This book, subtitled "Or a Brief Account of the Opinions, Traditions, Rites,& Ceremonies of the Jews in Modern Times" is the major work written by John Allen. He was an English dissenting layman and religious writer, born in Truro, Cornwall, in 1771 and master of a school in Hackney, London for thirty years.  This is … Continue reading Modern Judaism, by John Allen, London 1816. →