Joseph Wolff (1795–1862)—The Making of an Englishman
Journal: Modern Judaism - A Journal of Jewish Ideas and Experience
Year: 2018

Joseph Wolff, one of the most widely travelled missionaries of nineteenth-century Britain, was also one of many converted Jews who served as clergymen in the Anglican Church at that time, and was perhaps one of the most distinguished among them.1 Wolff was born in Bavaria in 1795, the son of a Jewish rabbi, but at the age of 18 he converted and became a Catholic monk. At 24, he arrived in England and enrolled as an Anglican missionary to the Jews. Soon afterwards he started his extensive mission