Note 201 — Chapter XXXVIII · A.D. 1700-1800. THE JEWS IN GERMANY AND CENTRAL EUROPE.

J. M. Jost, a German Jew, born A.D. 1793, died 1860, a professor first at Berlin, and afterwards at Frankfort-on-the-Maine. He is the author of the History of the Israelites, in nine volumes, published in 1820-28, and of the History of Judaism, in three volumes, which appeared later. Up to the time of the appearance of H. Graetz’s great work, The History of the Jews, Jost’s was the most trustworthy authority. ‘It is the mature work,’ writes Milman, ‘of an indefatigable and eminently fair writer. Of course, as a Jew, he presents the doctrines and usages of his race in a favourable light, but he always fully deserves a respectful and candid hearing’ (Milm. Hist. Jews, vol. ii. p. 476 n.).