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'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, mainly of the younger generation to Israel. 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.
Political figures
''See List of British Jewish politicians''
Religious and communal leaders
★ Jacob Abendana, Haham of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews
★ Barnett Abrahams, Dayan, Principal of Jews' College
★ Israel Abrahams, scholar and educator
★ Yehezkel Abramsky, Rabbi and dayan
★ Hermann Adler, Chief Rabbi
★ Nathan Marcus Adler, Chief Rabbi
★ Benjamin Artom, Haham of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews
★ Jon Benjamin, Chief Executive, Board of Deputies of British Jews
★ Lionel Blue, Reform rabbi and broadcaster
★ Levi Brackman, Rabbi
★ Sir Israel Brodie, Chief Rabbi
★ Felix Carlebach, German born Rabbi
★ Isidore Epstein, Rabbi, Principal of Jews' College
★ Moses Gaster, Haham of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews
★ Sir Hermann Gollancz, Rabbi and educator
★ Aaron Hart, Chief Rabbi [1]
★ Joseph H. Hertz, Chief Rabbi
★ Shmuel Yitzchak Hillman, Rabbi and dayan
★ Solomon Hirschell, Chief Rabbi
★ Moses Hyamson, acting Chief Rabbi
★ Louis Jacobs, Rabbi and educator
★ Immanuel Jakobovits, Baron Jakobovits, Chief Rabbi
★ Casriel Dovid Kaplin, rabbi and dayan
★ James Kennard, Rabbi and Educationalist
★ Hart Lyon, Chief Rabbi
★ Carly McKenzie [2], One of founding members of the Byachad Movement and Campaigner
★ Frederick de Sola Mendes, rabbi
★ Ewen Montagu, President of the United Synagogue
★ Claude Montefiore, Lay synagogue leader
★ Julia Neuberger, Reform Rabbi
★ David Nieto, Haham of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews
★ Isaac Nieto, Haham of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews
★ Michael Plaskow, Minister
★ Sir Anthony Rothschild, first president of the United Synagogue
★ Sir Jonathan Sacks, Chief Rabbi
★ Joseph ben Yehuda Leib Shapotshnick, rabbi
★ Simeon Singer, Rabbi
★ Andrew Shaw, Rabbi
★ Simon Waley Waley,[1] Lay leader
★ Chaim Weizmann,[2] Zionist leader
Scientists
See List of British Jewish scientists
Academic figures
Philosophers
★ Samuel Alexander [3], professor of philosophy at Manchester, born in Australia, the first Jewish fellow of an Oxbridge college
★ Sir Alfred Ayer [4], philosopher, populariser of logical positivism (Jewish mother)
★ Sir Isaiah Berlin [5], political philosopher
★ Max Black,[3] philosopher
★ Gerald Cohen, Oxford professor of philosophy (JYB 2005 p215)
★ Laurence Jonathan Cohen, Oxford professor of philosophy (JYB 2005 p215)
★ Ernest Gellner [6], philosopher, social scientist
★ H. L. A. Hart [7], legal philosopher
★ Brian Klug [8], historian & communist theoretician
★ Stephan Korner, Bristol professor of philosophy (JYB 2005 p215)
★ Imre Lakatos [4], Hungarian-born philosopher
★ Sir Karl Popper [9], philosopher of science (family became Lutheran)
★ Richard Rudolf Walzer (JYB 1975 p214)
★ Ludwig Wittgenstein, philosopher; Evening Standard (London); 24/5/2004, p15
:"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 politically-contraversial of the 20th century."
★ Richard Wollheim [10]
:"Wollheim was an outstanding representative of a generation of Central European Jewish intellectuals"
Social scientists
See List of British Jewish scientists
Medical
★ Sir George Alberti, President, Royal College of Physicians[5]
★ Asher Asher,[6] first Scottish Jewish doctor
★ Henry Cohen, 1st Baron Cohen of Birkenhead,[7] President of the Royal Society of Medicine
★ Julius Dreschfeld,[8] medical researcher
★ Sir Ian Gainsford, dentist (JYB 2007 p.197, 222)
★ Max Hamilton [9], psychiatrist
★ Rodrigo Lopez (physician)[10]
★ John Henry Marks Guardian, Saturday October 23, 1999, chairman of the British Medical Association.
