Laws and Regulations of the Brighton Synagogue. 5585.

(ANGLO-JUDAICA).

W. Fleet

Brighton

1825

FIRST EDITION. English interspersed with Hebrew. On title, signature of former owner: “Barrow Lewis.” Marginalia in pencil.

Roth, Bibliotheca Anglo-Judaica, p. 299, no. 25.

A rare Book of Synagogue Regulations. The wide range of communal statutes reflects the depth of Jewish knowledge of the Brighton community and active participation in synagogue life by its members. Jews first settled in Brighton, a fashionable resort town on the south coast of England, in the mid eighteenth century. Members of the the aristocratic Goldsmid and Sassoon families resided there. The first congregation, established in 1800 soon fell apart, but was later reorganized in 1821. See EJ, Vol. IV, cols. 1373-4.