Originally published in the Encyclopedia Judaica, vol. 12 (1972), pp. 268-9. MONTEFIORE, CLAUDE JOSEPH GOLDSMID (1858-1938), theologian and leader of Liberal Judaism in England. Montefiore was a great-nephew of Sir Moses Montefiore and a grandson of Isaac Lyon Goldsmid. He studied at Balliol College, Oxford, where he came under the influence of the master of Balliol,…