On 1 July 1883 Mozes de Hes passed the examination for the lowest level of religious instructor at the Nederlands Israëlitisch Seminarium in Amsterdam. He started as a religious instructor in Doetinchem and subsequently served as such in Smilde, Roermond, Gorredijk (23 years) and Vlissingen. On 7 March 1926 he was appointed teacher and cantor of the Jewish community in Bergen op Zoom, where he was…