A History of the Jews in England
, by Hyamson, Albert Montefiore
- ISBN: 9780898753868 | 0898753864
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 7/1/2001
| Preface | p. vii |
| The Earliest Legends (Before 1066) | |
| Solomon and Britain | |
| Jews in Cornwall | |
| Julius Caesar and the Jews | |
| The Coronation Stone legends | |
| No permanent Jewish settlement | |
| The Lost Ten Tribes and the English | |
| Jews and the introduction of Christianity | |
| The earliest Jewish reference | |
| A supposed Jewish immigration in the ninth century | |
| The Laws of Edward the Confessor | |
| Jews visit Ireland | |
| Under the Normans (1066-1146) | |
| Immigration under William I. | |
| The need for a middle class | |
| The need for the Jews | |
| The Jews necessary to William's policy | |
| Their place in the national economy | |
| A charter granted | |
| Jews indirectly assisted by ecclesiastical law | |
| The Church and the Jews | |
| The Jews and their neighbours | |
| Favoured by the early Norman kings | |
| Rufus and the Church | |
| His favour of the Jews and discouragement of apostasy | |
| A public disputation | |
| The influence of the Jews alarms the Church | |
| The Jews of London fined [pound]2000 | |
| Spoliation of the Jews of Oxford | |
| The first settlement at Oxford | |
| At Cambridge | |
| At Stamford | |
| In London | |
| The distribution of the Jews | |
| The Crusades and the Blood Accusation (1146-1188) | |
| The Crusades | |
| Massacres of Jews on the Continent | |
| Echoes in England | |
| The Blood Accusation | |
| St. William of Norwich | |
| The Jews of Norwich attacked | |
| The place of the Jew in the national life | |
| The Church and "usury" | |
| Partnership between the king and the Jews | |
| Aaron of Lincoln | |
| The king's income from the Jews | |
| The Jews' value to the State | |
| The Jews and the conquest of Ireland | |
| Richard I.'s Coronation (1154-1190) | |
| Prosperity | |
| The legal jurisdiction | |
| Relations with the people | |
| The situation changes | |
| The Assize of Arms | |
| The Third Crusade | |
| Richard I.'s Coronation | |
| London Jewry sacked | |
| The punishment | |
| Anti-Jewish outbreaks throughout the country | |
| At Lynn | |
| At Stamford | |
| The Massacre at York (1190) | |
| The Jews take refuge in the Castle | |
| The Castle attacked | |
| The Jews take counsel | |
| The Jews destroy themselves to escape the populace | |
| The survivors massacred | |
| The records of debts destroyed | |
| The leaders of the outbreak | |
| Other massacres | |
| The king's action | |
| The Exchequer of the Jews (1194-1216) | |
| Richard inquires into the outbreaks | |
| The debts of the Jews to be recorded in duplicate | |
| Shetaroth | |
| The Exchequer of the Jews | |
| The Presbyter Judoeorum, or Chief Presbyter | |
| Jewish sources of income to the king | |
| The tallages | |
| The Jews beg for permission to leave the country | |
| The advantages to the Jews of their Exchequer | |
| John creates the office of Chief Presbyter | |
| The Charter of the Jews | |
| John protects the Jews of London | |
| John's attitude changes | |
| The whole of Anglo-Jewry imprisoned | |
| London Jewry sacked by the barons | |
| Jews and Magna Charta | |
| Protection and Persecution (1216-1241) | |
| A welcome change of policy | |
| The badge instituted as a means of protection | |
| The Church and the Jews | |
| Isaac of Norwich | |
| Renewal of persecution | |
| A synagogue confiscated | |
| The towns and the Jews | |
| The rights of residence curtailed | |
| Unceasing exactions | |
| The Odard affair at Norwich | |
| Tallages, Spoliation, and Imprisonment (1238-1251) | |
| The Parliament of the Jews | |
| An alleged ritual murder in London | |
