British Jewry Hall Of Fame

This page is a little about the Jews who have contributed to the British Way of Life. Many were born elsewhere and either by choice or neccesity landed on British shores, Others like Jules Styne and Jerry Springer were born in Britain but made their name in the USA. And others like Felicity Kendal and Elisabeth Taylor converted to Judaism. Others had just one Jewish parent. This list includes England, Ireland, Scotland & Wales. Prior to this list the only monuments to well known British Jews were the chairs in the now long-gone Isows Restaurant in Brewer Street, London. Each had a name on the chair.- Progress means the Internet can replace those chairs. We have obviously missed out many more and we invite readers and/or the relations of our selections to assist us with pictures or information. Thank you- all correspondence iClick here


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Henry Makow (born November 12, 1949) is a Swiss-born Canadian Jewish author and self-appointed conspiracy researcher. He is notably the inventor of the board game Scruples. Makow is known for his acrid criticism of homosexuality and feminism which he asserts to be ploys in the NWO scheme of destroying the fabric of society, i.e. inter-human relationships. He has tried to use this page as an example of his lack of knowledge about British Jewry and British History, pointing people of similar ilk to a list of Jews who have contributed immensely to both British & World peace & advancement. In order to protect those people we withdrew this page and informed the author of his obvious errors. He withdrew the article, however some other websites have reproduced this erroneous page. We are able to monitor them and pass the information on to the appropriate authorities Those who are based in the UK are liable to be sued under the Prevention From Harassment Act 1997, which under s.2.2 may result in a criminal conviction and up to 6 months imprisonment and/or a class 5 fine. Any further repeat by such people to do the same will only result in us publishing such behaviour and reporting them to the appropriate authorities. We apologise to our many readers (30 million in 2008 & 38 million so far in 2009), but we will not allow our pages to be used or referred to for such outrageous untrue propaganda. Now one of them has copied our page in contravention of the laws of copyright and we have instructed our lawyers to sue for damages.

As various groups of people, who for some reason fear the Jewish People are advertising this page as an example of something sinister- we are now adding what eminent non-Jews say about the Jewish People. On a recent programme on Christianity the BBC acknowledged that Christianity is indeed a sect of Judaism.

"Some people like the Jews, and some do not. But no thoughtful man can deny the fact that they are, beyond any question, the most formidable and the most remarkable race which has appeared in the world." -- Winston Churchill	"The Jew is that sacred being who has brought down from heaven the everlasting fire, and has illumined with it the entire world. He is the religious source, spring, and fountain out of which all the rest of the peoples have drawn their beliefs and their religions." -- Leo Tolstoy	"It was in vain that we locked them up for several hundred years behind the walls of the Ghetto. No sooner were their prison gates unbarred than they easily caught up with us, even on those paths which we opened up without their aid." -- A. A. Leroy Beaulieu, French publicist, 1842
"The Jew gave us the Outside and the Inside - our outlook and our inner life. We can hardly get up in the morning or cross the street without being Jewish. We dream Jewish dreams and hope Jewish hopes. Most of our best words, in fact - new, adventure, surprise, unique, individual, person, vocation, time, history, future, freedom, progress, spirit, faith, hope, justice - are the gifts of the Jews." -- Thomas Cahill, Irish Author	"One of the gifts of the Jewish culture to Christianity is that it has taught Christians to think like Jews, and any modern man who has not learned to think as though he were a Jew can hardly be said to have learned to think at all." -- William Rees-Mogg, former Editor-in-Chief for The Times of London and a member of the House of Lords	"It is certain that in certain parts of the world we can see a peculiar people, separated from the other peoples of the world and this is called the Jewish people.... This people is not only of remarkable antiquity but has also lasted for a singular long time... For whereas the people of Greece and Italy, of Sparta, Athens and Rome and others who came so much later have perished so long ago, these still exist, despite the efforts of so many powerful kings who have tried a hundred times to wipe them out, as their historians testify, and as can easily be judged by the natural order of things over such a long spell of years. They have always been preserved, however, and their preservation was foretold... My encounter with this people amazes me..." -- Blaise Pascal, French Mathematician
"The Jewish vision became the prototype for many similar grand designs for humanity, both divine and man made The Jews, herefore, stand at the center of the perennial attempt to give human life the dignity of a purpose." --Paul Johnson, American Historian	"As long as the world lasts, all who want to make progress in righteousness will come to Israel for inspiration as to the people who had the sense for righteousness most glowing and strongest." --Matthew Arnold, British poet and critic	"If there is any honor in all the world that I should like, it would be to be an honorary Jewish citizen." --A.L Rowse, authority on Shakespeare
"Indeed it is difficult for all other nations of the world to live in the presence of the Jews. It is irritating and most uncomfortable. The Jews embarrass the world as they have done things which are beyond the imaginable. They have become moral strangers since the day their forefather, Abraham, introduced the world to high ethical standards and to the fear of Heaven. They brought the world the Ten Commandments, which many nations prefer to defy. They violated the rules of history by staying alive, totally at odds with common sense and historical evidence. They outlived all their former enemies, including vast empires such as the Romans and the Greeks. They angered the world with their return to their homeland after 2000 years of exile and after the murder of six million of their brothers and sisters. They aggravated mankind by building, in the wink of an eye, a democratic State which others were not able to create in even hundreds of years. They built living monuments such as the duty to be holy and the privilege to serve one's fellow men. They had their hands in every human progressive endeavor, whether in science, medicine, psychology or any other discipline, while totally out of proportion to their actual numbers. They gave the world the Bible and even their "savior." Jews taught the world not to accept the world as it is, but to transform it, yet only a few nations wanted to listen. Moreover, the Jews introduced the world to one God, yet only a minority wanted to draw the moral consequences. So the nations of the world realize that they would have been lost without the Jews.. And while their subconscious trie s to remind them of how much of Western civilization is framed in terms of concepts first articulated by the Jews, they do anything to suppress it. They deny that Jews remind them of a higher purpose of life and the need to be honorable, and do anything to escape its consequences. It is simply too much to handle for them, too embarrassing to admit, and above all, too difficult to live by. So the nations of the world decided once again to go out of 'their' way in order to find a stick to hit the Jews. The goal: to prove that Jews are as immoral and guilty of massacre and genocide as some of they themselves are. All this in order to hide and justify their own failure to even protest when six million Jews were brought to the slaughterhouses of Auschwitz and Dachau; so as to wipe out the moral conscience of which the Jews remind them, and they found a stick. Nothing could be more gratifying for them than to find the Jews in a struggle with another people (who are completely terrorized by their own leaders) against whom the Jews, against their best wishes, have to defend themselves in order to survive. With great satisfaction, the world allows and initiates the rewriting of history so as to fuel the rage of yet another people against the Jews. This in spite of the fact that the nations understand very well that peace between the parties could have come a long time ago, if only the Jews would have had a fair chance. Instead, they happily jumped on the wagon of hate so as to justify their jealousy of the Jews and their incompetence to deal with their own moral issues. When Jews look at the bizarre play taking place in The Hague, they can only smile as this artificial game once more proves how the world paradoxically admits the Jews uniqueness. It is in their need to undermine the Jews that they actually raise them. The study of history of Europe during the past centuries teaches us one uniform lesson: That the nations which received and in any way dealt fairly and mercifully with the Jew have prospered; and that the nations that have tortured and oppressed them have written out their own curse." --Olive Schreiner, South African novelist and social activist

June 17th 2009

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List of Members of the Hall of Fame - Click on Names to read about them

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Harold Abrahams Athlete Bedford, 1899 - 1978	Bert Ambrose Bandleaser	Jenny Abramsky TV Executive	Gerry Anderson producer and puppeteer	Daniel M. Angel film producer	Simon Amstell comedian	Ronni Ancona impressionist

Jacob Adler Yiddish actor	Larry Adler Harmonica.	Antithesis (Samuel Green) Singer	Natalie Appleton All SaintsSinger	Nicole Appleton All SaintsSinger	Don Arden music promoter and former Black Sabbath manager	Sir Sidney Abrahams Diplomat

Gerald Abraham musicologist (1904–1988)	Elias Parish Alvars composer	David Alliance, Baron Alliance, businessman & Liberal Democrat politician	Chimen Abramsky Professor of Hebrew	Roman Abramovich Owner of Chelsea FC	Hermann Adler, Chief Rabbi	Nathan Marcus Adler, Chief Rabbi

Benjamin Artom, Haham of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews.Asti, Italy, (1835 -1879).	Samuel Alexander professor of philosophy at Manchester, born in Australia, the first Jewish fellow of an Oxbridge college	Sir Alfred Ayer philosopher, populariser of logical positivism	David Abulafia, Professor of history, University of Cambridge	Geoffrey Alderman historian	Sir George Alberti, President, Royal College of Physicians	Asher Asher first Scottish Jewish doctor (1837-1889)

