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Caledonian Jews: A Study of Seven Small Communities in Scotland

By Nathan Abrams

Book information

Publisher
McFarland
Year
2009
ISBN
0786442859, 9780786442850
LCC
DS135.E55 S3523 2009
Open Library ID
OL23218622M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2578182 bytes)
Pages
243\243
Time added
2011-08-31 04:54:40

Description

This is the first full history of the Jews in Scotland who lived outside Edinburgh and Glasgow. The work focuses on seven communities from the borders to the highlands: Aberdeen, Ayr, Dundee, Dunfermline, Falkirk, Greenock, and Inverness. Each of these communities was of sufficient size and affluence to form a congregation with a functional synagogue and, while their histories have been previously neglected in favor of Jewish populations in larger cities, their stories are important in understanding Scottish Jewry and British history as a whole. Drawn from numerous primary sources, the history of Jews in Scotland is traced from the earliest rumors to the present.

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