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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The East German municipal authorities in Dessau are preparing to tear down the house, slightly damaged in an air raid during the last war, in whose annex philosopher Moses Mendelssohn was born in 1729 ...

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 ...

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 ...

German Jewish philosopher Moses Mendelssohn (1729-1786) was one of the most influential thinkers of the Enlightenment. Until now, attention was focused on Mendelssohn’s German works — such as his ...