Isaac Abendana, Hebraist (1650-1710)	Michael Solomon Alexander, first Anglican bishop of Jerusalem (1799–1845)	Frank Auerbach , painter	Abraham Manie Adelstein, Government statistician (1916–1992)	Gerald Abrahams British chess player	Grace Aguilar , novelist & poet	Naomi Alderman novelist, winner of the Orange Award for new writers 2006

Lisa Appignanesi , novelist	Barbara Amiel Journalist	Dannie Abse poet	Al Alvarez poet	Aaron of Lincoln 12th century financier	Leo Abse Labour MP & social reformer	Robert Adley Conservative MP

Aaron of Canterbury	Aaron of York	Barney Aaron	Jacob Abendana	Paul Ableman	Ken Adam	Saul Adler

Petrus Alphonsi	Edward Andrade	Moses Angel	Jo Ankier	Vera Atkins	Charlotte Auerbach	Yehezkel Abramsky, Rabbi and dayan
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Viktor Gyozo Barna Table Tennis Budapest, Hungary 1911-1972	BERG, Jackie "Kid" Boxer London 1909-1991	Sidney Bernstein TV - Ilford 1899-2003	David Baddiel Comedian	Alain Boublil Composer	Marc Bolan Singer	Elkie Brooks Singer

Joyce Blair Actress. London 1933-2006	Lionel Blair Dancer	Claire Bloom Actress (1931- )	Harold Berens Actor	Georgia Brown Singer ( 1933 - 1992)	Leon Brittan, Baron Brittan of Spennithorne Politician	Bernard Bresslaw Comedian London 1934 -

Alfie Bass Actor (1921 – 1987)	BUXTON, Angela Tennis. Liverpool 1934-	Helena Bonham Carter Actress (1966 - )	Eleanor Bron Actress	Steven Berkoff Actor/Producer (1937 - )	Dani Behr TV Presenter (1971 - )	Sir Michael Balcon Film Producer

John Barnett composer (1802-1890)	Arnold Brown Comedian	Peter Brook Theatrical Director	Rabbi Lionel Blue Radio Broadcaster	Melanie Blat All Saints Singer	Stanley Black Composer	Ian Broudie member of The Lightning Seeds

Pete Burns of Dead or Alive	Ben Butcher Singer	Chris Blackwell founder of Island Records	Lionel Bart Composer	Don Black Composer	Alvise Bassano, musician	Anthony Bassano, musician

Baptista Bassano, musician	Julius Benedict, composer (1804-1885)	Maria Bland, singer	John Braham singer( -1919)	Norbert Brainin violinist (1923 - 2005)	Lotte Berk, dancer and health guru	Caprice Bourret model

Sir Victor Blank, Chairman of GUS	Sir Montague Burton, retailer	Tony Bullimore, yachtsman	Joel Barnett Labour cabinet minister and life peer	Sir Israel Brodie, Chief Rabbi	John Bercow Conservative MP & Speaker of the House Of Commons	Sir Isaiah Berlin political philosopher

Max Black philosopher (1909 - 1988)	Richard Barnett, museum curator and archaeologist	Max Beloff, Lord Beloff, historian	Lionel Barnett orientalist	Abraham Benisch, Hebraist and editor of the Jewish Chronicle	David Bomberg , painter	Sir John Balcombe, Lord Justice of Appeal

Judah P. Benjamin, American exile, lawyer	Herbert Bentwich,lawyer and Zionist leader	Norman Bentwich lawyer and Attorney-General of Palestine	His Honour Gerald Butler, Q.C., judge	Rachel Beer newspaper editor	Michael Baxter, Government statistician	Sir Hermann Bondi Chief Scientific Adviser to the Ministry of Defence

Bernhard Baron, cigarette maker and philanthropist	Sir Clive Bourne, philanthropist	Sir Leon Bagrit Time Magazine	Barney Barnato, diamond miner	Jack Beddington advertising executive	Peter Barnes playwright	Alain de Botton , writer

Caryl Brahms , writer	Anita Brookner , novelist	Ian Buruma , Dutch-born journalist and writer	Alex Brummer, Economic and financial journalist and biographer	Hilda Bernstein Anti-apartheid activist	Alma Birk, Baroness Birk Labour politician	Dave Berry presenter

John Balcombe	Jill Balcon	Jean Barker, Baroness Trumpington	Binnie Barnes	Jeni Barnett	Lionel Barnett	Richard Barnett

Samuel Barnett actor	Simon Baron-Cohen	Richard Bergmann	Alfred Beit	Gina Bellman	Linda Bellos	Solomon Birnbaum

Matt Black	Leonard Blavatnik	Vernon Bogdanor	Edward Bonham Carter	Georgina Born	Jo Brand	John Raphael Rodrigues Brandon

Gerry Bron	Steve Brookstein	Arnold Burgen	Gerald Butler	Louis Bookman	Ben Briscoe	Robert Briscoe politician

Gavin Broder
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Sacha Baron Cohen Comedian & Actor	Ernst Boris Chaim (1906-1979) shared the Nobel Prize with Alexander Fleming for isolating and purifying penicillin.	Sam Costa Radio Presenter & Comedian	Jack Cohen Retailer. London 1898 – 1979	Charles Clore Property & Retailer 1904-1979	Joe Collins Theatrical Agent	Joan Collins Actress

Jackie Collins Authoress	Alma Cogan Singer	Nicky Chinn Songwriter (1945- )	Katrin Cartlidge Actress	Benjamin Cohen reporter and presenter	Jono Coleman	Johnny Clegg UK-born South African musician

Lol Creme member of 10cc	Edwina Currie Conservative minister	Giacobbe Cervetto cellist	Harriet Cohen pianist	Michael Costa conductor and composer.	Frederic Hymen Cowen, composer	Solomon Cutner known as Solomon, pianist

Jack Cotton, property developer	Sir Trevor Chinn businessman and philanthropist	Sir Ernest Cassel banker	Alex Carlile, Baron Carlile of Berriew, Liberal Democrats	Alan Coren Author & Presenter	Simon Cowell	James Callis

Jon Canter	Antonio Fernandez Carvajal Merchant & 1st Jew to have British Citizenship	David Cesarani	Chuts	Arthur Cohen	Chapman Cohen	Edward Cohen

Laurence Jonathan Cohen	Mike Cohen (journalist)	Glenda Collins	Giles Coren	Victoria Coren	Antony Costa	Frances Crook

Erran Baron Cohen	Jenni Calder	Hazel Cosgrove, Lady Cosgrove	Ivor Cutler	Morris"2-Gun" Cohen See bottom of this page
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Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield	Sir Bernie Delfont Impressario	Oscar Deutsch founder of Odeon Cinemas	Mark Damazer Controller BBC Radio 4 and BBC 7	Jacqueline du Pré cellist		Richard Desmond publisher, Chairman of the Daily Express Group

Alf Dubs Labour MP and life peer	John Diamond, Baron Diamond Labour cabinet minister and SDP leader in the House of Lords(1907-2004)	Jonathan Djanogly Conservative MP	Baron Diego Pereira D' Aguilar	Isaac D'Israeli	Moses da Costa	Charlotte Dacre

Craig David	Philip Dawid	Daniel Day-Lewis	Lynsey de Paul	David Dein	Eliyahu Eliezer Dessler	John Diamond journalist

Vivien Duffield	David Daiches	Jack David Dunitz
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Ben Elton Comedian & Playright	Maurice Edelman Politician	Sir Jacob Epstein, sculptor (UK-based)	David Elstein founder of Channel 5	Brian Epstein manager of the Beatles	Louise Ellman Labour MP	Bernie Ecclestone

John Edwards (sailor)	Ray Ellington	Ruth Ellis	Hogan Ephraim	Anthony Epstein
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Bud Flanagan Entertainer. London 1896 – 1968	Sir Clement Freud Politician & Writer	Anna Freud Daughter of Sigmund Freud	Stephen Fry Actor & Presenter	Marty Feldman Comic Actor	Vanessa Feltz TV Presenter	Gaynor Faye Actress

Fenella Fielding Actress	Stephen Frears film director	Maria Friedman musical theatre actress	Leonard Feather writer on jazz, jazz pianist and composer	Victor Feldman jazz musician	Matthew Fisher founding member of Procol Harum	Celia Franca ballerina

Justine Frischmann member of Elastica	Harry Farjeon composer	Gerald Finzi composer	Benjamin Frankel composer	Danny Fenton Film Producer	John Frieda hair-stylist; father of actor Jordan Frieda	Lynne Featherstone Liberal Democrat MP

Michael Fidler Conservative MP	Reginald Freeson Labour minister	Michael Fabricant	Marianne Faithfull	Elaine Feinstein	Leonard Fenton	Philip Ferdinand

Morris Finer	Moses I. Finley	Danny Fiszman	Antonia Forest	John Fox statistician	Rosalind Franklin	Bella Freud

Michael Friedländer	Rose Fyleman	Hannah Frank
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Peter Green guitarist Fleetwood Mac,	Leslie Grade	Lord Lew Grade TV . Tokmak 1906-	Michael Grade TV Director	Sir Philip Green Retailer	Berthold Goldschmidt composer	Henry Goodman Actor

