Josef Flesch (Yiddish: יוסף פלעש; 19 September 1781 – 17 December 1839) was Moravian writer, translator, and merchant.
He attended yeshiva in Prague with his father's childhood friend, Baruch Jeitteles.
[2] After marrying the daughter of Salomon Berger in Leipnik in 1801 and spending three years in the house of his father-in-law, he returned to his hometown and joined his father's business.
[3] He was a frequent contributor to the Bikkure ha-Ittim,[4] and translated into Hebrew several of the writings of Philo,[5] notably Quis rerum divinarum heres sit (under the title Ha-yoresh divre Elohim, Prague, 1830) and De vita Moysis (under the title Ḥayye Moshe, Prague, 1838).
His other publications include a Hebrew translation of philosopher Karl Heinrich Heydenreich,[2] and a list of Jewish scientists under the title Reshimat anshe mofet (Prague, 1838).