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List of British Jews is a list of prominent Jews 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 was not until the Norman Conquest of William the Conqueror in 1066 that organised Jewish communities first appeared in England .
The history of the Jews in Britain goes back to the reign of William the Conqueror. The first written record of Jewish settlement in England dates from 1070, although Jews may have lived there since Roman times. [1] The Jewish presence continued until King Edward I's Edict of Expulsion in 1290.
The oldest Jewish community in Britain is the Spanish and Portuguese Jewish community, which traces back to the 1630s when it existed clandestinely in London before the readmission and was unofficially legitimised in 1656, which is the date counted by the Jewish community as the re-admittance of the Jews to England (which at the time included ...
Many Jews joined the British Armed Forces, including some 30,000 Jewish volunteers from Palestine alone, some of whom fought in the Jewish Brigade. Many formed the core of the Haganah after the war. By July 1945, 228,000 troops of the Polish Armed Forces in the West , including Polish Jews , were serving under the high command of the British Army.
For the history of the Jews in the United Kingdom, including the time before the formation of the Kingdom of Great Britain in 1707, see: History of the Jews in England; History of the Jews in Scotland; History of the Jews in Northern Ireland; History of the Jews in Wales
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Members of the Board of Deputies of British Jews (1 C, 10 P) Pages in category "British Jews" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 451 total.
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