★ Sir Jonathan Miller [11], physician and theatre director
★ Leslie Turnberg, Baron Turnberg [12], Professor: FMedSci
★ Oliver Zangwill, Professor of psychology (JYB 1980 p182)
★ Sir Joseph Stone, Lord Stone of Hendon, Personal phyisician to Prime Minister Harold Wilson
Economists
''See List of British Jewish scientists''
Historians
★ David Abulafia, Professor of history, University of Cambridge (JYB 2005 p218)
★ Geoffrey Alderman,[11] historian
★ Richard Barnett, museum curator and archaeologist (JYB 1985 p187)
★ Max Beloff, Lord Beloff, historian (Encyclopaedia Judaica, art. ''Historians'')
★ Norman Cohn, historian (JYB 2005 p215)
★ Isaac Deutscher [14], historian
★ Geoffrey Rudolph Elton [15], historian
★ Samuel Finer[12]
★ Sir Moses I. Finley [3], historian and sociologist
★ Sir Martin Gilbert, historian
★ Sir Ernst Gombrich [16], art historian
★ Martin Goodman (historian) (JYB 2005 p215)
★ Philip Guedalla [14], biographer
★ Eric Hobsbawm [17], historian & communist theoretician
★ Jonathan Israel, historian (JYB 2005 p215)
★ Joseph Jacobs [18], editor of the Jewish Encyclopedia
★ Lisa Jardine, historian: The Times; Jan 11, 1997; Tony Turnbull
:"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."
★ Tony Judt [19] Director of the Erich Maria Remarque Institute at New York University.
★ Elie Kedourie [15], historian and political scientist
★ Otto Kurz, historian (JYB 1975 p214)
★ Bernard Lewis [20], historian
★ David Malcolm Lewis, professor of history, University of Oxford (JYB 1995 p.193)
★ Hyam Maccoby, professor of history [21]
★ Sir Philip Magnus, 1st Baronet, educationalist and politician
★ Sir Philip Magnus-Allcroft, 2nd Baronet [16], biographer
★ Shula Marks, expert on African history (JYB 2005 p.215)
★ Arnaldo Momigliano, professor of history, University College London (JYB 1985 p188)
★ Lewis Bernstein Namier [22], historian (converted to Anglicanism)
★ Sir Francis Palgrave (born ''Cohen'') (1768-1861) [23], UK historian
★ Sir Michael Postan, historian (JYB 1985 p188)
★ Matthew Pendrill, historian (University of Sheffield)
★ Cecil Roth [24], historian and editor of the Encyclopedia Judaica
★ Simon Schama [25], historian
★ Leonard Schapiro,[17] historian
★ Simon Sebag Montefiore [26], historian
★ Charles Singer [18], historian of science
★ Sir Aurel Stein [27], archeologist
★ Barry Supple, British economic historian (Jewish Year Book, 2005, p.215)
★ Geza Vermes [28]
:"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."
