People
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| Aaronson, Lazarus Leonard | 1894-1966 | Poet and academic |
| Abady, Jacques | 1872-1964 | Mechanical engineer, barrister, and politician, Mayor of Westminster (1927–8) |
| Abdela, Jacob Elia | C1837-1907 | Shipping merchant, President of the Manchester Talmud Torah, member of the Society of Gemeluth Chasidim |
| Abelson, Joshua | 1873-1940 | Orthodox rabbi and scholar, Minister of Cardiff (1895–9), Bristol Hebrew Congregation (1899–1907), and Leeds Great Synagogue (1920–40) |
| Abraham, Abraham | C1799-1863 | Translator and optician, President of Liverpool Jewry’s Philanthropic Institute and Hebrew School, uncle of John Simon |
| Abraham, Joseph | C1814–1867 | Politician and communal leader, President of Bristol Hebrew Congregation (1853–4), Bristol town councilor (1861), Mayor of Bristol (1865–6) |
| Abraham [Braham], Leonora Lucy | 1853–1931 | Operatic soprano and writer |
| Abraham, Philip | 1804–1890 | Writer and educationist, father of Leonora Lucy Abraham |
| Abraham, Roy Clive | 1890–1963 | Scholar and colonial administrator |
| Abrahams, Abraham | 1897–1955 | Journalist and poet |
| Abrahams [Sussman], Abraham | 1801–1880 | Hasidic shochet and scholar, first notable Polish Hasid to settle in Britain (1837) |
| Abrahams, Barnett | 1831–1863 | Dayan and educationist, first Anglo-Jewish minister to hold a British university degree, son of Abraham (Sussman) Abrahams |
| Abrahams, Israel | 1858–1925 | Scholar and academic |
| Abrahams, Sir Lionel Barnett | 1869–1919 | Civil servant, economist, and historian |
| Abrahams, Louis Barnett | 1839–1918 | Writer and teacher, first editor of the Jewish Record |
| Abrahams, Moses | 1853–1925 | Mayor of Grimsby (1901) |
| Abrahams, Moses | 1860–1919 | Author and minister of the Leeds Jewish community, son of Abraham (Sussman) Abrahams |
| Abramsky, Yehezkel | 1886–1976 | Lithuanian-born orthodox rabbi and dayan, declined appointment as Chief Rabbi of Palestine in succession to Abraham Isaac Kook |
| Adler, Celestine (Lehfeldt) | 1821–1891 | Second wife of Nathan Marcus Adler, mother of Elkan Nathan Adler |
| Adler, Elkan Nathan | 1861–1946 | Author and collector of antiquities, son of Nathan Marcus Adler and Celestine (Lehfeldt) Adler |
| Adler, Henrietta (Nettie) | 1868–1950 | Social worker, politician, and author, daughter of Hermann Adler |
| Adler, Henrietta (Worms) | 1800–1853 | First wife of Nathan Marcus Adler, mother of Marcus Nathan Adler and Hermann Adler |
| Adler, Herbert Marcus | 1876–1940 | Barrister and educationist, son of Marcus Nathan Adler |
| Adler, Hermann | 1839–1911 | Chief Rabbi (1891–1911), son of Nathan Marcus Adler and Henrietta (Worms) Adler |
| Adler, Jacob Pavlovitch | 1855–1926 | Yiddish theatre actor and memoirist |
| Adler, Jankel [Jakub] | 1895–1949 | Painter and printmaker |
| Adler, Marcus Nathan | 1837–1911 | Actuary and communal leader, son of Nathan Marcus Adler and Henrietta (Worms) Worms |
| Adler, Michael | 1868–1944 | Orthodox minister, military chaplain, and writer |
| Adler, Nathan Marcus | 1803–1890 | Rabbinical writer and Chief Rabbi (1845–90) |
| Aguilar, Emanuel Abraham | 1824–1904 | Composer and pianist, brother of Grace Aguilar |
| Aguilar, Grace | 1816–1847 | Novelist, poet, and historian, first Jewish historian of Anglo-Jewry |
| Aguilar, Henry | 1827–1902 | Captain in the Royal Navy, brother of Grace Aguilar |
| Alex, Ephraim | 1800–1882 | Dentist and communal leader, founder and first president of the Jewish Board of Guardians (1859) |
| Alexander, David Lindo | 1842–1922 | Barrister and communal leader, president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews (1903–17), member of the League of British Jews, grandson of David Abarbanel Lindo |
| Alexander, Samuel | 1859-1938 | Professor and philosopher, first professing Jew to hold an Oxbridge fellowship |
| Alman, Olga [Gertrude] (Ginzburg) | C1886–1961 | Russian-born co-founder of the Federation of Women Zionists (1918) |
| Alman, Samuel | 1877–1947 | Musician, composer, and writer of liturgical works |
