Jews of Wales
Subtitle: A History
Publisher: Gwasg Prifysgol Cymru / University of Wales Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9781786830937
Subjects: Jews, great britain
Description: This study considers Welsh Jewry as a geographical whole, and is the first to draw extensively on oral history sources, giving a voice back to the history of Welsh Jewry, which has long been a formal history of synagogue functionaries and institutions. The author considers the impact of the Second World War on Wales's Jewish population, as well as the importance of the Welsh context in shaping the Welsh-Jewish experience. The study offers a detailed examination of the numerical decline of Wales's Jewish communities throughout the twentieth century, and is also the first to consider the situation of Wales's Jewish communities in the early twenty-first, arguing that these communities may be significantly fewer in number and smaller than in the past, they are ever evolving.