Theologians and Hebraists
★ Isaac Abendana,[19] Hebraist
★ Chimen Abramsky [29], Professor of Hebrew
★ Michael Solomon Alexander, first Anglican bishop of Jerusalem (born Jewish; see Dictionary of National Biography)
★ Lionel Barnett,[20] orientalist
★ Abraham Benisch,[21] Hebraist and editor of the ''Jewish Chronicle''
★ Immanuel Oscar Menahem Deutsch,[22] Semitic scholar and orientalist
★ Alfred Edersheim,[23] Bible scholar
★ Philip Ferdinand,[24] Professor of Hebrew
★ Christian David Ginsburg,[25] expert on the Masoretic text
★ Ridley Haim Herschell,[26] missionary
★ Marcus Kalisch [30], Hebraist and Biblical commentator
★ David Levi [27], Jewish scholar
★ David Samuel Margoliouth,[28] orientalist (family converted to Anglicanism)
★ Adolf Neubauer,[29] Hebraist
★ Stefan Reif [31], Cambridge academic
★ Judah Segal, professor of Semitic languages (JYB 2005 p215)
★ Joseph Wolff,[21] missionary
Arts and literature
★ Sir Israel Gollancz [32], Shakespeare expert
★ Sir Ernst Gombrich [33], art historian (JYB 2000 p211)
★ Sir Sidney Lee [34], editor of the Dictionary of National Biography and Shakespeare expert
★ Siegbert Salomon Prawer, professor of German (JYB 2005 p215)
★ Sir Nicholas Serota, Director of the Tate Gallery, 1987-[31]
★ Ernest Simon, professor of Chinese (JYB 1980 p183)
★ Arthur Waley [35], Chinese and Japanese literature
:"Waley, born Arthur David Schloss, was a member of an elite Anglo-Jewish family"
Showbusiness
See List of British Jewish entertainers
Musicians
See List of British Jewish entertainers
Writers
See List of British Jewish writers
Artists
Fine arts
★ Frank Auerbach [36], painter
★ David Bomberg [37], painter
★ Sir Anthony Caro [38], sculptor
★ Benno Elkan,[32] sculptor
★ Sir Jacob Epstein,[33] sculptor (UK-based)
★ Hannah Frank [39], artist & sculptor
★ Barnett Freedman,[34] artist
★ Lucian Freud [40], painter
★ Abram Games [35]
★ Mark Gertler [41], painter
★ Gluck (Hannah Gluckstein) [42], artist
★ Sir Ernst Gombrich [43], art historian
★ Walter Goodman [36], painter
★ Solomon Alexander Hart [37], painter
★ Anish Kapoor [44], sculptor (Jewish mother)
★ R. B. Kitaj, US-born painter [38]
★ Jacob Kramer [39], painter
★ Lennie Lee [45], Young British Artist/mixed media
★ Linda McCartney [46], photographer
★ Ruth Rix [47], painter
★ Sir William Rothenstein [48]
★ Isaac Snowman [49], painter
★ Solomon Joseph Solomon [50], painter
★ Tolleck Winner, mixed media
★ Alfred Wolmark,[40] painter
Designers and Architects
★ Nicole Farhi [51], fashion designer
★ John Frieda [52], hair-stylist; father of actor Jordan Frieda
★ Ray Kelvin [53], fashion designer, founder of Ted Baker
★ Denys Lasdun [41], architect
★ Stella McCartney [42], fashion designer
★ Erich Mendelsohn,[43] architect
★ Janet Reger [54], lingerie designer
★ Vidal Sassoon [55], hair stylist
★ Richard Seifert [56], architect
Business and the professions
Food
★ Jack Cohen [57], founder of Tesco
★ Sir Ronald Cohen[58], Egypt-born businessman and Labour party supporter
★ Nigella Lawson [59], Cookery writer
Retail
★ David Alliance, Baron Alliance, businessman & Liberal Democrat politician (JYB 2005 212)
★ Sir Victor Blank,[31] Chairman of GUS
★ Sir Montague Burton, retailer[45]
★ Sir Charles Clore [60], owner of Selfridges
★ Ralph and David Gold, founders of Ann Summers and co-owners of Birmingham City football club (Financial Times (London); 13/07/04; Jonathon Guthrie; p. 15)
★ Sir Philip Green [61], owner of Bhs, Arcadia Group
★ Irene Howard, English costume designer and sister of actor Leslie Howard.
★ Joseph Kagan,[62] industrialist and disgraced friend of Prime Minister Harold Wilson.
★ Stanley Kalms [63], now 'Baron Kalms of Edgware', life president of Dixons Group PLC.
★ Bernard Lewis,[46] founder of River Island
★ David Lewis [64], department store founder
★ Michael Marks [65], co-founder of Marks & Spencer (born in Poland)
★ Simon Marks [66], chairman of Marks & Spencer
★ Gerald Ronson [67], business tycoon and philanthropist.
