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List of British Jews is a list that includes Jewish people from the United Kingdom and its predecessor states.

Although the first Jews may have arrived on the island of Great Britain with the Romans, it wasn't until the Norman Conquest of William the Conqueror in 1066 that organised Jewish communities first appeared in England. These existed until 1290 when the Jewish population of England was expelled by King Edward I of England due to anti-semitism. (Hence plays such as The Jew of Malta and The Merchant of Venice, regarded by many as antisemitic, were written when Jews did not live openly in England.)

There was never a corresponding expulsion from Scotland. Indeed, the eminent Jewish-Scottish scholar David Daiches states in his autobiographical Two Worlds: An Edinburgh Jewish Childhood that there are grounds for saying that Scotland is the only European country with no history of state persecution of Jews.

Jews were re-admitted to England and Wales in 1656 by Oliver Cromwell, and emancipated in 1858. In the late 19th century there was mass Jewish immigration from Russia due to Russian domestic policy, and in the 1930s an influx of refugees from Nazism. The Jewish population peaked at 450,000, but has since declined due to low birth-rate, intermarriage and emigration, mainly of the younger generation to Israel. According to the 2001 census, the current population is around 240,000, most of whom live in London, though many experts[citation needed] consider this an underestimate. The following is a list of some prominent British Jews.

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Academic figures

Economists

See List of British Jewish scientists

Historians

"Born in Oxford, she had moved to Cheltenham at the age of five when her father, the polymath Jacob Bronowski, author of Ascent of Man, took up a research post with the National Coal Board. So it was that this nice little Jewish family moved in to Cleeve Hill, a small village four miles from town."
"Five years or so later, I decided to define publicly my identity as belonging to the Jewish community by becoming a member of the Liberal Jewish Synagogue."

Medical

Philosophers

"Born less than a week apart, Adolf Hitler and the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein attended the institution together. There is a haunting school photograph of the young, complex, Jewish philosopher just one row away from the most politically-controversial of the 20th century."
"Wollheim was an outstanding representative of a generation of Central European Jewish intellectuals"

Social scientists

See List of British Jewish scientists

Theologians and Hebraists

Artists

Fine arts

Designers and Architects

Arts and literature

"Waley, born Arthur David Schloss, was a member of an elite Anglo-Jewish family"

Musicians

See List of British Jewish entertainers

Writers

See List of British Jewish writers

Business and the professions

Civil service

Finance

Law

5/7/1996 p7: "The Liberal Democrats' sole Jewish MP, Alex Carlile"
25/6/1999 p10: "Alex Carlile is on his way back to Westminster as one of four Jews among the 36 working peers"

