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The Jews of Wales

The Jews of Wales

Cai Parry-Jones

(2017)

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Abstract

This study considers Welsh Jewry as a geographical whole and is the first to draw extensively on oral history sources, giving a voice back to the history of Welsh Jewry, which has long been a formal history of synagogue functionaries and institutions. The author considers the impact of the Second World War on Wales’s Jewish population, as well as the importance of the Welsh context in shaping the Welsh-Jewish experience. The study offers a detailed examination of the numerical decline of Wales’s Jewish communities throughout the twentieth century, and is also the first to consider the situation of Wales’s Jewish communities in the early twenty-first, arguing that these communities may be significantly fewer in number and smaller than in the past but they are ever evolving.


Table of Contents

Section Title Page Action Price
Front Cover Front Cover
Title Page iii
Copyright Page iv
Contents v
Acknowledgements vii
List of Abbreviations ix
Map of Jewish communities established in Wales between 1768 and 1996 x
Introduction 1
Chapter 1: Migration and Settlement 17
Chapter 2: Religious and Communal Life 39
Chapter 3: Evacuation, Refuge and the Second World War 65
Chapter 4: Jewish and Non-Jewish Relations in Wales 88
Chapter 5: Jewishness and Welshness 113
Chapter 6: Decline and Endurance 138
Conclusion 158
Appendix: The population of Wales’s Jewish communities in selected years drawn from the Jewish Year Book, 1896–2010 167
Glossary 169
Notes 173
Select Bibliography 231
Index 237
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