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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 Jewish Naturalization Act 1753, an attempt to legalise the Jewish presence in Britain, remained in force for only a few months. 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.
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 ...
The number of Jews contributing to British cinema increased after 1933, when Jews were prohibited from working in Nazi Germany. [1] In the early 1930s, the Imperial Fascist League 's anti-semitic newspaper The Fascist sought to isolate the Jews in British cinema.
British Jews (16 C, 462 P) English people of Jewish descent (28 C, 156 P) Gibraltarian people of Jewish descent (2 C) People from Northern Ireland of Jewish descent (1 C)
This list of lists may include both lists that distinguish between ethnic origin and religious practice, and lists that make no such distinction. Some of the constituent lists also may have experienced additions and/or deletions that reflect incompatible approaches in this regard.