Metadata: Papers of the Brynmawr Hebrew Congregation
Collection
- Country:
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
- Holding institution:
- University of Southampton Special Collections
- Holding institution (official language):
- University of Southampton Special Collections
- Postal address:
- Hartley Library, University of Southampton, Highfield, Southampton SO17 1BJ
- Phone number:
- 02380 592721
- Web address:
- https://www.southampton.ac.uk/archives
- Email:
- archives@soton.ac.uk
- Reference number:
- MS 177 AJ277
- Title:
- Papers of the Brynmawr Hebrew Congregation
- Title (official language):
- Papers of the Brynmawr Hebrew Congregation
- Creator/accumulator:
- Brynmawr Hebrew Congregation; Morris, Jacob
- Date(s):
- 1900/1965
- Language:
- English
- Russian
- Extent:
- 0.12 linear metres: 1 box
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
Papers relating to the Brynmawr Hebrew Congregation, to the Jewish Burial Ground, Brynmawr, copies of papers belonging to Jacob Morris, a trustee of the Congregation, and other Welsh synagogues. Deeds and insurance papers relating to the Brynmawr synagogue, 1900-65; deeds and papers relating to the Jewish Burial Ground, 1919-54; death registration certificates, 1923-54.
Papers of Moisei Dovidov Goldin (naturalised as Jacob Morris, 1912), watch and clock repairer, 1900-12. Letter from the Chief Rabbi to the President of Ebbw Vale Hebrew Congregation, 1927; typescript notes and an article on the history of Newport Hebrew Congregation, 1956; order of service, Newport Hebrew Congregation, 1956; order of service, re-consecreation of Merthyr Tydfil Synagogue, 1955; and order of service at the sixtieth anniversary of the opening of the Cathedral Road Synagogue, Cardiff, 1957.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Jacob Morris was a trustee of the Brynmawr Hebrew Congregation.
- Access points: persons/families:
- Morris, Jacob
- Subject terms:
- Cemeteries
- Jewish community
- Synagogues
- Access, restrictions:
- Access to the archive requires a prior written appointment. https://www.southampton.ac.uk/archives/about/access.page
- Links to finding aids:
- https://www.southampton.ac.uk/archives/cataloguedatabases/webguide1.page
- Yerusha Network member:
- University of Southampton Special Collections
