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Prayer house at the Jewish burial ground at Cefn-coed-y-cymmer which was established in the 1860s. It served the Jewish population in the locality of Merthyr where the mining and iron industries employed Russian, Romanian and Polish refugees.

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i am interested in how the jewish community integrated and were viewed by the welsh populations, in the last, and earlier centuries.

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