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This page is a list of Jews.
For more on who is considered Jewish, see Who is a Jew?.

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. (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 anti-semitism, 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. According to the 2001 census, the current population is around 240,000, most of whom live in London, though many experts consider this an underestimate. The following is a list of some prominent British Jews.

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Contents

[edit] Political figures

[edit] MPs

British Members of Parliament listed chronologically by first election date (in brackets):

"Sir Anthony ... is a representative of the enlightened haute juiverie"

[edit] Other

Concise Dictionary of National Biography: "became a Jew"
"His beloved daughter Eleanor, however, who acted as his secretary, considered herself Jewish, took interest in her ancestors, and had a warm appreciation for the Jewish workers in the East End of London." Encyclopaedia Judaica, art. Marx, Karl Heinrich.

[edit] Religious leaders

[edit] Scientists

See List of British Jewish scientists

[edit] Academic figures

[edit] 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 evil tyrant of the 20th century."
"Wollheim was an outstanding representative of a generation of Central European Jewish intellectuals"

[edit] Social scientists

See List of British Jewish scientists

[edit] Medical

[edit] Economists

[edit] 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."

[edit] Theologians and Hebraists

[edit] Arts and literature

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

[edit] Showbusiness

[edit] Film actors

[edit] TV actors

[edit] Directors/producers/executives

"Irving Rapper, the Oscar-winning American-Jewish film director" Jewish Chronicle, 10 Feb 1961 p30

[edit] Comedians

"Eagle-eyed viewers of Channel 4's music show Popworld might have spotted its Jewish presenter Simon Amstell"

[edit] Theatre

[edit] Radio

[edit] Other

[edit] Musicians

[edit] Popular musicians

"Elkie Brooks and Graham Gouldman are two Jewish pop star graduates of Sedgley Park Primary School, Prestwich"

[edit] Producers/managers

[edit] Classical musicians

[edit] Songwriters

[edit] Other

[edit] Writers

[edit] Authors

Jewish Chronicle 13/3/1998 p1: "Dame Muriel Spark, the author of "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" and several other celebrated works, is halachically Jewish." (Says her mother was Jewish too.)
"Israel Zangwill, Anglo-Jewish writer and political activist, was probably the best known Jew in the English-speaking world at the start of the twentieth century."

[edit] Poets

"Abstract: "Difference at War" is a comparative study of three Jewish poet-soldiers of the First World War: Siegfried Sassoon, Isaac Rosenberg, and U. Z. Grinberg. ... The poetry of each of these Jewish poets was transformed by the War"

[edit] Playwrights

[edit] Journalists

"Conrad Black's wife Barbara Amiel, a Jewish writer"
"whose 44-year-old Jewish American-born wife, née "Bimberly" Solomon turned Kimberly Fortier turned Kimberly Quinn"

[edit] Artists

[edit] Fine arts

"London's four leading Jewish painters, including me"
Listed as a British painter in Hutchinson's Encyclopedia of Britain, 2005

[edit] Designers and Architects

[edit] Business and the professions

[edit] Food

[edit] Retail

[edit] Manufacturing

[edit] Civil service

  • Sir Hermann Bondi [346], Chief Scientific Adviser to the Ministry of Defence and the Department of Energy
  • Sir Alan Marre [347], Second Permanent Secretary, Health; later Parliamentary Commissioner for Administration
  • Sir Claus Moser [348], Lord Moser, Government Statistician

[edit] 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"
Obituary: Harold Lightman; The Independent; Nov 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."

[edit] Media

The Times (London); Dec 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."'

