A Hebrew Grammar, in the English Language

London: Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy.. 1823.

Second edition. 8vo in 4s. 220x140mm. pp. viii, 152. Bound in paper ( refashioned from newspaper) covered boards, backed in black cloth. Rubbing and wear to covers with some loss of paper and cloth to corners and head and foot of spine. Repaired closed tear across the centre of leaf B3 but no loss of text. Otherwise in very good condition internally and overall a nice copy.
Joseph Frey (1771-1850) was the father of modern Messianic Judaism. He was born into a Jewish family but converted to Lutheranism in 1798. He moved to London where he founded, with the help of William Wilberforce and Lord Shaftesbury, The London Society for Promoting Christianity Among the Jews before doing the same in America where he established the American Society for Meliorating the Condition of the Jews in 1820. His missionary work between Christianity and Judaism took its most literary form in his publication of the first Yiddish New Testament in 1821.