★ Marcus Samuel, founder of the "Shell" Transport and Trading Company (Birmingham Post (Birmingham); 08/11/03; Chris Upton; p. 44)
★ Israel Sieff [68], chairman of Marks & Spencer
★ Sir Alan Sugar [69], founder of Amstrad
★ Isaac Wolfson [70], founder of GUS plc & philanthropist
Property
★ Jack Cotton,[47] property developer
★ Peter Rachman, London landlord
★ Arnold Silverstone Lord Ashdown of Chelwood, Property developer, built Ashdown House on Victoria Street, London
Manufacturing
★ Sir Leon Bagrit Time Magazine, pioneer of automation
★ Sir Monty Finniston, industrialist (JYB 1977 p206-7)
★ David Gestetner [48], inventor
★ Joseph Kagan, Baron Kagan [49], clothes manufacturer
★ Sir Emmanuel Kaye,[50] industrialist and philanthropist
★ Sir Robert Waley-Cohen,[51] industrialist
★ Arnold Weinstock, Lord Weinstock, Chairman of GEC - JYB 2002, p211
Civil service
★ Abraham Manie Adelstein, Government statistician[52]
★ Michael Baxter, Government statistician[53]
★ Sir Hermann Bondi [71], Chief Scientific Adviser to the Ministry of Defence and the Department of Energy
★ Sir Andrew Cohen,[54] colonial administrator
★ Eugene Grebenik [72], first head of the Civil Service College
★ Hans Kronberger (physicist),[55] nuclear physicist
★ Sir Alan Marre [73], Second Permanent Secretary, Health; later Parliamentary Commissioner for Administration
★ Sir Claus Moser [74], Lord Moser, Government Statistician
Law
★ Sir John Balcombe, Lord Justice of Appeal (The Guardian (Manchester); 04/07/00; Sir Maurice Drake; p. 20)
★ Judah P. Benjamin, American exile, lawyer[56]
★ Herbert Bentwich,[57] lawyer and Zionist leader
★ Norman Bentwich,[58] lawyer and Attorney-General of Palestine; son of Herbert Bentwich
★ His Honour Gerald Butler, Q.C., judge (The Times (London); 13/06/00; Frances Gibb; p. Law. 3)
★ Alex Carlile, Baron Carlile of Berriew, Liberal Democrats: ''Jewish Chronicle''
: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"
★ Arthur Cohen,[59] QC and politician
★ Lionel Cohen, Baron Cohen,[60] Lord of Appeal
★ Sir Lawrence Collins,[61] appeal court judge
★ Hazel Cosgrove, Lady Cosgrove [75], Scottish Queen's Counsel and sheriff
★ David Daube, Professor of Law (JYB 1995, p193)
★ Sir Morris Finer [62], judge
★ Dame Hazel Genn (JYB 2005 p215)
★ Sir Francis Henry Goldsmid [76], MP for Reading, first Jewish barrister (Q.C. 1858)
★ Sir David Lionel Goldsmid-Stern-Salomons [77], barrister
★ Peter Goldsmith, Baron Goldsmith [78], [79], Attorney General
★ Arthur Lehman Goodhart,[63] jurist
★ William Goodhart, Lord Goodhart;[64] human rights lawyer and politician (son of Arthur Goodhart)
★ Arnold Goodman, Baron Goodman [80], solicitor
★ Brian Green [81] Q.C.
★ Alexis Grower, Prominent Entertainment Lawyer, Magrath & Co, London
★ Dame Rose Heilbron [82], Britain's first female Q.C., judge
★ Rosalyn Higgins, President of the International Court of Justice[65]
★ Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading [84], lawyer and politician
★ Sir George Jessel [85], Solicitor General for England and Wales, later Master of the Rolls
★ Anthony Julius [86], prominent Lawyer for Princess Diana, and against David Irving.
★ Sir Otto Kahn-Freund, Professor of Law (Dictionary of National Biography)
★ Neville Laski [87], judge
★ Hersch Lauterpacht [88]
★ Leone Levi, barrister and statistician: Jewish Encyclopedia, VIII, 34
★ George Henry Lewis [89], solicitor
★ Gavin Lightman [90], judge; son of Harold Lightman
★ Harold Lightman, barrister, father of Gavin Lightman and Stafford Lightman
: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."
