Balance sheet and accounts of the Brynmawr Hebrew Congregation, Brynmawr, 1923/1924

Description

The balance sheet and accounts of the Brynmawr Hebrew Congregation for the period 4 November 1923 to 12 October 1924. The information provided includes a list of income (by name) and expenditure, including details of the salaries for the Reverends G. Bloch, Snadow, R. Rabinowitz, Young and Isaacs. The accounts are verified by R. Brest and J. Solomon.

These accounts were included in the Brynmawr Hebrew Congregation's Memorandum of Meetings Book 1905-1953.

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

Depository: Gwent Archives.