ABSTRACT

Originally published in 1951, this book explores the development in England of the Sephardi branch of the Jewish community, the co-heirs, with their kinsmen in Holland, in Italy, in North America and in the Middle East, of the Golden Age of Jewish history in Spain. Based on archival history from within the community, it was the first full-length history of the Sephardi community in England and describes how this little Jewish community, the first in England since the Middle Ages, grew, prospered and contributed the wealth and influence of London, and eventually producing in Disraeli one of England’s greatest Prime Ministers.

chapter Chapter I|9 pages

The Earliest Sephardim in England

chapter Chapter II|14 pages

The Origins of the Present Community

chapter Chapter III|12 pages

The Organization of the Community

chapter Chapter IV|17 pages

Set-Backs and Advances

chapter Chapter V|21 pages

The Enlargement of the Synagogue

chapter Chapter VI|24 pages

A New Haham and a New Synagogue

chapter Chapter VII|25 pages

Some Eighteenth-Century Personalities

chapter Chapter VIII|22 pages

External Affairs

chapter Chapter IX|18 pages

The Sephardim Beyond the Seas

chapter Chapter X|19 pages

The Great Period in Sephardi History

chapter Chapter XI|17 pages

The Internal Life of the Sephardim

chapter Chapter XII|21 pages

More Personalities

chapter Chapter XIII|20 pages

The Turn of the Century

chapter Chapter XIV|29 pages

The First Decades of the Nineteenth Century

chapter Chapter XV|27 pages

The Great Secession

chapter Chapter XVI|36 pages

The Sephardim and the Ashkenazim

chapter Chapter XVII|25 pages

Sir Moses Montefiore

chapter Chapter XVIII|21 pages

A Threat to Bevis Marks

chapter Chapter XIX|25 pages

The Penultimate Half-Century

chapter Chapter XX|13 pages

The Last Fifty Years