Jonathan Glazer director	Hermione Gingold Actress	Graham Gouldman member of 10cc	Kevin Godley member of 10cc	Benny Green Musician & Radio Presenter	Mick Green guitarist for Johnny Kidd and the Pirates	Harvey Goldsmith rock impresario

Sir James Goldsmith Industrialist	Walter Goehr composer	Alexander Goehr composer, his son	Philip Guedalla biographer	Michael Green founder of Carlton Television	Ludwig Guttmann founder of the Paralympics	David Gold, founder of Ann Summers and co-owner of Birmingham City football club

Ralph Gold, founder of Ann Summers and co-owners of Birmingham City football club	Roman Greenberg, IBO intercontinental heavyweight champion	Florence Greenberg The Jewish Cookbook	Leo Genn Actor	Avram Grant Chelsea FC Manager	Moses Gaster, Haham of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews	Sir Philip Goodhart Conservative MP and minister

Neil Gaiman	Abram Games	Romola Garai	Norman Geras	Mark Gertler	Martin Gilbert	Kieron Gillen

Gluck (Hannah Gluckstein)	Alexander Goldberg	Louis Golding	Jane Goldman	Goldsmid	Francis Henry Goldsmid	Anna Maria Goldsmid

Sydney Goldstein	Israel Gollancz	Victor Gollancz	Benjamin Gompertz	Lord George Gordon	Julius Gould	Graham Gouldman

Linda Grant (journalist)	Michael Green (physicist)	Leon Greenman	Myer Galpern	Albert Gubay	Raymond Garlick	Gerald Goldberg

Alexander Goldberg
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Michael Howard ( Conservative cabinet minister & party leader (2003-2005)	Eric Hobsbawm History Professor	Anita Harris Singer	Laurence Harvey Actor	Leslie Howard Actor	Nicholas Hytner Theatrical Director	Trevor Horn founder of ZTT Records

Augustus Harris actor and theatre manager	Steffan Halperin drummer for Klaxons	Margaret Hodge Politician	Chaim Herzog President of Israel	George Henschel singer & conductor	Myra Hess pianist	Gerard Hoffnung musicologist

Irene Howard, English costume designer	Ben Helfgott	Aaron Hart, Chief Rabbi	Joseph H. Hertz, Chief Rabbi	Solomon Hirschell, Chief Rabbi	Evan Harris Liberal Democrat MP	Fabian Hamilton Labour MP

Helene Hayman MP / Life Peer	Melvyn Hayes Actor	Steven Haberman	Leslie Haden-Guest, 1st Baron Haden-Guest	Peter Haden-Guest, 4th Baron Haden-Guest	Hagin ben Moses	Eric Hall

Sidney Hart	Solomon Alexander Hart	Robert Henriques	Noreena Hertz	Rosalyn Higgins	Leonard Hoffmann, Baron Hoffmann	David Horovitz

Anthony Horowitz	Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog
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Jason Isaacs Actor	Sir Jeremy Isaacs TV executive	Steven Isserlis cellist	Martin Indyk	Isaac of Norwich	Wilfrid B. Israel	Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading Liberal cabinet minister & Viceroy of India. The only British Jew to be elevated to a Marquessate.

Alice Isaacs, Marchioness of Reading	Mary Innes-Ker, Duchess of Roxburghe
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JAY, Allan Fencer. London 1931-	Sir Keith Joseph Politician	Barnett Janner Politician	Greville Janner Labour MP, now life peer	Lesley Joseph Actress	David Jacobs Radio Presenter	Sid James Actor

Tony Jay (1933 - 2006) English/American actor	Henry Jaglom film director	Dick James Singer & Agent	Mick Jones guitarist, vocalist The Clash	Nathan Joseph founder of Transatlantic Records	Immanuel Jakobovits, Baron Jakobovits, Chief Rabbi	Anthony Julius prominent Lawyer for Princess Diana, and against David Irving.

Jacob of London	Joseph Jacobs	Sydney Jacobson, Baron Jacobson	George Jessel jurist	Ruth Prawer Jhabvala	Joel family	Dudley Joel

Solomon Joel	Jordan (Katie Price)	Josce of York	Jenny Joseph	Joe Jacobson
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Davy Kaye Actor. London 1916-1998	Casriel Dovid Kaplin, rabbi and dayan	David Kossoff Actor	Miriam Karlin Actress (1925 - )	Paul Kaye Comedian (1965 - )	Robert Kazinsky television actor	Felicity Kendal Actress

Alex Kramer TV presenter	Sir Alexander Korda Film Producer	Zoltan Korda film director	Ludwig Karl Koch broadcaster and sound recordist	Jason Kay member of Jamiroquai	Mark Knopfler guitarist, singer and songwriter	Paul Kossoff member of Free

Hans Keller musicologist	Stanley Kalms now Baron Kalms of Edgware, life president of Dixons Group PLC.	Joseph Kagan industrialist	Sir Gerald Kaufman Labour minister	Ray Kelvin fashion designer, founder of Ted Baker	Susan Kramer Liberal Democrat MP for Richmond Upon Thames	Oona King Labour MP

Bernard Katz	Jacob Kramer	David Keilin	Lou Kenton	Gerald Kersh	Robert Krausz	Peter Kravitz

Isaac Leon Kandel	Conor Kostick
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LEWIS, Ted "Kid" Boxer London, 1894-1970	Laurie London Singer	Nigel Lawson, Baron Lawson of Blaby, Conservative cabinet minister and life peer	Nigella Lawson Cookery writer	Valerie Leon Actress	Michael Levy, Baron Levy Music & Fundraiser	Oliver Letwin Politician

Maureen Lipman Actress	Joe Loss Bandleader	Isidore de Lara composer (1858–1935)’	Mike Leigh film director	Richard Lester film director	Jonathan Lynn film director	Matt Lucas Comedian

Robin Lustig radio broadcaster, BBC Radio 4	Bernard Lewis, founder of River Island	David Lewis department store founder	Daniel Levy Chairman Tottenham Hotspur FC	Dominic Lawson journalist	EDWARD LAWRENCE LEVY Weightlifting. London 1851 - 1932	Hart Lyon, Chief Rabbi (1721 -1800)

Harold Lever, Baron Lever of Manchester (1914-1995) (1945) Labour MP	Ivan Lewis Minister of State for Health	Lew Lazar Boxer	Mark Lazarus Footballer	George Layton Actor/Playwrite	Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen	Gavin Lightman

Harry Landis	Denys Lasdun	Harold Laski	Marghanita Laski	Neville Laski	Hersch Lauterpacht	Ruth Lawrence

Sidney Lee	Peter Levene, Baron Levene of Portsoken	Denise Levertov	David Levi scholar	Bernard Levin	Harry S. Lewis	Bernard Lewis

Bernard Lewis entrepreneur	David Malcolm Lewis	George Henry Lewis	Leopold Davis Lewis	Martin Lewis	Samuel Lewis financier	Harold Lightman

Stafford Lightman	Rodrigo Lopez (physician)	Steven Lukes	Louis Lentin
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MEISL, Willy Sports Journalist Vienna, Austria 1895- 1968	MONTAGU, Ivor Table Tennis. London, 1904-1984	MENDOZA, Daniel Boxer London, 1764-1836	Sir Moses Haim Montefiore financier & philanthropist	Simon Marks chairman of Marks & Spencer (1888-1964)	Benno Moiseiwitsch pianist	Alfred Marks Actor. London 1921-1996

Ron Moody Actor	Warren Mitchell Actor	Miriam Margolyes Actress	Jessie Matthews English dancer, singer and actress (1907 - 1981)	Kay Mellor actress & scriptwriter	Sam Mendes film director	Bernard Manning Comedian

Jonathan Miller Theatrical Director	Mike Mendoza TalkSport Radio	Manfred Mann R&B keyboardist	George Michae l singer, songwriter, former member of Wham	Jon Moss member of Culture Club	Malcolm McLaren manager of the Sex Pistols	Daniel Mille r founder of Mute Records

Eric Maschwitz lyricist, writer & broadcaster	Alicia Markova Ballerina	David Miliband Politician	Ed Miliband Politician	Robert Maxwell Industrialist & politician	Peter Mandelson Politician	Michael Marks co-founder of Marks & Spencer (born in Poland)

Yehudi Menuhin Violinist	SirStirling Moss, racing driver	David Manasseh Sports Agent	Samuel Montagu, 1st Baron Swaythling (1832-1911)	Eleanor Marx, daughter and secretary of Karl Marx	Linda McCartney photographer	Stella McCartney fashion designer

Millie Miller Labour MP (1923-1977)	Ian Mikardo (1908-1993) Labour MP	Patrick Marber	David Samuel Margoliouth	Rixi Markus	Alan Marre	Jacquetta May

Mary McCartney	Solomon de Medina	Alfred Mond, 1st Baron Melchett	Charlotte Mendelson	Jonathan Mestel	Jacques Mieses	Eric Miller businessman

Alan Mocatta	Frederick David Mocatta	Violet Mond, Baroness Melchett	Ewen Montagu	Michael Montague, Baron Montague of Oxford	Claude Montefiore	Moses Montefiore

Eric Moonman	Dorrit Moussaieff	Michael Moritz	David Marcus
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Darren Nesbitt Actor	Anthony Newley Actor/Singer/Songwriter (1931 - 1999)	Denis Norden Playright & Presenter	Monty Norman lyricist, composer & singer	Isaac Nathan	Yfrah Neaman violinist & teacher	Michael Nyman composer

David Nieto, Haham of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews	Isaac Nieto, Haham of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews	Sir Gerald Nabarro (1950) Conservative MP	Nebbish	Frank Nabarro	Lewis Bernstein Namier	Harry Nathan, 1st Baron Nathan

Isaac Nathan	Melissa Nathan	Matthew Nathan	David Neuberger, Baron Neuberger of Abbotsbury	Julia Neuberger, Baroness Neuberger	Joshua A. Norton

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Sophie Okonedo(1969 - )	Tracy-Ann Oberman Actress	Sharon Osbourne TV Presenter	Andrew Loog Oldham manager of the Rolling Stones	Fred Oberlander	Phillip Oppenheim	Sally Oppenheim-Barnes

Kelly Osbourne	Lucy Owen

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Harold Pinter Playwrite	Nathalie Press	Emeric Pressburger director & producer	David Prever radio broadcaster	Murray Perahia pianist	David Pleat, former football manager	Dame Shirley Porter Lord Mayor of Westminster 1991-92


Larry Parnes Music Manager	Francis Palgrave	Patricia Richardson (politician)	David Pearl	Yaakov Pearlman	Benjamin Pell	Ephraim Lópes Pereira d'Aguilar, 2nd Baron d'Aguilar

Lionel Phillips	Arthur Wing Pinero	Phil Piratin	Michael Plaskow	Beatrice Plummer, Baroness Plummer	Elizabeth Polack	Siegbert Salomon Prawer

Presbyter Judaeorum	Nathalie Press	Miranda Priestly	Marjorie Proops	Jack Pulman	Joseph Pyke	Lionel Edward Pyke

Harry Primrose, 6th Earl of Rosebery	Hannah Primrose, Countess of Rosebery
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Lionel de Rothschild Liberal MP, first practising Jew to be elected an MP	Paul Reuter founder of Reuters	Michael Rosen, novelist, poet & broadcaster	Nathan Rothschild	Sir Malcolm Rifkind Conservative cabinet minister	Jack Rosenthal Playright. Manchester 1931-2004	Lita Rosa

ROSENFELD, Albert Rugby in Sydney, Australia Died: 1970	Gaby Roslin TV Presenter	Daniel Radcliffe English actor (Harry Potter) (1989 - )	Esther Rantzen TV Presenter	Irving Rapper film director	Karel Reisz film director	Robert Rietti Actor

Keith Reid founding member of Procol Harum	Gavin Rossdale member of Bush	David Rose songwriter & composer	Marie Rambert ballerina	Landon Ronald conductor & composer	Henry Russell pianist, baritone singer and composer	dame anita rodddick founder of The Body Shop

Gerald Ronson business tycoon and philanthropist.	Janet Reger lingerie designer	Peter Rachman , London landlord	Jim Rosenthal, TV sports journalist & presenter	Claire Rayner agony aunt	Jon Ronson Journalist, author, documentary filmmaker and radio presenter.	Sir Anthony Rothschild, first president of the United Synagogue

Barbara Roche Labour minister	Mark Ronson co-founder of Allido Records	David Rappaport	Max Rayne	John Rodker	Bernie Rhodes	Bernard Rix

Ruth Rix	Barbara Roche	Landon Ronald	Steven Rose	Isaac Rosenberg	Abe Rosenthal	Douglas Ross

Aline Caroline de Rothschild	Anthony Gustav de Rothschild	Evelyn Achille de Rothschild	Charlotte von Rothschild	Evelina de Rothschild	Anthony de Rothschild	Alfred de Rothschild

Alice Charlotte von Rothschild	Anthony Rothschild	Anthony James de Rothschild	Charles Rothschild	Charlotte Henriette de Rothschild	David Lionel de Rothschild	Edmund Leopold de Rothschild

Emma Georgina Rothschild	Evelyn Robert de Rothschild	Ferdinand James von Rothschild	Jacob Rothschild, 4th Baron Rothschild	Leopold David de Rothschild	Leopold de Rothschild	Lionel Nathan de Rothschild

Mayer Amschel de Rothschild	Miriam Rothschild	Nathan Mayer Rothschild	Nathaniel de Rothschild	Victor Rothschild, 3rd Baron Rothschild	Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild	Louis Isaac Rabinowitz

David Rosen rabbi	Mario Rosenstock
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Peter Sellers Actor	David Suchet Actor	Jonathan Suchet TV Presenter	Antony Sher Actor	Vidal Sassoon	Sir Jonathan Sacks, Chief Rabbi	Bernard Spear Actor/Comedian

Manny Shinwell, Baron Shinwell Politician (1884-1986)	Alexei Sayle Comedian/Actor	Leonard Sachs	Jack Solomons Boxing Promoter	Helen Shapiro Singer.London 1946-	John Schlesinger Film Producer	Ione Skye actress

Janet Suzman actress	Andrew Sachs (1930 - )	Emma Samms Actress	Georgia Slowe actress	Jerry Springer TV Presenter	Sir Alan Sugar , founder of Amstrad	Jerry Sadowitz Comedian

Ronnie Scott Jazz Musician	John Silver former Genesis member	Rachel Stevens singer & former member of S Club 7	Jule Styne Composer	Robert Saxton	Rudolf Schwarz, conductor	Sir Georg Solti conductor

Walter Susskind (1913 - 1980) conductor	Paul Stein-Dunville Musician	Hedi Stadlen musicologist, philosopher and Communist.	Marcus Samuel, founder of the "Shell" Transport and Trading Company	Israel Sieff chairman of Marks & Spencer	David Tevele Schiff Chief Rabbi	Richard Seifert architect

Arnold Silverstone Lord Ashdown of Chelwood, Property developer, built Ashdown House on Victoria Street, London	Tom Stoppard playwright	Simon Schama historian	Lee Scott Conservative MP	Samuel Segal Labour MP and later Deputy Speaker of the House of Lords	Leonard Sainer	David Salomons

David Lionel Goldsmid-Stern-Salomons	Joseph Salvador	Joseph d'Aguilar Samuda	Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel	Louise Samuel	Albert Abdullah David Sassoon	Edward Sassoon

George Sassoon	Philip Sassoon	Solomon David Sassoon	Alexander Schomberg	Meyer Löw Schomberg	Arthur Schuster	Arthur Seldon

Will Self	Jane Seymour actress	John Maurice Shaftesley	Geoffrey Shindler	Shlomo Moussaieff businessman	Marcus Sieff, Baron Sieff of Brimpton	Sigmund Sternberg

Barry Silkman	Lucie Silvas	Jon Silkin	Sydney Silverman	Walter Simon	Rita Simons	Charles Singer

Ralph Slazenger	Sam Sloma	Issy Smith	Isaac Snowman	Michael Sobell	Nahum Sokolow	Solomon Joseph Solomon

Henry Solomon	Simeon Solomon	Linda Joy Stern	Vivien Stern, Baroness Stern	Jack Straw	Amanda Stretton	Jack Suchet

Andrew Shaw, Rabbi	Simeon Singer, Rabbi	Joseph ben Yehuda Leib Shapotshnick, rabbi	George Sassoon	Leonard Schapiro	Benno Schotz	Derek Shulman

Phil Shulman	Ray Shulman	Muriel Spark	Howard Stringer	Alan Shatter
T

Sidney Tafler Actor- London 1916-1979	Elizabeth Taylor Actress	Meier Tzelniker Yiddish actor	Lewis Taylor singer/songwriter	Richard Tauber, singer and composer	Lionel Tertis violist	Fred Trueman, cricketer (Jewish ancestry)

Eldred Tabachnik	Tony Tenser	William Terriss	Lionel Tertis	Karl Theobald	Tim Samuels	Shaun Toub

C. P. Taylor	Mervyn Taylor
U

Reva Unterman

V

Dickie Valentine Singer. London 1929-19	Eamonn De Valera Politician. Dublin	Frankie Vaughan Singer. Liverpool 1928-	Vivian Van Damm Impessario	Sheila van Damm rally driver	Sir Julius Vogel Prime Minister of New Zealand



W

Amy Winehouse Singer	Walter Wolfgang Political	Isaac Wolfson Retailer	Lord Leonard Wolfson Retailer & Benefactor	David Wolfson Retailer & Politican	Bernie Winters Comedian - 1991	Mike Winters Comedian

Chaim Weitzman President of Israel	Claudia Winkleman	Rachel Weisz Actress	Sam Wanamaker Actor/Producer	Zoe Wanamaker Actress	Naomi Westerman actress	Henry Woolf Actor

