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(ANGLO-JUDAICA) - Laws of the Congregation of the Hambro Synagogue…Revised and Enacted A.M. 5605. * BOUND WITH (as issued): Laws of the Burial Society of the Hambro Synagogue.. An unopened copy. Much use of Hebrew. pp. xxvi, (2), 85. Original gilt-tooled boards. 8vo. Unknown to Roth London: S. Magnus, 1845. The Hambro Synagogue was founded in 1702 by Mordechai of Hamburg, son-in-law of the celebrated Glückel of Hamlin, as a break-away from the Great Synagogue. Ironically, two centuries later and after a number of vicissitudes, the Hambro Synagogue closed and became amalgamated with the Great Synagogue in 1936. See P. Renton, The Synagogues of London (2000) pp. 39-43.