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Lot #    7573
Auction End Date    7/13/2004 12:28:00 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Code of Laws, New Synagogue
Author    [Community]
City    London
Publisher    J. Wertheimer
Publication Date    1851
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    Revised edition. [1], viii, 128 pp., 224:140 mm., light age staining, wide margins. A very good copy bound in the original cloth boards, rubbed.
          
Detailed
Description		    Jews came back to England, as Jews, in 1656. The first London congregation was Sephardi. In 1690 the Ashkenazim opened their Great Synagogue. In 1707 a breakaway congregation seceeded from the Great, founded by Marcus Moses. After a half-century peace was restored but in 1760 Moses Jacob of Little Duke's Place parted from the Great Synagogue to set up the New Synagogue at the Bricklayers' (or Bucklers) Hall, in Leadenhall Street.

The members of the New Synagogue started their own burial ground in Ducking Pond Lane (now called Brady Street), which was also used by the Great Synagogue after 1795. Relationships between the two congregations were stormy, but they improved greatly after the marriage of Nathan Solomons, a leading light at the New, and a daughter of Asher Goldsmid, a merchant-prince and philanthropist, of the Great.

In 1838 the New Synagogue moved to a magnificent purpose-built Synagogue in Great St Helen's, Bishopsgate. Rabbi Hirschell of the Great Synagogue , widely recognized as 'the High Priest' of Anglo-Jewry, led the service of consecration in the presence of a thousand worshippers who included representatives of the Sephardi, the Great and the Western Congregations. It remained in use until 1911. It was then closed and the New Synagogue re-opened in Egerton Road, Stamford Hill. This building in turn became redundant to the needs of the United Synagogue and is now used, apparently, by the Bobover Hasidim.

          
Reference
Description		    A. B. Levy, The 200-year-old New Synagogue (New Synagogue, Egerton Road, London N16, 1960)
        
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Listing Classification
Period
19th Century:    Checked
  
Location
England:    Checked
  
Subject
Customs:    Checked
  
Characteristic
Language:    English, Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica