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I've seen some claims that Henry VIII was looking into Judaism as an alternative religion due to their divorce laws, but the book he needed (Tractate Gittin) took too long to be translated, so he started the Church of England instead. While I kinda doubt the veracity of this story, what if the claims were true, and the books had arrived earlier?

Is Jewish divorce law something Henry VIII would be interested in? Enough so to go against centuries of anti-Semitism? Would England end up converted to Judaism by the same time it took Protestantism to fully convert England? And if they did convert, would the European Jewry flock to England? (And does anyone know if there is any evidence of these claims?)
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