| Amshewitz, Asher | 1824–1903 | Orthodox rabbi and scholar, one of the first three scholars-in-residence at the Judith Montefiore College (1867), father of J.H. Amshewitz |
| Amshewitz, John Henry [J.H.] | 1884–1942 | Artist, illustrator of works by Israel Zangwill |
| Angel, Moses | C1821–1898 | Educator and writer, headmaster of the Jews’ Free School (1842–97), first co-editor of the Jewish Chronicle (1841–2) |
| Ansell, Moss | C1821–1872 | First Jew to hold a government office in Britain, Chief Clerk in the Court of Chancery (C1842–72), recipient of the Freedom of the City of London (1856) |
| Aria, Eliza (Davis) | 1866–1931 | Author and journalist, sister of Julia Frankau |
| Artom, Benjamin | 1835-1879 | Asti-born orthodox rabbi, musician, composer, and writer of sermons, prayers, and poetry |
| Ascher, Benjamin | 1812-1893 | Posen-born orthodox rabbi and translator, half-brother of Simon Ascher |
| Ascher, Isidore Gordon | 1835–1914 | Scottish-Canadian novelist and poet |
| Ascher, Simon | 1789-1872 | Dutch-born cantor, reader, and chazan of the Great Synagogue (1832–70) |
| Ascher, Ascher | 1837–1889 | Scottish-born physician and writer, first Jew in Scotland to enter the medical profession Medical Officer to the Glasgow Hebrew Philanthropic Society, Secretary to the Glasgow Hebrew Congregation |
| Ayrton, Hertha (Marks) | 1854–1923 | Electrical engineer and feminist, winner of the Royal Society’s Hughes Medal, stepmother of Edith Zangwill |
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| Ballin, Ada Sarah | 1862–1906 | Author and journalist. Founder of Baby: The Mothers’ Magazine (1887) and Womanhood (1898) magazine |
| Barnett, Lionel David | 1871-1960 | Professor of Sanskrit at UCL (1917–48), Elder of Bevis Marks |
| Beer, Rachel (Sassoon) | 1858-1927 | Bombay-born newspaper editor, first woman to edit a Fleet Street newspaper, owner and editor of the Observer and the Sunday Times until 1904 |
| Behrend, Henry | 1828-1893 | Liverpool-based physician, admitted to the Royal College of Surgeons (1850), President of the Jews’ Hospital (1871–93), regularly contributed essays on Jewish law and history to the Jewish Chronicle |
| Belisario, Miriam Mendes | 1816–1885 | Writer, teacher, and lexicographer, granddaughter of the scholar and preacher Isaac Mendes Belisario |
| Benas, Baron Louis | 1844–1914 | Stockbroker and antiquarian, senior warden of Liverpool’s Old Hebrew Congregation, historian of Liverpool Jewry, founder of the first English branch of the Alliance Israélite Universalle (1867), father of Betram Benas |
| Bender, Philipp | C1830-1901 | Orthodox minister, teacher, and Hebrew scholar |
| Benham, Arthur | C1878-1895 | Playwright, member of the Maccabaeans |
| Benisch, Abraham | 1811–1878 | Hebraist, editor, and journalist, editor of the Jewish Chronicle (1854–69, 1875–8 |
| Benjamin, Elizabeth Abadi | 1874–1966 | Head of the girls’ section of the Jews’ Free School (1879–1907) |
| Benjamin, Lewis Saul | 1874–1932 | Author known as Lewis Melville, published a two-volume life of Thackeray in 1899 |
| Bensusan, Samuel Levy | 1872–1958 | Journalist, author, and playwright |
| Bentwich, Herbert | 1856–1932 | Lawyer and law journalist, owner and editor of the Law Journal from 1908, co-founder of the Maccabaeans (1891), member of the Chovevei Zion movement, Chairman of the Zionist Federation (1898–1909) |
| Bergson, Michael Gabriel | 1820–1898 | Warsaw-born composer, co-edited a collection of sacred Jewish hymns and prayers with Marcus Hast in 1874 |
| Berlin, Moses | 1849–1919 | Hamburg-born orthodox rabbi, minister of the Hebrew Congregation at Newport, Monmouthshire, and Plymouth, Headmaster of the Talmud Torah School in Manchester, brother of Norman Isaac Berlin |
| Berlin, Norman Isaac | 1832–1902 | Teacher and scholar, teacher at Leopold Neumegen’s school at Kew, scholar-in-residence at the Judith Montefiore College, Ramsgate, studying Hebrew literature |
