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List of British Jewish entertainers
This list of British Jewish entertainers includes Jewish entertainers (actors, musicians and comedians) from the United Kingdom and its predecessor states. Listed entertainers are ones who embrace Jewish culture or Judaism rather than simply having Jewish ancestry.
The number of Jews contributing to British cinema increased after 1933, when Jews were prohibited from working in Nazi Germany.[1] In the early 1930s, the Imperial Fascist League's anti-semitic newspaper The Fascist sought to isolate the Jews in British cinema.[2]
Stephen Brook wrote in The Club in 1989 that while there had been Jewish actors in British theatre, Jews had been more prominent as producers or agents.[3]The Independent observed that British-Jewish comedians had taken the lead from American-Jewish comedian Jackie Mason by laughing at their own Jewish neuroses, Jewish mothers, and their leaning towards chicken soup and chopped liver
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(Sighetu Marmaţiei, Romania)
47°56' 23°53'
Hungarian: Máramaros-szighet
Romanian: Sighetu Marmaţiei
Translated by Jerrold Landau
Edited by Yocheved Klausner
Sziget (in Romanian: Sighetul Marmatiei, in Hungarian: Sziget Máramaros: in Hebrew sources: Siget, Sigut, Sigit, Sihet).
Sziget, the capital of the region, is located on the confluence of the Tisza and Iza rivers, in a hilly area surrounded by high mountains. Until the Second World War and for a few years thereafter, it was the seat of the offices of the regional and provincial government. The city is quite ancient. Already in the year 1352, it was recognized as a crown city by the Hungarian King Louis the Great (Nagy Lajos).
The primary business and manufacturing enterprises were as follows: large sawmills that processed the wood that arrived on barges, a furniture factory, a bric
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