Henry Edward Manning’s engagement with social issues is well known. His work in favour of the Jewish people, on the other hand, has not received the same attention.
Manning’s contact with the London poor and his awareness of their needs led him to admire Jewish concern for the disadvantaged in their own community. Indeed, he held it as an example for Catholics to imitate. It was not, however, until the early 1880s that he became directly involved in Jewish issues, on the occasion of the Russian pogroms of 1881-82 and the British appeal to the tsar in favour of the Jews.
