# London <table class="place-meta"> <tr><td>Local name(s)</td><td>London (English)</td></tr> <tr><td>Region (today)</td><td>England, United Kingdom</td></tr> <tr><td>Coordinates</td><td>51°30′N 0°08′W</td></tr> </table> ## Overview London, the capital of the United Kingdom, has been the center of British Jewry since Jews were readmitted to England under Oliver Cromwell in 1656, following their expulsion in 1290. From the 1880s hundreds of thousands of Jewish immigrants fleeing pogroms in the Russian Empire settled in the East End (Whitechapel and Spitalfields), building a dense world of synagogues, workshops, and Yiddish culture. As families prospered they moved north and west to areas such as Golders Green and Stamford Hill; London remains home to the largest Jewish community in the UK. <small>Sources: Wikipedia — History of the Jews in England; Jewish Virtual Library — London.</small> ## People with events here | Person | Event | | --- | --- | | [[David Duncan (b.1916)]] | Born 05/1916 | | [[Bertha Bernstein (b.1888)]] | Died 03/12/1918 | | [[Joseph Irving Burnstein (b.1921)]] | Born 06/11/1921 | | [[Shirley Z Burnstein (b.1922)]] | Born 12/23/1922 | | [[Paul Finkel (b.1931)]] | Born 06/27/1931 | | [[Sandra Gordon (b.1940)]] | Born 07/27/1940 | | [[Estera Wajsfisz (b.1899)]] | Died 1952 | | [[Harriet Jedwab (b.1953)]] | Born 1953 | | [[Samuel Burnstein (b.1881)]] | Died 09/11/1955 | | [[Devorah McAllister (b.1959)]] | Born 1959 | | [[Lawrence Sander Hendel (b.1930)]] | Died 02/05/1959 | | [[Simon Rubner (b.1963)]] | Born 12/24/1963 | | [[Yolanda Rubner (b.1963)]] | Born 12/27/1963 | | [[Yehudit Ascher (b.1970)]] | Born 08/15/1970 | | [[Raca Regina Dorfajger (b.1899)]] | Died 04/21/1973 | | [[Keren Miriam Rubner (b.1981)]] | Born 12/03/1981 | | [[Isaac Meyer Rott (b.1898)]] | Died 11/16/1990 | | [[Lilly B Burnstein (b.1909)]] | Died 05/15/1991 | | [[Benjamin Mandel (b.1994)]] | Born 05/03/1994 | | [[Sophie Debra Rubner (b.1997)]] | Born 12/26/1997 | | [[Ayelet Naomi Rechtspan (b.2004)]] | Born 06/09/2004 | | [[Menachem Shmuel Weisz (b.2006)]] | Born 12/09/2006 | | [[Avigail Zissel Mittelman (b.2007)]] | Born 08/20/2007 | | [[Avishai Moshe Shmuel Rechtspan (b.2008)]] | Born 01/15/2008 | | [[Barbara Bobbie Tabak (d.2018)]] | Died ~2018 | | [[Batya Steinberg (b.1924)]] | Died 07/03/2019 | | [[Cili Davidowitz (b.1909)]] | Died | | [[Janek Jedwab]] | Died | | [[Ian Mandel]] | Born |