Moses Margoliouth 1820-188
Dr. Moses Margoliouth was born at Suwalki in 1820, and died in London, 1881. He was no relation to Ezekiel Margoliouth, though from the same town. He arrived in Liverpool in 1837 and met the Jewish missionaries Lazarus and H. S. Joseph. Following discussion with them, he came to faith in 1838.
Moses studied in Trinity College in Dubin, and became a well respected minister in the Church of England.
In 1847 he started a Hebrew Christian monthly magazine entitled “The Star of Jacob”. In the 1870s he was editor of The Hebrew Christian Witness. He was also one of the revisers of the English version of the Old Testament.
Works
The Fundamental Principles of Modern Judaism Investigated (can be ordered from Keren Ahvah Meschichit, Jerusalem) The object of the present volume is to bring before the Christian public some information as to the present state of religion among the Jews, both with respect to the ceremonial and the moral law; and as it may excite some surprise that there should be room or occasion for such a publication; as it seems strange, that the religious practices, and even the moral principles of a people like the Jews should be still a subject for enquiry…
The Jews in Great Britain : a series of Six Lectures on the Antiquities of the Jews in England. (J. Nisbet, 1846) Read Online
The fundamental principles of modern Judaism investigated (B. Wertheim, 1843) Read Online
Vestiges of the historic Anglo-Hebrews in East Anglia (Longmans, Green, Reader and Dyer, 1870) Read Online
The Penitential hymn of Judah and Israel after the spirit (Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1856) Read Online The Curates Of Riversdale: recollections in the life of a Clergyman, 1860. (Kessinger Publishing, LLC, June 25, 2007) HardcoverThe poetry of the Hebrew Pentateuch (S. Bagster, 1871) Read Online A pilgrimage to the land of my fathers.
Sources
Bernstein, A. Jewish Witnesses for Christ. 1909. London; new edition by Keren Ahvah Meshichit, 1999.
Katz, David S.,, ‘Margoliouth, Moses (1815–1881)’, first published Sept 2004, 1040 words, with portrait illustration
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/18055
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography