cemetery, opened 1975) have been updated
by Alan Tobias and now cover all burials and consecrations up to 30 June 2023.
There are nearly 1,000 burial records in the databases, with almost 900 headstone images.
19 June 2023
MERTHYR TYDFIL - New Hosted Burial Database
A new searchable database hosted by JCR-UK has been added, relating to Jewish burials in
Merthyr Tydfil, South Wales - the
Merthyr Tydfil Jewish Cemetery Database, created
through the efforts of Alan Tobias with the support of Tony Blasebalk,
based upon the records and images received from the late Alun Jones (of the Glamorgan Family History Society)
and others.
The database contains records of 679 identified burials in the cemetery of the
former Merthur Tydfil Hebrew Congregation,
covering all burials from about 1865 up to and including the last burial in March 1999.
In total there are 679 identified burials, of which there are 419 identified burial locations and 415 headstone images. Search results include the GPS
coordinates for each individual grave (accurate to about one metre),
as well as the ability to view a Google
satellite image of the cemetery showing the location of the grave.
6 June 2023
EAST ANGLIA - ENHANCED CONGREGATION PAGES
& RABBINIC PROFILES
Pages converted to the new revised format, with significantly
enhanced data, now include
Norwich and the Norwich Hebrew Congregation.
Also enhanced are the pages for all other congregations in East Anglia, including:
the former Great Yarmouth Hebrew Congregation, Norfolk;
the old congregation and the wartime evacuee congregation in
King's Lynn, Norfolk;
and the old Hebrew congregation in
Ipswich, Suffolk;
The enhanced pages include lists of ministers and
lay officers, together with additional congregational material and information,
plus footnotes and details of sources. In
parallel, the Rabbinic Profiles
section has been expanded, with the valued assistance of Steven
Jaffe, to include profiles of the ministers from these congregations.
16 May 2023
ENHANCED CONGREGATION PAGES
& RABBINIC PROFILES
Pages converted to the new revised format, with significantly enhanced data, now include:
Nottingham and the Nottingham Hebrew Congregation;
the Northampton Hebrew Congregation;
and the war-time evacuee congregations in
Stevenage, Hertfordshire,
Winchester, Hampshire,
and Minehead, Somerset.
The enhanced pages include lists of ministers and
lay officers, together with additional congregational material and information,
plus footnotes and details of sources. In
parallel, the Rabbinic Profiles
section has been expanded, with the valued assistance of Steven
Jaffe, to include profiles of the ministers from these congregations.
10 May 2023
COMMUNAL LEADERS DATABASE UPDATE
The
Jewish Communal Leaders Database (part of our
All-UK Database) has been
further expanded, with the number of communal leaders included in
the database now exceeding 9,000. The latest update incorporates the ministers and lay officers
of those congregations
listed in the enhanced congregation announcements below from
2 January 2022 through 12 March 2023, as well many minor office holders of the same
congregations, or communities of which such congregations form part,
as recorded in Jewish Year Books.
12 March 2023
ENHANCED CONGREGATION PAGES
& RABBINIC PROFILES
Pages converted to the new revised format, with significantly enhanced data,
now include the small former congregations in:
Hoylake,
Huyton-cum-Roby
and Seacombe in Merseyside;
Dorking and
Epsom, in Surrey;
Bath, Somerset;
Burgess Hill, East Sussex;
High Wycombe, Bucks.;
Hinckley, Leics.;
Ilfracombe, Devon;
Newbury, Berks.;
North Shields, Tyne & Wear;
Penrith, Cumbria;
Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex;
Warrington, Cheshire; and
Worksop, Notts.
This now brings to more than 480 the number of congregations
presented with enhanced data and formatting since the project was
was initiated in 2018.
The enhanced pages include lists of ministers and
lay officers, together with additional congregational material and information,
plus footnotes and details of sources. In
parallel, the Rabbinic Profiles
section has been expanded, with the valued assistance of Steven
Jaffe, to include profiles of the ministers from these congregations.
1 March 2023
JEWISH LISTED HERITAGE SITES
A section, now entitled
Jewish Listed Heritage Sites,
has been completely reorganised, reformatted and significantly expanded
(which expansion is still continuing) and now covers
listed buildings, registered parks & gardens and scheduled monuments of Jewish interest throughout the United Kingdom.
The enhanced section includes direct links to the national listing
authorities containing detailed descriptions of the listed sites, as
well as links to the relevent pages on JCR-UK.
27 February 2023
LEEDS CEMETERIES DATABASE UPDATE:
Searchable records of the JCR-UK-Hosted Leeds Orthodox Jewish Cemeteries Databases, in respect of the
UHC Cemetery, the
BHH Cemetery and the
New Farnley Cemeteries,
have been revised and updated by Alan Tobias and uploaded to JCR-UK, and now
cover
all burials and consecrations up to February 2023.
Nearly 150 new burials have been recorded for these three cemeteries
since January 2022,
together with the addition of over 100 new headstone images. There are
now nearly 22,000 burial records in the databases for the five Leeds
Jewish cemeteries, with almost 19,000 headstone images.
13 February 2023
WHITLEY BAY - New Hosted Burial Database
A new searchable database hosted by JCR-UK has been added, relating to Jewish burials in
Whitley Bay, Tyne and Wear - the
Whitley Bay Jewish Cemetery Database, created through the efforts of Alan Tobias, Peter Gatoff and Deborah Ross.
The database contains records of 94 burials in the cemetery of the now defunct Whitley Bay Hebrew Congregation,
including 90 images of headstones (a
number with the kind permission of Findagrave contributors, Gone but not Forgotten and River Tyne Lass),
covering the period from 1953 through 31 December 2022. Search results include the GPS
coordinates for each individual grave (accurate to about one metre),
as well as the ability to view a Google
satellite image of the cemetery showing the location of the grave.
30 January 2023
SOUTH SHIELDS - New Hosted Burial Database
A new searchable database hosted by JCR-UK has been added, relating to Jewish burials in South Shields,
Tyne and Wear - the
South Shields Harton Jewish Cemetery Database, created through the efforts
of Alan Tobias, Peter Gatoff and Deborah Ross.
The database contains
records of 257 burials in the cemetery of the now defunct South Shields Hebrew Congregation
at Harton, South Shields, including 179 images of headstones (a
number with the kind permission of Findagrave contributors, Mary Varley and River Tyne Lass),
covering the period from 1899 through 31 December 2022. Search
results include the GPS
coordinates for each individual grave (accurate to about one metre),
as well as the ability to view a Google
satellite image of the cemetery showing the location of the grave.
30 December 2022
ENHANCED CONGREGATION PAGES
& RABBINIC PROFILES
Additional pages that have been converted to the new revised format
during 2022, with enhanced data, include:
Luton and the Luton Hebrew Congregation;
Peterborough and the Peterborough Hebrew Congregation;
the former congregations in Bedford;
the former congregation in Dudley;
the former Shaw Street Congregation, Liverpool;
Ruislip Synagogue, London;
and
Wembley Synagogue, London;
as well as the war-time evacuee congregations in
Rickmansworth & Croxley Green, Hertfordshire
and
Haversham (Wolverton), Buckinghamshire.
The enhanced pages include lists of ministers and
lay officers, together with additional congregational material and information,
plus footnotes and details of sources. In
parallel, the Rabbinic Profiles
section has been expanded, with the valued assistance of Steven
Jaffe, to include profiles of the ministers from these congregations.
2 December 2022
SOUTHEND-ON-SEA - New Burial Database Affiliated to JCR-UK
The Southend Orthodox JewiJsh Cemetery Database
- This new database, hosted by the Southend and Westcliff Hebrew
Congregation, and created through the endeavours of Garry Steel, is
now affiliated to JCR-UK. The database contains records of
approximately 2,600 burials, each with a photograph of the headstone, in
the
Southend Orthodox Jewish Cemetery, Stock Road, Southend-on-Sea, from 1962 to present.
25 November 2022
DUBLIN - Enhanced Congregation Pages & Further Rabbinic Profiles
Additional pages that have been converted to the new revised format,
with enhanced data, now include all the Jewish congregations, past
and present, in Dublin, Ireland (the
pages all other communities and congregations in Ireland having been enhanced previously).
The enhanced pages include those for the
Dublin Hebrew Congregation (including Adelaide Road and its earlier
synagogues), the
Terenure Hebrew Congregation, the
United Hebrew
Congregation (Greenville Hall), the former congregation in
Camden
Street, Lennox
Street, Lombard Street West,
Oakfield Place,
St. Kevins Parade,
Walworth Road and several more.
The enhanced pages include lists of ministers and
lay officers, together with additional congregational material and information,
plus footnotes and details of sources. In
parallel, the Rabbinic Profiles
section has been expanded, with the valued assistance of Steven
Jaffe, to include profiles of the ministers from these congregations.
23 September 2022
SUSSEX -- Enhanced Congregation Pages & Further Rabbinic Profiles
Additional pages that have been converted to the new revised format, with enhanced data, now include the
Brighton and Hove Jewish Community page and
all its orthodox congregations (the non-orthodox congregations having been enhanced previously), including the
Brighton & Hove Hebrew Congregation,
the Hove Hebrew Congregation,
Chabad Lubavitch Birmingham
and various former congregations.
Also enhanced are the pages for all other congregations in Sussex including
Eastbourne and its congregation,
Hastings and its congregations,
as well a number of small congregations in
Bognor Regis,
East Grinstead,
Felpham and Middleton,
Hassocks and
Worthing.
The enhanced pages include lists of ministers and
lay officers, together with additional congregational material and information,
plus footnotes and details of sources. In
parallel, the Rabbinic Profiles
section has been expanded, with the valued assistance of Steven
Jaffe, to include profiles of the ministers from these congregations.
15 August 2022
BUXTON -
New Article
A new article, entitled The Jewish Community of Buxton in the English Peak District,
by Geoffrey M. Wisegard, kindly contributed by the author, has been posted to JCR-UK. The article is an expanded and updated version of an
article which previously appeared in Shemot.
1 August 2022
BIRMINGHAM - Enhanced Congregation Pages & Further Rabbinic Profiles
Additional pages that have been converted to the new revised format, with enhanced data, now include the
Birmingham Jewish Community page and
all its orthodox congregations (the non-orthodox congregations having been enhanced previously), including the
Birmingham Hebrew Congregation
(Singers Hill), the
Birmingham Central Synagogue (the former Beth Hamedrash),
the Birmingham New Synagogue
and other smaller congregations.
The enhanced pages include lists of ministers and
lay officers, together with additional congregational material and information,
plus footnotes and details of sources. In
parallel, the Rabbinic Profiles
section has been expanded, with the valued assistance of Steven
Jaffe, to include profiles of the ministers from these congregations.
6 July 2022
ENHANCED CONGREGATION PAGES
& RABBINIC PROFILES
Additional pages that have been converted to the new revised format, with enhanced data, now include the
Reading Jewish Community page, and its orthodox congregations,
including the
Reading Hebrew Congregation, as well
the orthodox congregations (and former orthodox congregations) in
Hartlepool,
Hemel Hempstead,
Slough and Windsor,
Solihull,
Torquay and Paignton,
Welwyn Garden City and
Wolverhampton.
The enhanced pages include lists of ministers and
lay officers, together with additional congregational material and information,
plus footnotes and details of sources. In
parallel, the Rabbinic Profiles
section has been expanded, with the valued assistance of Steven
Jaffe, to include profiles of the ministers from these congregations.
