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Scotland's First Jewish Community |
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The first records of those who would go on to found the first Synagogue in Scotland date from 1794. In 1793 the outbreak of war with France led the British Government to pass the Immigration Bill which required foreigners over the age of 14 to register themselves as aliens. In 1794, Herman Lyon, Lin Davis and Moses Daniel became the first to register with the Edinburgh magistrates. Jews were permitted to register with a synagogue, but at that time none existed in Edinburgh. From 1794, 20 Jewish men and women registered with the authorities. Many of this group declared their previous residence to be in Amsterdam or Holland, which was then under French control. Of these, only 5 men remained after the war and became part of the group that established the Jewish Community in Edinburgh.
Little is known about the countries of origin of the rest of the twenty families who became part of the Congregation. Abel Phillips, author of "A History of the Origins of the First Jewish Community in Scotland" speculates that any records kept by the Community were written in Yiddish, and were buried in a grave in accordance with Jewish Custom when the Community moved from their first burial ground to a larger one in 1867. It is likely though, that many of the immigrants came from the Baltic ports, Poland and Germany, since much of the Jewish immigration to Britain at the time was from those regions.
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