Diplomatic Aspects of the Sephardic Influx from Portugal in the Early Eighteenth Century

This year (1976) marks the 275th anniver? sary of the opening in Bevis Marks of the noble synagogue of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews. In the last twenty-five years, since the late A. M. Hyamson’s Sephardim of England was pub? lished to celebrate the synagogue’s 250th anniversary, the material for a history of the early years of the London Sephardi community has been very considerably enlarged or revised, almost entirely by members or guest-lecturers of this Society.1 It would take too long to go through all these new contributions now, but the period covered ranges from Professor Beinart’s Lucien Wolf Lecture of last year, published in this volume of Transactions, on the personal histories, reconstructed from In? quisition records, of three of the early settlers who clustered round and supported the syna? gogue shortly after its first foundation in Cree Church Lane, to the biography by the late Oskar Rabinowicz

Written by

Richard D. Barnett

Published in

Volume 25

1973

Other articles within the volume

• Index to Transactions I to XXV, Miscellanies I to X, v-vii, 1-243
• Provincial Jewry in Victorian Britain: A Report
• Diplomatic Aspects of the Sephardic Influx from Portugal in the Early Eighteenth Century
• Jews in English Regular Freemasonry, 1717—1860
• Weizmann: A new type of leadership in the Zionist movement
• Rabbi Jacob Judah Leon (Templo) of Amsterdam (1603—1675) and his connections with England
• Jewish Glass-makers
• Aaron Levy Green, 1821—1883
• The Jews in the Canary Islands: a Re-evaluation
• Was Moyse’s Hall, Bury St. Edmunds, a Jew’s House?
• David Gabay’s 1660 Letter from London
• Leonard Woolf’s Attitudes to his Jewish Background and to Judaism
• The Beginnings of the Newcastle Jewish Community
• Preface