31 May 2022
CONGREGATIONAL MAGAZINE POSTED
Sixty-five issues of
"The Brook"
the Magazine of the Hammersmith & West Kensington Synagogue
have now scanned and uploaded to JCR-UK. In additional, the congregation page
for the Hammersmith & West
Kensington Synagogue has been converted to the new revised
format, with enhanced data.
The enhanced page include lists of ministers and
lay officers, together with additional congregational material and information,
plus footnotes and details of sources. In
parallel, the Rabbinic Profiles
section has been expanded to include profiles of the ministers from
the congregation in Hammersmith.
19 April 2022
LEEDS CEMETERIES DATABASE UPDATE:
Searchable records of the JCR-UK-Hosted Leeds Orthodox Jewish Cemeteries Databases, in respect of the
UHC Cemetery, the
BHH Cemetery and the
New Farnley Cemeteries,
have been revised and updated by Alan Tobias and uploaded to JCR-UK, and now
cover
all burials and consecrations up to 31 January 2022.
Over 90 new burials have been recorded for these three cemeteries
since January 2021,
together with the addition of 120 new headstone images. There are
now approximately 22,000 burial records in the databases for the five Leeds
Jewish cemeteries, with nearly 19,000 headstone images.
31 March 2022
ENHANCED CONGREGATION PAGES
& RABBINIC PROFILES
Additional pages that have been converted to the new revised format, with enhanced data, now include the
Sheffield Jewish Community page, and its orthodox congregations, the
Sheffield Hebrew Congregation and
the
Sheffield Central Hebrew Congregation, as well
as the Stoke-on-Trent and North Staffordshire Hebrew Congregation and Jewish Community.
The enhanced pages include lists of ministers and
lay officers, together with additional congregational material and information,
plus footnotes and details of sources. In
parallel, the Rabbinic Profiles
section has been expanded, with the valued assistance of Steven
Jaffe, to include profiles of the ministers from these congregations.
24 February 2022
NORTHERN IRELAND JEWISH HERITAGE MAP UNVEILED:
The Northern Ireland Jewish Heritage Map
is now online. This interactive map highlights over 60 locations
across the province with a Jewish story to tell and helps users to
identify key places relevant to the history of Northern Ireland's
Jewish residents over the last 150 years. Users can select a
location to reveal historic information, photographs and videos. The
map, a project of Belfast Jewish Heritage, is affiliated to JCR-UK.
Funding for this project was made available by the Northern Ireland
Office's Shared History Fund, administered by the National Lottery
Heritage Fund. The project director, Steven Jaffe, says: "The
community never numbered more than 1,500. But people will be amazed
by the variety and depth of Northern Ireland's Jewish experience".
Use the map to visit Belfast's Little Jerusalem of the early 1900s,
its Jewish day school, kosher shops and synagogues, Belfast's City
Hall, shipyards, and the Linen Hall library, with the Jewish side to
their past, the former Jewish presence in, for example, Londonderry,
Cookstown, Lurgan, Portadown and Newtownards, and lots more.
31 January 2022
IN DEPTH ENHANCEMENT
OF SUNDERLAND PAGES
The JCR-UK pages relating to the
Sunderland Jewish Community,
as well as its four former congregations:
Sunderland Hebrew Congregation;
Sunderland Beth Hamedrash;
Sunderland Yeshiva Synagogue; and
the
Polish Synagogue, have
not only been converted to the new revised format, with enhanced
data, but such enhancement has been implemented to a much greater
degree than previously. In addition to new lists of ministers and
lay officers for the various congregations, data
has been provided on other communal institutions, including
lists of
officers of such institutions, as well as additional congregational
and communal material and information,
footnotes and details of sources. In
parallel, the Rabbinic Profiles
section has been expanded, with the valued assistance of Steven
Jaffe, to include profiles of the ministers from these congregations.
27 January 2022
FEDERATION CEMETERIES DATABASE UPDATE:
The Federation of Synagogues burial records (hosted by JCR-UK) for its
Edmonton Cemetery
(39,100 Records) and
Rainham Cemetery (26,500 records) have now been updated to January 2022, with thanks to Mark Katz.
2 January 2021
ENHANCED CONGREGATION PAGES
& RABBINIC PROFILES
Additional pages that have been converted to the new revised format, with enhanced data, now include the congregations in
Amersham,
Chesham,
Chatham,
Cheltenham,
Dover,
Dunstable,
Macclesfield,
Malvern,
Marlow
and
Woking.
The enhanced pages include lists of ministers and
lay officers, together with additional congregational material and information,
plus footnotes and details of sources. In
parallel, the Rabbinic Profiles
section has been expanded, with the valued assistance of Steven
Jaffe, to include profiles of the ministers from these congregations.
12 December 2021
NEW NEWCASTLE DATABASE
A new searchable database
has been added to the databases hosted by JCR-UK. The
Newcastle
Hazelrigg Jewish Cemetery Database, which also includes burials in the Ravensworth and Gateshead
Community
sections of the cemetey, was created through the efforts of Alan Tobias and Deborah Ross.
It covers burials from 1908 through February 2021 and contains
records of 2,274 burials, with 1,718 headstone images,
including GPS coordinates for each individual grave (accurate to about one metre)
as well as a feature that provides a Google satellite image of the cemetery showing the location of the grave.
14 October 2021
COMMUNAL LEADERS DATABASE UPDATE
The
Jewish Communal Leaders Database (part of our
All-UK Database) has been
further expanded and now includes all ministers and lay officers
listed on the approximate 100 congregation pages
enhanced since 12 October 2020 (as detailed below). This increases the number of
communal leaders comprised in the database to nearly 7,200 (from
5,400).
4 October 2021
NEW GRIMSBY DATABASE
A new searchable database
hosted by JCR-UK has been added, relating to Jewish burials in
Grimsby - the
Grimsby Jewish Cemetery Database, created through the efforts and support of Alan Tobias, David Gordon, and Simon Plant.
The database contains
records of some 580 burials at the Grimsby Hebrew Congregation's
cemetery at Nunsthorpe, Grimsby, including almost 450 images of
headstones or plots,
covering the period from 1896 through 31 July 2021, with GPS
coordinates for each individual grave (accurate to about one metre)
together with a button which, when clicked, brings up a Google
satellite image of the cemetery showing the location of the grave.
30 September 2021
ENHANCED CONGREGATION PAGES
& RABBINIC PROFILES
Additional pages that have been converted to the new revised format, with enhanced data, now include the orthodox congregations in
Aldershot,
Bootle,
Bradford,
Coventry,
Crosby & Waterloo,
Doncaster
and
Eastbourne;
the community pages for Bradford,
Coventry and
Eastbourne; and
the small congregations/groups in
Bromley,
Argyle & Bute,
Kettering, as
well as the Friern Hospital Synagogue.
The enhanced pages include lists of ministers and
lay officers, together with additional congregational material and information,
plus footnotes and details of sources. In
parallel, the Rabbinic Profiles
section has been expanded, with the valued assistance of Steven
Jaffe, to include profiles of the ministers from these congregations.
3 August 2021
NEW JOWBR DATABASE - NEWCASTLE
A new searchable database has been created for
the Hazelrigg Jewish cemeteries in Newcastle
upon Tyne, containing 2,275 records with
1,937 gravestone images, transcribed and researched by
Deborah Ross with images provided by Philip Gatoff and Deborah Ross.
The records have been submitted by JCR-UK to JOWBR (JewishGen
On-Line World Burial Register) and are searchable through both
JCR-UK's All-UK Database and
JOWBR.
30 July 2021
ENHANCED CONGREGATION PAGES
& RABBINIC PROFILES
Additional congregation pages that have now been converted to the
new revised format, together with enhanced data, include the
orthodox congregations in
Barnsley,
Barrow-in-Furness
(including
Whitehaven),
Birkenhead,
Blackburn,
Boston (Lincs.) and
Bournemouth
(including the community page for Bournemouth & Poole),
as well as the war-time congregations in
Beaconsfield,
Berkhamsted,
Bletchley,
Gerrards Cross and
Tilehurst.
The enhanced pages include lists of ministers and
lay officers, together with additional congregational material and information,
plus footnotes and details of sources. In
parallel, the Rabbinic Profiles
section has been expanded, with the valued assistance of Steven
Jaffe, to include profiles of the ministers from these congregations.
31 May 2021
ENHANCED CONGREGATION PAGES
& RABBINIC PROFILES
Additional congregation pages that have now been converted to the
new revised format, together with enhanced data, include the
orthodox congregations in
Middlesbrough,
St Albans,
Southampton,
Southport,
Stockport,
Stockton-on-Tees and
Stroud,
as well as Ayr,
Dunfermline,
Greenock and
Inverness in
Scotland. The enhanced pages include lists of ministers and
lay officers, together with additional congregational material and information,
plus footnotes and details of sources. In
parallel, the Rabbinic Profiles
section has been expanded, with the valued assistance of Steven
Jaffe, to include profiles of the ministers from these congregations.
21 April 2021
LEEDS CEMETERIES DATABASE UPDATE:
Searchable records of the JCR-UK-Hosted Leeds Orthodox Jewish Cemeteries Databases, in respect of the
UHC Cemetery, the
BHH Cemetery and the
New Farnley Cemeteries,
have been revised and updated by Alan Tobias and uploaded to JCR-UK, and now
cover
all burials and consecrations up to 31 January 2021.
Some 130 new burials have been recorded for the three cemeteries
since January 2020,
together with the addition of 85 new headstone images.
28 February 2021
ENHANCED
SOUTHEND PAGES, RABBINIC PROFILES
& NEW ARTICLES
The pages for the
Southend & Westcliff
congregation and the
Southend community
have been converted to the new
revised format, with enhanced data,
and we are grateful to Anne Marcus for her articles and all her assistance
in connection with the preparation of profiles of the
ministers and presidents of the congregation and, together with Riva Shaw,
Southend's Jewish war casualities.
15 February 2021
NEW ARTICLES
& ENHANCED PAGES
New
articles have kindly been contributed in respect of
Canning Town,
by Susan Napper, and
Huddersfield,
by Diane Langleben and Anne C. Brook, in both cases with the assistance of Nigel
Grizzard. Furthermore, the pages for these congregation, as
well as
Dewsbury, have
been converted to the new
revised format, with enhanced data, including lists of ministers and
lay officers and the Rabbinic Profiles
section has been expanded, with the assistance of Steven
Jaffe, to include
profiles of the ministers from these congregations.
31 January 2021
ENHANCED CONGREGATION PAGES
& RABBINIC PROFILES
Additional congregation pages that have now been converted to the
new revised format, together with enhanced data, include the
orthodox congregations in
Derby,
Leicester,
Lytham St. Anne's and
Margate; the London
orthodox congregations of
Bexleyheath;
Dalston,
Mildmay Park,
Montague Road;
Walford Road,
West Hackney (formerly Wellington Road);
the war-time congregations in
Amersham,
Biggleswade,
Buxton,
Chesham,
Fleetwood,
Thornton-Cleveleys
and
Weston-Super-Mare; and Cork,
Limerick and
Waterford in
Ireland. The enhanced pages include lists of ministers and
lay officers, as well as additional congregational material and information,
together with footnotes and details of sources. In
parallel, the Rabbinic Profiles
section has been expanded, with the valued assistance of Steven
Jaffe, to include profiles of the ministers from these congregations.
