List of British Jews - MPs. British Members of Parliament listed chronologically by first election date (in brackets): Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield (1837) [1], Conservative Prime Minister (family converted to Anglicanism) Lionel de Rothschild (1847, admitted 1858) [2], Liberal MP, first openly Jewish MP Sir Francis Henry Goldsmid (1860) [3], MP for Reading, first Jewish barrister Frederick David Goldsmid (1865) [4], MP for Honiton Sir Julian G ...

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Victor Gollancz (April 9, 1893–February 8, 1967) was a British publisher, socialist, and humanitarian. Born in London, he was the son of a wholesale jeweler and nephew of Rabbi Professor Sir Herman Gollancz; after taking a degree in classics at New College, Oxford, he became a schoolteacher. Gollancz served in the British Army in World War I. In 1917 he became involved in the Reconstruction Committee, an organization that was making plans for postwar Britain. There he met Ernest Benn, who hired him to work in the publishing business. Starting with magazines, Gollancz then brought out a series o ...

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Brian David Josephson (born Cardiff, Wales, UK, January 4, 1940) is a British physicist whose discovery of the Josephson effect as a 22-year-old graduate student won him the 1973 Nobel Prize for Physics, which he shared with Leo Esaki and Ivar Giaever. He is currently a professor at the University of Cambridge where he is the head of the mind-matter unification project in the Theory of Condensed Ma ...

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Rifkind was born to a Jewish family in Edinburgh, and was educated at George Watson's College. He first entered Parliament representing Edinburgh Pentlands for the Scottish Conservatives in the February 1974 general election. He was appointed Junior Minister at the Scottish Office in the 1979 Thatcher Government and became Minister of State at the Foreign Office in 1983. He was promoted into the cabinet as Secretary of State for Scotland in 1986.He gained a reputation as being a moderate voice on social and economic issues,and did so ...

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Born in Rustschuk (now Ruse, Bulgaria) to a Jewish family who had long worked in trade, he spent his child years from 1905 to 1911 in Rustschuk, (Bulgaria) until the family moved to England, because of his father's profession. In 1912 his father died and his mother moved with her children to Vienna in the same year. By this time Canetti already spoke Ladino, Bulgarian, English and some French (he studied the latter two in the one year in England). However, being in Vienna from the age of 7 onwards, the main language he used (taught by his mo ...

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Olivia Newton-John - Early career. By the age of 15, Newton-John had formed an all-girl band, Sol Four, and soon was a regular on local television (such as The Happy Tarex Show as Lovely Livvy) and radio shows in Australia. She entered a talent contest on the television programme Sing, Sing, Sing, hosted by 1960s Australian icon Johnny O'Keefe, and performed the songs "Anyone Who Had A Heart" and "Everything's Coming Up Roses". She won the contest and received a trip to England as the prize. Initially, she did not want to go, but her m ...

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Born in West Essex, and brought up by a single mother on a council estate, he was educated at Brentwood School (where he took the name "Jack" after the 14th century peasant leader Jack Straw) and read law at the University of Leeds. During his time at Leeds he was elected president of the students' union with the support of the broad left, including Liberal, Socialist and (what remained of) the Communist Societies. He subsequently became President of the National Union of Students. He was regarded as a radical on issues of social equality an ...

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History of the Jews in England - William I to Henry I: 1066–1135. There is no evidence of Jews residing in England before the Norman Conquest; all permanent Jewish residents came from Normandy and other areas of northern France. The Norman Jews were primarily moneylenders, because they could not own land nor participate in trades (except for medicine). Catholic doctrine held that moneylending for interest was a sin; therefore, Jews dominated this business. The few references in the Anglo-Saxon laws of th ...

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Born in London, his army officer father died while Benenson was still young, and he was tutored privately by W. H. Auden before going to Eton. He took his mother's maiden name of Benenson as a tribute to his grandfather, following his grandfather's death. He started university at Balliol College, Oxford before World War II interrupted his education. From 1941 to 1945, Benenson worked at Bletchley Park, the British codebreaking centre, in the "Testery", a section tasked with breaking German teleprinter ciphers [1]. After demobilisation ...

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Initially educated at the König-Wilhelm-Gymnasium, Born went on to study at the University of Breslau followed by Heidelberg University and Zürich University. During this period he came into contact with many prominent scientists and mathematicians including Klein, Hilbert, Minkowski, Runge, Schwarzschild, and Voigt. In 1909 he was appointed a lecturer at the University of Göttingen where he worked until 191 ...

