Chorin with the bitterness of a partisan. It is undoubtedly due to that impartiality that Jost's work suffered by comparison with the warm Jewish spirit which permeates Grätz's work (see Grätz, "Gesch." xi. 456). His personality While not a man of public life, Jost devoted himself to the cause of orphans, and to his initiative was due the establishment in Frankfort-on-the-Main of a girls' orphan asylum (1853). He was instrumental also in founding a society (Permissionistenverein, 1843) for the aid of those who, according to the law then in existence, had no claim on the Frankfort charitable institutions, not being freemen of the city; he founded the Creizenach Stiftung, for the aid of aged teachers and their families (1842), and he often assisted young students and poor authors with both advice and influence. He was also a member of the Society for the Culture and Science of the Jews (Verein für Kultur und Wissenschaft der Juden) alongside Joel Abraham List, Leopold Zunz, and Eduard Gans. While advanced in his views, he was indifferent to Reform, and for years never attended a religious service (Zirndorf, Isaak Markus Jost und Seine Freunde, p. 130). He married in 1816 a Miss Wolf, niece of Isaac Euchel. She died in 1842. He devoted himself with paternal affection to the pupils of the orphan asylum, whom he liked to call his children. References Jost's autobiography "Vor Einem Halben Jahrhundert", in Wolf Pascheles's Sippurim, vol. iii, Prague, 1854, 1883 A. M. Goldschmidt, in Jahrbuch für die Geschichte der Juden, vol. ii, Leipzig, 1861 Klein's Volkskalender und Jahrbuch für Israeliten, 1860–61 Nehemiah Brüll, in Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie Heinrich Zirndorf, Isaak Markus Jost und Seine Freunde, Cincinnati, 1886 A bibliography is given by Fürst, Bibl. Jud., and Zirndorf, ib. pp. 225–228 External links Guide to the Papers of Isaak Markus Jost at the Leo Baeck Institute, New York. 1793 births 1860 deaths 18th-century German Jews 19th-century German historians Jewish historians German male non-fiction writers