The Gentleman’s Magazine and Historical Chronicle, London 1753. * The London Magazine or Gentleman’s Monthly intelligencer. London, 1753 and 1754

(ANGLO JUDAICA).

London

v.d

Together, three volumes. Profusely illustrated with many portraits, pull out maps, music sheets etc. Penciled notations on the flyleaves indicating articles of Jewish interest

PERMISSION GRANTED TO NATURALIZE JEWS, via the NATURALIZATION BILL OF 1753. The London Magazine contains interesting debates to this topic. “The Naturalization Bill ...produced a special literature of its own. It was attacked and defended ...abused and commended. ..The Gentleman’s Magazine [and others] ..distinguished themselves for the bitternes of their invectives against the Jews.” See: J. Picciotto, Sketches of Anglo-Jewish History (1956) pp. 73-86 and A. Hyamson, The Sephardim of England (1951) pp.127-8 In their index it is entited “The Jew Bill”. These magazines also contain other articles of Jewish interest. For example, The London Magazine,1753, p. 369, illustrates an “antique stone” with Hebrew writing dated about the year 1200 found in the London Wall. The article states that in the year 1215, “the Barons came to London...broke into the houses of the Jews and searched their coffers to stuff their own purses... After this, ...the army ....repair[ed] the walls of the city with the stones of the Jews broken houses...”This stone, came from one of those Jewish houses."