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Jewish Naturalisation Act 1753

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An Act to repeal an Act of the Twenty-sixth Year of His Majesty's Reign, intituled, "An Act to permit Persons professing the Jewish Religion to be naturalized by Parliament; and for other Purposes therein
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chiefly congregated in London as the centre of international commerce, Jews immigrating from Germany and Poland settled for the most part in the seaports of the south and west, such as
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Alan H. Singer, 'Great Britain or Judea Nova? National Identity, Property, and the Jewish Naturalization Controversy of 1753', in Sheila A. Spector (ed.),
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Crome, Andrew. "The 1753 ‘Jew Bill’ Controversy: Jewish Restoration to Palestine, Biblical Prophecy, and English National Identity."
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An Act to permit Persons professing the Jewish Religion to be naturalized by Parliament; and for other Purposes therein mentioned.
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Public Opinion, Propaganda, and Politics in 18th-Century England: A Study of the Jew Bill of 1753
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Yuval-Naeh, Avinoam. "The 1753 Jewish Naturalization Bill and the Polemic over Credit."
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Rabin, Dana Y. "The Jew Bill of 1753: Masculinity, virility, and the nation."
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made protest against what they deemed an "abandonment of Christianity." The
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Terms than is done at present. This is all the Hurt that such a Bill
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Philo-Semitism and the Readmission of the Jews to England, 1603-1655
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British Romanticism and the Jews: History, Culture, Literature
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without much opposition, but on being brought down to the
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Memoirs of King George II. I: January 1751–March 1754
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Index

Jew Bill
Parliament of Great Britain
Long title
Citation
26 Geo. 2
Royal assent
Repealed by
Parliament of Great Britain
Long title
Citation
27 Geo. 2
Royal assent
History of the
Jews in England

Early history (1066–1290)
Exchequer of the Jews
Early literature
Fox Fables
Synod of Oxford (1222)
Domus Conversorum (est. 1232)
Statute of Jewry (1253)
Statute of the Jewry (1275)
Edict of Expulsion (1290)
William of Norwich, 1144
Harold of Gloucester 1168
Robert of Bury, 1181
Hugh of Lincoln, 1255
"Sir Hugh" ballad
Guildford Synagogue
Jew's House, Lincoln
Moyse's Hall

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