Solomon Bennett, 1761-1838 Artist, Hebraist and Controversialist
Solomon Bennett was a vivid and vigorous personality of \he eighteenth (and nineteenth centuries, who, in my view, has so far not received the attention *^due to him from Anglo-Jewish historians. Of the scanty notices recorded of him many are quite incorrect in their facts, most are only indirect in their interest, and nearly all are chiefly concerned with his polemics against the Chief Rabbi, Solomon Hirschell. I hope to show from my investigations that he is quite worthy of an identity of his own among the notable figures of Anglo-Jewry in a period not particularly con? spicuous for Jewish literary or cultural productivity in this country. Whether as artist, scholar or controversialist, he is sufficiently outstanding to warrant a personal and a permanent place in the Anglo-Jewish story. Until recently this colourful, caustic and sometimes choleric character has been passed over as inconsiderable; and, even where referred to, dismissed
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Arthur Barnett
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Volume 17
1951
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- Some New Facts About the Portsmouth Jewish Community
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- Anglo-Jewish Notaries and Scriveners
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- The Beginnings of the Jewish Trade Union Movement in England
- A Survey of the Jewish Institutional History of Liverpool and District
- The History of the Jewish Community in Gentile Society
- The Jews of Falmouth—1740-1860
- The Jewish Contribution to the British Textile Industry “BUILDERS OF BRADFORD”
- Leone da Modena and his English Correspondents
- An Anglo-Jewish Family
- Preface