30 November 2020
ENHANCED CONGREGATION PAGES
& RABBINIC PROFILES
The JCR-UK webpages covering all Jewish congregations in North
Wales (Bangor,
Llandudno,
Colwyn Bay,
Rhyl and
Wrexham) have been converted
to the new revised
format and enhanced. The enhanced pages now include lists of ministers and
lay officers, as well
as additional congregational material and information,
together with footnotes and details of sources. In
parallel, the Rabbinic Profiles
section has been expanded to include
profiles of the ministers from these congregations. The additional
material also includes new Jewish History Maps for
Bangor and
Llandudno,
reproduced with the kind permission of Prof. Nathan Abrams and
Gareth Roberts.
18 November 2020
HIDDEN TREASURES
JCR-UK has now joined the
Hidden Treasures project of the Board of Deputies of British Jews,
as one of the project's participating archives. Hidden Treasures is a celebration of Jewish archives in Britain.
It showcases collections from across the UK that tell the story of Jews and their experiences in Britain.
It also helps communities and individuals discover and preserve their own stories.
11 November 2020
1851
ANGLO-JEWISH DATABASE
UPDATE
The 1851 Anglo-Jewish
Database
(part of JCR-UK since 2012) has been further updated and expanded by
its creator, Petra Laidlaw. The revised version contains a
substantial amount of extra data received from contributors, who now
number over 300, with many new entries, bringing the total number of
entries to some 30,300.
22 October 2020
COMMUNAL LEADERS DATABASE UPDATE
The
Jewish Communal Leaders Database (part of our
All-UK Database) has now been
further expanded to incorporate
all the ministers and lay officers listed for those congregations
included in the enhancement announced on 12 October 2020 (below), as
well many minor office holders of the same congregations, or
communities of which such congregations form part, as recorded in
Jewish Year Books. This increases to more than 5,400 the number of
communal leaders comprised in the database.
12 October 2020
ENHANCED CONGREGATION PAGES & RABBINIC PROFILES
Following the reformatting and expanding of the congregation pages of
all non-orthodox congregations (announced November 2019), we are
pleased to announce that the pages for over 120 Orthodox Congregations have already been converted
to the new revised
and expanded format, which includes lists of ministers and
chazanim
and lists of lay officers (to the 1950s), as well
as a great deal of additional congregational information and data,
together with extensive footnotes and details of sources. In
parallel, the Rabbinic Profiles
section (previously just non-orthodox) has been expanded to include
profiles of the ministers (and chazanim) from these congregations,
together with inter-active links to and from the congregation pages.
So far, over 800 ministers and chazanim are now listed in this
section. In addition to all non-orthodox congregations, a selection
of the orthodox congregations already in the new expanded format
(which is also more compatible with mobile devices) and with
accompanying profiles of ministers, include (amongst others):
in Greater London -
Barking & Becontree,
Barnet,
Bayswater,
Central,
Cricklewood,
Edgware United,
Edgware Yeshurun,
Edgware Adath
(and all other congregations in
Edgware),
Elm Park;
Enfield,
Finchley (Kinloss),
Finchley Central (Fed.),
Golders Green Beth Hamedrash (Munk's),
Golders Green - Bridge Lane,
Hackney,
Kingsbury,
Leytonstone & Wanstead,
Mill Hill,
Stanmore and
Woodside Park;
in the Home Counties -
Borehamwood & Elstree,
Bushey,
Potter's Bar,
Radlett
(and all other congregations in Hertsmere),
Staines and
Watford; and
in the Provinces -
Aberdeen,
Belfast (and all
other congregations in Northern Ireland),
Blackpool,
Bristol,
Hale,
Darlington,
Hull - Western,
Newcastle - Leazes Park Road,
South Shields,
Whitley Bay and
Yeshurun (Gatley).
Any additional data or corrections in respect of information
provided in respect of these congregations would be more than
welcome. Work is continuing to add further congregation pages to the list
with a view ultimately to covering all congregations throughout the
British Isles and Gibraltar.
22 September 2020
NEW CARDIFF DATABASE
In furtherance of a project to digitalise the records
of all Jewish cemeteries in South Wales, a new searchable database
hosted by JCR-UK has been added, relating to Jewish burials in
Cardiff - the
Highfield Road Orthodox Jewish Cemetery Database, coordinated by Anthony
Blasebalk and assembled by Alan Tobias.
The database, which covers the orthodox
Cardiff United Synagogue's cemetery
in Heathfield Road, Roath Park (the
"Old" Cemetery), contains
records of nearly 1,800 burials, including some 1,470 headstone images,
covering the period 1852 through July 2020, with GPS coordinates for each individual grave (accurate to about
one metre) together with a button which, when clicked, brings up a
Google satellite image of the cemetery showing the location of the
grave. In addition,
images of a number of memorial/dedication plaques in the cemetery's
prayer hall (ohel) can be viewed
here
on a separate page. The South Wales cemeteries project
complements a major project by the
Jewish History Association of South Wales to collect
reminiscences and artefacts and physical items from Jewish communities around South Wales
for permanent display or in exhibitions and online.
24 June 2020
FEDERATION CEMETERIES DATABASE UPDATE:
The Federation of Synagogues burial records (hosted by JCR-UK) for its
Edmonton Cemetery and
Rainham Cemetery have now been updated to June 2020, with thanks to Mark Katz.
18 May 2020
NEW NEWCASTLE DATABASE
A new searchable database has been added to the databases hosted by JCR-UK. The
Newcastle Heaton Jewish Cemetery Database,
comprising the Jewish Section of the Byker and Heaton Municipal
Cemetery, known as the Heaton Cemetery, was created through the
efforts of Alan Tobias and Deborah Ross. The database contains records of all 404 burials, with 293 headstone images, from 1915 until the closure of the cemetery in 2013,
and includes GPS coordinates for each individual grave (accurate to about one metre),
as well as a feature that provides a Google satellite image of the cemetery showing the location of the grave.
20 February 2020
NEW LIVERPOOL CEMETERIES DATABASE
A new searchable database, hosted by JCR-UK, has been added,
covering burials at all the Jewish cemeteries in
Liverpool - the new
Liverpool Jewish Cemeteries Database. The database
is the result of the Liverpool Jewish Necrology Project, undertaken between 2015 and 2019
and lead by Philip Sapiro. It contains
records of approximately 12,500 burials that have taken
place at eleven Jewish burial locations in Liverpool between the 1770s and
the end of 2018 and
includes personal details, plot locations and photographs of headstones.
18 February 2020
LEEDS CEMETERIES DATABASE UPDATE:
Searchable records of the Leeds Orthodox Jewish Cemeteries Databases, in respect of the
UHC Cemetery, the
BHH Cemetery and the
New Farnley Cemeteries,
have been revised and updated by Alan Tobias and uploaded to JCR-UK, and now
cover
all burials and consecrations up to 31 January 2020.
Over 100 new burials have been recorded for the three cemeteries,
together with the addition of many new headstone images.
18 December 2019
NEW CARDIFF DATABASE
In furtherance of a project to digitalise the records
of all Jewish cemeteries in South Wales, a new searchable database
hosted by JCR-UK has been added, relating to Jewish burials in
Cardiff
- the
Cardiff Ely Orthodox Jewish Cemetery Database, coordinated by Anthony
Blasebalk and assembled by Alan Tobias.
The database, which covers the orthodox
Cardiff United Synagogue's cemetery
in Ely (the
"New" Cemetery,
opened 1968), contains
records of nearly 970 burials (to 12 November 2019), including some 820 headstone images,
with GPS coordinates for each individual grave (accurate to about
one metre) together with a button which, when clicked, brings up a
Google satellite image of the cemetery showing the location of the
grave. The South Wales cemeteries project
complements a major project by the
Jewish History Association of South Wales to collect
reminiscences and artefacts and physical items from Jewish communities around South Wales
for display in exhibition and online.
21 November 2019
COMMUNAL LEADERS DATABASE UPDATE
The
Jewish Communal Leaders Database (part of our
All-UK Database) has now been expanded to incorporate
all the ministers and lay officers listed for those congregations
included in the enhancement announced on 14 November 2019 (below), as
well many minor office holders of the same congregations as recorded
in Jewish Year Books. This adds a further 1,600 individuals to the
database, bringing the total number of communal leaders in the
database to over 4,500.
14 November 2019
ENHANCED CONGREGATION PAGES & NEW RABBINIC PROFILES SECTION
The congregation pages of All
Non-Orthodox Congregations (Masorti, Reform and Liberal)
throughout the United Kingdom (numbering approximately 130) are now presented in a new revised
format (also user-friendly to mobile devices) and the data
significantly enhanced and expanded, to include lists of ministers
and lists of lay officers (to the 1950s), together
with a great deal of additional congregational information and data,
and extensive footnotes and details of sources. Furthermore, a new section, Rabbinical Profiles
had been created which includes profiles of these ministers with
links to and from the congregation pages. Work is
under way to extend the update and new section to include ministers of orthodox
congregations, which will take some time to complete.
1 August 2019
NEW SUNDERLAND DATABASE.
A new searchable database, hosted
by JCR-UK, of Jewish burials in
Sunderland, is now available - the new
Sunderland Jewish Cemeteries Database, prepared by Alan Tobias,
David Gordon, Malcolm Sender and Robert da Costa.
The database, which covers the three Jewish sections of the city's
Bishopwearmouth Cemetery (first Jewish section open 1856), contains
records of nearly 1,500 burials (to the end of May 2019) and
includes over 1,260 photographs of headstones and graves,
with GPS coordinates for each individual grave (accurate to about
one metre) together with a button which, when clicked, brings up a
Google satellite image of the cemetery showing the location of the
grave.
24 July 2019
NEW JOWBR DATABASES - LONDON & NEWCASTLE
New searchable databases have been created for the following
cemeteries:
(a) the New Southgate
Cemetery of the former
Hendon Reform Synagogue,
containing 1,156 burial and cremation records with 323 gravestone
images, transcribed by Jessica Feinstein with images provided by
Gina Mark; and
(a) two Jewish cemeteries in Newcastle
upon Tyne, Elswick containing 743 records with
567 gravestone images, and Heaton, containing 404
records with 376 gravestone images, transcribed and researched by
Deborah Ross with images provided by Philip Gatoff.
The records have been submitted by JCR-UK to JOWBR (JewishGen
On-Line World Burial Register) and are searchable through both
JCR-UK's All-UK Database and
JOWBR.
10 July 2019
UPDATE: Significant update, provided by Martin Sugarman, to the
List
of Additional Jewish Civilian Deaths, within the section on
Jewish Civilian Deaths during World War II created by the late
Harold Pollins.
12 April 2019
NEW JOWBR DATABASES- DARLINGTON & HERTFORD
New searchable databases are now online for the two Jewish
cemeteries in
Darlington, containing, in total,
some 126 records with 111 gravestone images. The records,
transcribed and researched by Deborah Ross with images provided by
by Philip Gatoff, have been submitted by JCR-UK to JOWBR (JewishGen
On-Line World Burial Register) and are searchable through both
JCR-UK's All-UK Database and
JOWBR. The congregation page for
Darlington has also recently been significantly
enhanced with new data added. Similarly now online are the burial
records of small Jewish section of the
Hertford
Cemetery.
31 March 2019
FEDERATION CEMETERIES DATABASE UPDATE:
The Federation of Synagogues burial records (hosted by JCR-UK) for its
Edmonton Cemetery
and
Rainham Cemetery have now been updated to 28 February 2019,
with thanks to Mark Katz.