Michael Winner Film Producer & Food Critic	Charlie Wolf TalkSport Radio	Louise Wener singer with group Sleeper & novelist	Simon Waley Waley musician	Egon Wellesz composer	Harry Woolf, Baron Woolf [47], Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales 2000-2006	MATT WELLS Boxing . London ( 1886 1953)


Ronnie Waldman	Arthur Waley	Simon Waley Waley Lay leader	Bernard Waley-Cohen	Joanna Waley-Cohen	Michelene Wandor	Fredric Warburg

Siegmund George Warburg	Fanny Waterman	Charlie Watts	Louise Wener	Michael Wharton	Charles Wigoder	Stephen Winsten

Alex Winter	Dale Winton	Lucien Wolf	Humbert Wolfe	Leonard Woolf	Eric Woolfson	Gustav Wilhelm Wolff


Y

Alan Yentob TV Executive	Stuart Young (1934-1986)

Z

Benjamin Zander music director	Israel Zangwill	Oliver Zangwill	Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg

OTHER GROUPS & PROFESSIONS

Religious and communal leaders

Jacob Abendana, Haham of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews
Barnett Abrahams, Dayan, Principal of Jews' College
Israel Abrahams, scholar and educator
Yehezkel Abramsky, Rabbi and dayan
Hermann Adler, Chief Rabbi
Nathan Marcus Adler, Chief Rabbi
Benjamin Artom, Haham of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews
Jon Benjamin, Chief Executive, Board of Deputies of British Jews
Lionel Blue, Reform rabbi and broadcaster
Levi Brackman, Rabbi
Sir Israel Brodie, Chief Rabbi
Felix Carlebach, German born Rabbi
Isidore Epstein, Rabbi, Principal of Jews' College
Moses Gaster, Haham of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews
Sir Hermann Gollancz, Rabbi and educator
Aaron Hart, Chief Rabbi [5]
Joseph H. Hertz, Chief Rabbi
Shmuel Yitzchak Hillman, Rabbi and dayan
Solomon Hirschell, Chief Rabbi
Moses Hyamson, acting Chief Rabbi
Louis Jacobs, Rabbi and educator
Immanuel Jakobovits, Baron Jakobovits, Chief Rabbi
Casriel Dovid Kaplin, rabbi and dayan
James Kennard, Rabbi and Educationalist
Hart Lyon, Chief Rabbi
Carly McKenzie [6], One of founding members of the Byachad Movement and Campaigner
Frederick de Sola Mendes, rabbi
Ewen Montagu, President of the United Synagogue
Claude Montefiore, Lay synagogue leader
Julia Neuberger, Reform Rabbi
David Nieto, Haham of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews
Isaac Nieto, Haham of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews
Michael Plaskow, Minister
Sir Anthony Rothschild, first president of the United Synagogue
Sir Jonathan Sacks, Chief Rabbi
Joseph ben Yehuda Leib Shapotshnick, rabbi
Simeon Singer, Rabbi
Andrew Shaw, Rabbi
Simon Waley Waley,^[1] Lay leader
Chaim Weizmann,^[2] Zionist leader

Philosophers

Samuel Alexander [7], professor of philosophy at Manchester, born in Australia, the first Jewish fellow of an Oxbridge college
Sir Alfred Ayer [8], philosopher, populariser of logical positivism (Jewish mother)
Sir Isaiah Berlin [9], political philosopher
Max Black,^[3] philosopher
Gerald Cohen, Oxford professor of philosophy (JYB 2005 p215)
Laurence Jonathan Cohen, Oxford professor of philosophy (JYB 2005 p215)
Ernest Gellner [10], philosopher, social scientist
H. L. A. Hart [11], legal philosopher
Brian Klug [12], historian & communist theoretician
Stephan Korner, Bristol professor of philosophy (JYB 2005 p215)
Imre Lakatos ^[4], Hungarian-born philosopher
Sir Karl Popper [13], philosopher of science (family became Lutheran)
Richard Rudolf Walzer (JYB 1975 p214)
Ludwig Wittgenstein, philosopher; Evening Standard (London); 24/5/2004, p15
Richard Wollheim [14]

Historians

David Abulafia, Professor of history, University of Cambridge (JYB 2005 p218)
Geoffrey Alderman,^[11] historian
Richard Barnett, museum curator and archaeologist (JYB 1985 p187)
Max Beloff, Lord Beloff, historian (Encyclopaedia Judaica, art. Historians)
Norman Cohn, historian (JYB 2005 p215)
Isaac Deutscher [17], historian
Geoffrey Rudolph Elton [18], historian
Samuel Finer^[12]
Sir Moses I. Finley ^[13], historian and sociologist
Sir Martin Gilbert, historian
Sir Ernst Gombrich [19], art historian
Martin Goodman (historian) (JYB 2005 p215)
Jonathan Israel, historian (JYB 2005 p215)
Joseph Jacobs [21], editor of the Jewish Encyclopedia
Lisa Jardine, historian: The Times; Jan 11, 1997; Tony Turnbull

"Born in Oxford, she had moved to Cheltenham at the age of five when her father, the polymath Jacob Bronowski, author of Ascent of Man, took up a research post with the National Coal Board. So it was that this nice little Jewish family moved in to Cleeve Hill, a small village four miles from town."

Tony Judt [22] Director of the Erich Maria Remarque Institute at New York University.
Elie Kedourie ^[15], historian and political scientist
Otto Kurz, historian (JYB 1975 p214)
Bernard Lewis [23], historian
David Malcolm Lewis, professor of history, University of Oxford (JYB 1995 p.193)
Hyam Maccoby, professor of history [24]
Sir Philip Magnus, 1st Baronet, educationalist and politician
Sir Philip Magnus-Allcroft, 2nd Baronet ^[16], biographer
Shula Marks, expert on African history (JYB 2005 p.215)
Arnaldo Momigliano, professor of history, University College London (JYB 1985 p188)
Lewis Bernstein Namier [25], historian (converted to Anglicanism)
Sir Francis Palgrave (born Cohen) (1768-1861) [26], UK historian
Sir Michael Postan, historian (JYB 1985 p188)
Matthew Pendrill, historian (University of Sheffield)
Cecil Roth [27], historian and editor of the Encyclopedia Judaica
Simon Schama [28], historian
Leonard Schapiro,^[17] historian
Simon Sebag Montefiore [29], historian
Charles Singer ^[18], historian of science
Sir Aurel Stein [30], archeologist
Barry Supple, British economic historian (Jewish Year Book, 2005, p.215)
Geza Vermes [31]

Medical

Sir George Alberti, President, Royal College of Physicians^[5]
Asher Asher,^[6] first Scottish Jewish doctor
Henry Cohen, 1st Baron Cohen of Birkenhead,^[7] President of the Royal Society of Medicine
Julius Dreschfeld,^[8] medical researcher
Sir Ian Gainsford, dentist (JYB 2007 p.197, 222)
Max Hamilton ^[9], psychiatrist
Rodrigo Lopez (physician)^[10]
John Henry Marks Guardian, Saturday October 23, 1999, chairman of the British Medical Association.
Sir Jonathan Miller [15], physician and theatre director
Leslie Turnberg, Baron Turnberg [16], Professor: FMedSci
Oliver Zangwill, Professor of psychology (JYB 1980 p182)
Sir Joseph Stone, Lord Stone of Hendon, Personal phyisician to Prime Minister Harold Wilson

Theologians and Hebraists

Isaac Abendana,^[19] Hebraist
Michael Solomon Alexander, first Anglican bishop of Jerusalem (born Jewish; see Dictionary of National Biography)
Lionel Barnett,^[20] orientalist
Abraham Benisch,^[21] Hebraist and editor of the Jewish Chronicle
Immanuel Oscar Menahem Deutsch,^[22] Semitic scholar and orientalist
Alfred Edersheim,^[23] Bible scholar
Philip Ferdinand,^[24] Professor of Hebrew
Christian David Ginsburg,^[25] expert on the Masoretic text
Ridley Haim Herschell,^[26] missionary
Marcus Kalisch [33], Hebraist and Biblical commentator
David Levi ^[27], Jewish scholar
David Samuel Margoliouth,^[28] orientalist (family converted to Anglicanism)
Adolf Neubauer,^[29] Hebraist
Stefan Reif [34], Cambridge academic
Judah Segal, professor of Semitic languages (JYB 2005 p215)
Joseph Wolff,^[30] missionary

Arts and literature

Sir Israel Gollancz [35], Shakespeare expert
Sir Ernst Gombrich [36], art historian (JYB 2000 p211)
Sir Sidney Lee [37], editor of the Dictionary of National Biography and Shakespeare expert
Siegbert Salomon Prawer, professor of German (JYB 2005 p215)
Sir Nicholas Serota, Director of the Tate Gallery, 1987-^[31]
Ernest Simon, professor of Chinese (JYB 1980 p183)
Arthur Waley [38], Chinese and Japanese literature

