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.
ISBN: | 9780786442850 |
Publication date: | 30th July 2009 |
Author: | Nathan Abrams |
Publisher: | McFarland & Co Inc |
Format: | Paperback |
Pagination: | 242 pages |
Genres: |
European history |