The Jewish Year Book, London, 1900 (5661), edited by Rev. Isidore Harris – London Synagogues and Kosher Butchers.

By 1900 the Jewish Year Book was in its fifth year of publication, and was packed with useful information about the Jewish community.

The original editor, Joseph Jacobs, had gone to the United States to work on the Jewish Encyclopedia. The new editor, Reverend Isidore Harris, was born in London in 1853, and educated at Jews College and University College, London. He was the Minister of the West London Synagogue of British Jews.

The sample listings below are for 47 London Synagogues, and rather surprisingly, about 180 kosher butchers, supervised by the London Shechita Board. A very few of these butchers were licensed to sell “Hind-Quarter Meat Porged”.1

I have previously written about the list of 650 Jews who served in the South African Boer War, which is also included in this volume.