22 March 2019
LEEDS CEMETERIES DATABASE UPDATE:
Searchable records of the Leeds Orthodox Jewish Cemeteries Databases, in respect of the
UHC Cemetery, the
BHH Cemetery and the
New Farnley Cemeteries,
have been revised and updated by Alan Tobias and uploaded to JCR-UK, and now
cover
all burials and consecrations up to 28 February 2019.
Some 85
new burials have been recorded, together with the addition of new headstone images,
primarily in respect of nearly 100 consecrations and over 170 headstone
renovations since the last update.
27 February 2019
Press reports relating to the former
Stockton-on-Tees Jewish community, compiled by
the late Harold Pollins, have been added and comprise
four parts, covering the periods
1870-1899,
1900-1918,
1919-1945
and
1946-2002,
respectively. In addition, an article by Harold Pollins on the
Early History of the Jews of Stockton-on-Tees, which previously
appeared in Shemot, had also been added.
31 January 2019
The general facelift and enhacement of congregational data on the website
(see entry for 29 May below) now extends to
over 150 congregations, primarily in London and Home Counties congregations.
Most recently completed are the
Reform Movement's London
congregations (the enhancement now includes all-non-orthodox
synogogues in or around London), of particular note being the
West London Synagogue,
where additional lists have been provided and short profiles have been added for each of the numerous
ministers of
the congregation (past and present).
13 December 2018
NEW SWANSEA DATABASE
A new searchable database, hosted by JCR-UK, has been added, relating to Jewish burials in
Swansea - the new
Swansea Jewish Cemeteries Database, prepared by Alan Tobias.
The database, which covers
Swansea Hebrew Congregation's two cemeteries (the
Old Cemetery, Townhill, opened 1768, and the Oystermouth Cemetery,
opened 1975), the only Jewish cemeteries in Swansea, contains
records of approximately 1,000 burials (to the end of December 2017),
includes photographs of some 900 headstones,
with GPS coordinates for each individual grave (accurate to about
one metre) together with a button which, when clicked, brings up a
Google satellite image of the cemetery showing the location of the
grave.
1 November 2018
The
Jewish Communal Leaders Database (part of our
All-UK Database) has now been
further expanded. The new records include details of all ministers
and officers listed to date on JCR-UK's congregation pages as part
of the general enhancement of such pages (see entries for
31 October 2018 and 29 May 2018 below). Also added to the
database are details of certain minor office holders (generally
pre-1950s) of the congregation covered so far by the enhancement but
not listed on the congregation pages, which details have been
extracted from the relevant Jewish Year Books. The new records total
998 ministers, officers and minor office holders and brings to 3,947
the total number of records on this database.
30 October 2018
Added a copy (14 MB pdf file) of
Swansea Hebrew Congregation 1730 - 1980, a
souvenir brochure, pubished in 1980, commemorating the 250th
anniversary of the founding of the Swansea Jewish community, the oldest Jewish community in Wales,
relating the story of the community and the
Swansea Hebrew Congregation.
27 September 2018
Added article on "The
History of the Liverpool Jewish Community", reprinted from the
Jewish World,
August 1877.
6 September 2018
Added paper by the late Harold Pollins
entitled "East
End Jewish Working Men's Clubs affiliated to the Working Men's Club
& Institute Union; 1870-1914". This is the first paper to be
posted on JCR-UK from a conference on The Jewish East End
1840-1939,
held in October 1980 jointly by JHSE and the Jewish East End Project
of AJY and edited and prepared by Professor Aubrey Newman.
6 July 2018
Added article by Hilary Thomas,
Blackburn Hebrew Congregation and its Ministers.
29 June 2018
NEW JOWBR DATABASES - NORTH-EAST ENGLAND.
New searchable databases have been created for three Jewish
cemeteries in North East England, the
Bishop Auckland,
South Shields
(Harton) and
Whitley Bay cemeteries, containing, in total,
some 350 records with 270 gravestone images. The records,
transcribed and researched by Deborah Ross with images provided by
by Philip Gatoff, have been submitted by JCR-UK to JOWBR (JewishGen
On-Line World Burial Register) and are searchable through both
JCR-UK's All-UK Database and
JOWBR. The congregation pages for
each of these (now defunct) communities have also been significantly
enhanced with new data added.
14 June 2018
The Federation of Synagogues burial records (hosted by JCR-UK) for its
Edmonton Cemetery
and
Rainham Cemetery have now been updated to May 2018,
with thanks to Mark Katz.
29 May 2018
A general facelift of the JCR-UK website
commenced some time ago and so far covered the webpages for
provincial communities and congregations. However, commencing with
the London congregation pages, such facelift has been coupled with
an intensive study of the individual congregations (whether old and
relatively new) to provide enhanced data, including full lists of
ministers and cantors (and, in certain instances, other officers),
biographical data, as well as extensive details of sources, ancillary comments
and much more. To date, some 50 London congregation have been
covered, including, for example,
Bayswater Synagogue,
Central Synagogue
and
all congregations in Edgware and
Finchley and many others.
12 April 2018
Searchable records of the Leeds Orthodox Jewish Cemeteries Databases
have been revised and updated by Alan Tobias and uploaded to JCR-UK, and now
cover
all burials and consecrations prior to 28 February 2018. Nearly 130
new burials have been recorded and some 170 headstone images have been added or
replaced following consecrations and renovations, in respect of the
UHC Cemetery, the
BHH Cemetery and the
New Farnley Cemeteries.
4 April 2018
It is with regret we announce that
Harold Pollins, aged 93, passed away peacefully in his sleep on 4 April 2018. He had been a
enthusiastic provider of many varied and interesting articles, data and numerous
press reports on a multitude of communities and congregations within
JCR-UK, for which we remain extremely grateful. He will be sadly
missed. See List of JCR-UK Articles by
Harold Pollins.
9 March 2018
JCR-UK's extensive (and continually growing) Bibliography
section has been totally redesigned and reformatted, many new works
have been added, in addition to a large number of images.
20 February 2018
The
Jewish Communal Leaders Database (part of our
All-UK Database) has now been expanded to include
all the relevant data from
the Jewish Year Book 1896-97 (the first
edition of such book). The data, extracted by David Shulman, includes the names and (where available) the addresses of every person listed as an office holder
of the numerous synagogues, charities and communal organizations
appearing in the Year Book, together with details of all offices held by
such persons, details of every Jewish peer, baronet, knight and Member of Parliament, as well as the names and addresses
of every listed licenced kosher butcher and authorised mohel (primarily in London) -
almost 1,050 individuals spread throughout London and 68 Provincial cities and towns.
In addition, the records in the database extracted from the
Jewish Directory for 1874 (initially posted in 2017) have been revised
and enhanced and now comprises over
1,900 individuals.
9
October 2017
Significantly expanded
press reports
1872-2014 relating to the
Huddersfield Jewish Community, compiled by Harold Pollins
and added two short articles by Harold Pollins relating to
Halifax and
Swansea, respectively, that initially appeared in the Oxford
Menorah.
28 September 2017
Added
press reports
1903-1958 relating to the
Basingstoke Jewish Community, compiled by Harold Pollins.
3 September 2017
JewishGen, which hosts JCR-UK, has moved
its website url from http to https. Although there is a redirect to
the new url, if you have a website with links to JCR-UK (and/or to
JewishGen), it is recommended that you amend the link to reflect the
change, namely to
https://www.jewishgen.org/JCR-UK/ for JCR-UK (and to
https://www.jewishgen.org/
in the case of JewishGen).
23 July 2017
All material has now been added from
"Provincial Jewry in Victorian Britain",
a 1975 conference held at University College, London, prepared by
Professor Aubrey Newman. The approximate 100 conference papers have
gradually been uploaded to JCR-UK, the final additions being a
Note on Sources by Bill Williams and a
Note on Handling Census Material by Marcel Glaskie.
19 July 2017
The press reports relating to the Darlington
Jewish community, compiled by Harold Pollins, have been significantly expanded and now comprise
four parts, respectively covering
1773-1919,
1920-1939,
1940-1961
and
1962-2015.
This follow on the addition of two new articles by Harold Pollins on the Jews of
Darlington, including an "Early
History" and the story of a
Darlington Jew
in Silent Movies. The home page for
Darlington has
also been
enhanced, including details of the Congregation's ministers.
27 June 2017
Completely new section added on
Synagogal Organisations, including separate
webpages for
United Synagogue, the
Federation of Synagogues, the
Union of Orthodox Hebrew Congregations,
Masorti Judaism, the
Movement for Reform Judaism,
Liberal Judaism, the
Sephardi (and other Edot ha-Mizrach) Congregations and the
Indepentent Ashkanazi Synagogues in London, which contain full
lists of all congregations (past and present) affiliated with such
organisations, the organisations' cemeteries, histories, spiritual
leaders and more.
18 June 2017
As a result of a new feature developed by Alan
Tobias, it is now possible to do a single search covering all five
Leeds Jewish Cemeteries, to do so, see
Leeds Cemeteries Master Index.
1 June 2017
JCR-UK's searchable records
for
both
Bradford Jewish Cemeteries
(within the grounds of the Scholemoor Cemetery)
have been revised, updated and enhanced by Alan Tobias. All new burials to 2 May 2017
have been recorded, new headstone images have been added following consecrations and renovations
and images of most other headstones have been retaken. New features include the
adoption of the "official" row allocations for the Orthodox cemetery, as well as
the inclusion of GPS coordinates for each
individual grave (accurate to about one metre) together with a button which,
when clicked, brings up a Google satellite image of the cemetery section showing
the location of the grave.
In addition, photographs have also been
added of the
stained glass windows and memorial plaques in the Ohel (Prayer Hall). The
database contains records of over 200 interments in the
Bradford Synagogue
(Reform) Cemetery (in use from 1877) and over 400 interments in
the
Bradford Hebrew
Congregation (Orthodox) Cemetery (in use from 1912).
25 May 2017
Further material added
from the
Newman
Papers on "Provincial Jewry in Victorian Britain"
(1975 Conference): material on Jewish Day Schools, including
papers on the
Liverpool Hebrew School and the
Birmingham Hebrew National School; a
paper on
Zionism in Provincial Britain, paper on
Poverty, including an appendix on
Jewish Alien Paupers (a digest of
reports from the London and Provincial Jewish Boards of Guardians);
and an article by Miriam Steiner entitled
Some Aspects of Jewish Philanthropy in the 19th Century
with Special Reference to the Manchester Jewish Board of Guardians.
7 April 2017
Added new article by Harold Pollins entitled "The
Jews
of Wrexham" as well as extracts of press reports
for
1882-1910 and for
1911-2009
relating to the
Wrexham Jewish
community, also compiled by Harold Pollins. Also,
Press Reports relating to
Chelmsford Jewish Community significantly expanded.
4 April 2017
In August 1845, Chief Rabbi Nathan Adler issued
an elaborate questionnaire, shortly after his induction, asking all
the congregations under his general control for detailed information
about synagogal, charitable and educational activities. In 1974 the
late Rabbi Dr. Bernard Susser transcribed the results of the
questionnaire (including the Chief Rabbi's own handwritten notes)
for inclusion as paper for the
1974 Conference on "Provincial Jewry in Victorian Britain",
but otherwise was not generally published. The transcription by
Rabbi Susser, which he described as
Statistical Accounts, has now been reformatted
(with additional notes) and posted in full to JCR-UK.
