Moses Samuel

Moses Samuel (1795 – 17 April 1860) was an English writer, watchmaker, translator and authority on rabbinical literature.

Early life Samuel was born in 1795 to Polish–Jewish parents in London. 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. , Samuel's was the great-grandfather of the pianist Irene Scharrer. Through his brother Louis, Samuel was the uncle of Samuel Montagu, 1st Baron Swaythling and the great-uncle of Sir Stuart Montagu Samuel, 1st Baronet and Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel.