Jacob Joseph
Jacob "Jeff" Joseph (d. August, 1969) was an early British Bahá’í who served on the first National Spiritual Assembly of the British Isles.
Background[edit]
Joseph was of Persian and Jewish descent and he and his brother Albert were among the earliest Bahá’ís in Britain.[1] Both he and his brother received Tablets from ‘Abdu’l-Bahá.[2]
Joseph pioneered to Manchester at some point where he managed a factory with his brother and in October 1921 Shoghi Effendi attended a Bahá’í meeting held at Joseph's factory when he visited Manchester.[3] The Bahá’í Publishing Trust of the UK was housed in the Joseph's factory until the 1950's.[4]
In 1922 Joseph was elected to the All-England Bahá’í Council as Chairman and he was also elected to the National Spiritual Assembly of the British Isles which replaced the Council in 1923. He passed away in Manchester in 1969.[2]
References[edit]
- ↑ Lil Osborn, Men and the Baha'i Faith: An investigation into the role of indigenous men in the early Baha'i community in the British Isles, Baha'i Library Online, 2016, p 3
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Shoghi Effendi, Unfolding Destiny, UK Baha'i Publishing Trust, 1981, p 474
- ↑ Baha'i Council for England, Living Nation: The Bulletin of the Baha'i Council for England, July 2005, p 9
- ↑ The Bahá’í World, An International Record. (1998). Bahá’í World Centre. Haifa. Volume 20 (1986-1992), Pg(s) 948. View as PDF.
