Correspondence relating to the Golden Jubilee celebrations for Reverend A. Snadow of Newport Mon Hebrew Congregation, May 1960

Description

The letters relate to the Golden Jubilee celebration event for Reverend Abraham Snadow.

The first letter dated 16 May 1960 is to Rabbi Wulwick of the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation in Manchester from The Newport Mon Hebrew Congregation requesting that he delivers an address in honour of Rev. A. Snadow at the event.

The second letter dated 25 May 1960 is a handwritten letter from Rev. A. Snadow thanking C. Cammerman and the Newport Mon Hebrew Congregation for arranging the Golden Jubilee celebrations. He makes reference to the work the Ladies Guild put into the event.

Rev. A. Snadow served the Newport Mon Hebrew Congregation arrived at Newport Hebrew Mon Congregation from Abertillery in 1910.

Newport Monmouthshire Hebrew Congregation was founded in 1859 by orthodox Jews meeting at a temporary synagogue in Llanarth Street. A synagogue at Francis Street was opened in 1869 and consecrated by the Chief Rabbi Dr Herman Adler in 1871. In 1934 the congregation moved to their Nathan Harris Memorial Hall in Queen's Hill which was converted to a synagogue. In 1997 this synagogue was closed, and the congregation moved to their Prayer House by the Jewish Burial Ground on Risca Road. Within 20 years the congregation had dwindled to a few members able to attend and this too had ceased to hold services.

Sources:
"History of our Shul. The First Hundred Years", published by Newport Congregation in 1959;
Oral history interviews with members of the Newport Mon Hebrew Congregation, recorded in 2018 by JHASW.

Depository: Gwent Archives.