Metadata: Newcastle, Charlotte Square Synagogue
Collection
- Country:
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
- Holding institution:
- Tyne and Wear Archives
- Holding institution (official language):
- Tyne and Wear Archives
- Postal address:
- Tyne and Wear Archives, Discovery Museum, Blandford Square, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 4JA
- Phone number:
- 44(0)191 2772248
- Web address:
- https://twarchives.org.uk/
- Reference number:
- C.NC86
- Title:
- Newcastle, Charlotte Square Synagogue
- Title (official language):
- Newcastle, Charlotte Square Synagogue
- Creator/accumulator:
- Charlotte Square Synagogue, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
- Date(s):
- 1877/1989
- Language:
- English
- Hebrew
- Extent:
- 2 items
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- Good
- Scope and content:
- This collection includes records of circumcisions and a statement concerning the genealogy of Elias Perlson (c1880) with explanatory letters from Professor Aaron Saltman of Bar Ilan University to Nathaniel Science of Gosforth.
- Archival history:
- Held by creating organisation/individual until gifted to Tyne and Wear Archives.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Established in 1867 by a group who had seceded from the Temple Street synagogue in a dispute over rights of membership. The new congregation was largely composed of Poles and it was also known as the Polish Synagogue. The congregation reunited with Temple Street when the new synagogue at Leazes Park Road was opened.
- Access points: locations:
- Newcastle upon Tyne
- Access points: persons/families:
- Elias Perlson
- Subject terms:
- Circumcision
- Jewish community
- Synagogues
- Access, restrictions:
- Private legal status. Depositor's consent is required for access to these records.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Tyne and Wear Archives
- Author of the description:
- Daniel Stoker; North East Museums; 2025