| The barons obtain the right to nominate one of the justices of the Jews | |
| The oppression of the barons | |
| Threats of banishment to Ireland | |
| Abraham of Berkhampstead | |
| The appeal of Chief Presbyter Elias | |
| The Jews sold to Earl Richard | |
| Elias of London | |
| Little St. Hugh of Lincoln (1253-1268) | |
| Little St. Hugh | |
| The king investigates the charge | |
| The friars intervene on behalf of the Jews | |
| Sacrilege at Oxford | |
| The Jews assigned to Prince Edward and by him to the Cahorsins | |
| The Cahorsins | |
| The Last Phase (1262-1279) | |
| London Jewry sacked by the barons. Excesses in the provinces | |
| The Jews disqualified from holding lands in pledge | |
| Edward I. | |
| The Statute de Judaismo | |
| The effects of the Act | |
| All the Jews imprisoned | |
| 293 Jews hanged | |
| Jews compelled to attend sermons by the Dominicans | |
| The Expulsion (1282-1290) | |
| The synagogues of London suppressed | |
| Ecclesiastical enactments | |
| The Jews expelled from Gascony | |
| The Expulsion | |
| The fate of the exiles | |
| Lincoln | |
| Benedict fil Mosse | |
| Norwich | |
| Oxford | |
| York | |
| Pre-Expulsion Jewry | |
| The Chief Presbyter and other officials | |
| The numbers of the Jews | |
| Their occupations | |
| Three classes in Anglo-Jewry | |
| Their costume and social customs | |
| Their religious observances | |
| Educational facilities | |
| Literature | |
| Distinguished visitors | |
| Anglo-Jewish authors | |
| Anglo-Jewish nomenclature | |
| The Middle Period (1290-1550) | |
| Probable survivors of the Expulsion | |
| Tradition of a remnant at Oxford | |
| A Jewish deputation visits England | |
| Jews masquerading as Lombards | |
| Paul of Burgos | |
| Jewish physicians in England | |
| Converts from Judaism | |
| Effects of the expulsion from Spain | |
| Jewish doctors and Henry VIII.'s divorce | |
| The views of Mark Raphael | |
| Tremellius in England | |
| The Domus Conversorum (1213-1609) | |
| Earlier houses of converts | |
| Foundation of the "Domus Conversorum" | |
| The form of reception | |
| The occupations of the converts | |
| The distribution of the candidates for admission | |
| Philip Ferdinandus | |
| The last inmate | |
| Queen Elizabeth's Jewish Physician (1581-1650) | |
| The English discover an interest in the Jews | |
| The Jew in English drama | |
| English students of Hebrew | |
| A Jew develops mining in England; and is accused of heresy | |
| Roderigo Lopez | |
| Chief physician to the Queen | |
| Accused of high treason; and hanged | |
| Elizabeth's sympathy with Jews | |
| Jews and geographical discovery | |
| Intercourse with Marranos | |
| Jewish scholars in England | |
| Converts to Judaism | |
| Attempts by Spain to prosecute Jews in the English courts | |
| The Translation of the Bible | |
| Influences of the Bible upon the English | |
| The earliest translations into English | |
| Nicolas de Lyra | |
| The study of Hebrew in England | |
| William Tyndale | |
| Miles Coverdale | |
| The Geneva or "Breeches" Bible | |
| The Bishops' Bible | |
| James I. and Hebrew | |
| The Authorised Version | |
| The Revisers | |
| Their work | |
| English Elements in the Re-Settlement (1630-1649) | |
| Changes in England since the Expulsion | |
| Jews under the Feudal System | |
| Legislation against heresy | |
| The Statute de Hoeretico | |
| Heresy defined | |
| The Uniformity legislation | |
| Spanish subjects exempted from the Recusancy Laws | |
| Nonconformist sects | |
| The Puritan and the Hebrew spirit | |
| Conversionist influences | |
| The Pamphleteers | |
| The economic argument for the Return | |
| The first definite step | |
| The Petition of the Cartwrights | |
