Mansion House and Guildhall Meetings

The initial meeting, held in 1840, denounced the blood libel accusation against Jews in Damascus and received favorable responses from foreign powers.

Subsequent meetings in 1882 and 1890, supported by influential figures including religious leaders, scientists, and politicians, protested against anti-Jewish pogroms in the Russian Empire.

Consequently, a requisition was made for a Mansion House Meeting, which garnered the support of thirty-eight signatories, including the Archbishop of Canterbury, Cardinal Manning, Charles Darwin, John Tyndall, and eighteen Members of Parliament.

The committee actively participated in conferences addressing the plight of Russian Jews and played a role in founding agricultural colonies in locations such as Moosomin, Saskatchewan,[2] Painted Woods, North Dakota, Vineland, New Jersey, and elsewhere.

In addition to assisting the Jewish Board of Guardians by facilitating immigration, repatriation, and settlement of refugees, the Russo-Jewish Committee also established a Location and Information Bureau in London as a labour registry, and initiated evening classes in English for refugees, enabling them to secure employment beyond congested urban areas.

It affirmed, That in the opinion of this meeting the renewed sufferings of the Jews in Russia from the operation of severe and exceptional edicts and disabilities are deeply to be deplored, and that in this last decade of the nineteenth century religious liberty is a principle which should be recognized by every Christian community as among the natural human rights.In the name of the citizens of London, a memorandum was sent to the Russian czar, appealing for political and social equality for Jews in Russia.