Judaism in Victorian Britain

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Jews in Pre-Victorian Britain

• The History of Jews in the United Kingdom: The Middle Ages until Expulsion (1290)
• The Reformation, Cromwell, the Commonwealth, and Readmission of the Jews
• The Restoration, Glorious Revolution, and Enlightenment
• Francisco Lopez Suasso of The Hague funds William of Orange (William III) and the Glorious Revolution
• The growth of the Jewish community in England
• The Ashkenazi Jews Arrive from Germany and Eastern Europe
• Solomon de Medina knighted by William III
• Relative integration of Jews into English society occurs without any special legislation

The Social and Political History of Jews in Victorian Britain

• Judaism in Nineteenth-Century England: A Chronology
• British Liberal Judaism: Montefiore, Montagu, and Reforming Reform
• The Rothchild Dynasty
• “The Jewish Question:” The Illustrated London News defends the right of Rothchild and other Jews to serve in Parliament
• Moses Angel and the Jew's Free School
• The Protestant Fight for Jewish Civil Liberties in Victorian England
• “The Jews in London” from The Graphic (1889)
• “The Jews in London” from The Graphic (1889)
• The Government, Institutions, and Charities of London Jews
• David Cesarani on Benjamin Disraeli's Jewishness [excerpts]

Semitism and Antisemitism

• Antisemitic portrayals of Jewish lawyers
• Nineteenth-century European Anti-Semitism
• Henry Melvill on the “Infidelity of the Jews”
• Thomas Babington Macaulay Urges Granting Jews Civil Rights (1829)
• Thomas Arnold against the “Jew Bill” that would give Jews the civil rights of other citizens
• Benjamin Disraeli’s Pro-Semitism in Conigsby and Endymion
• Linley Sambourne's cartoon, The Russian Wolf and the Hebrew Lamb, and its background

Issues

• Jewish Nationalism (or Particularism)
• Judaism and Broadchurch or Liberal Christianity
• Is Judaism a Race or a Religion?
• Proselytism and Conversion

Religious Holidays and Observances

• Jewish Wedding — Under the “Chupah”
• Feast of Tabernacles — in the “Succah
• Palm Procession — Feast of Tabernacles
• Day of Atonement — Concluding Service
• Feast of Passover Eve — The “Seder” Service
• Removing Scrolls of the Law from the Ark, West London Synagogue
• Jewish Burial
• Putting on the Phylacteries and the Garb of Prayer

Authors

• Abraham Benisch (1811-1878)
• Benjamin Disraeli, 1804-1881
• Amy Levy, 1861-99
• Lily Montagu, 1873-1963
• Moses Montefiore, 1858-1938
• Oswald John Simon, 1855-1932
• Israel Zangwill, 1864-1926

Architects

• George Basevi,1794-1845
• Delissa Joseph, 1859-1927
• David Mocatta, 1806-1882
• Nathan Solomon Joseph, 1834-1909
• Edward Salomons, 1828-1906

Painters

• Solomon Alexander Hart, 1806-1881
• Abraham Solomon, 1824-1862
• Rebecca Solomon, 1832-1886
• Simeon Solomon, 1840-1905
• Solomon J. Solomon, 1860-1927

Miscellaneous

• Jewish elements in the Music Hall Cockney

Representations of Jews in Victorian Fiction, Book Illustration, and Painting

• Antisemitism in Punch and Dickens's Great Expectations
• Dickens's positive example of Judaism in Our Mutual Friend
• Walter Besant's Sympathetic Discussion of Judaism
• Anti-semitism in fin de siècle paintings of Salome and Judith
• Fagin in Dickens's Oliver Twist
• Dickens's Our Mutual Friend
• Dickens's Great Expectations
• "The Jew went down upon his knees, and began to flay his victim." (Harry Furniss)
• "The excitable Jew had already raised the skirts of Mr. Jaggers' coat to his lips several times." (Harry Furniss)
• The Problem of the Jewish Manager in Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray
• George Du Maurier's Trilby
• Sol Eytinge's noble Jew Riah and his unscrupulous Christian employer, Fascination Fledgeby (Dickens's Our Mutual Friend)
• A Jewish Synagogue by Solomon Hart, RA
• The Procession of the Law by Solomon Hart, RA

Jewish Synagogues, Institutions, & Cemeteries

• The Bevis Marks Synagogue (1700), London
• Montefiore Synagogue, Ramsgate
• The New West End Synagogue, London
• West London Synagogue
• The New London Synagogue
• The Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue (now the Manchester Jewish Museum),
• Willesden United Synagogue Cemetery, London Borough of Brent NW10 2JE
• [Studies of the Interior of] Plymouth Synagogue
• Great Hall in the Jews’ Free School, Bell Lane
• Jews Orphan Asylum, Norwood

Book Reviews

• [A Review of] John Cooper's The Unexpected Story of Nathaniel Rothschild
• [A Review of] David Cesarani's Disraeli: The Novel Politician by Joe Pilling
• [A Review of] David Cesarani's Disraeli: The Novel Politician by Michel Pharand

Resources

• Bibliography

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