★ Alan Mocatta [91]: "Sir Alan Mocatta, Jewish"
★ Victor Mishcon, Baron Mishcon [92], solicitor.
★ Sir David Neuberger, English Lord Justice of Appeal; son of Albert Neuberger, brother of James Neuberger and Michael Neuberger, and brother-in-law of Julia Neuberger (''Jewish Year Book'' 2005:212 & 214)
★ David Pearl,[66] judge
★ Sir Bernard Rix, English Lord Justice of Appeal (2000-) (JYB 2005:212 & 214)
★ Leonard Sainer [93], solicitor and retailer
★ Lewis Silkin, 1st Baron Silkin [67], solicitor
★ Linda Joy Stern Q.C., prosecutor and judge (''Jewish Chronicle'' 15/9/06 p31: death notices)
★ Julius Stone [94]
★ Eldred Tabachnik, Q.C., former president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews [95].
★ Peter Taylor, Baron Taylor of Gosforth [96], Q.C., former Lord Chief Justice
★ Harry Woolf, Baron Woolf [97], Lord Chief Justice, Q.C., former Master of the Rolls
★ Jonathan Winegarten, Master, Probate Division
Media
★ Rachel Beer,[6] newspaper editor
★ Sidney Bernstein,[69] cinema owner
★ Benjamin Cohen [98], Channel 4 News reporter and presenter
★ Richard Desmond [99], publisher, Chairman of the Daily Express Group
★ Andre Deutsch [100]
★ Lew Grade [101], founder of ATV
★ Michael Grade [102], Chairman of ITV
★ Michael Green [103], founder of Carlton Television
★ Sydney Jacobson, newspaper editor [70]
★ Natasha Kaplinsky [104], journalist and TV presenter
★ Joseph Moses Levy [105], owner of the Daily Telegraph
★ Edward Levy-Lawson, 1st Baron Burnham [106], newspaper proprietor
★ Robert Maxwell [107], publisher
★ Suzy Menkes [108], fashion journalist
★ Paul Reuter [109], founder of Reuters
★ Jacob Rothschild, 4th Baron Rothschild, Non-Executive Deputy Chairman of the Board, British SKY Broadcasting Group PLC [71]
★ Maurice Saatchi, Baron Saatchi & Charles Saatchi [110], founders of Saatchi and Saatchi
★ Martin Sorrell [111], founder of the WPP Group
★ George Weidenfeld [112], publisher
Finance
★ Sir Ernest Cassel,[72] banker
★ Moses da Costa, also called Anthony da Costa; ''Jewish Encyclopedia'' IV p. 289
★ Abraham and Benjamin Goldsmid [113], brothers, leading financiers and philanthropists
★ Sir Isaac Lyon Goldsmid [114], financier, a leading figure in Jewish emancipation and in the foundation of University College London.
★ Dudley Joel [73], financier
★ Solomon Joel [74], financier
★ Peter Keith Levene, chairman of Lloyds of London, Lord Mayor of London (1998-1999) (JYB 2005 212)
★ Aaron of Lincoln [115], 12th century financier
★ Moses Haim Montefiore [116], financier & philanthropist
★ Michael Moritz [117], venture capitalist
★ N M Rothschild & Sons
★
★ Nathan Mayer Rothschild [118], financier & banker
★ Samuel Montagu, 1st Baron Swaythling [119]
★ Joseph Salvador [120], first Jewish director of the British East India Company
★ Barons Swaythling [121], bankers
Sports
Boxing
★ Jackie Kid Berg [122], Junior Welterweight Champion (IBHOF)
★ Roman Greenberg,[75] IBO intercontinental heavyweight champion
★ Daniel Mendoza [123], 18th century Heavyweight Champion (IBHOF), ancestor of actor Peter Sellers
Chess
★ Gerald Abrahams [124], British chess player
★ Harry Golombek [125], British chess player
★ Isidor Gunsberg [126], Hungarian/British chess player
★ William Hartston [127], British chess player
★ Bernhard Horwitz [128], German/British chess player
★ Johann Löwenthal [129], Hungarian/British chess player
★ Jonathan Mestel [130], British chess player
★ Jacques Mieses [131], German/British chess player
★ Jon Speelman [132], British chess player
★ Michael Stean [133], British chess player
★ Johannes Zukertort [134], Polish/German chess player
Other
★ Harold Abrahams [135], sprinter
★ Sir Sidney Abrahams, [136] Olympic long-jumper, colonial judge.
