British Jews
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British Jews are citizens of the United Kingdom who are Jewish, one of the country's ethnoreligious minority communities. Jewish presence in Britain dates to at least the 11th century, when William th
Bevis Marks Synagogue, the oldest synagogue in the United Kingdom, built 1701
Two boys with kippot at a bus stop in Hendon, north London
Fish and chips
Benjamin Disraeli in 1878, the only Prime Minister who was Jewish by birth; he was otherwise a practicing Christian.
Rosalind Franklin
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Rosalind Elsie Franklin was an English chemist and X-ray crystallographer. Her work was central to the understanding of the molecular structures of DNA, RNA, viruses, coal, and graphite. Although her
British Jews
…branches and theatres of war. Prominent British Jews have included Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli; financier and activist Moses Montefiore; scientist Rosalind Franklin; playwright Harold Pinter; businessman Michael Marks; and philosopher Sir Isaiah Berlin. Waves of migration from Eastern Europe in the late 19th and…
Franklin with a microscope in 1955
A satirical death note of A-DNA helix by Franklin and Gosling
An electron micrograph of tobacco mosaic virus
Blue plaque (now replaced) on The Eagle, Cambridge, with Franklin's name added at the bottom