Complex sentence: Needless to say, among the Jewish community of Eliot's time, "Daniel Deronda" was greeted with enormous warmth; it was the first time the community felt they had been represented fairly by a major British novelist.
Split into simpler sentences: Needless to say, among the Jewish community of Eliot's time, "Daniel Deronda" was greeted with enormous warmth. It was the first time the community felt they had been represented fairly by a major British novelist.