★ Tony Bullimore,[76] yachtsman
★ Ludwig Guttmann [137], founder of the Paralympics
★ Sir Stirling Moss, racing driver (Jewish father) (The Sunday Telegraph (London); 20/03/05; Nicholas Bagnall; p. 012)
★ David Pleat, former football manager [138]
★ Fred Trueman, cricketer (Jewish ancestry) (''Jewish Chronicle'' July 7, 2006 p40: "T'fastest Jewish bowler ever")
★ Sheila van Damm,[77] rally driver
Barry Silkman, Footballer and Agent
Military
★ Frank Alexander de Pass [139], WWI British Indian Army Victoria Cross recipient
★ John Edwards, sailor at the Battle of Trafalgar (The Independent (London); 02/11/05; Martin Sugarman; p. 34)
★ Robert Gee [140], WWI British Army Victoria Cross recipient
★ Albert Goldsmid [141], colonel
★ Frederick John Goldsmid [142], general
★ Thomas William Gould [143], WWII Royal Navy Victoria Cross recipient
★ John Patrick Kenneally [144], WWII British Army Victoria Cross recipient (Jewish father)
★ Issy Smith [145], WWI British Army Victoria Cross recipient
★ Jack White, WWI British Army Victoria Cross recipient (JYB 2005 p215)
Philanthropists
★ Bernhard Baron, cigarette maker and philanthropist [146]
★ Sir Clive Bourne,[78] philanthropist
★ Joseph Duveen, 1st Baron Duveen of Millbank[79]
★ Dame Vivien Duffield, philanthropist, daughter of Sir Charles Clore (JYB 2005 p214)
★ Anna Maria Goldsmid [80], philanthropist
★ Sir Basil Henriques,[81] philanthropist
★ Maurice de Hirsch [82], banker and philanthropist
★ Samuel Lewis [148], moneylender and philanthropist
★ Sir Robert Mayer [149], philanthropist
★ Frederic David Mocatta,[83] philanthropist
Police
★ Henry Solomon [150] [151] [152] Chief Constable of Brighton Borough 1838 to 1844
Miscellaneous
★ Barney Barnato,[6] diamond miner
★ Jack Beddington,[85] advertising executive
★ Antonio Fernandez Carvajal,[6] merchant, first Jew to be naturalised as a British citizen
★ Jeremiah Duggan[87] Possible murder victim
★ Lewis Elton [153], educationalist
★ Stuart Paton, Famous for his likeness to Jimmy Neutron.
★ Alexander Goldberg,[88] human rights activist, chaplain and barrister
★ Henry Edward Goldsmid [155], East India Company servant
★ Kurt Hahn,[89] educationalist
★ Nathaniel Isaacs,[156] explorer
★ Gottlieb Wilhelm Leitner (1840-1899), educationist and orientalist [90]
★ Sir Solomon de Medina [157], army contractor, first English Jew to be knighted
★ Chava Mond, [158] model
★ Don Pacifico,[91] cause of the Pacifico incident
★ Jordan (Katie Price), model[92]
