Caledonian Jews
Author | : Nathan Abrams |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 243 |
Release | : 2009-10-21 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780786454327 |
ISBN-13 | : 0786454326 |
Rating | : 4/5 (27 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: 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.