Gellir lawrlwytho cynnwys at ddefnydd anfasnachol, megis defnydd personol neu ar gyfer adnoddau addysgol.
Ar gyfer defnydd masnachol cysyllwch yn uniongyrchol gyda deilydd yr hawlfraint os gwelwch yn dda.
Read more about the The Creative Archive Licence.

Disgrifiad

This newspaper article from The Times by the historian Geoffrey Alderman discusses the anti-Jewish riots that broke out in South Wales in 1911. Alderman notes that the riots are largely under-researched, suggesting that this might be because the traditional picture of the rioters as simply hooligans is more palatable than the idea that the combination of antisemitic sentiment and poverty could cause "respectable people" to turn against their neighbours. According to the article, there is little doubt that the riots were planned and included a religious element.

A Hebrew congregation was established in Tredegar in 1873. A year later the congregation received a piece of land as a gift, but having no funds to build a wall around the plot, the proposed cemetery was never established. A purpose-built synagogue was erected on Morgan Street in 1884 and it served the congregation until the mid-1940s when regular services in Tredegar ceased. The synagogue was sold in the 1950s and became a residential building.

Sources:
'The History of the Jewish Diaspora in Wales' by Cai Parry-Jones (http://e.bangor.ac.uk/4987);
JCR-UK/JewishGen (https://www.jewishgen.org/jcr-uk/community/val1_tredegar/index.htm).

Depository: Gwent Archives.

Oes gennych chi wybodaeth ychwanegol am yr eitem hon? Gadewch sylwad isod

Sylwadau (0)

Rhaid mewngofnodi i bostio sylw