{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2025}} {{Infobox person | name = Moses Samuel | image = | alt = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth year|1795}} | birth_place = London | death_date = {{Death date and age|1860|1795|df=y}} | death_place = Liverpool | nationality = | other_names = | occupation = Clockmaker, Translator, Writer | years_active = | known_for = | notable_works = Original translator of the Book of Jasher (Venice, 1625) }}
'''Moses Samuel''' (1795-1860) was a British clockmaker, translator of Hebrew works, and writer.
==Life== His parents were Emanuel Menachem Samuel and Hanna Hinde; his father moved from Kempen in Silesia (now Kępno, Poland) to London. Moses with his mother moved to Liverpool around 1805. He went into business, not with any great success, but founding what later became the H. Samuel chain.<ref name=ODNB>{{ODNBweb|id=39469|title=Samuel, Moses|first=Bernard|last=Wasserstein}}</ref> His older brother Louis (1794–1859) was the father of Samuel Montagu, 1st Baron Swaythling and grandfather of Sir Stuart Montagu Samuel, 1st Baronet and Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel.
==Works== He was the originally anonymous translator of the Italian Jewish kabbalah text Book of Jasher (Venice, 1625), which later became a para-canonical{{Clarify|date=October 2011}} text in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.{{Citation needed|date=October 2011}} He later wrote "I did not put my name to it as my Patron and myself differed about its authenticity".<ref>''Jewish historical studies: transactions of the Jewish Historical Society of England'' 2000</ref> The patron was Mordecai Noah, the New York publisher, who purchased the text after the Royal Asiatic Society declined it.
He also translated works of Moses Mendelssohn (notably ''Jerusalem,'' London, 1838) into English. An orthodox Jew, he campaigned against both the Reform Jewish movement, and as author of ''An Address to the Missionaries of Great Britain'' against Christian efforts to proselytise Jews. He co-edited ''The Cup of Salvation - Kos Yeshuot'', a magazine in Hebrew and English, with D. M. Isaacs.<ref name=ODNB/>
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==External links== *[http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=S&artid=180 ''Jewish Encyclopedia'' "...Samuel was a zealous advocate of the emancipation of his coreligionists, and a rebuke, entitled "The Jew and the Barrister," he administered to a member of the bar was favorably noticed in several magazines."] *{{Librivox author |id=10914}}
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