Morris David Joseph (28 May 1848, in

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– 17 April 1930) studied at

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, London, and in 1868 was appointed

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of the North London Synagogue; in 1874 he went to the Old Hebrew Congregation of Liverpool, where he officiated as preacher until 1882. He became delegate senior minister of the

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in 1893, when

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retired from active service. Joseph published a collection of sermons, ''The Ideal in Judaism'',

, 1893, and a valuable popular work on Jewish

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, ''Judaism as Creed and Life'', in 1903. His position on

Jewish Jews ( he, יְהוּדִים, , ) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites Israelite origins and kingdom: "The first act in the long drama of Jewish history is the age of the Israelites""The ...

religious belief and practice was conservative, midway between Reform and strict Orthodox.'' 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'',

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, New York, 1906.

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