★ Krystyna Skarbek,[93] spy
★ Sir Bernard Waley-Cohen [159], Lord Mayor of London
★ Harry Alexander
References
Footnotes
1. Concise Dictionary of National Biography: "a leading member of the London Jews"
2. Concise Dictionary of National Biography: "naturalised British subject, 1910"
3. Encyclopaedia Judaica, 2nd ed.
4. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: "the only child of Jacob Márton Lipsitz, a wine merchant, and Márgit Herczfeld, both Hungarian Jews"
5. Jewish Chronicle, January 14 2000, p.14 "Knighthood goes to diabetes pioneer"
6. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
7. Concise Dictionary of National Biography: "born of Jewish parents of Russian origin"
8. Concise Dictionary of National Biography: "born in Bavaria of Jewish parents"
9. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: "the son of Jewish parents"
10. Concise Dictionary of National Biography: "Jewish physician"
11. [13] "her father, Geoffrey Alderman, is a columnist for the Jewish Chronicle, and her family are strict Orthodox Jews" Accessed 3 Jan 2007
12. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: "He was one of the many children of pre-1914 Jewish immigrants from eastern Europe who were to play such prominent roles in British economic, cultural, and political life."
13. Encyclopaedia Judaica, 2nd ed.
14. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: "He was buried in Golders Green Jewish cemetery"
15. Jewish Year Book 1990 p202
16. Encyclopaedia Judaica, art. "Magnus"
17. Concise Dictionary of National Biography: "born in Glasgow of an Anglophile Riga Jewish family"
18. Encyclopaedia Judaica, art. Historians, list headed "Prominent Jewish General Historians"
19. Encyclopaedia Britannica 1911: ABENDANA, the name of two Jewish theologians ... Jacob ... Isaac
20. Obituary, ''Jewish Chronicle'', Feb. 5 1960, p.1
21. Concise Dictionary of National Biography: "born of Jewish parents"
22. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1911 ed.
23. Concise Dictionary of National Biography: "born of Jewish parents at Vienna"
24. Concise Dictionary of National Biography: born in Poland of Jewish parents
25. born Jewish; see Dictionary of National Biography
26. Concise Dictionary of National Biography: "born in Prussian Poland of Jewish parents"
27. Dictionary of National Biography: "Jewish controversialist, born in London in 1740, was son of Mordecai Levi, a member of the London congregation of German and Polish Jews"
28. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: "an academically highly gifted boy of Jewish parentage"
29. Jewish Encyclopedia article on Adolf Neubauer
30. Concise Dictionary of National Biography: "born of Jewish parents"
31. ''Jewish Chronicle'', 8 January 1999, p.6: "Three Jewish knights feature among the New Year honours: ... Nichola Serota ... John Krebs ... Victor Blank."
32. Concise Dictionary of National Biography: "born at Dortmund of Jewish parentage"
33. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, cited at OUP web site
34. Concise Dictionary of National Biography: "son of East-End Russian Jewish immigrants"
35. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: "As a Jew, Games worked for the Jewish relief unit and for many Jewish and Israeli organizations"
36. Obituary, ''Jewish Chronicle'' Aug 30 1912, p16
37. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: "Hart was an observant Jew."
38. ''The Guardian'', 6 February 2002, p6: Letter from Kitaj: "London's four leading Jewish painters, including me"; Listed as a British painter in Hutchinson's Encyclopedia of Britain, 2005
39. H. Read, S. Thorndike, and others, Jacob Kramer: a memorial volume (1969)
40. Concise Dictionary of National Biography: "born of Jewish parents in Warsaw; naturalized, 1894"
41. Comment by his son James Lasdun: "He was English but not really, being Jewish": accessed 6 May 2007
42. Jewish Virtual Library: "Maybe I'm a really bad Jew because I'm always so excited to say that I am, but I don't live and breathe the religion.": accessed 6 May 2007
43. Concise Dictionary of National Biography: "born in East Prussia of German-Jewish parents
44. ''Jewish Chronicle'', 8 January 1999, p.6: "Three Jewish knights feature among the New Year honours: ... Nichola Serota ... John Krebs ... Victor Blank."
