[6] Later on, more Jews fled from Poland, Russia, Ukraine and the Baltic states due to poverty, antisemitism and the threat of being drafted into the Imperial Russian Army for 25 years.

The first rabbi Joseph Wohlstein was hired in 1900 and the synagogue was built in 1903 with funding from Jacob [sv] and Clara Lachmann.

During the 1970s, the membership peaked with over 2,000 members which was close to 1% of Malmö's population, mostly Jews from Poland, due to a state-led anti-Semitic persecution.

Since 1990, many members began to feel growing anti-Semitic attitudes and sentiments in Malmö and the community have led to a decline in adult membership by approximately 500 between 1999 and 2019.

[14] On 4 November 2023, pro-Palestinian demonstrators burned an Israeli flag and chanted "bomb Israel" outside the synagogue.