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Jewish people settled in merthyr when it was wales biggest towns and one of the first synagogues in wales was set up in the town
Long before the recent eastern european immigrants arrived people from the coal mining areas of the Ukraine came to work in the mines around merthyr
Lots of eastern european and Ukrainian immigrants came to merthyr in the 19290s and their names remain today
In the days of the valley rams one of the buses from merthyr was run by a bloke whose grandfather was ukranian