Minute recording: receipt of fifty two pounds and ten shillings for the reservation of a burial plot at Brynmawr Jewish Cemetery for Mr Joshua Wiselman on 18 August 1958 (included in Brynmawr Hebrew Congregation Minute Book 1953-1960). The fee is sent under cover of a handwritten letter (enclosed in the Minute Book), sent on behalf of Mr Wiselman, who appears to have requested a burial plot near his late father.
Also, Minutes dated 21 September 1959, recording a commitment by Mrs Winifred Forner to pay twenty guineas to reserve a burial plot at Brynmawr Jewish Cemetery (included in Brynmawr Hebrew Congregation Minute Book 1953-1960). A letter from Mrs Forner (also enclosed in the Minute book) confirms that her solicitor has been instructed to pay the fee on her death. This letter also describes the burial ground as being "in perfect order, tidy and getat able!!" and lists a number of donations for the burial ground fund.

The Brynmawr Hebrew Congregation was formed in 1888. Initially, services were held at the home of the then President of the congregation, Barnett Isaacs, and then later in Brynmawr Town Hall. The congregation solicited funds to build their own synagogue, which was eventually built on Bailey Street and opened in 1901. A Burial Ground was acquired by the congregation in 1919 thanks to a donation by Abel Myers of Abersychan and the plot was consecrated in Brynmawr's municipal cemetery in August 1920.

By the early 1960s the Brynmawr Hebrew Congregation had decreased to such an extent that the community was forced to stop religious services in 1963. From then onwards the small number of Jews living in Brynmawr joined the Newport Hebrew Congregation, and the synagogue in Bailey Street was eventually sold in 1966.

Sources:
- Parry-Jones, Cai, 'The History of the Jewish Diaspora in Wales' (http://e.bangor.ac.uk/4987);
- Pollins, Harold, 'The Jewish Community of Brynmawr, Wales', The Jewish Journal of Sociology, L, 1-2 (2008): jewishjournalofsociology.org/index.php/jjs/article/download/15/16.

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