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List of British Jewish entertainers is a list that includes entertainers (actors, directors, screenwriters, musicians and others) from the United Kingdom and its predecessor states who are or were Jewish or of Jewish descent. Template:JewsByCountry

Film actors

TV actors

TV and Radio Presenters

Directors/producers/executives

Comedians

"Eagle-eyed viewers of Channel 4's music show Popworld might have spotted its Jewish presenter Simon Amstell"

Theatre

Radio

"Elkie Brooks and Graham Gouldman are two Jewish pop star graduates of Sedgley Park Primary School, Prestwich"

Producers/managers

Classical musicians

Songwriters

Other

References

Footnotes

  1. ^ Bloom - mentioned as Jewish in the Jewish Chronicle, 15/9/2006 p44: "Tribal beat: Showbiz Jews in the news
  2. ^ Bonham Carter - [1] "CARTER TOO JEWISH FOR JEWISH ROLE... British actress HELENA BONHAM CARTER stunned director PAUL WEILAND with her Jewish accent on the set of their new movie SIXTY SIX and even had to be asked to tone down her impersonation The PLANET OF THE APES actress, who has Austrian Jewish roots, stars as social-climber ESTHER REUBEN in the British film and reveals it wasn't hard to do because of her family upbringing She says, "People always think I'm indelibly English, but actually I was brought up in Golders Green (north west London) and there's tons of Jewish blood on my mother's side" [2] "Helena abandons her old-fashioned style, playing a North London Jewish mother... "My mum was so pleased I was doing this film," she laughs. "I am half French, half Spanish and Jewish - but I'm always seen as very British. I'm finally getting in touch with my Jewish roots.""
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i "Variety Club - Jewish Chronicle colour supplement "350 years"". The Jewish Chronicle. 2006-12-15. pp. 28–29. {{cite news}}: |access-date= requires |url= (help); Check date values in: |date= (help); Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
  4. ^ The Express, 23 May 2003 (Paul Callan): "She was born Joan Henrietta Collins, a nice Jewish girl from Bayswater"
  5. ^ Jewish Chronicle, 24/10/2003 p35: "(Noel) Coward was less complimentary about (Maureen) Lipman's fellow Jewish stage star Fenella Fielding"
  6. ^ "Tony Jay - Obituary". The Jewish Chronicle. 2006-12-22. p. 26. {{cite news}}: |access-date= requires |url= (help); Check date values in: |date= (help); Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
  7. ^ Kasriel, Alex (2006-12-22). "A nice Jewish wizard". The Jewish Chronicle. p. 2. {{cite news}}: |access-date= requires |url= (help); Check date values in: |date= (help); Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
  8. ^ [3] "Woolf is angry at always having to be the little guy, and Jewish at that." Accessed 27 October 2006.
    Jewish Chronicle, March 17 2000 p.43: "Home in Homerton was next door to a local Moseleyite. "My first memory at five years old," says Woolf, "is her hitting me over the head with a tennis racket. I said 'What did you do that for?' She said, 'It's nothing personal, it's because you're Jewish.' I understand that she had done it for ideological reasons."
  9. ^ Jewish Chronicle, 28/09/2005, Diary p.66, "Could there a hint of racial stereotyping in the Almeida’s decision to cast two Jewish actors — Ronni Ancona and Henry Goodman — in its upcoming production of The Hypochondriac?"
  10. ^ Kazinsky - [4] "Jewish Actor Joins EastEnders... The 22-year-old actor – who can speak Hebrew and who starred in a mobile phone commercial in Israel..."
  11. ^ Mentioned as one of several Jewish actors on EastEnders at [5]
  12. ^ Slowe - [6] "another Jewish actor... Georgia Slowe"
  13. ^ [7]"Sharon Osbourne elaborated on her background in a November 16 interview with The Scotsman daily. She is described as "the daughter of the infamously hard-nosed music promoter Don Arden, who shaped the careers of Gene Vincent, The Small Faces" and the Electric Light Orchestra. "People expected Ozzy to have a big-[bosomed], blonde trophy wife," she said, "and instead he's got me, a short, fat, hairy half Jew. I had a lot to fight against in this industry."
