[This chronology is based chiefly upon the timeline in the exhibition catalogue described in "References" below. George P. Landow, Professor of English and Art, Brown University.]
| 1800 | Jewish population 15,000, concentrated in London |
| 1810 | Minute books of three major Ashenazi synagogues first written in English. |
| 1819 | Sir Walter Scott's Ivanhoe introduces positive Jew characters |
| 1820s | Earliest aesthetic reforms in synagogues |
| 1831 | T. B. Macaulay supports removal of Jewish disabilities |
| 1835 | Jews receive right to vote |
| 1835 | Government recognizes Board of Deputies of British Jews as representing Jews |
| 1837 | Moses Montefiore knighted |
| 1837 | Dickens's Oliver Twist includes Fagin, typical antisemitic Jewish caricature |
| 1847 | Disputes over seating Lionel de Rothschild in Parliament |
| 1850s | Jewish population about 35,000 |
| 1857 | Sir David Salomons elected Lord Mayor of London |
| 1858 | Lionel de Rothschild seated in Parliament |
| 1858 | W. Holman Hunt publishes pamphlet attacking attempts to convert Jews in Palestine |
| 1864 | Dickens's Our Mutual Friend presents positive Jewish character |
| 1868 | Benjamin Disraeli, a convert to Anglicanism, becomes Prime Minister |
| 1871 | Eight Jews in Parliament |
| 1871 | Jews eligible for Oxford and Cambridge fellowships |
| 1883 | Nathaniel de Rothschild elevated to peerage |
| 1890s | Jewish Historical Society founded |
| 1892 | Israel Zangwill publishes Children of the Ghetto |
| 1900s | Jewish population around 180,000 |
| 1902 | Claude Montefiore establishes Jewish Reform Union |
| 1905 | Aliens Act restricts Jewish immigration |
| 1909 | Herbert Samuel becomes cabinet minister |
Related Materials
References
The Emergence of Jewish Artists in Nineteenth-Century Europe. Exhibition Catalogue. Ed. Susan Tumarkin Goodman. London: Merrell; New York: Jewish Museum, 2001.
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