[edit] Finance

[edit] Sports

[edit] Boxing

[edit] Chess

[edit] Other

[edit] Military


[edit] Police

[edit] Miscellaneous

[edit] References

[edit] Footnotes

  1. ^ 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 Nov 2006.
  2. ^ 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 Nov 2006.
  3. ^ [[Jewish Chronicle], 8 January 1999, p.6: "Three Jewish knights feature among the New Year honours: ... Nichola Serota ... John Krebs ... Victor Blank."
  4. ^ Bloom - mentioned as Jewish in the Jewish Chronicle, 15/9/2006 p44: "Tribal beat: Showbiz Jews in the news
  5. ^ Bonham Carter - [1] "CARTER TOO JEWISH FOR JEWISH ROLE... British actress HELENA BONHAM CARTER stunned director PAUL WEILAND with her Jewish accent on the set of their new movie SIXTY SIX and even had to be asked to tone down her impersonation The PLANET OF THE APES actress, who has Austrian Jewish roots, stars as social-climber ESTHER REUBEN in the British film and reveals it wasn't hard to do because of her family upbringing She says, "People always think I'm indelibly English, but actually I was brought up in Golders Green (north west London) and there's tons of Jewish blood on my mother's side" [2] "Helena abandons her old-fashioned style, playing a North London Jewish mother... "My mum was so pleased I was doing this film," she laughs. "I am half French, half Spanish and Jewish - but I'm always seen as very British. I'm finally getting in touch with my Jewish roots.""
  6. ^ The Express, 23 May 2003 (Paul Callan): "She was born Joan Henrietta Collins, a nice Jewish girl from Bayswater"
  7. ^ Jewish Chronicle, 24/10/2003 p35: "(Noel) Coward was less complimentary about (Maureen) Lipman's fellow Jewish stage star Fenella Fielding"
  8. ^ [3] "Woolf is angry at always having to be the little guy, and Jewish at that." Accessed 27 October 2006.
    Jewish Chronicle, March 17 2000 p.43: "Home in Homerton was next door to a local Moseleyite. "My first memory at five years old," says Woolf, "is her hitting me over the head with a tennis racket. I said 'What did you do that for?' She said, 'It's nothing personal, it's because you're Jewish.' I understand that she had done it for ideological reasons."
  9. ^ Kazinsky - [4] "Jewish Actor Joins EastEnders... The 22-year-old actor – who can speak Hebrew and who starred in a mobile phone commercial in Israel..."
  10. ^ Mentioned as one of several Jewish actors on EastEnders at [5]
  11. ^ Slowe - [6] "another Jewish actor... Georgia Slowe"
  12. ^ [7]"Sharon Osbourne elaborated on her background in a November 16 interview with The Scotsman daily. She is described as "the daughter of the infamously hard-nosed music promoter Don Arden, who shaped the careers of Gene Vincent, The Small Faces" and the Electric Light Orchestra. "People expected Ozzy to have a big-[bosomed], blonde trophy wife," she said, "and instead he's got me, a short, fat, hairy half Jew. I had a lot to fight against in this industry."
  13. ^ Jewish Chronicle 18/6/2004 p38: "as JC readers know, Kelly Osbourne is actually Jewish." However, she allegedly said "I'm not Jewish" on S2E10 of the Osbournes; also [8] says she isn't Jewish.
  14. ^ "The Penguin Dictionary of Musical Performers", Arthur Jacobs, ISBN 0-14-051160-1, "Under threat as a Jew from Nazi persecution, settled in Britain, 1938."
  15. ^ [9] "Anglo-Indian writer ... Ruth Prawer Jhabvala was born in Cologne, Germany. Her father, a lawyer, was of Polish-Jewish origin and her mother was German-Jewish. Jhabvala attended Jewish segregated school before she emigrated in 1939 with her family to Britain." Accessed 1 Nov 2006.
  16. ^ [[Jewish Chronicle], 8 January 1999, p.6: "Three Jewish knights feature among the New Year honours: ... Nichola Serota ... John Krebs ... Victor Blank."
  17. ^ 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 Nov 2006.
  18. ^ [10]"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."
  19. ^ Roman Greenberg site "the first Jewish world heavyweight champion in more than a quarter-century" Boxrec site "Hometown Finchley, England". Both accessed 12 Nov 2006.

[edit] 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)

[edit] See also

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