Membership in the Jewish synagogue on St. John’s Wood Road is forbidden to money lenders, it was learned here. The congregation has 1,600 members.
No efforts are made to prohibit a money lender from attending services, but membership and holding office in the synagogue are forbidden, officials declared.
“Usury is a flagrant violation of the Jewish code,” Rabbi Mattuck said. “I am categorically opposed to money lending.”
Christian Wilhelm von Dohm, at the suggestion of Mendelssohn, wrote a work in two volumes in 1781 advocating emancipation of the Jews.
In many Jewish communities in Europe Hebrew was spoken up to the eleventh century.
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