1731
Catherine de Costa is the first known Jewish visitor to Bath. She comes to Bath for her health.
1737
Many leading Sephardim are subscribers to Bath General Hospital and attend the spa for both their health and for their social aspirations.
1760
Sarah, Baroness d'Aguilar opens the Ball twice in May of this year.
1771
Moses Samuel, the retired parnas of the Great Synagogue, retires to Bath and becomes communal leader. He is to found both of the synagogues in Bath.
1780
Jacob Abraham, an optician, arrives in Bath from Exeter. He is one of the founders of an organised Jewish community in Bath.
1794
John Braham the Jewish tenor sings in Bath as indeed on many other occasions.
1808
Solomon Abraham Durlacher establishes himself as an important dentist in Bath.
1814
Robertson's Compendious Hebrew Dictionary is published in Bath. Nahum Joseph, is a Hebrew teacher in Bath and assists with its editing.
1815
The Jewish Cemetery at Bath is established.
1816
Rabbi Solomon Wolfe becomes Reader to the Bath congregation, a post (along with other communal functions) he was to hold for 50 years. The first synagogue in Kingsmead Street is probably founded at this time.
1816
George Gershon converts to Christianity, despite all efforts by the community to prevent it. He dies one month later.
1828
Simon Barrow, an influential Sephardic Jew in Bath, converts to Christianity with his family.
1836
Simon Barrow is elected an Alderman of Bath.
1837
Simon Barrow is elected Mayor of Bath.
1839
Moses Samuel dies and leaves a legacy of £300 pounds to the community.
1841
The city of Bath is connected by railway to London.
1842
The new Corn Street synagogue opens; a modest building in a poor area, built with Moses Samuel's legacy.
1845
Bath has four Jewish house-holders, five seat holders, a reader and kosher butcher. There are 15 men, 12 women and 23 children.
1848
Moses Montefiori visits the new synagogue and gives donations.
1866
Rabbi Solomon Wolfe dies after 50 years of service to the Bath community. No rabbi following him serves the community for longer than five years.
1872
Rabbi Nathan Jacobs of Cardiff retires to Bath, and temporarily relieves the decline of the community.
1874
The community has only five male members remaining, they find it difficult to arrange a regular minyan.
1876
The community appeals for funds to restore the synagogue and cemetery.
1880
The synagogue is restarted.
1881
The synagogue is largely defunct again.
1882
The synagogue is flooded.
1894
The synagogue is ruined by flooding again. The Chief Rabbi visits and deplores the lack of Jewish education for the children. The synagogue is flooded again, but repaired
1901
The last entry in the communal minutes is made. The last Jewish marriage takes place at the Assembly Rooms.
1903
The former synagogue becomes a marine store.
1911
The lease of the derelict synagogue expires and passes to St Paul's Church. But some services are still held from time to time by Reuben Somers, a master tailor resident since the 1880s, at the Assembly Rooms.
1921
The last burial in the Jewish cemetery takes place.
1927-46
Kerstein keeps a kosher hotel in Bath and hold services there.
1929
Reuben Somers dies.
1938
The site of the synagogue is redeveloped.
1941
A German refugee is barmitsvah at Kerstein's. War time refugees from Europe and Jewish service men (including Americans) revive the community temporarily.
1941 -
A German refugee is barmitsvah at Kerstein's. War time refugees from Europe and Jewish service men (including Americans) revive the community temporarily.v
1981
Jewish tourists regularly inquire about the Jewish history of the town. Jews have inquired about the Jewish history of Bath since least 1971.
1981
Jewish tourists regularly inquire about the Jewish history of the town. Jews have inquired about the Jewish history of Bath since least 1971.
1982
Some Jews still live in Bath but travel to Bristol for services.
1982
Some Jews still live in Bath but travel to Bristol for services.
c.1765
This period is the height of Jewish patronage of the spa.
c.1770s - 1780s
An increasing number of Jews settle in the town and offer medical services to the rich. Others provide entertainments, fashion, art, or tutoring in languages. There is no organised Jewish community.
c.1780
Up to this point most Jewish visitors are Sephardim.
c.1810
There are two Jewish Green Grocers in Bath, trading in fruit, as well as Mr. M. Moses, a Jewish milkman (of 1 Juda Place, Snow Hill).
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