| Berliner, Berman | 1848–1913 | Orthodox minister, Baal Koreh at the German Synagogue in Broad Street, London Wall, minister of the Bristol Hebrew Congregation (1871–8) and St. John’s Wood Synagogue (1878–1912), contributed an essay on Solomon Luria to the Jews’ College Jubilee Volume (1906) |
| Bernberg, Joseph | 1869–1941 | Poland-born religious teacher |
| Bles, David Samuel | C1834–1899 | Merchant, president of the Manchester Board of Guardians, manager of the Manchester Jews’ Free School, co-founder of the Manchester Reform Synagogue |
| Blind, Mathilde (Cohen) | 1841–1896 | German-born poet, writer, and feminist |
| Bloch, Sir Maurice | 1882–1964 | First Scottish Jew to be knighted, president and treasurer of the Glasgow Jewish Board of Guardians, Hon. Life President of the Glasgow Yeshiva |
| Boas, Frederick Samuel | 1862–1957 | Literary scholar and academic, specialist in the Elizabethan and Restoration periods |
| Bowman, Laurence George | C1866–1950 | Educationist, president of the Haskalah Literary Society (1931) |
| Bresslau, Marcus Hyman | C1808–1864 | Prussian-born Hebraist, editor, and journalist, Baal Korah for the Western Synagogue, editor of the Jewish Chronicle (1844–50, 54–55) |
| Brighten, Hilda Rachel (Cohen) | 1817–1904 | Orthodox songwriter and poet, editor of the Jewish Woman (1925-6) |
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| Cohen, Julia (Waley) | 1853–1917 | Founder of the Union of Jewish Women (1902) |
| Cohen, Nathaniel Louis | 1844–1913 | Governmental advisor and communal leader, husband of Julia Cohen |
| Cuffe, Ellen (Bischoffsheim) | 1857–1933 | London-born Irish politician and philanthropist, president of the Gaelic League, first Jewish senator in Ireland |
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| Deutsch, Emanuel | 1829–1873 | German-born writer and scholar |
| Disraeli, Benjamin 1st Earl of Beaconsfield | 1804–1881 | Author, statesman, and Conservative politician, served twice as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1868, 1874-80) |
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| Edelmann, Zevi Hirsch | 1805–1858 | Russian-born Hebraist and scholar |
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| Farjeon, Benjamin | 1838–1903 | Novelist and playwright |
| Franklin, Jacob Abraham | 1809-1877 | Optician, actuary, and newspaper proprietor and editor, founder of the Voice of Jacob (1841–8) |
| Frankau, Julia | 1859–1916 | Novelist alias Frank Danby |
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| Goldsmid, Anna Maria | 1805–1889 | Writer, translator, and philanthropist, daughter of Isaac Lyon Goldsmid |
| Goldsmid, Augustus | 1818–1874 | Barrister, nephew of Isaac Lyon Goldsmid, nephew of David Salomons |
| Goldsmid, Sir Francis Henry 2nd Baronet | 1808–1878 | Politician, barrister, and communal leader, Liberal MP for Reading (1860-78), first Jew to become an English barrister, son of Isaac Lyon Goldsmid |
| Goldsmid, Frederick David | 1812–1866 | Politician and communal leader, Liberal MP for Honiton (1865–6), son of Isaac Lyon Goldsmid |
| Goldsmid, Sir Frederick John | 1818–1908 | Author, army officer, and civil servant in India, Director General of the Indo-European Telegraph, nephew of Isaac Lyon Goldsmid |
| Goldsmid, Henry Edward (Moses) | 1812–1855 | East India Company official, married into the Goldsmid family |
| Goldsmid, Sir Isaac Lyon | 1778–1859 | Financier and communal leader, founding member of the West London Synagogue (C1840), son of Asher Goldsmid |
| Goldsmid, Jessie Sarah | 1816–1888 | Sister of Frederick John Goldsmid, wife of Henry Edward (Moses) Goldsmid |
| Goldsmid, Louisa Sophia | 1819–1908 | Feminist and philanthropist, niece of Isaac Lyon Goldsmid, wife of Francis Henry Goldsmid |
| Gordon, Samuel | 1871–1927 | Bavarian-born novelist and dramatist |
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| Harris, Emily Marion | C1844–1900 | Novelist, poet, and educationist |
| Harris, Isidore | 1853–1925 | Writer and historian |
| Hartog, Marion (Moss) | 1821–1907 | Poet, author, and educator, co-founder of the first Jewish women’s periodical, the Jewish Sabbath Journal (1855), sister of Celia (Moss) Levetus |
