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Rabbi of Avignon, France; born at Nimes Dec. 8, 1832; died at Marseilles July 24, 1892. Mosse was the founder of the monthly periodical "La Famille de Jacob." He was the author of: "Un Ange du Ciel sur la Terre," poems; "Droits et Devoirs de l'Homme" (14 editions); "Manuel d'Instruction Civique"; "Gustave ou la Propriété et le Travail"; "Elévations Religieuses et Morales"; "Traduction Littérale et Juxtalinéaire des Psaumes, Précédée d'une Grammaire," etc.; "Les Femmes de l'Antiquité Judaïque"; "Don Pedro II., Empereur du Brésil." He also translated Abravanel's "Rosh Amanah" (Avignon, 1884).