Finance

Sir Ernest Cassel,^[72] banker
Moses da Costa, also called Anthony da Costa; Jewish Encyclopedia IV p. 289
Abraham and Benjamin Goldsmid [115], brothers, leading financiers and philanthropists
Sir Isaac Lyon Goldsmid [116], financier, a leading figure in Jewish emancipation and in the foundation of University College London.
Dudley Joel ^[73], financier
Solomon Joel ^[74], financier
Peter Keith Levene, chairman of Lloyds of London, Lord Mayor of London (1998-1999) (JYB 2005 212)
Aaron of Lincoln [117], 12th century financier
Moses Haim Montefiore [118], financier & philanthropist
Michael Moritz [119], venture capitalist
N M Rothschild & Sons
- Nathan Mayer Rothschild [120], financier & banker
Samuel Montagu, 1st Baron Swaythling [121]
Joseph Salvador [122], first Jewish director of the British East India Company
Barons Swaythling [123], bankers

Fine arts

Frank Auerbach [39], painter
David Bomberg [40], painter
Sir Anthony Caro [41], sculptor
Benno Elkan,^[32] sculptor
Sir Jacob Epstein,^[33] sculptor (UK-based)
Hannah Frank [42], artist & sculptor
Barnett Freedman,^[34] artist
Lucian Freud [43], painter
Abram Games ^[35]
Mark Gertler [44], painter
Gluck (Hannah Gluckstein) [45], artist
Sir Ernst Gombrich [46], art historian
Walter Goodman ^[36], painter
Solomon Alexander Hart ^[37], painter
Anish Kapoor [47], sculptor (Jewish mother)
R. B. Kitaj, US-born painter ^[38]
Jacob Kramer ^[39], painter
Lennie Lee [48], Young British Artist/mixed media
Linda McCartney [49], photographer
Ruth Rix [50], painter
Sir William Rothenstein [51]
Isaac Snowman [52], painter
Solomon Joseph Solomon [53], painter
Tolleck Winner, mixed media
Alfred Wolmark,^[40] painter

Media

Rachel Beer,^[68] newspaper editor
Benjamin Cohen [100], Channel 4 News reporter and presenter
Richard Desmond [101], publisher, Chairman of the Daily Express Group
Andre Deutsch [102]
Sydney Jacobson, newspaper editor ^[70]
Natasha Kaplinsky [106], journalist and TV presenter
Joseph Moses Levy [107], owner of the Daily Telegraph
Edward Levy-Lawson, 1st Baron Burnham [108], newspaper proprietor
Robert Maxwell [109], publisher
Suzy Menkes [110], fashion journalist
Paul Reuter [111], founder of Reuters
Jacob Rothschild, 4th Baron Rothschild, Non-Executive Deputy Chairman of the Board, British SKY Broadcasting Group PLC ^[71]
Maurice Saatchi, Baron Saatchi & Charles Saatchi [112], founders of Saatchi and Saatchi
Martin Sorrell [113], founder of the WPP Group
George Weidenfeld [114], publisher

Law

Sir John Balcombe, Lord Justice of Appeal (The Guardian (Manchester); 04/07/00; Sir Maurice Drake; p. 20)
Judah P. Benjamin, American exile, lawyer^[56]
Herbert Bentwich,^[57] lawyer and Zionist leader
Norman Bentwich,^[58] lawyer and Attorney-General of Palestine; son of Herbert Bentwich
His Honour Gerald Butler, Q.C., judge (The Times (London); 13/06/00; Frances Gibb; p. Law. 3)
Alex Carlile, Baron Carlile of Berriew, Liberal Democrats: Jewish Chronicle

5/7/1996 p7: "The Liberal Democrats' sole Jewish MP, Alex Carlile"

25/6/1999 p10: "Alex Carlile is on his way back to Westminster as one of four Jews among the 36 working peers"

Arthur Cohen,^[59] QC and politician
Lionel Cohen, Baron Cohen,^[60] Lord of Appeal
Sir Lawrence Collins,^[61] appeal court judge
Hazel Cosgrove, Lady Cosgrove [78], Scottish Queen's Counsel and sheriff
David Daube, Professor of Law (JYB 1995, p193)
Sir Morris Finer ^[62], judge
Dame Hazel Genn (JYB 2005 p215)
Sir Francis Henry Goldsmid [79], MP for Reading, first Jewish barrister (Q.C. 1858)
Sir David Lionel Goldsmid-Stern-Salomons [80], barrister
Peter Goldsmith, Baron Goldsmith [81], [82], Attorney General
Arthur Lehman Goodhart,^[63] jurist
William Goodhart, Lord Goodhart;^[64] human rights lawyer and politician (son of Arthur Goodhart)
Arnold Goodman, Baron Goodman [83], solicitor
Brian Green [84] Q.C.
Alexis Grower, Prominent Entertainment Lawyer, Magrath & Co, London
Dame Rose Heilbron [85], Britain's first female Q.C., judge
Rosalyn Higgins, President of the International Court of Justice^[65]
Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading [86], lawyer and politician
Sir George Jessel [87], Solicitor General for England and Wales, later Master of the Rolls
Anthony Julius [88], prominent Lawyer for Princess Diana, and against David Irving.
Sir Otto Kahn-Freund, Professor of Law (Dictionary of National Biography)
Neville Laski [89], judge
Hersch Lauterpacht [90]
Leone Levi, barrister and statistician: Jewish Encyclopedia, VIII, 34
George Henry Lewis [91], solicitor
Gavin Lightman [92], judge; son of Harold Lightman
Harold Lightman, barrister, father of Gavin Lightman and Stafford Lightman

Obituary: Harold Lightman; The Independent; Nov 18, 1998; John Balcombe; p. 6; "Lightman was disadvantaged in his early legal career by the fact that he had not been to university and was Jewish."

Alan Mocatta [93]: "Sir Alan Mocatta, Jewish"
Victor Mishcon, Baron Mishcon [94], solicitor.
Sir David Neuberger, English Lord Justice of Appeal; son of Albert Neuberger, brother of James Neuberger and Michael Neuberger, and brother-in-law of Julia Neuberger (Jewish Year Book 2005:212 & 214)
David Pearl,^[66] judge
Sir Bernard Rix, English Lord Justice of Appeal (2000-) (JYB 2005:212 & 214)
Leonard Sainer [95], solicitor and retailer
Lewis Silkin, 1st Baron Silkin ^[67], solicitor
Linda Joy Stern Q.C., prosecutor and judge (Jewish Chronicle 15/9/06 p31: death notices)
Julius Stone [96]
Eldred Tabachnik, Q.C., former president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews [97].
Peter Taylor, Baron Taylor of Gosforth [98], Q.C., former Lord Chief Justice
Harry Woolf, Baron Woolf [99], Lord Chief Justice, Q.C., former Master of the Rolls
Jonathan Winegarten, Master, Probate Division

Designers and Architects

Nicole Farhi [54], fashion designer
John Frieda [55], hair-stylist; father of actor Jordan Frieda
Ray Kelvin [56], fashion designer, founder of Ted Baker
Denys Lasdun ^[41], architect
Stella McCartney ^[42], fashion designer
Erich Mendelsohn,^[43] architect

Civil service

Abraham Manie Adelstein, Government statistician^[52]
Michael Baxter, Government statistician^[53]
Sir Hermann Bondi [74], Chief Scientific Adviser to the Ministry of Defence and the Department of Energy
Sir Andrew Cohen,^[54] colonial administrator
Eugene Grebenik [75], first head of the Civil Service College
Hans Kronberger (physicist),^[55] nuclear physicist
Sir Alan Marre [76], Second Permanent Secretary, Health; later Parliamentary Commissioner for Administration
Sir Claus Moser [77], Lord Moser, Government Statistician

Philanthropists

Bernhard Baron, cigarette maker and philanthropist [148]
Sir Clive Bourne,^[78] philanthropist
Joseph Duveen, 1st Baron Duveen of Millbank^[79]
Dame Vivien Duffield, philanthropist, daughter of Sir Charles Clore (JYB 2005 p214)
Anna Maria Goldsmid ^[80], philanthropist
Sir Basil Henriques,^[81] philanthropist
Maurice de Hirsch ^[82], banker and philanthropist
Samuel Lewis [149], moneylender and philanthropist
Sir Robert Mayer [150], philanthropist
Frederic David Mocatta,^[83] philanthropist

Manufacturing

Sir Leon Bagrit Time Magazine, pioneer of automation
Sir Monty Finniston, industrialist (JYB 1977 p206-7)
David Gestetner ^[48], inventor
Joseph Kagan, Baron Kagan ^[49], clothes manufacturer
Sir Emmanuel Kaye,^[50] industrialist and philanthropist
Sir Robert Waley-Cohen,^[51] industrialist
Arnold Weinstock, Lord Weinstock, Chairman of GEC - JYB 2002, p211

Chess

Gerald Abrahams [126], British chess player
Harry Golombek [127], British chess player
Isidor Gunsberg [128], Hungarian/British chess player
William Hartston [129], British chess player
Bernhard Horwitz [130], German/British chess player
Johann Löwenthal [131], Hungarian/British chess player
Jonathan Mestel [132], British chess player
Jacques Mieses [133], German/British chess player
Jon Speelman [134], British chess player
Michael Stean [135], British chess player
Johannes Zukertort [136], Polish/German chess player