  14. ^ Obituary, Jewish Chronicle, February 18, 2000, p.27: "He belonged to the West London Synagogue"
  15. ^ Encyclopaedia Judaica, 2nd ed
  16. ^ "Irving Rapper, the Oscar-winning American-Jewish film director" Jewish Chronicle, 10 Feb 1961 p30
  17. ^ [8]: "Van Damm, who came from a middle-class London family of Dutch Jewish origin"
  18. ^ Jewish Chronicle, 28/09/2005, Diary p.66, "Could there a hint of racial stereotyping in the Almeida’s decision to cast two Jewish actors — Ronni Ancona and Henry Goodman — in its upcoming production of The Hypochondriac?"
  19. ^ Adler, Jacob, A Life on the Stage: A Memoir, translated and with commentary by Lulla Rosenfeld, Knopf, New York, 1999, ISBN 0-679-41351-0.
  20. ^ [9]: "she was the daughter of an upper-class Austrian born Jewish financier Lionel Gingold and English-born Kate Walters."; Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: "Her mother was Jewish."
  21. ^ [10] "the distinguished Jewish actor, Meier Tzelniker" Accessed 16 Dec 2006
  22. ^ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: "Being a Jew, Koch's life under the Nazi regime became increasingly intolerable"
  23. ^ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
  24. ^ CD sleeve note cited at [11]: "Born Solomon Schwartz on June 14, 1913 in Whitechapel within London's Jewish East End, he was directly descended from Polish and Rumanian Jews."
  25. ^ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: "He was brought up in a strictly conformist upper-middle-class Jewish family"
  26. ^ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: "Here he grew into the streetwise but sentimental cockney-Jewish character"
  27. ^ Obituary, Jewish Chronicle, Nov 11 2005, p.27
  28. ^ Encyclopaedia Judaica
  29. ^ JewishEncyclopedia
  30. ^ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: "the eldest son of a German Jewish diamond merchant"
  31. ^ Concise Dictionary of National Biography: "daughter of Italian Jews named Romanzini"
  32. ^ Concise Dictionary of National Biography: "an Italian Jew"; lived in London for over 40 years
  33. ^ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, art. "Farjeon, Benjamin"
  34. ^ Jewish Chronicle, July 13 2001 p.25 "two Jewish composers, Alexander Goehr and Robert Saxton"
  35. ^ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: "His was a cultured, musical Jewish family"
  36. ^ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: "born in Canterbury, Kent, of Polish–Jewish descent. His parents intended him to become a rabbi"
  37. ^ Jewish Chronicle, July 13 2001 p.25 "two Jewish composers, Alexander Goehr and Robert Saxton"
  38. ^ Jewish Chronicle, February 16, 2007, p.14: "he carried on as the sole Jewidh conductor of the Kulturbund"
  39. ^ Bach cantatas site "The distinguished Czech-born English conductor" Lake Placid Film Forum "Walter Susskind, a German Jew" Both accessed 4 Jan 2007
  40. ^ "The Penguin Dictionary of Musical Performers", Arthur Jacobs, ISBN 0-14-051160-1, "Under threat as a Jew from Nazi persecution, settled in Britain, 1938."
  41. ^ Concise Dictionary of National Biography: "a leading member of the London Jews"
  42. ^ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: "the only daughter of Jewish parents"
  43. ^ [12]"Sharon Osbourne elaborated on her background in a November 16 interview with The Scotsman daily. She is described as "the daughter of the infamously hard-nosed music promoter Don Arden, who shaped the careers of Gene Vincent, The Small Faces" and the Electric Light Orchestra. "People expected Ozzy to have a big-[bosomed], blonde trophy wife," she said, "and instead he's got me, a short, fat, hairy half Jew. I had a lot to fight against in this industry."
  44. ^ [13]: "She was Jewish" Accessed 9 Feb 2007


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