Balance sheet and accounts of the Newport Hebrew Congregation, Newport, 1949

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The balance sheet and accounts of the Newport Hebrew Congregation dated 31 October 1949. This document firstly shows the date and time of the general, trustees, and council meetings, with a concise listed agenda to follow. Liabilities, the income and expenditure accounts, and two extensive recordings of the members' subscriptions, and the charities and offerings, are both provided. The last page of the document details cemetery fees and offerings, plot reservations, the grave plot sold, wedding fees, special offerings and seats high festivals. A treasurer's statement can also be identified.

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.