2 April 2017
NEW DATABASE.
An important new database, of
Jewish Communal Leaders, has been added to the
All-UK Database.
The database, initially consisting of all communal leaders (and employees of
Jewish communal organisations) appearing in the
Jewish Directory for 1874, was created by Louise Messik and David Shulman.
Included in the database are the names and (in almost all instances) the addresses of every person
listed in the Directory, together with details of all offices held by each person
- over 1,800 individuals holding an aggregate of
nearly 3,400 offices throughout the United Kingdom. It is intended to expand this
database to include data on many more leaders of Jewish communities and Jewish communal organisations in the United Kingdom, based upon
information extracted from books, periodicals and other sources.
9 March 2017
Added additional material
from the
Newman
Papers on "Provincial Jewry in Victorian Britain"
(1975 Conference), comprising Professor Newman's papers on the
Board of Deputies (as well as an article by Nigel Gizzard
entitled
The Provinces and the Board 1851-1901) and on the
Chief Rabbinate, including a number of appendices.
6 March 2017
The webpages
relating to all the
Jewish congregations in
Manchester have
now been re-formatted, enhanced and new information added.
1 March 2017
Searchable records of the Leeds Orthodox Jewish Cemeteries Databases
have been revised and updated by Alan Tobias and uploaded to JCR-UK, and now
cover
all burials and consecrations prior to February 2017. Over 100
new burials have been recorded and over 160 headstone images have been added or
replaced following consecrations and renovations, in respect of the
UHC Cemetery, the
BHH Cemetery and the
New Farnley Cemeteries.
25 January 2017
Created new community page, for the World War II evacuee Jewish
Community in
Biggleswade and Shefford, Bedfordshire, and added
press reports
relating to the community, compiled by Harold Pollins.
23 January 2017
Added
press reports
1851-2011 relating to the
Halifax Jewish Community, compiled by Harold Pollins.
20 January 2017
Continuing with the general facelift of the JCR-UK website, the webpages
relating to the
Jewish communities and congregations in the Northern Home
Counties and West Midlands -
Bedfordshire,
Berkshire,
Buckinghamshire,
Essex,
Hertfordshire,
Oxfordshire,
Staffordshire,
Warwickshire and
West Midlands (including Birmingham) have been enhanced and re-formatted, with basic
cemetery information added for each relevent community.
15 January 2017
Added copy of a souvenir brochures commemorating the
60th Anniversary of the Consecration of the Synagogue of the
Welwyn Garden City Hebrew Congregation.
1 January 2017
Continuing with the general facelift of the JCR-UK website, the webpages relating to the
Jewish communities and congregations in the North West England -
Cheshire,
Cumbria,
Merseyside (including
Liverpool)
and
Lancashire (other than the individual congregations in
Manchester) have been enhanced and re-formatted, with basic
cemetery information added for each relevent community.
30 December 2016
On the community pages of over 120 communities, provided an
updated breakdown,
by decade (1760's through 1910's), of the number of records on the recently
expanded
1851 Anglo Jewry Database.
11 December 2016
Added additional material
from the
Newman Papers on "Provincial Jewry in Victorian Britain"
(1975 Conference), including the
Introduction and
Preface and two significant and extensive articles,
The Origins of Provincial Anglo-Jewry by V. P. Lipman and
The Old and the New in Local Jewish History by L. P. Gartner.
9 December 2016
Continuing with the general facelift of the JCR-UK website, the webpages relating to the
Jewish communities and congregations in the England's
Southern Counties - Dorset, Hampshire, Kent, Surrey and
Sussex (including
Bournemouth,
Brighton,
Chatham,
Dover,
Portsmouth,
Ramsgate and
Southampton) have been enhanced and re-formatted, with basic
cemetery information added for each relevent community.
8 December 2016
With approval of the Federation of Synagogues,
the Federation's burial records for its Edmonton and Rainham
cemeteries (some 62,800 records), already hosted by JCR-UK,
have been submitted by JCR-UK to JOWBR (JewishGen On-Line World
Burial Register) and are now searchable both through both JCR-UK's
All-UK Database and
JOWBR.
21 November 2016
Added new article by Harold Pollins entitled "Jews
at Walton-on-the-Naze" as well as
press reports 1908-1998
relating to the Jews of
Walton-on-the-Naze, also compiled by Harold Pollins. Also
added is a 1928 press article on the occasion of the
Laying of the Foundation Stone of the Synagogue in
Margate.
20 November 2016
The 1851 Anglo-Jewish
Database (part of
JCR-UK since 2012) has been further updated and expanded by its creator, Petra Laidlaw. The revised version
contains a great deal of extra data received from contributors. Many of the existing entries are richer,
a number of errors have been weeded out, and there are also many new entries, bringing the total number of
entries to well over 30,000.
27 October 2016
The press reports compiled by Harold Pollins,
relating to the Llanelli
Jewish community have been significantly expanded and now comprise
four parts, respectively covering
1872-1918,
1919-1936,
1937-1959
and
1960-2009.
For a complete list of articles and press reports by Harold Pollins,
see the
Pollins Articles.
10 October 2016
Added the
Leeds material
from the
Newman
Papers on "Provincial Jewry in Victorian Britain"
(1975 Conference), including two significant and extensive articles,
General Factors Affecting the Rise and the
Integration of the Jewish Minority in Leeds, 1860-1901
by R. O'Brien and
A Sketch of Leeds Jewry in the 19th Century
by A. S. Diamond. With this, all the Newman Conference Papers on
specific provincial communities have now been posted to JCR-UK. In addition,
as part of the general facelift of the JCR-UK website, the webpages
relating to all the
Jewish congregations in Leeds have been re-formatted and enhanced.
28 September 2016
Added "The
Sheffield Jewish Community in the 19th Century" by
Kenneth Lunn, a paper
from the
Newman
Papers on "Provincial Jewry in Victorian Britain"
(1975 Conference). In addition, continuing with the general facelift of the JCR-UK website, the webpages
relating to all the
Jewish communities and congregations in the Yorkshire
(other than Leeds), in particular,
Sheffield,
Bradford,
Doncaster and
Harrogate, have been re-formatted and enhanced, including the
adding of basic cemetery information.
23 September 2016
Continuing with the general facelift of the JCR-UK website, the webpages
relating to the
Jewish communities and congregations in the East Midland,
Lincolnshire and Humberside (in particular,
Derby,
Grimsby,
Hull,
Leicester,
Northampton and
Nottingham) have been enhanced
and re-formatted, with basic cemetery information added for each relevent
community. In addition, significant articles have been added from the
Newman
Papers on "Provincial Jewry in Victorian Britain" on
Hull,
Leicester and
Nottingham.
12 September 2016
As part of the general facelift of the JCR-UK website, the webpages
relating to the
Jewish communities and congregations in
Scotland have been reformated and enhanced,
included adding basic cemetery information for each relevent
community. In addition, articles have been added from the
Newman
Papers on "Provincial Jewry in Victorian Britain" on
Glasgow (including a
paper by T. Benski),
Edinburgh and
Dundee.
23 August 2016
Continuing with the general facelift of the JCR-UK website, the webpages
relating to the
various Jewish communities and congregations in the East Anglia
and Cambridgeshire have been enhanced
and re-formatted. In addition, articles have been added from the
Newman
Papers on "Provincial Jewry in Victorian Britain" on
Ipswich,
King's Lynn,
Norwich and
Great Yarmouth.
15 August 2016
The headstone details of those buried in the
Douglas Borough Cemetery, Jewish Section, Isle
of Man, initially provided by Harold Pollins, has been updated to
August 2016, courtesy Joe and Patricia Pollins.
9 August 2016
As part of the general facelift of the JCR-UK website, the webpages
relating to the
various Jewish communities and congregations in the North-East of England have been significantly enhanced
and re-formatted. In addition, a number of new articles and features have been
added, including
articles from the
Newman
Papers on "Provincial Jewry in Victorian Britain", generally
on the
North-East Of England and on individual
communities -
Newcastle,
Sunderland,
Middlesbrough,
Darlington,
Durham,
Gateshead,
Hartlepool,
North Shields,
South Shields and
Stockton; many
photographs and expanded data on the synagogues and cemeteries in
the region have been added; and
lots more.
21 July 2016
Harold Pollins has to date contributed more than 100 articles to
JCR-UK and a new section, the
Pollins Articles, has now been created, listing
all such articles.
19 July 2016
Continuing with the general facelift of the whole of the JCR-UK website, the webpages
relating to the
various Jewish communities and congregations in South West England and the
West
Country have been significantly enhanced
and re-formatted. In addition a number of new articles and features have been
added, including
articles and all other material
relating to these communities from the
Newman
Papers on "Provincial Jewry in Victorian Britain";
photographs and expanded data on the cemeteries in the region,
including a layout plan and images of all gravestones in the Jewish
Section of Exeter's
Exwick Cemetery; several previously unknown
congregations added; expanded information on the
Bath,
Bristol,
Exeter and
Plymouth congregations; and
lots more.
14 July 2016
The
Federation of Synagogues burial records (which are hosted by JCR-UK) for its
Edmonton Cemetery
and
Rainham Cemetery have now been updated to 24
June 2016, and a number of corrections made.
10 July 2016
Added new article by Harold Pollins entitled "Jews
of Dewsbury" as well as extensive press reports
1885-2005
relating to the
Dewsbury Jewish
community, also compiled by Harold Pollins.
30 June 2016
Added further article by Harold Pollins - "Herbert Martin James Loewe in Oxford",
initially published in the Jewish Journal of Sociology.
2 June 2016
Created congregation page for the
"Lyon's" Synagogue, an independent
congregation founded in Cambridge at the end of the eighteenth
century (probably the first synagogue to be established in the city
since the Medieval period) and added press reports relating to this congregation.
Pages relating to other congregations in Cambridge have also been
enhanced and reformatted.
10 April 2016
As part of the continuing general facelift for the whole of the JCR-UK website, the webpages
relating to Wales and Ireland
and the
various Welsh and Irish Jewish communities and congregations, have been significantly enhanced
and re-formatted. In addition a number of new articles and features have been
added, included basic cemetery information for each relevent community. Of particular note are:
Into the
Votex, South Wales Jewry Before 1914 by Geoffrey Alderman; an
article on
Swansea Jewry in Victorain Britain and all other material
relating to Welsh and Irish communities from the
Newman
Papers on "Provincial Jewry in Victorian Britain";
How Greeners Came to the Valley by Michael Wallach;
Jews and Crime in South Wales Before World War I by Prof. Ursula
Henriques; an article and photographs relating to the
Llandudno Jewish
community; expanded information on the Cardiff, Swansea
and Dublin congregations; and lots more.
4 March 2016
Searchable records of the Leeds Orthodox Jewish Cemeteries Databases
have been revised and updated by Alan Tobias and uploaded to JCR-UK, and now
cover
all burials and consecrations prior to February 2016. Approximately 200
new records have been added and about 2,700 records revised (including some 200
images of renovated headstones) in respect of the
UHC Cemetery, the
BHH Cemetery and the
New Farnley Cemeteries.
29 February 2016
The
Cork Hebrew Congregation's
synagogue closed its doors earlier this month, bringing to an end
some 135 years of continuous Jewish congregational presence in the
city. Agreement has been reached for the publication on JCR-UK of
material from the congregation's website, including a
History
of the Cork Jewish Community and
Photographs of the synagogue, as well as an
article by Daniel Rosehill on the closure of the synagogue.
