Maimuny, Rabbi Mordecai

Maimuny, Rabbi Mordecai

Maimuny, Rabbi Mordecai, was born at Bona, Algeria, in 1817. His father was a well-to-do goldsmith, who settled in Tunis in 1823, where Maimuny received a strict rabbinical education.
When Dr. Ewald was stationed at Tunis, Maimuny was his great opponent and used to blaspheme the name of Jesus. Later on he went to Jerusalem, where his fanaticism became more excited when he observed the activity of Bishop Alexander. However, the bishop’s calm and gentle disposition made a great impression upon him, and he received a Hebrew New Testament, which he studied diligently and became a changed man.
His wife, seeing that he visited Nicolayson and the other missionaries was very angry with him. To pacify her, and in the hope that she would change her mind, he left Jerusalem with her, and they wandered through Asia, North Africa, and Europe, and then returned to Jerusalem, where he had to undergo great persecution, and was obliged to return to his native place.
Finally, in 1853, he was baptized by Benjamin Weiss, also a Jewish believer who worked with the Scottish mission.

source:
Bernstein, A. Jewish Witnesses for Christ, 1909, London: O.J.C.I., Palestine House, Bodney Road,