Claude Montefiore

Claude Joseph Goldsmid Montefiore, also Goldsmid–Montefiore or just Goldsmid Montefiore  (1858–1938) was the intellectual founder of Anglo-Liberal Judaism and the founding president of the World Union for Progressive Judaism, a scholar of the Hebrew Bible, rabbinic literature and New Testament. He was a significant figure in the contexts of modern Jewish religious thought, Jewish-Christian relations, and Anglo-Jewish socio-politics, and educator. Montefiore was President of the Anglo-Jewish Association and an influential anti-Zionist leader, who co-founded the anti-Zionist League of British Jews in 1917.

Claude Montefiore
A 1925 painting by Christopher Williams.
Born1858
Died1938 (aged 7980)
Alma materBalliol College, Oxford
OccupationScholar
SpouseFlorence Fyfe Brereton Ward
ParentNathaniel Montefiore
RelativesSir Moses Montefiore (paternal great-uncle)
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