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The Portsmouth and Southsea Hebrew Congregation
The Synagogue, The Thicket, Elm Grove, Southsea, Hants P05 2AA
Tel: 023 9282 1494

     
Portsmouth Hebrew Congregation.  Congregations stationery seal .  Probably cut by Benjamin Levi, engraver, singnator to the congregation lease of their first burial ground on 6th December 1749.  (Dr Aubrey Weinberg, Introduction)

Portsmouth synagogue - this is our story

Hanoverian coat of arms.  Dated about 1780

Richard Cooper compiled and circulated the overview
and photographs
( by Peter Wright)
to our story
as a gift to the community

Dr Aubrey Weinberg wrote this history
while a Principal Lecturer in Sociology
at Portsmouth University.
It was made possible by a grant from the
Israel Zangwill Memorial Trust
and members of the congregation

JACK WHITEŠ (020) 8202 2075
vijamada@gmail.com
designed and hosted
this web site
as a gift to the community