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Evangelical Anglican missionaries and the London Jews Society: Palestine Place at Bethnal Green and related developments, 1813-1895*

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  • Evangelical Anglican missionaries and the London Jews Society: Palestine Place at Bethnal Green and related developments, 1813–1895* Rodney Curtis 1,*

  • This paper will examine the foundation of the London Jews Society (LJS) and the construction of Palestine Place from 1813 at Bethnal Green, near Cambridge Heath,[1] on the edge of the Jewish community in the East End of London

  • In 1840, McCaul effectively opposed the false accusations of the Damascus Blood Libel, joining with Moses Montefiore and the Jewish community worldwide to confront this hatred towards Jewish people

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Summary

Transactions of the Jewish Historical Society of England

Evangelical Anglican missionaries and the London Jews Society: Palestine Place at Bethnal Green and related developments, 1813–1895* Rodney Curtis 1,*. In the context of the history of the development of Palestine Place, I shall consider the significance of the emergence of academic Hebrew studies at the new University of London, founded in 1826 (renamed University College in 1836), and of Hyman Hurwitz (1770–1844), the first Anglo-Jewish professor there.[2] In other recent historiography, Yaron Perry has challenged what he considers to be the destructive missionary activity of the LJS, and Felicity Griffiths has noted potential antisemitism at King’s College London, founded in 1828 to rival UCL, the “Godless Institution of Gower Street”.3 This has demonstrated the arrogant attitude of High (or Broad) Church Anglicans, prompting the rival foundation of King’s to compensate for UCL’s “secular and irreligious foundation”. David Ruderman has further provided a wider perspective on the intellectual atmosphere around this time.[5]

Evangelical Anglicans
Palestine Place
Baptisms and converts
The foundation and funding of the London Jews Society
The Operative Jewish Converts Institution
The Hebrew Training College
Producing a Hebrew New Testament and printing Jewish books
The theology of the LJS
False converts
Is philosemitism really conversionism?
Living at Palestine Place
The London Jewish community
Hebrew Studies at the new London universities
The continuing significance of Palestine Place
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