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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.
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List of BritishJews is a list of prominent Jews from the United Kingdom and its predecessor states. Although the first Jews may have arrived on the island...
While Cromwell never officially readmitted Jews to the Commonwealth of England, a small colony of Sephardic Jews living in London was identified in 1656...
League favored settlement in Palestine by BritishJews who chose to live there, but opposed the belief that Jews constituted a separate nationality, the...
Sephardic Jews, the board presents itself as a forum for the views of most organisations within the British Jewish community, liaising with the British government...
Jews for Justice for Palestinians (JJP) is a Jewish activist group based in Britain that describes itself as advocating for human and civil rights, and...
descent, both Ashkenazi and Sephardi. Madras Jews: The Spanish and Portuguese Jews, Paradesi Jews and BritishJews arrived at Madras during the 16th century...
were referred to as Palestinian Jews.[citation needed] After the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948, the Jews of Mandatory Palestine became Israeli...
isolate the Jews in British cinema. Stephen Brook wrote in The Club in 1989 that while there had been Jewish actors in British theatre, Jews had been more...
rightfully belong to the Jews?" Ideas favoring the restoration of the Jews in Palestine or the Land of Israel entered the British public discourse in the...
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like strictly Orthodox or Haredi. Haredi Jews regard themselves as the most religiously authentic group of Jews, although other movements of Judaism disagree...
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foothold in Britain – Left Foot Forward". Left Foot Forward. 14 January 2015. "The Jewish Leadership Council and the Board of Deputies of BritishJews Response...
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Sephardic Jews (Hebrew: יְהוּדֵי סְפָרַד, romanized: Yehudei Sfarad, transl. 'Jews of Spain'; Ladino: Djudíos Sefardíes), also known as Sephardi Jews or Sephardim...
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1891. The earliest reference to the Jews in Ireland was in the year 1079. The Annals of Inisfallen record "Five Jews came from overseas with gifts to Toirdelbach...
disabilities, e.g. Jewish quotas, to which European Jews were then subject, and the recognition of Jews as entitled to equality and citizenship rights. It...
sheriffs of all counties that he wanted all Jews expelled before All Saints' Day (1 November) that year. Jews were allowed to leave with cash and personal...
and elsewhere in the Middle East are traditionally called Baghdadi Jews or Iraqi Jews. They settled primarily in the ports and along the trade routes around...
Mizrahi Jews (Hebrew: יהודי המִזְרָח), also known as Mizrahim (מִזְרָחִים) or Mizrachi (מִזְרָחִי) and alternatively referred to as Oriental Jews or Edot...
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52,300 Jews in the country. The South African Jewish Board of Deputies estimates that the figure is closer to 75,000. The history of the Jews in South...
in Britain, remained in force for only a few months. In 1858, practising Jews were finally allowed to sit in Parliament after the passage of the Jews Relief...
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