Order of Service booklet for Holocaust Memorial Day Prayers at Newport Cathedral, 27 January 2006

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Order of Service booklet for Holocaust Memorial Day Prayers at St Woolos Cathedral, Newport on 27 January 2006. The booklet sets out the prayers, readings and hymns for the service, which was led by the Dean of Monmouth, Richard Fenwick. The Mayor of Newport, Ken Critchley, gave one of the readings.

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 the 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 the 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.