Kohen, Jacob Shalom

Kohen, Jacob Shalom a Jewish writer of Germany, was born at Meseritsch, December 23, 1771, and died at Hamburg in 1846. He is the author of, סדר העבודה or Historisch-kritische Darstellung des judischen Gottesdienstes (Leipsic, 1819): — תורת לשון עברית, a Hebrew grammar (Berlin, 1802, and often) — קורא הדורות, or History of the Jewish People (Warsaw, 1838):מקרא קדש, or Die ganze heilige Schrift (Hamburg, 1824, 4 volumes), etc. See First, Bibl. Jud. 2:195 sq. (B.P.)