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Olivia Newton-John - Billboard Hot 100 placements. Only Top Ten hits from the Billboard Hot 100 are included in this list. "Let Me Be There" (b/w "Maybe Then I'll Think Of You") - (1973) - (#6; Country #7; Adult Contemporary #3 and a Grammy winner for Best Country Vocal Performance, Female; from the album Let Me Be There) "If You Love Me (Let Me Know)" (b/w "Brotherly Love") - (1974) - (#5; Country #2; Adult Contemporary #2 from the album of the same name) "I Honestly Love Yo ...

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Olivia Newton-John, OBE is the granddaughter of Max Born, a German Jewish Nobel prize-winning physicist (although Olivia herself is a christian) who fled from 1930s Germany with his wife in order to avoid persecution due to their Jewish heritage. Olivia's father, Brin Newton-John, was originally from Wales, Great Britain. Brin was the MI5 officer who took Rudolf Hess into custody when he parachuted into Scotland in May 1941. Brin was attached to the Enigma machine project at Bletchley Park. After World War II, he became a prof ...

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History of the Jews in England - Through the First World War. From the 1880s through the early part of the 20th century, massive pogroms and the May Laws in Russia caused many Jews to flee the Pale of Settlement. By 1919, the Jewish population had increased from 60,000 in 1880 to about 250,000 Jews, who lived primarily in the large cities, especially London. Originally, the Jews lived primarily in the Spitalfields and Whitechapel areas, which made the East End a Jewish neighbourhood. Manchester, and neighbouring ...

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Olivia Newton-John - Billboard Hot 100 placements. Only Top Ten hits from the Billboard Hot 100 are included in this list. "Let Me Be There" - (1973) - (#6; Country #7; Adult Contemporary #3 and a Grammy winner for Best Country Vocal Performance, Female; from the album Let Me Be There) "If You Love Me (Let Me Know)" - (1974) - (#5; Country #2; Adult Contemporary #2 from the album of the same name) "I Honestly Love You" - (1974) - (#1, 2 weeks; Country #6; Adult Contemporary # ...

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History of the Jews in England - Hidden Jews in England. Main article: History of the Marranos in England Toward the middle of the seventeenth century a considerable number of Marano merchants settled in London and formed there a secret congregation, at the head of which was Antonio Fernandez Carvajal. They conducted a large business with the Levant, East and West Indies, Canary Islands, and Brazil, and above all with the Netherlands, Spain, and Portugal. History of the Jews in England - The Resettlement 1655See also:

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After the experience in Jewish legislation which Edward I had from 1269 onward, there was only one answer he could give as a true son of the Church to these demands: If the Jews were not to have intercourse with their fellow citizens as artisans, merchants, or farmers, and were not to be allowed to take usury, the only alternative was for them to leave the country. He immediately expelled the Jews from Gascony, a province still held by England and in which he was traveling at the time; and on his return to England (July 18, 1290) he issued w ...

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History of the Jews in England - Through the First World War. From the 1880s through the early part of the 20th century, massive pogroms and the May Laws in Russia caused many Jews to flee the Pale of Settlement. By 1919, the Jewish population had increased from 60,000 in 1880 to about 250,000 Jews, who lived primarily in the large cities, especially London. Originally, the Jews lived primarily in the Spitalfields and Whitechapel areas, which made the East End a Jewish neighbourhood. Unlike the Jewish communities ...

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In 1919 after a period in the German army he became a professor at the University of Frankfurt am Main, and then professor at Göttingen, 1921. During this period, he formulated the now-standard interpretation of the probability density function for ψ*ψ in the Schrödinger equation of quantum mechanics, for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1954, some three decades later. In 1933 he left Germany to escape anti-Semitism and took up a position (Stokes Lecturer) at the University of Cambridge. From 1936 to 1953 ...

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Newton-John was married to Matt Lattanzi from 1984 to 1995. There is one child from this marriage, Chloe Rose Lattanzi, born in 1986. Chloe has plans to launch herself as a pop singer with a new album almost ready for release tentatively titled Lonely Nights in Paradise. From 1996, Newton-John lived together with gaffer/cameraman Patrick McDermott. However, in the summer of 2005, directly before her new album Stronger Than Before hit stores, McDermott went missing following a June 30 fishing trip off the California coast ...

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Olivia Newton-John, OBE is the granddaughter of Max Born, a German Jewish Nobel prize-winning physicist who fled from 1930s Germany with his wife in order to avoid persecution due to their Jewish heritage. Olivia's father, Brin Newton-John, was originally from Wales, Great Britain. Brin was the MI5 officer who took Rudolf Hess into custody when he parachuted into Scotland in May 1941. Brin was attached to the Enigma machine project at Bletchley Park. After World War II, he became a prof ...

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