Manufacturing

Media

Military

Property

Retail

Scientists

See List of British Jewish scientists

Police

Political figures

See List of British Jewish politicians

Religious and communal leaders

Showbusiness

See List of British Jewish entertainers

Sports

Boxing

Chess

Socialites


Philanthropists

Miscellaneous

References

Footnotes

  1. ^ [1] "her father, Geoffrey Alderman, is a columnist for the Jewish Chronicle, and her family are strict Orthodox Jews" Accessed 3 January 2007
  2. ^ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: "He was one of the many children of pre-1914 Jewish immigrants from eastern Europe who were to play such prominent roles in British economic, cultural, and political life."
  3. ^ Encyclopaedia Judaica, 2nd ed.
  4. ^ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: "He was buried in Golders Green Jewish cemetery"
  5. ^ Jewish Year Book 1990 p202
  6. ^ Encyclopaedia Judaica, art. "Magnus"
  7. ^ Concise Dictionary of National Biography: "born in Glasgow of an Anglophile Riga Jewish family"
  8. ^ Encyclopaedia Judaica, art. Historians, list headed "Prominent Jewish General Historians"
  9. ^ Jewish Chronicle, January 14, 2000, p.14 "Knighthood goes to diabetes pioneer"
  10. ^ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
  11. ^ Concise Dictionary of National Biography: "born of Jewish parents of Russian origin"
  12. ^ Concise Dictionary of National Biography: "born in Bavaria of Jewish parents"
  13. ^ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: "the son of Jewish parents"
  14. ^ Concise Dictionary of National Biography: "Jewish physician"
  15. ^ Encyclopaedia Judaica, 2nd ed.
  16. ^ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: "the only child of Jacob Márton Lipsitz, a wine merchant, and Márgit Herczfeld, both Hungarian Jews"
  17. ^ Encyclopaedia Britannica 1911: ABENDANA, the name of two Jewish theologians ... Jacob ... Isaac
  18. ^ Obituary, Jewish Chronicle, February 5, 1960, p.1
  19. ^ Concise Dictionary of National Biography: "born of Jewish parents"
  20. ^ Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1911 ed.
  21. ^ Concise Dictionary of National Biography: "born of Jewish parents at Vienna"
  22. ^ Concise Dictionary of National Biography: born in Poland of Jewish parents
  23. ^ born Jewish; see Dictionary of National Biography
  24. ^ Concise Dictionary of National Biography: "born in Prussian Poland of Jewish parents"
  25. ^ Dictionary of National Biography: "Jewish controversialist, born in London in 1740, was son of Mordecai Levi, a member of the London congregation of German and Polish Jews"
  26. ^ His own book On Being a Jewish Christian (1998)
  27. ^ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: "an academically highly gifted boy of Jewish parentage"
  28. ^ Jewish Encyclopedia article on Adolf Neubauer
  29. ^ Concise Dictionary of National Biography: "born of Jewish parents"
  30. ^ Guardian Books
  31. ^ Concise Dictionary of National Biography: "born at Dortmund of Jewish parentage"
  32. ^ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, cited at OUP web site
  33. ^ Concise Dictionary of National Biography: "son of East-End Russian Jewish immigrants"
  34. ^ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: "As a Jew, Games worked for the Jewish relief unit and for many Jewish and Israeli organizations"
  35. ^ Obituary, Jewish Chronicle August 30, 1912, p16
  36. ^ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: "Hart was an observant Jew."
  37. ^ The Guardian, 6 February 2002, p6: Letter from Kitaj: "London's four leading Jewish painters, including me"; Listed as a British painter in Hutchinson's Encyclopedia of Britain, 2005
  38. ^ H. Read, S. Thorndike, and others, Jacob Kramer: a memorial volume (1969)
  39. ^ Jewish Chronicle, "Lord Snowdon is indeed Jewish ... Snowdon does not need to be any more Jewish. Halachically, the Lubavitcher rebbe was no more haimishe than he is.
  40. ^ Concise Dictionary of National Biography: "born of Jewish parents in Warsaw; naturalized, 1894"
  41. ^ Comment by his son James Lasdun: "He was English but not really, being Jewish": accessed 6 May 2007
  42. ^ Jewish Virtual Library: "Maybe I'm a really bad Jew because I'm always so excited to say that I am, but I don't live and breathe the religion.": accessed 6 May 2007
  43. ^ Concise Dictionary of National Biography: "born in East Prussia of German-Jewish parents
  44. ^ Jewish Chronicle, 8 January 1999, p.6: "Three Jewish knights feature among the New Year honours: ... Nichola Serota ... John Krebs ... Victor Blank."
  45. ^ article in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
  46. ^ Who's Who in the World, 18th ed (2001) p.163: "Religion: Jewish"
  47. ^ Jewish Chronicle, June 21, 1968 Page:46
  48. ^ Concise Dictionary of National Biography: "born in Linz, Austria, of Jewish parents"
  49. ^ K. Grunwald, ‘Windsor Cassel: the last court Jew’, Yearbook of the Leo Baeck Institute, 14 (1969), 119–61
  50. ^ Jewish Chronicle July 25, 1941, p.12, "Jews in the Navy"
  51. ^ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: "a devout Jew"
  52. ^ (Concise Dictionary of National Biography: "born of Jewish parents of English nationality"
  53. ^ New Yorker magazine "My great-grandfather Herbert Bentwich, a lawyer from a prominent English Jewish family" Accessed 21 November 2006.
  54. ^ Encyclopaedia Judaica, art. Bentwich
  55. ^ Concise Dictionary of National Biography: "first professing Jew to graduate at Cambridge"
  56. ^ Dictionary of National Biography: "Another area to which Cohen gave time and devotion was that of Jewish culture and charity. He had been brought up in the Orthodox tradition, and came to take the Reformed and Liberal positions."
  57. ^ Jewish Chronicle, January 12, 2007 p.15: article "People: Who is up to what in the Jewish world this week"
