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Jews in Bath: Reconstructing a Provincial Community, 1700–1945
Christina Hilsenrath
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Christina’s mother came to England from Berlin in 1939 on the Kindertransport. Following her retirement from the civil service, Christina undertook extensive research into her family history. Since 2019 she has served as Chair of the Trustees of the Friends of the Bath Jewish Burial Ground. Her four years of detailed research into the Burial
Ground and the Jewish community of Bath culminated in the publication, in late 2024, of Jews in Bath: A Community and Their Burial Ground, 1700–1945.
Bath’s Jewish Burial Ground, a site of historical significance, is little known even to many long-term residents of the city. Yet in the nineteenth
century Bath was home to a small Jewish community of physicians, artists, craftsmen and traders. By tracing the history of the Burial Ground and Synagogue, and by reconstructing the lives of individuals and families who lived, worked, and worshipped in the city, Christina will demonstrate how Bath’s Jewish history exemplifies the opportunities and the challenges of Jewish communities across provincial Britain.
