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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 ...
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 Board of Deputies of British Jews was established in London in 1760. Seven deputies were appointed by the elders of the Sephardi congregation of Spanish and Portuguese Jews to form a standing committee (Portuguese: deputados) founded to pay homage to George III on his accession to the throne. [3]
Practising Jews were finally allowed to sit in Parliament after the passage of the Jews Relief Act 1858, which was a significant step on the path to Jewish emancipation in the United Kingdom. The first Jewish knight was Sir Solomon de Medina, knighted in 1700, with no further Jews being knighted until 1837, when Queen Victoria knighted Moses ...
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.
David Ricardo (the younger) (1832–1833) His father had been Jewish, but Ricardo was baptised. Liberal MP; Benjamin Disraeli (1837–1876) Archived 2019-02-09 at the Wayback Machine, Conservative MP and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Born Jewish but baptised at an early age. John Lewis Ricardo (1841–1862) Liberal MP
Jews from British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies (2 C) A. Jewish British anti-Zionists (35 P) B. British secular Jews (1 C, 5 P) F. Jewish-British ...
Herbert Lom (11 September 1917 – 27 September 2012), a Czech Jewish-British actor who moved to the United Kingdom in 1939; noted for precise, elegant enunciation of English. [57] He is best known for his roles in The Ladykillers, The Pink Panther film series, War and Peace and the television series The Human Jungle.