Originally published as entry in the Blackwell Companion to Jewish Culture: from the Eighteenth Century to the Present (Blackwell Publishing: 1990) or EJ. vol. 12: 268-9. Montefiore, Claude Joseph Goldsmid (1858-1938) Theologian and founder of Liberal Judaism in England. Montefiore, scion of a prominent Anglo-Jewish family, studied at Balliol College, Oxford, where he came under…