List of British Jewish politicians

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List of British Jewish politicians is a list that includes Jews and people of Jewish descent who served as politicians in the United Kingdom and its predecessor states or who were born in the United Kingdom and had notable political careers abroad.

Contents

[edit] British MPs

British Members of Parliament listed chronologically by first election date (in brackets)

[edit] Pre-1900

[edit] 1900-1939

[edit] 1940-1973

[edit] 1974 -

[edit] Peers

[edit] Other

"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.

[edit] References

[edit] Footnotes

  1. ^ Jewish Encyclopedia
  2. ^ Concise Dictionary of National Biography: "first professing Jew to graduate at Cambridge"
  3. ^ Obituary, Jewish Chronicle, 4 July 1952
  4. ^ Jewish Heraldry "As noted above, Sir Nathaniel Rothschild was the first Jewish peer in 1885. Later peers include Rufus Isaacs (baron 1914, viscount 1916, marquis of Reading 1926), Samuel (viscount Bearsted in 1925), Herbert Samuel (viscount Samuel 1937), Montagu Samuel-Montagu (baron Swaythling in 1907), Jessel (baron Jessel in 1924), Mond (baron Melchett in 1928), Samuel (baron Mancroft in 1937), Nathan (baron Nathan in 1940), Silkin (baron Silkin in 1950)." Accessed 28 November 2006.
  5. ^ "the first Jewish Labour candidate, Captain Haden-Guest": Jewish Chronicle March 11 1966, page 8
  6. ^ Jewish Heraldry see Arthur Samuel
  7. ^ Concise Dictionary of National Biography: "Jewish leader"
  8. ^ Jewish Chronicle July 25 1941, p.12, "Jews in the Navy"
  9. ^ Concise Dictionary of National Biography: "of Jewish parentage"
  10. ^ Concise Dictionary of National Biography: "son of Jews who had emigrated from eastern Europe"
  11. ^ Guardian, Saturday October 23, 1999
  12. ^ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: "Harry, as he was always called, united both in blood as well as name the vitality, attitudes, and temperaments of two Jewish banking dynasties"
  13. ^ Flade, Ronald. The Lehmans: From Rimpar to the New World: A Family History, 2nd Enlarged Ed., 1999; reviewed by the American Jewish Historical Society. Accessed 14 Nov 2006.
  14. ^ Guardian, Saturday October 23, 1999
  15. ^ American Jewish Year Book, 1989
  16. ^ Obituary, Jewish Chronicle, September 8, 1989, p.18
  17. ^ Spectator, 2/12/1989 p5: "Sir Anthony ... is a representative of the enlightened haute juiverie"
  18. ^ Jewish Chronicle, October 18, 1974, p.5: List of Jewish MPs
  19. ^ The Spectator Mar 20, 1999; online here [1]
  20. ^ Jewish Chronicle, 7 Dec 2006, p.5: "The Jewish Conservative MP for Ilford North"
  21. ^ Encyclopaedia Judaica, art. Politics: "Four women were among the first ten Jews to be made life peers: Dora Gaitskell, Beatrice Serota, Alma Birk and Beatrice Plummer"
  22. ^ Encyclopaedia Judaica, art. Politics: "Four women were among the first ten Jews to be made life peers: Dora Gaitskell, Beatrice Serota, Alma Birk and Beatrice Plummer"
  23. ^ Concise Dictionary of National Biography: "became a Jew"
  24. ^ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: "the only son and elder child of Samuel and Anna Jacobson, a Jewish couple"
  25. ^ Jewish Science and Technology Books, accessed 20 Feb 2007.
  26. ^ Encyclopaedia Judaica, art. Politics: "Four women were among the first ten Jews to be made life peers: Dora Gaitskell, Beatrice Serota, Alma Birk and Beatrice Plummer"
  27. ^ Encyclopaedia Judaica, art. Politics: "Four women were among the first ten Jews to be made life peers: Dora Gaitskell, Beatrice Serota, Alma Birk and Beatrice Plummer"
  28. ^ Concise Dictionary of National Biography: "son of Jewish parents"
  29. ^ Jewish Chronicle, April 13, 2007, p.6: "a Jewish suffragette, councillor and socialist"

[edit] Bibliography

  • JYB = Jewish Year Book (annual)
  • "Obituary: Sir Edward Sassoon". The Times, Saturday, May 25, 1912; pg. 11; Issue 39908; col C.

[edit] See also