David Christian Bernhard Jadownicky
Born in Poland, 1799. Jewish Talmudical School in Berlin, 1813-18; Rabbi at Solingen, 1818-20; baptized April, 1821, in Frankfort), to seek the co-operation of the American Society. Jadownicky, arriving November, 1821, laid the letters of the Count von der Recke before the A. S. M. C. J., and was greatly encouraged by the reception he found, but decided not to return to Germany. Frey himself persuaded the young man to prepare himself for the ministry, and thus we find him in 1823 as a student in Princeton, where he tried to form a prayer union for the evangelization of the Jews, but met with little or no success among the students.
Rabbi Samuel Vivas of Jerusalem (Dominico Irosolimitano)
(1550-1620) Educated at the rabbinical college in Safed, studying not only the Talmud, but also medicine. After having obtained the degree of doctor and the title of Rab, he lectured on Talmudic law in Safed. His fame as a physician spread far and wide, so that the Sultan of Turkey summoned him to Constantinople as Court Physician. Subsequently he embraced Christianity, went to Rome, and was received at the college of the Neophytes, where he taught Hebrew. He was then employed as expurgator of Hebrew books.
Works:
מעיין גנים “Fountain of the Gardens”, on the principles of the Christian faith
Translated the whole of the New Testament and most of the Apocryphal books (1616-17)
Compiler of ספר הזיקוק (Book of Expurgation), a copy of which in the library of Cardinal Berberini, Rome, shews revision by him as late as 1619.
Rabbi Elisha Schuffamer
Rabbi Elisa Schuffamer came to Jerusalem from Salonika, and met up with Francis Ewald, a Jewish believer. He came to faith, and was baptised in 1848. As soon as it was possible Elisha returned to his native land to bring his family over to Jerusalem. To his dismay he found that since he had left the family, his young children had died. Nevertheless, his wife accompanied him to Jerusalem where they made their home for the next years. Elisha also served the LJS in the Bible Depot in Cairo.
Rabbi Mullah Eliyahu
Rabbi Mullah Eliyahu, of Bushire, is recorded together with Eliyahu of Bagdad as having been baptised at Baghdad in 1852. The father of Eliyahu of Baghdad had lost his occupation among the Jewish community on account of that; and Rabbi Eliyahu afterwards accompanied Stern on his journey to Mosul and Kurdistan.
Rabbi Paulus Elkana
Olarius, who wrote a preface to a Hebrew translation of the Augsburg confession prepared by Philipp Gallus in 1888, reports of Paulus, a rabbi in Prague who had been his teacher. The rabbi came to faith after reading the Hebrew translations of the Gospel of Matthew and Paul's epistle to the Romans.
Rabbi Samuel Griess
Rabbi Samuel Griess, who had in the past officiated at the Rivington-Street Synagogue, was baptized into the Christian faith by the Rev. Jacob Freshman . The service was performed at the Hebrew-Christian Church, in St. Mark's-place. A large number of orthodox Jews as well as Jewish converts to Christianity witnessed the ceremony, and much feeling was evinced by the former after Mr. Griess was baptized by sprinking and made profession of faith in accordance with the forms of the Methodist Episcopal Church. With him was also baptized another young man of Jewish parentage, but an entire family who were expected to be baptized failed to appear for the ceremony.
Mr. Griess, who was a native of Posen, Prussia, graduated at the Jewish Theological Seminaries of Breslau and Berlin, and had come to New York about two years earlier. Up to within three months he had acted as a reader in various synagogues in this city and Newark, N. J. He recited his reasons for embracing the Christian faith, closing his statement by saying: “I leave all friends and superstitions behind me, not knowing what the future may have in store for me, but trusting wholly in God.” Then he was baptized, and subsequently congratulated by a number of Christian ladies and gentlemen who were present. (1886)
Mose Behar Paulo
A Spanish Jew, born at Constantinople and baptised at Smyrna, worked amongst the Jews, a number of whom had known him from childhood. He trained at Constantinople under the direction of C. S. Newman, another Jewish believer. Gidney writes of him, that he was a faithful servant of the Master for over twenty years to Constantinople, and subsequently at Bucharest and Smyrna, where, to anticipate, he died in 1897, after nearly thirty-five years labour amongst his Spanish speaking brethren. He was an able speaker, and carried on the Saturday and Sunday services at Smyrna.
Source
Gidney, William Thomas. History of the London Society...1908. chapter XLVIII
מעיין גנים “Fountain of the Gardens”, on the principles of the Christian faith
Translated the whole of the New Testament and most of the Apocryphal books (1616-17)
Compiler of ספר הזיקוק (Book of Expurgation), a copy of which in the library of Cardinal Berberini, Rome, shews revision by him as late as 1619.
Rabbi Elisha Schuffamer
Rabbi Elisa Schuffamer came to Jerusalem from Salonika, and met up with Francis Ewald, a Jewish believer. He came to faith, and was baptised in 1848. As soon as it was possible Elisha returned to his native land to bring his family over to Jerusalem. To his dismay he found that since he had left the family, his young children had died. Nevertheless, his wife accompanied him to Jerusalem where they made their home for the next years. Elisha also served the LJS in the Bible Depot in Cairo.
Rabbi Mullah Eliyahu
Rabbi Mullah Eliyahu, of Bushire, is recorded together with Eliyahu of Bagdad as having been baptised at Baghdad in 1852. The father of Eliyahu of Baghdad had lost his occupation among the Jewish community on account of that; and Rabbi Eliyahu afterwards accompanied Stern on his journey to Mosul and Kurdistan.
Rabbi Paulus Elkana
Olarius, who wrote a preface to a Hebrew translation of the Augsburg confession prepared by Philipp Gallus in 1888, reports of Paulus, a rabbi in Prague who had been his teacher. The rabbi came to faith after reading the Hebrew translations of the Gospel of Matthew and Paul's epistle to the Romans.
Rabbi Samuel Griess
Rabbi Samuel Griess, who had in the past officiated at the Rivington-Street Synagogue, was baptized into the Christian faith by the Rev. Jacob Freshman . The service was performed at the Hebrew-Christian Church, in St. Mark's-place. A large number of orthodox Jews as well as Jewish converts to Christianity witnessed the ceremony, and much feeling was evinced by the former after Mr. Griess was baptized by sprinking and made profession of faith in accordance with the forms of the Methodist Episcopal Church. With him was also baptized another young man of Jewish parentage, but an entire family who were expected to be baptized failed to appear for the ceremony.
Mr. Griess, who was a native of Posen, Prussia, graduated at the Jewish Theological Seminaries of Breslau and Berlin, and had come to New York about two years earlier. Up to within three months he had acted as a reader in various synagogues in this city and Newark, N. J. He recited his reasons for embracing the Christian faith, closing his statement by saying: “I leave all friends and superstitions behind me, not knowing what the future may have in store for me, but trusting wholly in God.” Then he was baptized, and subsequently congratulated by a number of Christian ladies and gentlemen who were present. (1886)
Mose Behar Paulo
A Spanish Jew, born at Constantinople and baptised at Smyrna, worked amongst the Jews, a number of whom had known him from childhood. He trained at Constantinople under the direction of C. S. Newman, another Jewish believer. Gidney writes of him, that he was a faithful servant of the Master for over twenty years to Constantinople, and subsequently at Bucharest and Smyrna, where, to anticipate, he died in 1897, after nearly thirty-five years labour amongst his Spanish speaking brethren. He was an able speaker, and carried on the Saturday and Sunday services at Smyrna.
Source
Gidney, William Thomas. History of the London Society...1908. chapter XLVIII