# Morris Joseph

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**Morris David Joseph** (28 May 1848 – 17 April 1930)[1] was a British rabbi.

Joseph studied at [Jews' College](/source/Jews'_College), London, and in 1868 was appointed [rabbi](/source/Rabbi) of the North London [Synagogue](/source/Synagogue); in 1874 he went to the Old Hebrew Congregation of Liverpool, where he officiated as preacher until 1882. He became the delegate senior minister of the [West London Synagogue](/source/West_London_Synagogue) in 1893, when [David Woolf Marks](/source/David_Woolf_Marks) retired from active service. Joseph published a collection of sermons, *The Ideal in Judaism*, [London](/source/London), 1893, and a valuable popular work on Jewish [theology](/source/Theology), *Judaism as Creed and Life*, in 1903. His position on [Jewish](/source/Jews) religious belief and practice was conservative, midway between Reform and strict Orthodox.[2]

In 1872 he married Frances Amelia Henry who was the great granddaughter of [Moses Samuel](/source/Moses_Samuel).

## References

1. ["Joseph, Morris David (1848–1930), Jewish minister and theologian"](https://www.oxforddnb.com/display/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-51107). *Oxford Dictionary of National Biography*. [doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-51107?rskey=vf4ihr&result=1](https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-51107?rskey=vf4ihr&result=1)

1. *[The Jewish Encyclopedia: A Descriptive Record of the History, Religion, Literature, and Customs of the Jewish People from the Earliest Times to the Present Day](/source/The_Jewish_Encyclopaedia)*, [Funk and Wagnalls](/source/Funk_and_Wagnalls), New York, 1906.

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