Jost, ISAAC MARKUS, a Jewish historian, was born at Bernburg in Anhalt, 22d February 1793. He laboured as a Jewish schoolmaster at Berlin (1826-35) and Frankfort-on-Main (1835-60), and died at Frankfort, 20th November 1860. He wrote Geschichte der Israeliten (9 vols. 1820-29), to which were added Neuere Geschichte der Israeliten, 1815-45 (3 vols. 1846-47), and Geschichte des Judenthums (3 vols. 1857-59). He also edited a German translation of the Mishnah, with text and commentary (6 vols. 1832-34).
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