17 February 2016
The Gabbai Book of the Bristol
Hebrew Congregation has been posted to the
JGSGB website,
included an
introduction.
The full transcription of the Gabbai Book, estimated to have
commenced prior to 1854, and information about Prominent Members of the Bristol Hebrew Community can be viewed in the
Members Area of the JGSGB website
(open only to members of JGSGB). The transcription will remain in the Members' Area for about 12 months
before the information is
transferred to the JCR-UK website for open viewing.
27 January 2016
"From
Kretinga to Sunderland: a Jewish chain migration from Lithuania 1850-1930s",
the previously-posted paper by the late Gordon Leigh on the history and origins of the
Sunderland Jewish community
and, more specifically, the
Sunderland Beth
Hamedrash (whose founders had migrated from Kretinga, Lithuania), has been
enhanced, with the footnotes and illustrations added.
20 January 2016
Added further article, entitled
"The
Jews of Boston, Lincolnshire", by Harold Pollins (initially published in
the Jewish Journal of Sociology).
17 January 2016
Added article entitled
"The
Newbridge and District Jewish Community", a
history of the Jews of in and around
Newbridge, South
Wales, by Harold Pollins (initially published in Gwent Local History).
12 January 2016
Additional papers from the
Newman
Papers on "Provincial Jewry in Victorian Britain" have been added to
JCR-UK. Among these additional papers are those on
Manchester,
Liverpool,
Bath,
Dover,
Exeter,
Hanley,
Oxford.
21 December 2015
Added "The
Foundation of Aldershot Synagogue" by Malcolm Slowe, a paper
from the
Newman
Papers on "Provincial Jewry in Victorian Britain"
(1975).
18 December 2015
The list of Useful Links has been
revamped, new links added, defunct links removed and the page redesigned.
10 December 2015
Additional papers from the
Newman
Papers on "Provincial Jewry in Victorian Britain"
(prepared by Prof. Aubrey Newman for a 1975 conference at University College,
London, convened by the Jewish Historical Society of England) are being added to
JCR-UK. Among the additional papers added are those on
Cheltenham,
Portsmouth,
Ramsgate,
Southampton,
Wolverhampton.
23 November 2015
Another new database, the
Islington Jews Database,
has been added to the
All-UK Database.
The database, created by Petra Laidlaw, is an offshoot of the
1851 Anglo-Jewish
Database and contains initially some 2,300 entries, of Jews, or people whose
names suggest the were Jews, who lived within the boundary of today's London
Borough of Islington at any time between the 1730s and 1840s.
20 November 2015
The papers previously posted from the Newman Papers on
"Provincial Jewry in Victorian Britain",
prepared by Prof. Aubrey Newman for a 1975 conference at University College, London, convened by the Jewish
Historical Society of England, have now been significantly reformatted. Included
are papers on
Belfast,
Birmingham,
Blackburn,
Bradford,
Brighton,
Cambridge,
Canterbury,
Chatham,
Coventry,
Derby,
Falmouth,
Penzance
and Plymouth.
19 November 2015
The press reports,
compiled by Harold Pollins,
relating to the Burnley
Jewish community have been significantly expanded and now
cover the period 1884 to 1981.
12 November 2015
Added article entitled
"The Jews of Burnley,
Lancashire", a
History of the Burnley
Jewish Community
by Harold Pollins.
20 October 2015
Added article entitled
"The Jews of Ebbw
Vale and District", a
History of the Ebbw Vale
Jewish Community
by Harold Pollins.
25 August 2015
The burial records of the
Edmonton Cemetery and
the Rainham Cemetery
of the
Federation of Synagogues have now been enhanced and updated. Both sets of
records now include internments to August 2015, as well as the "age at death" of
the deceased and a number of corrections. In addition, pre-1920 internments have
now been added to the Edmonton records. These
records now cover all burials at the Federation's Edmonton Cemetery
(London N18) from its opening in 1890 to 14 August 2015 (over 36,800 records) and all records at the Federation's Rainham Cemetery
(Essex) from its opening in 1938 to 14 August 2015 (over 25,800 records). These
records are made available to the public by the Federation through JGSGB and
JCR-UK.
1 June 2015
NEW DATABASE
The
Federation of Synagogues has now made available to the public, through
JCR-UK and JGSGB, burial records at its
Edmonton Cemetery and
its Rainham Cemetery. These
records initially cover all burials at the Federation's Edmonton Cemetery from 1920 to April 2015 (and it is hoped, in due course, to include
the pre-1920 records) and all records at the Federation's Rainham Cemetery from its opening in 1938 to April 2015.
27 May 2015
The Database of the
Glasgow
Hebrew Burial Society (which manages the Riddrie,
Sandymount and Glenduffhill Jewish Cemeteries), now part of
Scottish Jewish Cemeteries,
became affiliated to JCR-UK.
This latter database includes burials at all cemeteries in Scotland.
17 May 2015
A new feature has
been added to the JCR-UK database search results in respect of each of the
approximate 20,000 burials in the Leeds Orthodox Jewish Cemeteries that
are currently in use or open to visitors.
The search result for each burial in the
UHC Cemetery, the
BHH Cemetery and the
New Farnley Cemeteries
now includes GPS coordinates for the
individual grave (accurate to about one metre) together with a button which,
when clicked, brings up a Google satellite image of the cemetery section showing
the location of the grave.
21 April 2015
Added two papers by Professor Aubrey Newman,
Poor Jews Temporary Shelter,
article
reproduced from Summer 1993 issue of Shemot and
Jews
in English Freemasonry, lecture
delivered in April 2015.
14 April 2015
Copies of various publications relating to the
Hendon Synagogue, London, have been added, including: a
List of Seatholders of the Synagogue, issued March 1939; the
History of the Hendon Synagogue 1928-1978, with Appendices, by Geoffrey Alderman;
the
1978 Golden Jubilee Souvenir Brochure;
and other documents relating to the
Golden Jubilee Celebrations and several other
commemorative events.
31 March 2015
NEW DATABASE
An important new database, of the
Jews' Free School Admission Register,
has been added to the
All-UK Database.
The database, initially covering the years from approximately 1856 to 1907, contains
records of some 20,000 pupils, both boys and girls, at the Jews' Free School,
Spitalfields, in the East End of London, including the names of the pupil
and his or her parent or guardian, address, date of entry, previous school
(where noted), date of birth, date of leaving and reason for leaving.
We are extremely grateful to Louise Messik, who spent many months transcribing
the register entries.
22 March 2015
As part of a general facelift for the whole of JCR-UK taking several months, the webpages for all of the
London congregations, whether in the
East End & City (nearly 150 congregations)
or
elsewhere in Greater London (over 300 congregations), have been enhanced
and re-formatted.
5 March 2015
Searchable records of the Leeds Orthodox Jewish Cemeteries Databases
have been revised and updated, thanks to
Alan Tobias, to include
all burials and consecrations to 31 January 2015. Several hundred new or
revised records have been uploaded in respect of the
UHC Cemetery, the
BHH Cemetery and the
New Farnley Cemeteries.
19 February 2015
Added two articles by Hilary Thomas, "
Ministers of the Wigan Hebrew Congregation and their Journeys" (posted in December 2014) and
Bolton Synagogue and its Ministers.
5 February 2015
Copies of two publications have been added in respect of the
Birmingham Hebrew Congregation (Singers
Hill), the
1956
Centenary Celebrations Souvenir Brochure and the
Stained-Glass
Windows Souvenir Booklet issued following completion of the windows in
1963, both of which publications contain a wealth of interesting information and
beautiful photographs.
19 January 2015
From
Kretinga to Sunderland: a Jewish chain migration from Lithuania 1850-1930s,
a paper by the late Gordon Leigh on the history and origins of the
Sunderland Jewish community
and, more specifically, the
Sunderland Beth
Hamedrash, has now been reformatted and reposted.
16 January 2015
Added press reports
1910-1939
relating to the Darlington Jewish
community, compiled by Harold Pollins.
15 January 2015
Added copy of a 1965 publication,
Holy Law Congregation - One
Hundred Years, commemorating the
100th anniversary of the founding of Holy
Law Congregation, Manchester, which include a history of the Congregation,
photographs, lists of congregational officers and leaders of the community and
much more.
9 January 2015
Added extensive press reports
relating to the Hartlepool Jewish
community, compiled by Harold Pollins.
4 January 2015
Added extensive press reports
relating to the Ebbw Vale Jewish
community (Wales), compiled by Harold Pollins.
3 December 2014
Added two new articles by Harold Pollins, "Oxford
Jewish Casualties in the Great War" and "Two Oxford Jewish
Court Cases of the 1840's", as well as a Press Report of
the First Jewish Marriage in Hartlepool.
26 October
2014
Material relating to the
Grimsby Hebrew Congregation has
been reformatted and in part updated. This includes
Marriage Records,
Minutes of Meetings,
a copy of the Constitution,
press reports, photographs, articles and much more.
21 October 2014
The recently-created
Jewish Gilroes website is now affiliated to JCR-UK.
The website (a project funded by the Heritage Lottery
Fund) includes a full catalogue and database of all
the burials in the Gilroes Jewish Cemetery of the
Leicester
Hebrew Congregation (approximately 820 interments dating
from 1902), genealogical search facilities, photographs of all extant
headstones, fascinating stories of the lives of a number of those buried
in the cemetery and much more.
For details see
Leicester
Hebrew Congregation home page.
20 October 2014
Added searchable records of the burials, including photographs of all
headstones, in the
Harrogate Stonefall Jewish Cemetery (of the Harrogate Hebrew Congregation),
comprising approximately 180 interments and re-interments from 1964 to 2014,
as well as 6 Jewish servicemen buried in
the Stonefall Military Cemetery. 15 October
2014
The extensive material relating to the Bristol Hebrew Congregation has
been reviewed and reformatted. This includes
Cemetery Records, (over 950 burials), the
Birth and Death Register, lists of
Ministers and
Officers of the Congregation,
Minutes of General Meetings, copies of the
Constitution,
Communal Newsletters, photographs, articles and much more.
2 October 2014
The webpages for the communities and congregations in the
Republic of Ireland have been revised, enhanced
and expanded, including the addition of a large number of photographs.
22 September 2014
Added article entitled
"Oxford
Jewish Casualties in First World War - Three Mysteries" by Harold Pollins.
17 August 2014
Added searchable records of approximately 350 burials, including photographs of all
headstones, in the Leeds
Sinai Synagogue Cemetery, a section of the Harehills Cemetery, Leeds,
for use by the
Sinai (Reform) Synagogue, from early 1950's to 2014.
13 August 2014
All material in the Susser Archive relating to
the
Plymouth Jewish Community and Hebrew Congregation (as listed on the Plymouth webpage), including, but
not limited to, "The
Plymouth Synagogue" an article by Rabbi Dr.
Bernard Susser; the volume entitled "Tombstone
Inscription in the Old Jewish Cemetery on Plymouth Hoe", (including the
introductory pages, inscriptions, notes and various indexes), prepared and
edited by the late Rabbi Dr. Bernard Susser; and various circumcision registers,
reports, biographies and facsimile copies, have now been reformatted and
redesigned.
6 August 2014
Created new sections, subsequently entitled "Hosted Databases"
and "Browsable
List", to list JCR-UK databases that are not part of the
All-UK Database, as well as
browsable lists of individuals.
