Johlson, J(oseph).

Andreäischen Buchhandlung

Frankfurt a/Main

1829

Alumei Yosef, Unterricht in der Mosaischen Religion für die Israeltische Jugend beiderlei Geschlechts [Instruction in the Mosaic Religion for Jewish youth of both sexes]. Part I: Shorashei ha-Dath [Ceremonial law and traditions and Maimonides' Hilchoth De'oth]; Part II; Shirei Yeshurun, Lieder, Israelitischs Gesangbuch [Jewish songbook]

cf: Vinograd, Frankfurt a/Main 580 (a later 1839 edition)

Joseph Johlson (1777-1851), son of the rabbi of Fulda, was associated with the German Reform movement. He is billed on the title of the book as: "Religionslehrer an der israelitischen Bürger=und Realschule zu Frankfurt a.M." [Teacher of Religion at the Israelite Real School of Frankfurt a/Main]. Nonetheless, his catechism for Jewish children was deemed appropriate as an educational vehicle by Isaac Leeser, chief proponent of American Orthodoxy, who took upon himself to translate the book into English. Leeser published his translation in Philadelphia in 1830 under the title, Instruction in the Mosaic Religion. See L.J. Sussman, Isaac Leeser and the Making of American Judaism (1995), pp. 67-70