Key learning points

1. Under Puritan rule, Jewish migrants were reinvited to England for religious and economic reasons.
2. Jewish migrants were largely welcomed in the early modern period, with increasing protection from authorities.
3. Some English merchants were hostile towards Jewish migrants as they feared they would bring competition.
4. Jewish migrants in this period had the greatest impact on the built environment and culture in England.

Keywords

• Reformation - a movement in the 1500s that led to several European nations converting from Catholicism to Protestantism

• Puritan - someone who believes in a form of Protestantism that argued that the Reformation needed to go further and that Protestants needed to strictly adhere to all core beliefs and practices

• Tolerant - showing willingness to accept or allow beliefs, opinions and behaviour that you may not agree with or share

• Knighthood - a title given to someone who is awarded to honour of a knight

Common misconception