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ABSTRACT This article examines the history of North Wales’ five small Jewish communities, as well as Jewish individuals who lived in the region beyond these centres. It explores how Jewish life developed and functioned in this part of the United Kingdom, and, in doing so, adds complexity and diversity to British-Jewish historiography, a field that has long oversimplified the British-Jewish experience in its focus on major Jewish centres, those in England especially. It also draws our attention to the relationship between the British-Jewish periphery and centre, and stresses that studying the former can augment our historical understanding of the latter.