The Jews of Falmouth—1740-1860

ABOUT 1740, there began one of those phases of immigration from the Continent which, since the seventeenth century Readmission, have been a recurrent feature ^of Anglo-Jewry and within a short period two sharply contrasted groups had become noticeable in the Community. Under the later Stuarts the newly-won right of entry had attracted bankers, brokers and foreign merchants from Holland and (to a less extent) from the great trading centres of Northern Germany, whilst from the West Indies there was a steady, if smaller, influx of planters and traders who wished to spend their retirement in England and its more temperate climate. At that period retail trade in the City of London was permitted only to members of the jealously restricted Merchants Guilds, but these earlier settlers were not affected since their main interests were finance and foreign trade. For these activities London was the obvious centre and as late as

Written by

Alex M. Jacob

Published in

Volume 17

1951

Other articles within the volume

• The Mediaeval Christian Hebraists of England: HERBERT OF BOSHAM AND EARLIER SCHOLARS
• Some New Facts About the Portsmouth Jewish Community
• The Anglo-Jewish Contribution to the Education Movement for Women in the Nineteenth Century
• Baron Paul Julius de Reuter
• Isidor Gerstenberg (1821-1876): Founder of the Council of Foreign Bondholders
• Were There Jews in Roman Britain?
• A Survey of Anglo-Jewry in 1851
• Judah Benjamin
• Anglo-Jewish Notaries and Scriveners
• Solomon Bennett, 1761-1838 Artist, Hebraist and Controversialist
• Samson Gideon: Eighteenth Century Jewish Financier
• The References to England in the Responsa of Rabbi Meir Ben Baruch of Rothenburg, 1215-1293
• 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