The German Quarterly, Vol. 82, No. 3, German-Jewish and Jewish-German Studies (Summer 2009), pp. 373-394 (22 pages) In part taking up Steven Achheim's call not to retrospectively essentialize the ...

About the book: Moses Mendelssohn (1729–1786) is often described as the founder of modern Jewish thought and as a leading philosopher of the late Enlightenment. One of Mendelssohn's main concerns was ...

Google the name Mendelssohn, and you’ll have to click the “next page” button to find references to anyone other than the famous 19 th-century German composer, Felix. But only a couple branches away on ...

The two hundredth anniversary of the birth of Moses Mendelssohn was celebrated at official exercises held under the auspices of the Berlin Jewish community conjointly with the Academy of Jewish ...

At an exhibition dedicated to him at the Jewish Museum Berlin, German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier described the philosopher's legacy as "universal." The Jewish philosopher Moses Mendelssohn ...

Moses Mendelssohn, arguably the founding figure of modern Jewish philosophy, famously quipped that it was the hours of his youth spent studying the philosophical work of another Moses—Moses Maimonides ...

Feiner, a professor of Modern Jewish History at Bar Ilan University in Tel Aviv, presents an all-encompassing biography of Mendelssohn, a prominent 18th-century Jewish intellectual. From his early ...

Schocken, 256 pages, $19.95. Three Moseses have decisively shaped Jewish history. On one end is Moses the Egyptian, a lawgiver and political leader whose vision established the path for a monotheistic ...

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An English translation of key works, many never before translated, by Moses Mendelssohn, the founder of modern Jewish philosophy German Jewish philosopher Moses Mendelssohn (1729–1786) is best known ...