Excerpt from British Projects for the Restoration of the Jews The Jews once settled in the country, the Christian population were afforded more and more frequent Opportunities for satisfying their interest and curiosity in matters Jewish. One or two unsuccessful attempts to secure their ejection, the occasional prominence of some individual Jew, the great Naturalization Bill agitation of 1753, all helped to keep the Jew well under the eye of the Englishman. This English interest in the Jews was known outside of the kingdom, for when at the end of the seventeenth century, a Dane, Holger Paulli, who believed himself to be of Jewish descent, announced himself as the forerunner of the Messiah, he relied mainly on the King of England to assist him. Another individual who was active in keeping alive the interest of the English in the Jews was the dramatist, Richard Cumberland, who created Jewish characters deliberately thinking it high time that something should be done for a persecuted race. These are one or two instances of English interest in Jewry picked out almost at random. There are others which might, without difficulty, also be cited. Nevertheless, the attention given to Jewish affairs by Englishmen before the dawn of the nineteenth century was, with very few exceptions, academic. Jewry as a concrete reality seldom occurred to them, and, with very rare exceptions, the connexion between the Jews and Palestine was remote from their minds. The nineteenth century, however, saw a notable change. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.