  58. ^ Concise Dictionary of National Biography: "born in New York of wealthy Jewish parents"
  59. ^ Flade, Ronald. The Lehmans: From Rimpar to the New World: A Family History, 2nd Enlarged Ed., 1999; reviewed by the American Jewish Historical Society. Accessed 14 November 2006.
  60. ^ [2]"Was it any more difficult for her to be so critical in the Israel case because she is Jewish? "I don't think so," she says, stressing that she judged the case as an international lawyer and not because of her background. "I also think that the fact you happen to be Jewish doesn't mean you think that everything the State of Israel does is right." When the Foreign Office put her name forward for election to the court, there were fears that some countries in the UN would not vote for a Jewish woman. She dismisses such concerns. "I don't think I have ever been perceived as Rosalyn Higgins, the Jewish international lawyer - and I hope not Rosalyn Higgins, the woman international lawyer."
  61. ^ Obituary: Harold Lightman; The Independent; November 18, 1998; John Balcombe; p. 6; "Lightman was disadvantaged in his early legal career by the fact that he had not been to university and was Jewish."
  62. ^ Son of Rabbi Chaim Pearl: see Who's Who (UK)
  63. ^ [3] Jewish Chronicle, 11 July 2008, "How Jewish is Lord Chief Justice Phillips?"
  64. ^ "The Guardian Profile", The Guardian, February 15, 2008, pg.21
  65. ^ Encyclopaedia Judaica 1st ed, vol 14 cols 1539-1540
  66. ^ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: "He was a devout Jew"
  67. ^ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: "His parents were Orthodox Jews"
  68. ^ The Times, April 14, 1998, p.1: "the Jewish philanthropist Sir Emmanuel Kaye"
  69. ^ Concise Dictionary of National Biography: "leading figure in Anglo-Jewry"
  70. ^ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
  71. ^ Encyclopaedia Judaica, 2nd ed
  72. ^ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: "the only son and elder child of Samuel and Anna Jacobson, a Jewish couple"
  73. ^ The Times (London); December 3, 1992; Ruth Gledhill:'Lord Rothschild, who is head of the English branch of the Rothschild family, says: "I would not like to disguise that I am first and foremost a secular Jew."'
  74. ^ Dictionary of National Biography: "Cotton was a highly respected member of the Jewish community in Birmingham, of whose main synagogue he had been vice-president and treasurer"
  75. ^ Jewish Chronicle, 8 January 1999, p.6: "Three Jewish knights feature among the New Year honours: ... Nichola Serota ... John Krebs ... Victor Blank."
  76. ^ Concise Dictionary of National Biography: "born in Lithuania of Jewish parentage"
  77. ^ Jewish Chronicle, April 24, 1998, p.7: "one Jewish businessman on the up is fashion and property man Bernard Lewis"
  78. ^ Concise Dictionary of National Biography: "a leading member of the London Jews"
  79. ^ Concise Dictionary of National Biography: "naturalised British subject, 1910"
  80. ^ "Bullimore's sister buoyed by rabbis' support", Jewish Chronicle January 24, 1997 p.1
  81. ^ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: "Sheila's upbringing in an all-girl Jewish family generated no interest in motoring beyond her training as a Women's Auxiliary Air Force driver."
  82. ^ Roman Greenberg site "the first Jewish world heavyweight champion in more than a quarter-century" Boxrec site "Hometown Finchley, England". Both accessed 12 November 2006.
  83. ^ "Ted "Kid" Lewis(Gershon Mendeloff)". www.jewishsports.net. Retrieved 2008-05-09.
  84. ^ Jewish Chronicle, obituary, January 19, 2007 p.45
  85. ^ [4]: "Lord Duveen and many other Jewish intellectuals"
  86. ^ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: "Born an Orthodox Jew, in her religious practices Anna Maria remained throughout her life very observant"
  87. ^ Concise Dictionary of National Biography: "born into old, established Jewish family"
  88. ^ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: "His grandfather Jacob had established the family as one of the first Jewish families to acquire great wealth and social acceptability in Bavaria ... His mother came from an Orthodox Frankfurt family and ensured that the children were properly instructed in Jewish matters ... he thereafter lived more in London than in Paris."
  89. ^ Concise Dictionary of National Biography: "Jewish philanthropist"
  90. ^ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
  91. ^ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: "His family were Jewish"
  92. ^ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
  93. ^ The Press, Hendon and Finchley Edition, 16 November 2006, p.4: "Student Jeremiah, who was Jewish"
  94. ^ [5]; The Irish Times, Wednesday, January 7, 1998: "Ireland's Young Bloomers"
  95. ^ Concise Dictionary of National Biography: "born in Berlin of Jewish parents"
  96. ^ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: "registered with the Jewish community of Pest"; Jewish Encyclopedia
  97. ^ Concise Dictionary of National Biography: "a Portuguese Jew, but born a British subject"
  98. ^ Jewish Chronicle, 24 November 2006, p.1: "Ms Price, who is halachically Jewish"
  99. ^ Lire: le magazine littéraire: "la comtesse Krystyna Skarbek, une aristocrate juive"

Bibliography

  • Celmins, Martin. Peter Green: The Authorized Biography. London: Sanctuary Publishing, Ltd.; 3rd edition, 2003. Pp. 23-32.
  • JYB = Jewish Year Book (annual)
  • "Obituary: Sir Edward Sassoon". The Times, Saturday, May 25, 1912; pg. 11; Issue 39908; col C.
  • TimesAd: The Times, 6/7/06 p34: "A Call by Jews in Britain" (advert signed by 300 British Jews)
  • David S. Katz, The Jews in the History of England, 1485-1850 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994). xvi, 447 pp.

See also

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