THE JEW BILL OF 1753

For a brief period in the middle of the eighteenth century, the Jewish Question became in England the burning topic of political discussion. To the exclusion of all other interests, Jewish naturalisation monopolised the attention of politicians and publicists. The Jew became the centre of Parliamentary debates ; his psychology, his habits, and his opinions supplied the material for newspaper articles innumerable ; around him was waged a warfare in which scores of pamphleteers took part. The Jewish Question passed beyond the portals of Parliament and the study of the publicist. The controversy fell to the level of the man in the street, and mobs paraded London threatening its Jewish inhabitants to the sound of the refrain : “No Jews, no wooden Shoes.”

The cause of the alarming agitation was a harmless measure introduced into Parliament by the Whig Government of Pelham to enable foreign Jews settled in England to

Written by

Albert M. Hyamson

Published in

Volume 4

1899

Other articles within the volume

• THE JEW BILL OF 1753
• JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF ENGLAND. 1902–1903
• BYE-LAWS
• LAWS
• CLIFFORD’S TOWER, YORK
• THE JEWS OF AMSTERDAM IN 1655. A TRANSCRIPT AND TRANSLATION FROM THE ORIGINAL STATE PAPERS IN THE POSSESSION OF E. N. ADLER
• THE JEWISH MONARCH AND QUEEN ELIZABETH
• THE CANTERBURY SYNAGOGUE
• EXTRACTS FROM THE CLOSE ROLLS
• SOME HISTORICAL NOTES, 1648–1680
• STATUS OF THE JEWS IN ENGLAND AFTER THE RE-SETTLEMENT
• SIR I. L. GOLDSMID AND THE ADMISSION OF THE JEWS OF ENGLAND TO PARLIAMENT
• PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS
• THE EARLIEST JEWISH PRAYERS FOR THE SOVEREIGN
• JOACHIM GAUNSE: A MINING INCIDENT IN THE REIGN OF QUEEN ELIZABETH
• JOHN DURY AND THE ENGLISH JEWRY
• HISTORY OF THE “DOMUS CONVERSORUM” FROM 1290 TO 1891
• NATION OR RELIGIOUS COMMUNITY? PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS
• The Chazanim of the Great Synagogue, London
• English Students of Maimonides
• The Jews in the English Universities
• The Prayer-book of Joseph Messias, 5481
• The Jewish Obituaries in the “Gentleman’s Magazine”
• The Beginnings of Anglo-Jewish Biblical Exegesis and Bible Translation
• Anglo-Jewish Travellers to Palestine in the Nineteenth Century
• Benedict the Gildsman of Winchester
• PREFACE.
• FOREWORD TO THE ADVANCE FASCICULE