| The Crypto-Jews (1643-1655) | |
| A secret Jewish immigration | |
| Antonio Fernandez Carvajal | |
| Carvajal's services to the English Government | |
| Simon de Caceres | |
| Other merchant princes | |
| The secret Jewish community | |
| The earliest synagogue | |
| Cromwell and the Jews | |
| Their services to the English Government | |
| Cromwell's Jewish intelligencers | |
| Menasseh Ben Israel (1648-1654) | |
| Toleration in the Colonies | |
| Jewish settlements in the Colonies; and in London | |
| The Lost Ten Tribes | |
| In America | |
| An English controversy regarding their fate | |
| Menasseh ben Israel | |
| His occupations in Amsterdam | |
| His first book | |
| The Conciliator | |
| His writings | |
| Menasseh's correspondents and friends | |
| Menasseh's private troubles | |
| He enters commerce and determines to settle in South America | |
| But is induced to remain in Amsterdam | |
| Menasseh enters diplomacy | |
| The Whitehall Conference (1650-1655) | |
| Menasseh's views on English politics | |
| The Relation of Antonio Montezinos | |
| Menasseh and the Millenarians | |
| "The Hope of Israel" | |
| Cromwell's view of the Jewish Question | |
| The St. John Mission and Menasseh | |
| Menasseh invited to England | |
| David Abarvanel Dormido | |
| Dormido's petitions referred to the Council of State | |
| Arrival of Menasseh | |
| The "Humble Addresses" | |
| Harmful rumours | |
| Rebuff by the Council of State | |
| The Petitions referred to a Committee; and a Conference | |
| The members of the Conference | |
| The Questions | |
| No legal bar to the Re-Settlement | |
| The opposition of the merchants | |
| A suggested compromise | |
| Cromwell dissolves the Conference | |
| The Re-Settlement (1655-1658) | |
| The Report of the Committee | |
| Further efforts of the exclusionists | |
| Outbreak of war with Spain. The property of Robles seized | |
| The Vindicioe Judoeorum | |
| The Marranos throw off their disguise | |
| The right of unrestricted residence granted | |
| Death of Menasseh | |
| The Jewry of the Restoration (1659-1685) | |
| The religious organisation of the community | |
| A Jew knighted | |
| Violet's anti-Jewish efforts | |
| An application to the Privy Council for the harassing of the Jews | |
| The Jews appeal to the king | |
| An attempt to blackmail the Jews | |
| The king protects the Jews | |
| The Jews harassed under the Conventicle Act | |
| Jews arrested under the Act of Uniformity | |
| The Sephardim (1663-1702) | |
| The community organised | |
| Haham Sasportas | |
| The first Anglo-Jewish charity | |
| Alien immigration | |
| Haham da Silva | |
| Haham Abendana | |
| Haham Aylion | |
| Increase in the Jewish population | |
| Haham Nieto | |
| The External History of the Community (1677-1690) | |
| The problem of the poor | |
| Poor Jews excluded from London | |
| The affair of Eve Cohan | |
| Suggested creation of a ghetto | |
| Alien duties | |
| A rapprochement between the City and the Jews | |
| William III. and the Jews | |
| Immigration of Ashkenazim | |
| Suggested special taxation of the Jews | |
| The Ashkenazim (1690-1764) | |
| Benjamin Levy | |
| Rabbi Uri Phaibush (Aaron Hart) | |
| A secession | |
| The Hambro Synagogue | |
| The beginnings of the Jews' Free School | |
| Conversion troubles | |
| Rabbi Hirsch Lobel | |
| The New Synagogue | |
| The beginnings of provincial Jewry | |
| The Colonies (1625-1800) | |
| Barbadoes, the first English colony to admit Jews | |
| The conquest of Jamaica | |
| In Surinam | |
| In Jamaica | |
| In the other islands | |
| In North America | |
| In Canada | |
| From the Revolution to the Georgia Settlement (1655-1750) | |
| The City and the Jews | |
| Jewish brokers limited to twelve | |
