Joseph ben Baruch was a French rabbi, a tosafist of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries.
Joseph resided for some time in Paris, where he associated with Judah Sir Leon and instructed Samuel of Falaise in special subjects.
It was probably Joseph who took to England the Hebrew translation of the Kuzari which had been made by Judah Cardinal.
Judah al-Ḥarizi met Joseph and his brother as heads of the new congregation of Jerusalem ("Taḥkemoni," xlvi.).
Joseph was also the author of liturgical poems; a confession of sins for the Day of Atonement written by him, has been preserved in the ritual.
148) identified him with Joseph ben Johanan the Jerusalemite (see Gross in "Monatsschrift," xlv.