Jewish Naturalisation Act 1753
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Royal assent | 7 July 1753 |
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Repealed by | Naturalization of Jews Act 1754 |
Status: Repealed |
Naturalization of Jews Act 1754 | |
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Act of Parliament | |
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Royal assent | 20 December 1753 |
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The Jewish Naturalisation Act 1753 was an
History
During the
Horace Walpole, a contemporary observer, said that the Act removed "such absurd distinctions, as stigmatized and shackled a body of the most loyal, commercial and wealthy subjects of the kingdom"; the affair demonstrated that "the age, enlightened as it is called, was still enslaved to the grossest and most vulgar prejudices".[5] The political economist Josiah Tucker defended the Act in A Letter to A Friend Concerning Naturalizations (1753), where he pointed to the economic benefits of granting naturalisation to Jewish people:
As to the Bill itself, it only empowers rich Foreigners to purchase Lands, and to carry on a free and extensive Commerce, by importing all Sorts of Merchandise and Raw Materials, allowed by Law to be imported, for the Employment of our own People, and then Exporting the Surplus of the Produce, Labour, and Manufactures of our own Country, upon cheaper and better Terms than is done at present. This is all the Hurt that such a Bill can do.[6][7]
German Jews
While the
See also
- History of the Jews in England
- History of the Jews in England (1066–1290)
- Edict of Expulsion
- History of the Marranos in England
- Resettlement of the Jews in England
- Menasseh Ben Israel (1604–1657)
- Emancipation of the Jews in the United Kingdom
- Early English Jewish literature
- Rothschild family
- History of the Jews in Scotland
References
- ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
- ^ Perry, TW (1962). Public Opinion, Propaganda, and Politics in 18th-Century England: A Study of the Jew Bill of 1753. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Univ. Pres.
- ISSN 1094-2939.
- Appelbaum, Diana Muir (14 November 2012). "Jacob's Sons in the Bishop's Palace". Jewish Ideas Daily. Retrieved 1 August 2016.
- ^ Horace Walpole, Memoirs of King George II. I: January 1751–March 1754, ed. John Brooke (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1985), p. 238.
- ^ Josiah Tucker, A Letter to A Friend Concerning Naturalizations (London: Thomas Trye, 1753), pp. 6-7.
- ^ Alan H. Singer, 'Great Britain or Judea Nova? National Identity, Property, and the Jewish Naturalization Controversy of 1753', in Sheila A. Spector (ed.), British Romanticism and the Jews: History, Culture, Literature (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002), p. 32.
Further reading
- Crome, Andrew. "The 1753 ‘Jew Bill’ Controversy: Jewish Restoration to Palestine, Biblical Prophecy, and English National Identity." English Historical Review 130.547 (2015): 1449-1478 online
- Katz, David S. Philo-Semitism and the Readmission of the Jews to England, 1603-1655 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1982)
- Katz, David S. The Jews in the History of England, 1485-1850 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994)
- Rabin, Dana Y. "The Jew Bill of 1753: Masculinity, virility, and the nation." Eighteenth-century studies 39.2 (2006): 157–171.
- Yuval-Naeh, Avinoam. "The 1753 Jewish Naturalization Bill and the Polemic over Credit." Journal of British Studies 57.3 (2018): 467-492. online[dead link]
- Jacobs, Joseph (1903). "England". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. Vol. 5. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. p. 161.
External links
- The text of the act.
- England-related articles in the Jewish Encyclopedia