4 August 2014
Added two articles by the late Murray Freedman -
Leeds
Jewish Community - The Early Years and
Deciphering An Old Gravestone In Leeds,
previously published in Shemot.
3 August 2014
The
Jews of South-West England - the 1977 thesis submitted by Rabbi Susser
to the University of Exeter, has now been reformatted and redesigned -
available on JCR-UK as part of the Susser Archive.
30 July 2014
Added searchable records of the burials, including photographs of all
headstones, in the
Doncaster Jewish Cemetery (70 interments), in use from 1930 to 2006.
9 July 2014
The 1851 Anglo-Jewish
Database (part of
JCR-UK since 2012) has been substantially expanded and enriched. Its 29,000
entries cover
approximately 90% of the Jewish population resident in the British Isles in
1851. Apart from some 500 completely new entries; the Database now shows the
post-1851 residence for 44% of entries (up from 37%); the year of marriage for
almost 10,000 entries (up from 8,600); and the year of death for almost 8,000
entries (up from 5,600), plus a number of other enhancements, all following a
hefty quality check of data.
8 July 2014
Additional material in the Susser Archive
that has now been reformatted and redesigned include: Professor Cecil
Roth's monumental works "The
History of the Great Synagogue"; "The
History of the Willesden & Brondesbury Synagogue" by Rabbi Dr.
Bernard Susser; and "The
History of the Stroud Jewish Community" by Harold Pollins.
1 July 2014
The web pages relating to "Jewish Tombstone Inscriptions in South-West
England", prepared and transcribed by the late Rabbi Dr. Bernard Susser, have
been reformatted and/or redesigned, including the
Introduction to the Jewish cemeteries in
the West of England and the transcribed tombstone inscriptions for the Jewish
cemeteries in Exeter,
Falmouth and
Penzance. A guide to the
Jewish
Cemeteries of the West of England and a brief discussion on the
Jewish
Tombstones of South-West England have also been reformatted -
all available on JCR-UK as part of the Susser Archive.
29 June 2014
The Circumcision
Register of Rabbi Ash of Dover, 1765-1818 by the late Rabbi Dr. Bernard
Susser has been reformatted -
available on JCR-UK as part of the Susser Archive.
22 June 2014
We have reformatted and redesigned the on-line presentation of Professor
Cecil Roth's invaluable 1950 works, "The
Rise of Provincial Jewry", which details the origins of 42
provincial Jewish communities throughout the British Isles, 1740-1840 -
available on JCR-UK as part of the Susser Archive.
1 June 2014
Added article entitled
"Ministers in Oxford" by Harold Pollins.
25 May 2014
New maps of Wales
(including a map of its historic counties
and unitary
authorities), Scotland and
Ireland, showing,
respectively, every Welsh, Scottish and Irish city and town that has ever had a Jewish
community and congregation.
28 April 2014
New map of Jewish Communities and
Congregations in England, showing every city and town (outside Greater
London) that at one time (since the readmission of Jews in 1656) had a Jewish
community and congregation.
8 April 2014
Now added, a paper entitled "
Penzance Synagogue - A Brief History" by Susan Soyinka.
This document, which includes a detailed history and current status of the
synagogue building, as well as photographs and plans, was prepared to support an
application to English Heritage to revise the listing of the building that
includes the former synagogue.
19 March 2014
The webpages for each of the congregations in
London's East End & City (nearly 150 congregations) have been enhanced
and expanded to include, amongst other things, a description of the location of the congregation,
a history of
the location, and details of the former local and parish authorities, the registration districts and,
where available, details of marriage registers.
12 March 2014
Added or expanded press reports relating to the following Jewish communities in
Wales:
Brynmawr
(1889-1986);
Newbridge & District
(1852-2004);
and
Tredegar
(1872-1953),
all compiled by Harold Pollins.
29 January 2014
Added searchable records of over 6,500 burials, including approximately 5,000 photographs of headstones, in
the
Leeds
United Hebrew Congregation
(UHC) Cemetery, which also includes a number of
other congregations, from 1840 to 2013.
28 January 2014
Added searchable records of over 2,200 burials, including approximately 2,000 photographs of headstones, in
the
Leeds Beth Hamedrash Hagadol (BHH)
Cemetery, which also includes a number of
other congregations, from 1952 to 2013.
8 January 2014
NEW DATABASE
A database of
Early London-based Insurance Policies - Jewish Surnames
has been added to the
All-UK Database.
The database contains over 26,000 eighteenth and nineteenth century
entries, with notes that include full names, addresses, dates, occupations and
other information
of the policy holders. The original dataset was compiled by the late George
Rigal (who died in 2012), who spent many years of scrupulous research combing
through old insurance records in the Guildhall Library in London, seeking out
policies taken out by Jews. The database was prepared for JCR-UK by Petra
Laidlaw, to whom Mr. Rigal had provided with a copy of the dataset to assist him
in its publication, and Louise Messik.
19 August 2013
Added searchable records of nearly 10,000 burials, including approximately 8,000 photographs of headstones, in
the
Leeds
New Farnley Cemeteries, generally in use from 1896 to 2013.
25 June 2013
Added Searchable records of 1,577 burials, including photographs of headstones, in
the Southport Jewish Cemetery, 1912-2012, contributed by Andrew Phillips,
added to
All-UK Database.
12 April 2013
JCR-UK's already extensive (and continually growing) Bibliography
section has now been expanded to include works on the
Middle Period of
Anglo-Jewish history (1290-1656).
1 March 2013
Lists of Seatholders for 1933 (9,268 records) added to
the All-UK
Database in respect of the
following London Synagogues:
Bayswater,
Borough,
Brixton,
Brondesbury,
Central,
Crickelwood,
Dalston,
East London,
Golders Green,
Great,
Hambro',
Hammersmith
& West Kensington,
Hampstead,
New,
New West End,
South Hackney,
St. Johns Wood and
Stoke Newington.
20 February 2013
On the community pages of approximately 100 communities, provided a breakdown,
by decade (1760's through 1910's), of the number of records on the
1851 Anglo Jewry Database.
31 January 2013
Provided details on the Greater London
home page and on approximately 50 other community and congregation pages
of the contents of the
All-UK Database
that are specifically associated with such community or congregation.
23 December 2012
Added or expanded press reports relating to the following Jewish
communities in England:
Barnsley
(1903-1979);
Bishop
Auckland
(Early History of Jews);
Blackpool
(1865-1927);
Bolton
(1884-1920, 1960, 1970);
Canterbury
1790-1833;
Harrogate
(1895-1919);
Stockport
(1891-1925);
and Watford & District
(1905-1950),
compiled by Harold Pollins.
17 December 2012
Added or expanded press reports relating to the following Jewish communities in
Wales:
Aberavon &
Port Talbot
(1874-2005);
Bargoed
(1906-2008);
Tredegar
(1875-1953);
and New Tredegar
(1903-1978),
compiled by Harold Pollins.
16 December 2012
Added article entitled
"The Jews of Slough in the 19th Century"
by Harold Pollins.
26 November 2012
Added searchable records of the burials (some 600 interments), including photographs of all headstones, in
both
Bradford Jewish Cemeteries, in use from 1877 and from 1912,
respectively.
24 July 2012
Added searchable records of all burials (nearly 3,300 interments), including photographs of all
extant headstones, in
the Leeds Hill
Top Cemeteries, which were generally in use from 1875 to 1970.
16 March 2012
The newly-updated 1851 Anglo-Jewish
Database is now part JCR-UK.
20 February 2012
Added copies of booklets commemorating the
50th anniversary and
100th anniversary of the founding of
Hackney Synagogue, London, which
include histories of the congregation, photographs and other information.
Further material added subsequently
4 February 2012
Added press reports relating to the following Jewish communities in
Scotland:
Falkirk
(1913-1999);
Greenock
(1874-1993); and
Inverness
(1905 to 1995)
(expanded), as well as
Waterford
(1893-1998)
in Ireland, all compiled by Harold Pollins..
24 January 2012
Added press reports relating to the following Jewish communities in
Wales:
Aberavon
(1874-2005);
Bangor
(1843-1959);
Brynmawr
(1889-1986);
Bridgend
(1875-2000);
Llanelli
(1902-1918);
Newport
(1849-1872);
Pontypridd
(1852-2006);
Port Talbot
(1874-2005);
and Rhyl
(1895-1941),
all compiled by Harold Pollins.
17 January 2012
Added press reports relating to the following Jewish communities in
Central and Eastern England:
Boston (Lincs.)
(1847-1925);
Great Yarmouth
(1847-1970);
Hanley (Stoke-on-Trent)
(1851-1995);
Maidenhead
(1940-1941);
Newbury
(1941-1946);
Reading
(1887-1914);
Stroud
(1877-1943);
Widnes
(1891-1935);
and Wolverhampton
(1850-1877),
all compiled by Harold Pollins.
6 January 2012
Added press reports relating to the following Jewish communities in the
North of England:
Barnsley
(1903-1913);
Darlington
(1871-1919);
Durham
(1891-1910);
South Shields
(1891-1910);
and York
(1881-1895).
1 January 2012
All pages relating to the Oxford
community (many of which were contributed by Harold Pollins) have been
reorganised and a number of new articles added including extensive
press reports relating to the Oxford Jewish community and
press reports
for WWII.
22 December 2011
Created congregation page for the
Andrade Synagogue, a 19th
century independent Sephardi Synagogue in Islington, London, and added
extracts of press
reports relating to this congregation and the Andrade Family.
19 December 2011
The redesign of this website, commenced in October 2011, is largely completed, although a number of
minor
modifications
continue to be made.
16 December 2011
Added copy of
section captioned "Jews" from Dickens Dictionary of London 1888.
14 December 2011
Added press reports relating to the
Swansea
Jewish community (1804-1917).
11 December 2011
List of UK Synagogues destroyed
by German Air Raids during World War II.
7 December 2011
Gibraltar Community and several
congregation pages have been created and addition material and data uploaded. The
Gibraltar vital record are made available
here for searching.
15 November 2011
Lists of Seatholders for 1885, 1899 and/or 1910 (13,620 records) added to
the All-UK
Database in respect of the
following London Synagogues:
Bayswater,
Borough,
Brondesbury,
Central,
Dalston,
East London,
Great,
Hambro',
Hammersmith,
Hampstead,
New,
New West End,
North London,
South Hackney,
St. Johns Wood,
Stoke Newington and
West Ham.
7 November 2011
Agreement reached with the Jewish Community of Gibraltar to create
information for JCR-UK and to display Gibraltar vital records.
28 October 2011
The donating/helping page has been rewritten and expanded
/jcr-uk/providing.htm.
15 October 2011
Redesign of the entire website has been started. It will take some time
before all the web pages (some 5,000) are completed.
12 September 2011
Data relating to the various congregation in
Sheffield has been updated and
expanded.
22 June 2011
Additional articles by Harold Pollins added in respect of the Jewish community in
Oxford.
9 June 2011
Added map of
London's
East End in 1900 showing density of Jewish population, provided by Sir
Martin Gilbert.
20 December 2010
Extracts from the press relating to the Jewish community of
Aberdare, Wales,
1865-1919 and
1920-1968.
22 November 2010
Brief History of the Wolverhampton
Jewish community and Jewish cemetery, and the addition of 183 Wolverhampton
burial details to the
the
JGSGB UK Database.
24 October 2010
Additions to the
All-UK Database -
Jewish Children at the
Gorbals Public School 1885-1905 (1,989 school records).
