Letter from the Newport Mon. Hebrew Congregation to Rabbi Moses of Wlodowa Charity Trust regarding officiating services on New Year's Day and Yom Kippur, 19 January 1984

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This letter is from the Newport Mon. Hebrew Congregation to Rabbi Moses at the Wlodowa Charity Trust regarding officiating services at the Newport synagogue for New Year's Day and Yom Kippur.

The Wlodowa Charity Trust and Benevolent Fund was a charity which assisted Jewish institutions in the UK and abroad and helped the poor. It was connected with the Wlodowa Synagogue in Bethnal Green, London. This congregation was established in 1901 by Jewish immigrants from Włodawa, Poland. The Synagogue closed in 1987.

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;
https://www.jewishgen.org/JCR-UK/London/EE_wlodowa_ind/index.htm.

Depository: Gwent Archives.