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Maurice H. (Maurice Henry) Harris
1859–1930
A British-born American rabbi and educator, he spent nearly half a century leading Temple Israel in Harlem and wrote accessible books that brought Jewish history and literature to a wider audience.
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A Thousand Years of Jewish History From the days of Alexander the Great to the Moslem Conquest of Spain
by Maurice H. (Maurice Henry) Harris
About the author
Born in London in 1859, Maurice Henry Harris moved to the United States as a child and later studied at Columbia University and the Emanu-El Theological Seminary in New York. He went on to become a Reform rabbi, teacher, and writer whose career linked scholarship with public religious life.
He is best known for his long service as rabbi of Temple Israel of Harlem, a post he held for almost fifty years. Alongside his congregational work, he published books on Jewish history, Bible study, and Hebraic literature, helping general readers and students approach those subjects in a clear, organized way.
Harris died in 1930, but his work still reflects an energetic period in American Jewish intellectual and religious life. Readers interested in faith, history, and education may find in his writing the voice of someone who wanted learning to be both serious and widely shared.