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2 Sept 2026 Conversations with Tyler Michael Moritz on Origin Stories, Exile, and Obsessive Curiosity
“I think there were, I don’t know how many in the ’60s when I was growing up, maybe there were 600 families around Wales that were Jewish out of a population of around, probably back then, about 2.”
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…According to some sources, the population of Welsh Jews peaked in around 1919 at around 5,000, and then it declined radically. Why did so many Jews leave Wales? Is it just movement to London? I don’t think it declined that rapidly. I think there were, I don’t know how many in the ’60s when I was growing up, maybe there were 600 families around Wales that were Jewish out of a population of around, probably back then, about 2. 5 million. I think the younger people tended to leave for opportunity. Small countries or Wales and other parts of the United Kingdom that presented limited opportunity for people with ambition meant that the younger people in particular tended to leave, and they tended on the whole to head toward London. You left Wales at age 19, correct?…
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