Bibliography

Here is some suggested reading to help you with your essay. These secondary sources are all optional and you are welcome to find your own. Please remember to cite your sources in your bibliography.

Books

Abrahams, B. (2022). The Expulsion of the Jews from England in 1290. Legare Street Press.

Cowen, A. & Cowen, R. (1986) Victorian Jews Through British Eyes. The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization. 

Endelman, T. (2002). The Jews of Britain: 1656-2000. University of California Press.

Freeman, H. (2022). Britain’s Jews: Confidence, Maturity, Anxiety. Bloomsbury Continuum.

Gartner, L. (2008). American and British Jews in the Age of Great Migration. Vallentine Mitchell & Co.

Henriques, U. (1993). The Jews of South Wales. University of Wales Press. 

Kitching, P. (2019). Britain’s Jews in the First World War. Amberley Publishing.

Kushner, T. (2009). Anglo-Jewry Since 1066: Place, Locality and Memory. Manchester University Press. 

Kushner, T. (2025). The Jewish Pedlar: An Untold Criminal History. Manchester University Press. 

Lachs, V. & Smerin, B. (trans). (2025). East End Jews: Sketches from the London Yiddish Press. Wayne State University Press.

Margoliouth, M. (2025). The Jews in Great Britain. Anson Street Press.

Mundill, R. (2010). The King’s Jews: Money, Massacre, and Exodus in Medieval England. Continuum. 

Parry-Jones, C. (2024). The Jews of Wales: A History. University of Wales Press.

Roth, C. (1964) A History of the Jews in England. Clarendon Press. (Link to chapters I and II.)

Rodgers, Z. (2023). Reimagining the Jews of Ireland: Historiography, Identity and Representation. Peter Lang. 

Schaffer, G. (2025). An Unorthodox History: British Jews Since 1945. Manchester University Press.

Schama, S. (2018). Belonging: The Story of the Jews: 1492-1900. Vintage.

Schama, S. (2014). The Story of the Jews: Finding the Words 1000BCE-1492CE. Vintage.

Tolan, J. (2023). England’s Jews: Finance, Violence, and the Crown in the Thirteenth Century. University of Pennsylvania Press.

Articles

Adelstein, R. (2019). Singing between the lines: modernity and women’s voices in British synagogues. Jewish Historical Studies, 50(1). https://doi.org/10.14324/111.444.jhs.2018v50.005

Breuer, E. (2021). Marcus Kalisch: the life and eclipse of an extraordinary Victorian. Jewish Historical Studies, 52(1). https://doi.org/10.14324/111.444.jhs.2021v52.008

Brooks, J. (2020). From “unwanted Jew” to “a brighter professional future”: Kinder girls and the nursing profession in wartime Britain. Jewish Historical Studies, 51(1). https://doi.org/10.14324/111.444.jhs.2020v51.006

Craig-Norton, J. (2021). “We had the most marvellous time”: Jewish refugee domestics’ narratives of internment in Britain during the Second World War. Jewish Historical Studies, 52(1). https://doi.org/10.14324/111.444.jhs.2021v52.004

Curtis, R. (2019). Evangelical Anglican missionaries and the London Jews Society: Palestine Place at Bethnal Green and related developments, 1813-1895. Jewish Historical Studies, 50(1). https://doi.org/10.14324/111.444.jhs.2018v50.004

Dunkelgrün, T. (2016). Solomon Schechter: a Jewish scholar in Victorian England (1882–1902). Jewish Historical Studies, 48(1). https://doi.org/10.14324/111.444.jhs.2016v48.021

Feldman, D. (2015). Evangelicals, Jews, and anti-Catholicism in Britain, c. 1840–1900. Jewish Historical Studies, 47(1). https://doi.org/10.14324/111.444.jhs.2016v47.009

Glauber-Zimra, S., & Huss, B. (2022). “No religion could be more spiritual than ours”: Anglo-Jewish spiritualist societies in the interwar period. Jewish Historical Studies, 53(1). https://doi.org/10.14324/111.444.jhs.2022v53.005

Holmes, R. (2020). The politics of compassion: the Refugee Children’s Movement and caring for the Kinder. Jewish Historical Studies, 51(1). https://doi.org/10.14324/111.444.jhs.2020v51.005

Idle, G. (2018). Bradford’s Jewish history: A reconsideration, part one. Jewish Historical Studies, 49(1). https://doi.org/10.14324/111.444.jhs.2017v49.048

Kadish, S. (2015). Jewish heritage in Scotland. Jewish Historical Studies, 47(1). https://doi.org/10.14324/111.444.jhs.2016v47.013

Krishna, U., Harris, J., & Mitchell, R. (2020). Exploring the integration of child refugees in the United Kingdom: the case of the Kindertransport. Jewish Historical Studies, 51(1). https://doi.org/10.14324/111.444.jhs.2020v51.009

Matheson, A. (2020). Was there a Jewish presence in medieval Ireland?. Jewish Historical Studies, 51(1). https://doi.org/10.14324/111.444.jhs.2020v51.020

Sapiro, P. (2021). 250 years of Jewish burial in Liverpool. Jewish Historical Studies, 52(1). https://doi.org/10.14324/111.444.jhs.2021v52.010

Vieira, C. (2021). The prisoner, the fugitive, and the returnee: three portrayals of the eighteenth-century Sephardi diaspora to England. Jewish Historical Studies, 52(1). https://doi.org/10.14324/111.444.jhs.2021v52.007

Zermansky, A. (2023). “My son the Yorkshire doctor”: why were there so many Jewish health professionals in Yorkshire? Jewish Historical Studies, 54(1). https://doi.org/10.14324/111.444.jhs.2023v54.04

Websites

History of Migration to Britain

Overview of the various migrant groups that have come to Britain from the year 43AD to the present day. Includes maps, resources, and summaries. 

https://www.ourmigrationstory.org.uk

UK Virtual Jewish History Tour

Historical outline of Jewish life in Britain over the centuries, with city-specific overviews. Includes maps and photographs. 

https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/united-kingdom-virtual-jewish-history-tour

Jewish people and communities in Britain and its former colonies

The National Archives provides here a guide for exploring records of Jewish people in Britain and elsewhere. Includes photographs, summaries, links, and guidance for archival research.

https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/help-with-your-research/research-guides/jews-and-jewish-communities-18th-20th-centuries/#3-jewish-people-and-communities-in-england-in-the-medieval-period

BBC Brief History of Jews in Britain

Covers the Readmission of Jews to Britain. Includes a historical overview and summaries.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/judaism/history/350.shtml

Oxford Jewish Heritage Committee

An Oxford-specific focus, but wider historical background also provided. Includes articles, maps, photographs, and overviews. 

https://www.oxfordjewishheritage.co.uk/