This thread should be read in conjunction with the 'Sticky' thread on the Jewish Historical Society Journal and the online website JSTOR.
Eve referred to the later JSTOR articles from the Jewish Historical Society Journal. This journal is a very important source on Jewish history and an index of articles and summaries can be seen on the Society website going back over 100 years.
JSTOR is an initial free source of hundreds of articles from academic journals, books and primary sources including Jewish history.

Importantly, JSTOR gives free access to six initial sources with payment for downloads on others.

My interest relates to the Jewish Historical Society of England article on Jewish Obituaries in the Gentleman's Magazine from 1731-1868. This article is entitled " The Jewish Obituaries in the Gentleman's Magazine" Albert M HYMSON Miscellanies Vol 4 (1942) pp 33-60 (28 pages).
Hyamson has recorded several hundred obituaries from 1731-1868 and the very early ones are of particular interest to those researchers who have Anglo Jewish families settled in the UK.
The Gentleman's Magazine articles appear on Ancestry.Co but Hyamson has take the Jewish surnames based on his own knowledge and Anglo Jewish family history records in his collection held at the Society of Genealogists London and other locations. In addition, later names post 1841 can be seen in the Jewish Chronicle Archives and in other sources such as the Doreen Berger The Jewish Victorian. Genealogical Information from the Jewish Newspapers vols 1861-70 and 1871-80; JewishGen UK Data bases; Synagogue and Cemetery Scribes websites among others.

The Hyamson article includes "The term 'Jew' is interpreted in the widest sense to include not only members of the Jewish Community but also men and women of Jewish parentage and half Jewish parentage. In a few instances the index even goes outside of this wide definition, for a few persons of more remote Jewish ancestry have been included as well asa very few proselytes and wives of men qualified for inclusion in the list...Many of the obituaries contain nothing but the barest of facts, and in most cases these facts such as age, have been transcribed".

I would recommend researchers to take a look at the list of names to verify known names but also to identify possible unknown family links.

Phillip