Claude Montefiore ✓
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British Jewish leader and scholar (1858–1938)
About Claude Montefiore
Claude Joseph Goldsmid Montefiore, also Goldsmid–Montefiore or just Goldsmid Montefiore (1858–1938), was the founding president of the World Union for Progressive Judaism, an early anti-Zionist leader, and is credited as the intellectual founder of Liberal Judaism in the United Kingdom. A scholar of the Hebrew Bible, rabbinic literature and the New Testament, his work significantly influenced many aspects of modern Jewish religious thought, Jewish-Christian relations, and Anglo-Jewish socio-politics. Montefiore was President of the Anglo-Jewish Association and co-founded the anti-Zionist League of British Jews in 1917.
Lectures on the origin and growth of religion as illustrated by the religion of the ancient Hebrews
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