45. Concise Dictionary of National Biography: "born in Lithuania of Jewish parentage"
46. ''Jewish Chronicle'', April 24 1998, p.7: "one Jewish businessman on the up is fashion and property man Bernard Lewis"
47. Dictionary of National Biography: "Cotton was a highly respected member of the Jewish community in Birmingham, of whose main synagogue he had been vice-president and treasurer"
48. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: "He was a devout Jew"
49. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: "His parents were Orthodox Jews"
50. The Times, Apr 14 1998, p.1: "the Jewish philanthropist Sir Emmanuel Kaye"
51. Concise Dictionary of National Biography: "leading figure in Anglo-Jewry"
52. article in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
53. Who's Who in the World, 18th ed (2001) p.163: "Religion: Jewish"
54. Jewish Chronicle, June 21 1968 Page:46
55. Concise Dictionary of National Biography: "born in Linz, Austria, of Jewish parents"
56. (Concise Dictionary of National Biography: "born of Jewish parents of English nationality"
57. New Yorker magazine "My great-grandfather Herbert Bentwich, a lawyer from a prominent English Jewish family" Accessed 21 Nov 2006.
58. Encyclopaedia Judaica, art. Bentwich
59. Concise Dictionary of National Biography: "first professing Jew to graduate at Cambridge"
60. Dictionary of National Biography: "Another area to which Cohen gave time and devotion was that of Jewish culture and charity. He had been brought up in the Orthodox tradition, and came to take the Reformed and Liberal positions."
61. ''Jewish Chronicle'', Jan 12 2007 p.15: article "People: Who is up to what in the Jewish world this week"
62. Obituary, Jewish Chronicle, May 10 1974 p.13
63. Concise Dictionary of National Biography: "born in New York of wealthy Jewish parents"
64. 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.
65. [83]"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."
66. Son of Rabbi Chaim Pearl: see Who's Who (UK)
67. Encyclopaedia Judaica 1st ed, vol 14 cols 1539-1540
68. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
69. Encyclopaedia Judaica, 2nd ed
70. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: "the only son and elder child of Samuel and Anna Jacobson, a Jewish couple"
71. 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."'
72. K. Grunwald, ‘Windsor Cassel: the last court Jew’, Yearbook of the Leo Baeck Institute, 14 (1969), 119–61
73. Jewish Chronicle July 25 1941, p.12, "Jews in the Navy"
74. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: "a devout Jew"
75. 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.
76. "Bullimore's sister buoyed by rabbis' support", ''Jewish Chronicle'' January 24, 1997 p.1
77. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: "Sheila's upbringing in an all-girl Jewish family generated no interest in motoring beyond her training as a Women's Auxiliary Air Force driver."
78. ''Jewish Chronicle'', obituary, January 19, 2007 p.45
79. [147]: "Lord Duveen and many other Jewish intellectuals"
80. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: "Born an Orthodox Jew, in her religious practices Anna Maria remained throughout her life very observant"
81. Concise Dictionary of National Biography: "born into old, established Jewish family"
82. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: "His grandfather Jacob had established the family as one of the first Jewish families to acquire great wealth and social acceptability in Bavaria ... His mother came from an Orthodox Frankfurt family and ensured that the children were properly instructed in Jewish matters ... he thereafter lived more in London than in Paris."
83. Concise Dictionary of National Biography: "Jewish philanthropist"
84. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
85. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: "His family were Jewish"
86. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
87. 'The Press', Hendon and Finchley Edition, 16 Nov 2006, p.4: "Student Jeremiah, who was Jewish"
88. [154]; ''The Irish Times'', Wednesday, January 07, 1998: "Ireland's Young Bloomers"
89. Concise Dictionary of National Biography: "born in Berlin of Jewish parents"
90. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: "registered with the Jewish community of Pest"; Jewish Encyclopedia
91. Concise Dictionary of National Biography: "a Portuguese Jew, but born a British subject"
92. ''Jewish Chronicle'', 24 Nov 2006, p.1: "Ms Price, who is halachically Jewish"
93. Lire: le magazine littéraire: "la comtesse Krystyna Skarbek, une aristocrate juive"
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)
★ David S. Katz, The Jews in the History of England, 1485-1850 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994). xvi, 447 pp.
See also
★ History of the Jews in England
★ History of the Jews in Scotland
★ History of the Jews in Ireland
★ Lists of Jews
★ List of Britons
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