Miscellaneous

Barney Barnato,^[84] diamond miner
Jack Beddington,^[85] advertising executive
Antonio Fernandez Carvajal,^[86] merchant, first Jew to be naturalised as a British citizen
Jeremiah Duggan^[87] Possible murder victim
Lewis Elton [154], educationalist
Stuart Paton, Famous for his likeness to Jimmy Neutron.
Alexander Goldberg,^[88] human rights activist, chaplain and barrister
Henry Edward Goldsmid [155], East India Company servant
Kurt Hahn,^[89] educationalist
Nathaniel Isaacs,[156] explorer
Gottlieb Wilhelm Leitner (1840-1899), educationist and orientalist ^[90]
Sir Solomon de Medina [157], army contractor, first English Jew to be knighted
Chava Mond, [158] model
Don Pacifico,^[91] cause of the Pacifico incident
Jordan (Katie Price), model^[92]
Krystyna Skarbek,^[93] spy
Sir Bernard Waley-Cohen [159], Lord Mayor of London
Harry Alexander

Playwrights

Peter Barnes playwright
Ronald Harwood , playwright & screenwriter
Patrick Marber , playwright & comedian
Harold Pinter , playwright
Jack Rosenthal , TV playwright
Peter & Anthony Shaffer , playwrights
Tom Stoppard , playwright
Alfred Sutro , playwright
Arnold Wesker , playwright

Military

Frank Alexander de Pass [141], WWI British Indian Army Victoria Cross recipient
John Edwards, sailor at the Battle of Trafalgar (The Independent (London); 02/11/05; Martin Sugarman; p. 34)
Robert Gee [142], WWI British Army Victoria Cross recipient
Albert Goldsmid [143], colonel
Frederick John Goldsmid [144], general
Thomas William Gould [145], WWII Royal Navy Victoria Cross recipient
John Patrick Kenneally [146], WWII British Army Victoria Cross recipient (Jewish father)
Issy Smith [147], WWI British Army Victoria Cross recipient
Jack White, WWI British Army Victoria Cross recipient (JYB 2005 p215)

Police

Henry Solomon [151] [152] [153] Chief Constable of Brighton Borough 1838 to 1844

Authors, A-J

Grace Aguilar , novelist & poet
Naomi Alderman novelist, winner of the Orange Award for new writers 2006
Lisa Appignanesi , novelist
Alain de Botton , writer
Caryl Brahms , writer
Anita Brookner , novelist
Ian Buruma , Dutch-born journalist and writer
Elias Canetti ], novelist, Nobel Prize (1981) (Bulgarian-born)
Chapman Cohen , writer on secularism
Jackie Collins , novelist
Alan Coren , humorous writer
His children, Giles and Victoria, are also writers
Charlotte Dacre , novelist and poet
Isaac D'Israeli , writer
Jenny Diski writer
Richard Ellmann , literary scholar and biographer
Moris Farhi, writer (Turkish born): TimesAd
Benjamin Farjeon
- Eleanor Farjeon, daughter of Benjamin Farjeon
Gilbert Frankau , writer
Stephen Fry ], actor & writer
Neil Gaiman , fantasy writer
Louis Golding ], novelist
Lewis Goldsmith, journalist and political writer
Linda Grant , novelist
Charlotte Haldane , feminist writer
Basil Henriques
Muriel Gray , Author, 'The Tube' presenter.
Zoë Heller , author (Jewish father)
Noreena Hertz great granddaughter of Joseph Hertz (Chief Rabbi of the British Empire)
Joseph Jacobs folklorist
Howard Jacobson ], writer & broadcaster
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala novelist and screenwriter
Gabriel Josipovici, novelist and short story writer

Authors, K-Z

Judith Kerr , children's writer
Matthew Kneale , writer (Jewish mother)
Arthur Koestler novelist & critic
Marghanita Laski , writer
Sir Sidney Lee (1859-1926) ], biographer and literary scholar
Joseph Leftwich Article on the Whitechapel Boys, writer
David Levi , writer on Jewish subjects
Paul Levy, food writer, biographer. Long rabbinical pedigree, vide "Finger Lickin' Good: A Kentucky Childhood," (London 1986)
Leo Marks , cryptographer & screenwriter
George Mikes, Encyclopaedia Judaica vol 6, column 789, Hungarian-born comic writer
Santa Montefiore ^], author (convert)
Simon Sebag Montefiore , writer
Harold Pinter writer, playwright
Frederic Raphael , screenwriter, novelist & critic
Michael Rosen , novelist, poet & broadcaster
Bernice Rubens novelist
Will Self novelist (Jewish mother)
Muriel Spark, novelist (Jewish father, possible Jewish mother; converted to Catholicism later in life)

Jewish Chronicle 13/3/1998 p1: "Dame Muriel Spark, the author of "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" and several other celebrated works, is halachically Jewish." (Says her mother was Jewish too.)

Fredric Warburg, author and publisher
Stephen Winsten Jewish Quarterly article on the Whitechapel Boys, writer
Leonard Woolf , writer & activist
Rachel Zadok South African-born novelist
Israel Zangwill novelist

"Israel Zangwill, Anglo-Jewish writer and political activist, was probably the best known Jew in the English-speaking world at the start of the twentieth century."

Journalists

Barbara Amiel ^[13]
Lionel Blue, rabbi and journalist
Alex Brummer, Economic and financial journalist and biographer
Ian Buruma [64], Dutch-born author and journalist
John Diamond [65], journalist
Oliver Finegold [66], journalist
Jonathan Freedland [67], journalist
Ernest Abraham Hart ^[14]
Christopher Hitchens [68] journalist & writer
Dominic Lawson ^[15], journalist
Nigella Lawson [69], Cookery writer
Norman Lebrecht [70], journalist, writer & critic
Bernard Levin [71], journalist & broadcaster
Emily Maitlis [72], TV newscaster & reporter
Melanie Phillips [73], journalist
Marjorie Proops [74], agony aunt
Richard Quest [75], CNN International anchorman
Kimberly Quinn [76], publisher
Claire Rayner [77], agony aunt
Jon Ronson, [78] Journalist, author, documentary filmmaker and radio presenter.
Jon Sopel, [79] Journalist, presents The Politics Show on BBC One and is one of the lead presenters on News 24.
Jim Rosenthal, TV sports journalist & presenter (The Observer (London); 18/12/05; p. 6)
Mark Steyn [80] journalist & writer
Victor Weisz, Vicky ^[16], cartoonist
Nicky Woolf, journalist

Poets

Dannie Abse [40], poet, brother of Leo Abse and psychoanalyst Wilfred Abse
Al Alvarez [41], poet
Ivor Cutler [42], poet, humorist, musician
Elaine Feinstein [43], poet, writer, biographer
Rose Fyleman ^[11], children's writer
Karen Gershon [44], German-born poet
Philip Hobsbaum [45], poet
Jenny Joseph, poet (The Times (London); 23/11/02; Amanda Craig; p. 6)
Laurence Lerner [46], poet (born South Africa)
Denise Levertov [47] [48], poet, born in England
Peter Levi [49], poet (born Jewish; family converted to Catholicism)
Amy Levy [50], poet & novelist
Vivian de Sola Pinto [51], poet
John Rodker, poet and publisher: "Anglo-Jewish poetry from Isaac Rosenberg to Elaine Feinstein" by Peter Lawson; ISBN 0-85303-617-9
Isaac Rosenberg [52], war poet
Siegfried Sassoon [53], poet

"Abstract: "Difference at War" is a comparative study of three Jewish poet-soldiers of the First World War: Siegfried Sassoon, Isaac Rosenberg, and U. Z. Grinberg. ... The poetry of each of these Jewish poets was transformed by the War"

Jon Silkin [54], poet
Humbert Wolfe ^[12], poet and civil servant

Political

Pre-1900

Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield (1837) [2], Conservative Prime Minister (family converted to Anglicanism)
Lionel de Rothschild (1847, admitted 1858) [3], Liberal MP, first practising Jew to be elected an MP
David Salomons (1851, admitted 1858) Liberal MP, first Jewish Sheriff and Lord Mayor of London, first Jewish magistrate (JYB 2005 p.203)
Mayer Amschel de Rothschild [4] (1859) Liberal MP
Sir Francis Henry Goldsmid (1860) [5], MP for Reading, first Jewish barrister
Frederick David Goldsmid (1865) [6], MP for Honiton
Sir Julian Goldsmid (1866) [7], MP for Honiton, Rochester (1870), St. Pancras South (1894)
Sir George Jessel (1868) [8], Solicitor General for England and Wales, later Master of the Rolls; first Jewish minister
Farrer Herschell, 1st Baron Herschell, Conservative MP, later Lord Chancellor (1874) (family converted to Anglicanism) ^[1]
Henry Drummond Wolff [9] (1874)
Arthur Cohen ^[2], Liberal MP (1880)
Henry de Worms, 1st Baron Pirbright [10], Conservative MP 1880
Samuel Montagu, 1st Baron Swaythling (1885)[11], Liberal MP and banker.
Sir Edward Sassoon Bt., (1889) Liberal Unionist Party MP for Hythe (The Times, May 25, 1912)
Sydney Stern, Baron Wandsworth (1891) MP for Stowmarket JYB 5657 (1896-7) p102
Gustav Wilhelm Wolff [12] (1892) MP for East Belfast and founder of Harland and Wolff

