• British Jews (often referred to collectively as British Jewry or Anglo-Jewry) are British citizens who are Jewish. The number of people who identified...
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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...
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  • League favored settlement in Palestine by British Jews who chose to live there, but opposed the belief that Jews constituted a separate nationality, the...
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  • 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...
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    While Cromwell never officially readmitted Jews to the Commonwealth of England, a small colony of Sephardic Jews living in London was identified in 1656...
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  • descent, both Ashkenazi and Sephardi. Madras Jews: The Spanish and Portuguese Jews, Paradesi Jews and British Jews arrived at Madras during the 16th century...
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    not all ethnic Jews practice Judaism. Despite this, religious Jews regard individuals who have formally converted to Judaism as Jews. The Israelites...
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    for the promotion of "goodwill and esteem between Jews and non-Jews" and it also called for the British government to adhere to the terms of its Mandate...
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  • and the living arrangement of Jews in the listed countries. Who is a Jew? Jewish ethnic divisions History of the Jews under Muslim rule Judaism by country...
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    European Jews during World War II. Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews across German-occupied...
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    Judaism. Haredi Jews also use other terms to refer to themselves. Common Yiddish words include Yidn (Jews), erlekhe Yidn (virtuous Jews), ben Torah (son...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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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...
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    The history of the Jews in Europe spans a period of over two thousand years. Jews, a Semitic people descending from the Judeans of Judea in the Southern...
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    Baghdadi Jews or Iraqi Jews are historic terms for the former communities of Jewish migrants and their descendants from Baghdad and elsewhere in the Middle...
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    Kuwaiti Jews, Bahraini Jews, Qatari Jews, Omani Jews, Algerian Jews, Libyan Jews, Moroccan Jews, Tunisian Jews, Iranian Jews, Bukharian Jews, Afghan Jews, and...
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    American Jews along with an array of other Jewish communities, including more recent Sephardi Jews, Mizrahi Jews, Beta Israel-Ethiopian Jews, various...
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  • Deputies of British Jews and of the Anglo-Jewish Association considered the Balfour Declaration a "veritable calamity" that would stamp "the Jews as strangers...
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    the sheriffs of all counties he wanted all Jews expelled before All Saints' Day (1 November) that year. Jews were allowed to leave England with cash and...
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    Palestinian Jews or Jewish Palestinians (Hebrew: יְהוּדִים פָלַסְטִינִים; Arabic: اليهود الفلسطينيين) were the Jews who inhabited Palestine (alternatively...
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  • (born 1964), British lawyer, former chief executive of the Board of Deputies of British Jews Jon Benjamin (diplomat) (born 1963), British diplomat H. Jon...
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    Sephardic Jews (Hebrew: יְהוּדֵי סְפָרַד‎, romanized: Yehudei Sfarad, transl. 'Jews of Spain'; Ladino: Djudios Sefaradis), also known as Sephardi Jews or Sephardim...
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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...
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    Balfour Declaration (category Use British English from February 2019)
    "restoration of the Jews" to Palestine among elements of the mid-19th-century British political elite – most notably Lord Shaftesbury. The British Foreign Office...
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    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...
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  • British Jews have experienced antisemitism - discrimination and persecution as Jews - since a Jewish community was first established in England in 1070...
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    Reform Judaism (redirect from Reform Jews)
    especially nationalistic ones. In 1840, several British Jews formed the West London Synagogue of British Jews, headed by Reverend David Woolf Marks. While...
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  • 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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    The history of the Jews in Iraq (Hebrew: יְהוּדִים בָּבְלִים, Yehudim Bavlim, lit. 'Babylonian Jews'; Arabic: اليهود العراقيون, al-Yahūd al-ʿIrāqiyyūn)...
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