| Proselytism, a crime | |
| Jews permitted to hold land | |
| Anti-Jewish libels | |
| An emigration scheme | |
| The Salvador family | |
| Jewish colonists arrive at Savannah | |
| A congregation formed | |
| Other schemes for Jewish immigration | |
| The Naturalisation Controversy (1690-1753) | |
| Sir Solomon Medina | |
| Sampson Gideon | |
| The Jews and the South Sea Bubble and the Forty-five | |
| A Naturalisation Act | |
| Judaism and the Law | |
| The Jew Bill of 1753 | |
| The Bill in the Commons | |
| The arguments against | |
| The Bill passes; and is repealed | |
| The agitation and Sampson Gideon | |
| Death of Gideon | |
| Jewish marriages | |
| The Sephardim (1699-1784) | |
| The troubles of Haham Nieto | |
| Death and character of Nieto | |
| Anglo-Jewish scholars | |
| Prosperity of the community | |
| Isaac Nieto appointed Haham | |
| Charitable institutions | |
| The Mahamad and the community | |
| Dissensions | |
| A forerunner of the Board of Deputies | |
| D'Azavedo appointed Haham | |
| Sephardim and Ashkenazim | |
| Relations with foreign communities | |
| The ebb of prosperity | |
| New sources of immigration | |
| The Ashkenazim (1765-1797) | |
| Appointment of R. Tewele Schiff | |
| The synagogue mortgaged | |
| Judith Levy | |
| The causes of immigration | |
| Immigration troubles. Restriction advocated | |
| The Meshebat Nephesh | |
| Levi Barent Cohen | |
| A Shechita libel action | |
| Proposed Shechita co-operation | |
| Co-operation of the Ashkenazim for the relief of the poor | |
| The Western Synagogue | |
| The Opening of the Nineteenth Century (1792-1824) | |
| Anglo-Jewish celebrities | |
| Anglo-Jewish literature | |
| David Levi | |
| Anti-alien legislation | |
| The problem of the Jewish poor | |
| The Goldsmid family | |
| Scheme for a Jewish "Poor Fund" | |
| Jews' Hospital and Orphan Asylum founded | |
| Appointment of Rabbi Solomon Hirschell | |
| Patriotism of the Jews | |
| Proposed union of the Ashkenazim | |
| Rabbi Huschell appointed Chief Rabbi | |
| The Reform Movement (1802-1885) | |
| The troubles of the Sephardim | |
| Reforms suggested | |
| Haham Meldola | |
| Hazan de Sola | |
| Moses Montefiore | |
| More reforms | |
| A Jewish renaissance | |
| The beginning of the Reform movement | |
| Influence of German reform | |
| The Reform Synagogue established | |
| N. M. Adler elected Chief Rabbi | |
| The Disabilities of the Jews (1830-1855) | |
| The distribution of the community | |
| Jewish disabilities | |
| At the Universities | |
| Minor disabilities removed | |
| Jews admitted to the office of Sheriff | |
| The Court of Aldermen | |
| Municipal offices opened to Jews | |
| Jewish baronets | |
| The first Bill for Political Emancipation | |
| Arguments pro and con | |
| Political Emancipation Obtained (1830-1866) | |
| Salomons' first parliamentary contest | |
| A Jew elected to Parliament | |
| Rothschild attempts to take the oath | |
| Salomons elected M.P. for Greenwich | |
| He takes his seat; and is ordered to withdraw. He votes in the division and speaks | |
| The question in the Law Courts | |
| A new proposal | |
| Rothschild a member of a parliamentary committee | |
| Political Emancipation gained | |
| A Jewish peer | |
| Growth and Reorganisation of the Community (1840-1906) | |
| The Damascus affair | |
| The Jews appeal to the British Government | |
| The Anglo-Jewish Association | |
| Palmerston and the Jewish question | |
| Dr. N. M. Adler's improvements | |
| Faudel's suggested reforms | |
| Charity organisation | |
| The Jewish Board of Guardians | |
| The United Synagogue | |
| Jews in English public life | |
| Jewish Colonial Premiers | |
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