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The Leeds Jewish Welfare Board has provided aid since 1878. [56] The Leeds Jewish Housing Association has 500 homes. [57] The Leeds Jewish Institute was founded in 1896, and the Jewish Young Men's Association by 1901. [18] [58] The Leeds Jewish Representative Council has been active since 1938. [59] The first Leeds Jewish trade union dates from ...
Beckett Street Cemetery (also known as Burmantofts Cemetery) is a closed cemetery in Burmantofts, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. Founded in 1842, the site was officially opened in 1845 and is recognised as being one of England's first municipal burial sites (Hunslet Cemetery, also in Leeds, opened one month earlier). Although the cemetery was ...
A Jewish cemetery (Hebrew: בית עלמין beit almin or בית קברות beit kvarot) is a cemetery where Jews are buried in keeping with Jewish tradition. Cemeteries are referred to in several different ways in Hebrew, including beit kevarot (house of sepulchers), beit almin (eternal home), beit olam [haba] (house of afterlife), beit ...
The Leeds General Cemetery (also known as Woodhouse Cemetery, Woodhouse Lane Cemetery and, since its closure in 1969, St George's Fields) is a former cemetery in Woodhouse, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. It is now within the campus of the University of Leeds and has been landscaped and kept as an open space. Some original monuments and the ...
The Lauriston Road Cemetery is an historic Grade II listed Jewish cemetery on Lauriston Road in South Hackney. The cemetery opened in 1788, having been purchased by the Germans' Hambro Synagogue in 1786. [1] It was closed to further burials from 1886. [2] [3] The cemetery is open to visitors by appointment only.
Hull has five known Orthodox cemeteries, and a recent Reform one, with 2,500 burials in all, [181] discounting an unsupported claim of a mediaeval Jewish cemetery. [ 304 ] From c.1780, a small plot at West Dock Terrace (later "Villa Place") saw burials until the last (of Joseph Lyon) in 1812.
Opened in January 1884 it has been used for Church of England, Roman Catholic and Jewish burials. Various buildings at the cemetery are Grade II listed buildings . The cemetery contains 108 Commonwealth service war graves of World War I and 129 of World War II , scattered in the different denominational plots.
Sinai Synagogue is a Reform Jewish congregation and synagogue, located on Roman Avenue in Roundhay, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, in the United Kingdom. The congregation was founded in 1944 [ 2 ] and is affiliated to the Movement for Reform Judaism .