| Henry, Emma (Lyon) | 1788–1870 | First published Anglo-Jewish woman poet |
| Henry, Lucy | 1852–1923 | Writer and granddaughter of Emma Lyon Henry, niece of Michael Henry |
| Henry, Michael | 1830–1875 | Editor of the Jewish Chronicle (1868–75), son of Emma (Lyon) Henry |
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| Joseph, Delissa | 1859–1927 | Architect and communal leader, designed synagogues such as Hampstead, lay leader of the New West End Synagogue |
| Joseph, Lily Delissa (Solomon) | 1863–1940 | Painter and women’s suffrage campaigner, pioneer cyclist,wife of Delissa Joseph, sister of Solomon J. Solomon |
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| Leverson, Ada Esther (Beddington) | 1862–1933 | Novelist and friend of Oscar Wilde, granddaughter of John Simon |
| Levetus, Celia (Moss) | 1819–1873 | Writer of Jewish historical fiction, co-founder of the first Jewish women’s periodical, the Jewish Sabbath Journal (1855), sister of Marion (Moss) Hartog |
| Levy, Amy | 1861–1889 | Writer and poet, second Jewish woman to attend Cambridge University and the first at Newnham College (1879–81) |
| Lindo,Abigail | 1803-1848 | Lexicographer and scholar, first British Jew to compile a Hebrew-English dictionary |
| Lindo, David Abarbanel | 1772–1852 | Communal leader and scion of the Lindo family, father of Abigail Lindo, uncle of Benjamin Disraeli |
| Lindo, Elias Haim | 1783–1865 | Scholar and author, nephew of David Abarbanel Lindo |
| Lousada, Emanuel Baruh | 1783–1854 | West Indies merchant and developer of Sidmouth, High Sheriff of Devon (1842–3), son of Isaac Baruh Lousada |
| Lousada, Jane (Goldsmid) | 1783–1870 | Daughter of Abraham Goldsmid, wife of Emanuel Baruh Lousada |
| Lucas, Alice (Montefiore) | 1851–1935 | Poet and translator, founder and president of the Jewish Study Society, sister of Claude Goldsmid Montefiore |
| Lucas, Helen (Goldsmid) | 1835–1918 | Philanthropist and communal leader, daughter of Frederick David Goldsmid |
| Lyon, Abraham Septimus [A.S.] | 1804–1872 | Diarist and brother of Emma (Lyon) Henry |
| Lyon, Sarah (Lindo) | 1823–1906 | Diarist and wife of A.S. Lyon |
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| Magnus, Lady Katie (Emanuel) | 1844–1924 | Author and teacher |
| Magnus, Sir Philip | 1842–1933 | Academic and politician, husband of Katie Magnus |
| Marks, David Woolf | 1811–1909 | First minister of the West London Synagogue of British Jews (1840–93) |
| Meldola, David | 1797–1853 | Minister of Bevis Marks (1828), first co-editor of the Jewish Chronicle (1841–2) |
| Merton, Hannah Moses (Cohen) | 1816–1898 | Diarist and homemaker |
| Mitchell, Joseph | d. 1854 | Proprietor of the Jewish Chronicle (1844–54) |
| Mocatta, Abraham | 1797–1880 | Bullion broker and stockbroker, grandson of Abraham (Lumbrozo) Mocatta (the founder of Mocatta & Goldsmid) |
| Mocatta, David | 1806–1882 | Architect and first Jewish member of a profession in Britain, son of Moses Mocatta |
| Mocatta, Isaac Lindo | 1818–1879 | Author of tracts on Jewish moral teachings and social questions, son of Moses Mocatta |
| Mocatta, Moses | 1768–1857 | Bullion broker, Hebraist, and communal leader, president of the Board of Deputies (1829–35), son of Abraham Lumbrozo Mocatta |
| Model, Alice | 1856–1943 | First woman appointed to the Jewish Board of Guardians, founder of the Jewish Day Nursery |
| Montagu, Lilian Helen (Lily) | 1873–1963 | Writer and Reformer, co-founder of the Jewish Religious Union (later the Liberal Jewish Synagogue) |
| Montagu, Samuel Baron Montagu of Swaythling | 1832–1911 | Financier, Liberal MP for Whitechapel, founding President of the Federation of Synagogues (1887), father of Lily Montagu |
| Montefiore, Charlotte | 1818–1854 | Writer and philanthropist, founder of the Cheap Jewish Library, niece of Sir Moses Montefiore |
| Montefiore, Claude Goldsmid | 1858–1938 | Scholar, author, and Reformer, co-founder of the Jewish Religious Union (later the Liberal Jewish Synagogue), grandson of Isaac Lyon Goldsmid |
