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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 British nobility consists of the peerage and the gentry.The peerage is a legal system of largely hereditary titles, granted by the British sovereign.Under this system, only the senior family member bears a substantive title (duke, marquess, earl, viscount, baron).
British Jews (often referred to collectively as British Jewry or Anglo-Jewry) are British citizens who are Jewish. The number of people who identified as Jews in the United Kingdom rose by just under 4% between 2001 and 2021.
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 ...
List of British Jewish scientists; List of Scottish Jews; W. List of British Jewish writers This page was last edited on 19 December 2023, at 14:33 (UTC). Text is ...
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
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