Balance sheet and accounts for the Newport Hebrew Congregation, Newport, 1955

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The balance sheet and accounts for the Newport Hebrew Congregation dated 31st October 1955. This document contains the dates and times for the general, trustees, and council meetings, with a four point agenda that schedules in consideration for Rev A. Snadow's application. The liabilities and assets are covered, followed by the income and expenditure accounts. A statement for the members' subscriptions, donations, and offerings expands across two pages, using a letter based key to highlight the status of certain paid expenses. The balance and payments of general charities, the plot reservations (cost of plot and the deposit paid), and the offerings are also featured. On the last page, the Orphan Aid Society, the cemetery care, the Board of Guardians, the Board of Deputies, and the Chevra Kedisha Fund each have their balances totalled.

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.