12 January 2010
Extracts from the Jewish press relating to the Jewish communities of
Gateshead
(1856 to 1911) and
Abertillery
(South Wales).
12 August 2009
List of Marriages 1894 - 1928 at the
Sandys Row Synagogue,
London (now part of the
All-UK Database).
11 August 2009
Census Extracts for Oxford, from 1841
through 1891.
Census Extracts for Manchester, 1871.
5 July 2009
Article on the "Jews of England:
From Expulsion (1290) to Readmission (1656)" by Dr. Ariel Hessayon.
25 February 2009
New Database -
Novo (New) Cemetery
(Spanish and Portuguese Congregation of London). Over 10,000 burials (1733-1918)
20 January 2009
Article on the
Jews
of Medieval Leicester.
24 November 2008
Extracts from the Jewish press relating to the Jewish communities of
Dudley and
Huddersfield.
12 October 2008
Searchable database now includes
Burials
at three Birmingham Cemeteries (Brandwood End, and Witton, Old and New),
including images of gravestones.
9 September 2008
Photographs of many former London synagogues, provided by Leslie Bailey.
2 July 2008
Newspaper articles relating to the opening and consecration of
Brynmawr
Synagogue. South Wales.
1 July 2008
Extracts from the Jewish press relating to the Jewish community in Jersey,
Channel Islands
1834 to
1936, and
from
1961.
3 February 2008
The greatly expanded
Bibliography section, containing
over 500 references, has been now totally reformatted.
18 January 2008
Extracts from the Jewish press relating to the Jewish communities of
Ammanford (1915 to 2004) and
Barry (1909 to 1943) in Wales.
9 January 2008
JCR-UK takes on new look.
26 November 2007
Webpages have now been added for more than eighty congregations in
Greater Manchester.
The congregations in Manchester may
also be viewed according to the
Metropolitan Borough and Locality
in which they are situated. A
Manchester Street Directory
has also been added listing Manchester congregations according to their
street address.
22 October 2007
Extracts from the Jewish press relating to the
Barrow-in-Furness Jewish community
(1877 to 1943); the
Chester
Jewish community (1894 to 1906) and the North Shields Jewish community
(1907 to 1988).
7 August 2007
Separate webpages have now been added for more than one hundred former congregations in the
East End of London (London
Borough of Tower Hamlets). A
Street Directory
has also been added covering congregations in the East End as well as the City of London.
12 July 2007
Extracts from the Jewish press from 1899 to 1938 relating to the
Isle of Man Jewish community.
20 June 2007
Separate webpages have now been added for congregations in the
London Borough of Hackney
(including the
numerous ultra-orthodox
congregations in and around Stamford Hill). A
Street Directory
has also been added covering congregations in Stamford Hill, Clapton, Stoke
Newington and neighbouring areas of North London.
31 May 2007
Extracts from the Jewish press from 1842 to 1959 relating to the
Dover Jewish community.
28 May 2007
An article has been added on "The
Establishment of Golders Green Synagogue".
17 May 2007
Separate webpages have now been added for congregations in the
London Borough of Barnet
(including Golders Green, Finchley, Hendon and Edgware).
11 May 2007
A large number of marriage and other records have now been added to the
searchable databases in respect of Manchester.
18 April 2007
Addition articles by Harold Pollins added in respect of the Jewish community in
Oxford.
6 March 2007
Extracts from the press (1894 to 1905) relating to
the North Bow and Victoria Park
Synagogue.
28 February 2007
Extracts from the Jewish press from 1847 to 1970 relating to the
Great Yarmouth Jewish community.
Article added in respect of the Jewish community in
Addlestone.
10 December 2006
London synagogues may also now be viewed according to the
London Borough and locality in which
they are situated and according to the
synagogue organisation to which they are affiliated (the latter listing also
includes provincial synagogues affiliated to such organisations).
17 November 2006
Separate webpages have now been added for congregations in London Boroughs of the
City of Westminster
(including London's West End, Maida Vale and St John's Wood)
and
North and Eastern London
(Barking &
Dagenham, Camden,
Haringey,
Havering,
Islington,
Newham,
Redbridge,
Waltham Forest).
1 November 2006
Separate webpages have now been added for congregations in West London,
comprising the congregations in the following London Boroughs:
Ealing,
Hammersmith & Fulham,
Harrow,
Hillingdon,
Hounslow and
Kensington & Chelsea
.
26 October 2006
Extracts from the press, in many instances relating to the
early years of the communities, have been added in respect of the following
Jewish communities: Addlestone,
Blackpool,
Burnley,
Dewsbury,
Doncaster,
Epsom,
Hinckley,
Hoylake,
Inverness,
North Shields,
South Shields,
Walsall,
Wigan,
Worcester and
Worksop.
24 October 2006
Separate webpages have now been added for congregations in South London,
comprising the congregations in the following London Boroughs:
Bromley,
Croydon,
Greenwich;
Kingston upon Thames;
Lambeth,
Lewisham;
Merton,
Richmond upon Thames,
Southwark,
Sutton
and
Wandsworth.
12 October 2006
Webpages have now been added for each of the congregations in the
London Borough of Brent (which
includes the Willesden area).
10 September 2006
A new searchable database has been added to the
Supplemental UK Database,
covering certain Jewish Civilian Casualties in East London during World
War II, plus an
explanation and introduction to four PDF files listing the
casualties.
27 August 2006
The section on the congregations in the
City of
London has been reorganized and expanded to include the old congregations
in the City.
7 August 2006
The
All-UK Database now
includes burials for the
cemetery in
Chatham, Kent,
for which there is also a brief
introduction.
13 June 2006
As all of Ireland was part of the United Kingdom until 1922, we have now included
reference to the communities in the Republic of Ireland.
Over twenty congregations in four towns (Dublin,
Cork,
Limerick and
Waterford) have been
added. In all cases, the Jewish communities in such towns were established
prior to 1922.
29 May 2006
A new section on the community in the Channel Islands
has been added and the section on the Isle of Man
community (including articles and list of grave inscriptions in browsable form) has been reorganized and updated.
23 May 2006
The All-UK Database
now includes searchable records specific to the following communities:
Bournemouth,
Exeter,
Falmouth,
Grimsby,
Hull,
London,
Manchester,
Merthyr Tydfil,
Middlesbrough,
Newcastle‑upon‑Tyne,
Penzance,
Plymouth,
Portsmouth,
Sheffield,
Stockton‑on‑Tees,
Stroud,
Sunderland,
Torbay and
West Hartlepool, with details now listed
on listed on the community's respective pages.
9 May 2006
Communities throughout the South West England have
been reorganized and updated, with additional communities and congregations
added and fresh data inserted. The communities include
Bristol,
Exeter,
Falmouth,
Penzance,
Plymouth,
Torbay,
Totnes,
Truro,
Weston-super-Mare
and several others.
30 April 2006
Added many communities established, or expanded, during World War II, in most cases
by evacuees from London and other industrial areas. The communities include
Amersham,
Beaconsfield,
Berkhamsted,
Bletchley,
Dorking,
Dunstable,
Epsom,
Felpham,
Gerrards Cross,
Guildford,
High Wycombe,
Hemel Hempstead,
Hinkley,
Hitchin,
Ilfracombe,
Kettering,
Letchworth,
Macclesfield,
Newbury,
Penrith,
Peterborough,
Rickmansworth,
Slough,
Staines,
Swindon,
Tilehurst,
Walsall,
Welwyn Garden City,
Weston-super-Mare,
Windsor,
Woking,
Worcester,
Worthing,
and others.
7 March 2006
Communities throughout the South & South East England (Outside London) have
been reorganized and updated, with additional communities and congregations
added and fresh data inserted. The communities include
Aldershot,
Bedford,
Bournemouth,
Brighton,
Canterbury,
Chatham,
Dover,
Eastbourne,
Luton,
Milton Keynes,
Oxford,
Portsmouth,
Reading,
Southampton,
Thanet
and many more.
14 February 2006
Communities throughout the Eastern Counties of England have been reorganized and updated, with additional
communities and congregations added and fresh data inserted. The communities include, but are not limited to
Cambridge,
Chelmsford,
Colchester,
Harlow,
Ipswich,
King Lynn,
Norwich,
Peterborough and
Southend-on-Sea.
Additional articles added for
Oxford and
South Shields.
29 January 2006
The wording in English of inscriptions at the
Stoke-on-Trent and North
Staffordshire Hebrew Cemetery, including 233 headstones, together with a plan
of the cemetery, may now be viewed on line, as well as additional material
relating to Stoke-on-Trent.
Articles also recently added for
Preston and
Doncaster.
11 November 2005
Communities throughout the English Midlands have been reorganized and updated, with additional
communities and congregations
added and fresh data inserted. The communities include, but are not limited to,
Birmingham,
Coventry,
Derby,
Hereford,
Leicester,
Lincoln,
Northampton,
Nottingham,
Stoke-on-Trent,
and
Wolverhampton.
20 October 2005
The section on Scotland has been reorganized and has had a major update.
In particular, many congregations have been added and data inserted for
Glasgow and
Edinburgh.
21 September 2005
The section on the Leeds community has been reorganized and updated, with
many more congregations
added and data inserted.
28 August 2005
Congregations and communities in
Northern Ireland
have been reorganized, expanded and updated. The communities
comprise Belfast,
Londonderry and
Lurgan.
23 August 2005
Communities throughout North-West England, including Merseyside, Lancashire (not
including Manchester), Cheshire and Cumbria,
have been reorganized and updated, with additional communities and congregations
added and fresh data inserted. The communities include, but are not
limited to
Liverpool,
Barrow,
Blackburn,
Blackpool,
Burnley,
Chester,
Preston,
Macclesfield,
Sefton and
Wirral.
11 August 2005
Links for all communities to and from the cemetery information for such
communities on the International
Jewish Cemetery Project of the International Association of Jewish
Genealogical Societies. There are also now links for dozens of communities
to relevant articles in the on-line
Jewish Encyclopedia.com.
July 2005
Now linked from over forty communities - the respective sections of Cecil Roth's "
The Rise of Provincial Jewry",
available on JCR-UK as part of the
Susser Archive.
May and June 2005
Communities throughout North East England, Yorkshire (except
Leeds) and Humberside (including, but not limited to,
Newcastle,
Sunderland,
Gateshead,
Hull,
Sheffield and
Grimsby)
have been reorganized and updated.
Additional congregations and fresh data inserted.
22 May 2005
Section on Wales has been reorganized and has had a major update. Many
more Welsh Communities and Congregations added. See
Communities
in Wales.
22 April 2005
New section added on the Medieval Communities in England and Wales. See
Jewish
Communities Prior to 1290
21 February 2004
Added several of the Newton Papers on Provincial Jewry in Victorian Britain -
prepared by Prof. Aubrey Newman for a conference at University College, London, convened by the Jewish
Historical Society of England - Papers added so far comprise
Belfast,
Birmingham,
Blackburn,
Bradford,
Brighton,
Cambridge,
Canterbury,
Chatham,
Coventry,
Falmouth,
Penzance
and Plymouth.
12 January 2004
All-UK Database
now online.
23 December 2003
Susser Archives
has been added.
21 September 2003
Exeter
Hebrew Congregation has been materially expanded.
25 July 2003
A
History of the Chatham Memorial Synagogue
has been added.
24 July 2003
The "History of the Bayswater Synagogue"
has been added.
14 June 2003
The history and other material added for the
Oxford Community.
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