| Montefiore, Lady Judith (Cohen) | 1784–1862 | Writer and philanthropist, author of the first Anglo-Jewish cookbook, wife of Moses Montefiore |
| Montefiore, Sir Moses Haim | 1784–1885 | Businessman, philanthropist, and communal leader |
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| Nathan, Isaac | 1790–1864 | Composer, musicologist, and writer |
| Newman, Selig | 1788–1871 | German-born Hebraist and writer |
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| Polack, Elizabeth | fl. 1830 | First Anglo-Jewish woman dramatist, related to Solomon Polack |
| Polack, Elizabeth | fl. 1830 | Anglo-Jewish woman poet |
| Polack, Joel Samuel | 1807–1882 | Pioneer settler in New Zealand, son of Solomon Polack |
| Polack, Maria | fl. 1830 | First Anglo-Jewish woman novelist, daughter of Ephraim Polack, related to Elizabeth Polack |
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| Raphall, Morris Jacob | 1798–1868 | Orthodox rabbi and author, editor of the Hebrew Review and Magazine of Rabbinical Literature (1834–6), rabbi of the Birmingham Synagogue (1841–9) |
| Rothschild, Sir Anthony de (1st Baronet) | 1810–1876 | Financier, High Sheriff of Buckinghamshire (1861), son of Nathan Mayer and Hannah (Cohen) Rothschild |
| Rothschild, Charlotte von | 1819–1884 | German-born socialite, wife of Lionel de Rothschild |
| Rothschild, Constance de (Lady Battersea) | 1843–1931 | Socialite, philanthropist, and temperance activist, founder of the Jewish Association for the Protection of Girls, Women and Children (1885) |
| Rothschild, Hannah (Cohen) | 1783–1850 | Sister of Judith (Cohen) Montefiore, wife of Nathan Mayer Rothschild |
| Rothschild, Baron Lionel Nathan de | 1808–1879 | Banker, politician, and philanthropist, first Jewish MP in the House of Commons, Liberal MP for the City of London (1847–68) |
| Rothschild, Lady Louisa (Montefiore) de | 1821–1910 | Philanthropist, founding member of the Union of Jewish Women (1902), wife of Anthony de Rothschild |
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| Salomans, Sir David 1st Baronet | 1797–1873 | Politician, businessman, and communal leader, Sheriff of London (1835-6), Liberal MP for Greenwich (1851-73), Lord Mayor of London (1855), son of Levy Salomons |
| Salaman, Nina (Davis) | 1877–1925 | Hebrew scholar and poet |
| Salaman, Redcliffe | 1874–1955 | Geneticist and communal leader, husband of Nina (Davis) Salaman |
| Salomons, Philip | 1796–1867 | Businessman and communal leader, High Sheriff of Sussex (1852), son of Levy Salomons |
| Samuel, Moses | 1795–1860 | Writer, translator, and Hebraist |
| Sidgwick, Cecily (Ullmann) | 1854–1934 | Novelist alias Mrs Andrew Dean |
| Simon, Sir John | 1818–1897 | Politician, barrister, and Reformer, Liberal MP for Dewsbury (1868–88) |
| Simon, Rachel (Salaman) | 1823–1899 | Writer, wife of Sir John Simon |
| Sola, David Aaron de | 1796–1860 | Minister of Bevis Marks (1818–60) |
| Solomon, Abraham | 1824–1862 | Painter, brother of Rebecca and Simeon Solomon |
| Solomon, Rebecca | 1832–1886 | Painter, sister of Abraham and Simeon Solomon |
| Solomon, Simeon | 1840–1905 | Painter, brother of Abraham and Rebecca Solomon |
| Solomon, Solomon Joseph | 1860–1927 | Painter, founding president of the Maccabean Society (1891) |
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| Vallentine, Isaac | 1793–1868 | Founder of the Jewish Chronicle (1841), the Jewish Association for the Diffusion of Religious Knowledge (1828), and the Jews’ Orphans Asylum (1831) |
| Vogel, Sir Julius | 1835–1899 | London-born politician, first Jewish prime minister of New Zealand |
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| Wolf, Lucien | 1857–1930 | Journalist, co-founder of the Jewish Territorial Organisation (1903), co-founder of the League of British Jews (1917) |
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| Zangwill, Israel | 1864–1926 | Author, critic, and activist, co-founder of the Jewish Territorial Organisation (1903) |