People
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 |
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 |
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 |
Ascher, Isidore Gordon | 1835–1914 | Scottish-Canadian novelist and poet |
Ayrton, Hertha (Marks) | 1854–1923 | Electrical engineer and feminist, winner of the Royal Society’s Hughes Medal, stepmother of Edith Zangwill |
Belisario, Miriam Mendes | C1820–1885 | Writer, teacher, and lexicographer |
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) |
Blind, Mathilde (Cohen) | 1841–1896 | German-born poet, writer, and feminist |
Bresslau, Marcus Hyman | C1808–1864 | Prussian-born Hebraist, editor, and journalist, Baal Korah for the Western Synagogue, editor of the Jewish Chronicle (1844–48) |
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 |
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) |
Edelmann, Zevi Hirsch | 1805–1858 | Russian-born Hebraist and scholar |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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, 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 |
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 |
Nathan, Isaac | 1790–1864 | Composer, musicologist, and writer |
Newman, Selig | 1788–1871 | German-born Hebraist and writer |
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 |
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 |
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) |
Wolf, Lucien | 1857–1930 | Journalist, co-founder of the Jewish Territorial Organisation (1903), co-founder of the League of British Jews (1917) |
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 |
Zangwill, Israel | 1864–1926 | Author, critic, and activist, co-founder of the Jewish Territorial Organisation (1903) |