1900-1939

Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel (1902) [13], Liberal cabinet minister & leader
Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading (1904) [14], Liberal cabinet minister & Viceroy of India. The only British Jew to be elevated to a Marquessate.
Alfred Mond, 1st Baron Melchett (1906) - JYB 1911 p297; Encyclopaedia Judaica 12:241-2
Edwin Samuel Montagu (1906) [15]
Frank Goldsmith Conservative M.P. for Stowmarket (1910) JYB 1911 p297
Trebitsch Lincoln (1910) [16]
Sir Percy Alfred Harris, Liberal MP (1916) ^[3]
Arthur Samuel ^[4], Conservative M.P. (1918)
Manny Shinwell, Baron Shinwell (1884-1986) (1922) [17], Labour cabinet minister & Chairman
Leslie Haden-Guest ^[5], Labour MP
Leslie Hore-Belisha, 1st Baron Hore-Belisha (1893-1957) (1923) [18], Liberal National cabinet minister
Harry Louis Nathan, 1st Baron Nathan of Churt (1929) Liberal, later Labour MP ^[6]
Barnett Janner (1931), Labour MP ^[7]
Dudley Joel (1931), Conservative MP ^[8]
Sydney Silverman (1935) Labour MP 1935 ^[9]
Lewis Silkin, 1st Baron Silkin (1936), Labour cabinet minister: Encyclopaedia Judaica vol 14 cols 1539-1540; father of John Silkin and Samuel Silkin

1940-1973

John Diamond, Baron Diamond (1945), Labour cabinet minister and SDP leader in the House of Lords (The Independent (London); 06/04/04)
Maurice Edelman (1911-1975) (1945)^[10], Labour MP
Harold Lever, Baron Lever of Manchester (1914-1995) (1945) [19], Labour MP
Ian Mikardo (1908-1993) (1945) [20], Labour MP
Phil Piratin (1945) [21] , Communist Party MP
Samuel Segal (1945), Labour MP and later Deputy Speaker of the House of Lords
Sir Gerald Nabarro (1950) ^[11], Conservative MP
Sir Henry d'Avigdor-Goldsmid (1955) ^[12]
Keith Joseph, Conservative cabinet minister and life peer (1956) (JYB 1988 p192, 227)
Sir Philip Goodhart (1957)^[13], Conservative MP and minister
Leo Abse (1958) [22], Labour MP & social reformer
Myer Galpern (1959) [23] Deputy Chairman of Ways and Means
John Silkin (1963), Labour cabinet minister (JYB 1986 p186, 269)
Joel Barnett (1964), Labour cabinet minister and life peer (JYB 2005 p212)
Edmund Dell (1964) [24], Labour cabinet minister & founding chairman of Channel 4
Reginald Freeson (1964), Labour minister (JYB 2005 p212, 241-2)
Robert Maxwell (1964), Labour MP for Buckingham, subsequently proprietor of the Daily Mirror
Samuel Silkin, Labour cabinet minister and life peer (1964) - JYB 1986 p185, 269-70
Eric Moonman (1966), Labour MP (JYB 2005 p279)
Robert Adley ^[14] (1970), Conservative MP
James d'Avigdor-Goldsmid ^[15] (1970), Conservative MP
Sally Oppenheim-Barnes (1970), Conservative MP (JYB 2005 p.212, 282-3)
Michael Fidler ^[16], Conservative MP
Greville Janner (1970) [25], Labour MP, now life peer
Sir Gerald Kaufman (1970) [26], Labour minister
Sir Anthony Meyer (1970), Conservative MP, leadership candidate ^[17]
Sir Clement Freud (1973) [27], Liberal MP

1974 -

Leon Brittan, Baron Brittan of Spennithorne (born 1939) (1974) [28], Conservative cabinet minister, European Commissioner
Helene Hayman (1974), MP / Life Peer (JYB 2005 p212)
Nigel Lawson, Baron Lawson of Blaby, Conservative cabinet minister and life peer (1974) - JYB 2005 p212
Millie Miller (1974)^[18], Labour MP
Sir Malcolm Rifkind (1974) [29], Conservative cabinet minister
Alf Dubs (1979) [30], Labour MP and life peer
Edwina Currie (1983) [31], Conservative minister
Michael Howard (1983) [32], Conservative cabinet minister & party leader (2003-2005)
Barbara Roche (1992) [33], Labour minister
Peter Mandelson (1992), Labour MP for Hartlepool, Cabinet Minister for Northern Ireland and now EU Commissioner for Trade
Margaret Hodge (1994) [34], Minister of State for Industry and the Regions
John Bercow (1997)^[19], Conservative MP
Louise Ellman (1997) [35], Labour MP
Fabian Hamilton (1997) [36], Labour MP
Evan Harris (1997) [37], Liberal Democrat MP
Oona King (1997) [38], Labour MP (1997-2005), second black female MP (Jewish mother), niece of Miriam Stoppard
Oliver Letwin (1997) [39], Conservative shadow cabinet member, Chairman of the Policy Review & Chairman of the Conservative Research Department
Ivan Lewis (1997) [40], Minister of State for Health
David Miliband (2001), Labour Party policy chief & Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (Jewish Chronicle, 12/5/2006 p7: "Jewish MP David Miliband")
Lynne Featherstone (2005), Liberal Democrat MP (Evening Standard (London); 11/04/05; ANDREW GILLIGAN; p. 16)
Ed Miliband (2005) [41], Minister for the Cabinet Office and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. Brother of David Miliband and son of theorist Ralph Miliband.
Lee Scott (2005)^[20], Conservative MP
Susan Kramer (2005) Liberal Democrat MP for Richmond Upon Thames

Other

Hilda Bernstein [48] Anti-apartheid activist
Tony Cliff [49], (né Yigael Gluckstein) Palestinian-born Marxist theorist and founder of the Socialist Workers Party
Gerry Gable [50], communist activist & publisher of Searchlight magazine
Nicky Gavron [51], Deputy Mayor of London
Sir James Goldsmith, founder of the Referendum Party
Zac Goldsmith, environmental activist
Victor Gollancz [52], publisher and political activist
Ted Grant [53], (né Isaac Blank) South African-born Marxist theorist and founder of the Militant Tendency
Sidney Hart, Trade Unionist (Obituary, Jewish Chronicle, 15/04/05, p40)
Chaim Herzog [54], Israel's sixth president, born in Belfast and known as Vivian Herzog during, and after, his tenure in the British Army
Lou Kenton, International Brigade volunteer
Norman John Klugmann ^[28], aka James Klugmann, communist
Minnie Lansbury ^[29], suffragette and alderman
Eleanor Marx, daughter and secretary of Karl Marx

"His beloved daughter Eleanor, however, who acted as his secretary, considered herself Jewish, took interest in her ancestors, and had a warm appreciation for the Jewish workers in the East End of London." Encyclopaedia Judaica, art. Marx, Karl Heinrich.

Ralph Miliband (1924-94) [55] (né Adolphe Miliband) Belgian born Polish-Jewish Marxist theorist and father of David and Ed Miliband.
Dame Shirley Porter [56], Lord Mayor of Westminster 1991-92
Larry Sanders [57], Green Party politician
- His son Jacob is also a Green Party politician
Sir Julius Vogel [58], Prime Minister of New Zealand
Walter Wolfgang [59], a founder of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament

Peers

Alma Birk, Baroness Birk ^[21], Labour politician
Anna Gaitskell, Baroness Gaitskell ^[22], Labour politician
Peter Goldsmith, Baron Goldsmith [42], [43], Attorney General
Arnold Goodman, Baron Goodman [44], solicitor
Lord George Gordon, politician (converted)^[23]
Sydney Jacobson, Baron Jacobson, newspaper editor ^[24]
Immanuel Jakobovits, Baron Jakobovits, Chief rabbi
Michael Levy, Baron Levy - JYB 2005 p212, 270
Edward Levy-Lawson, 1st Baron Burnham [45], newspaper proprietor
Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell, ^[25] scientist and Government minister
Benjamin Lloyd Stormont Mancroft, 3rd Baron Mancroft, Conservative hereditary peer
Beatrice Plummer ^[26], Labour politician
Samuel Segal (1964), Deputy Speaker of the House of Lords
Beatrice Serota, Baroness Serota ^[27], Labour politician
David Triesman, Baron Triesman [46], Labour peer and Junior Minister
Lord Leonard Wolfson (JYB 2005 p212)
Harry Woolf, Baron Woolf [47], Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales 2000-2006

(1909 - 1988)