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Mendelssohn, Moses

Moses Mendelsohn, 1729-1786. Eighteenth-century German Jewish philosopher. He was most active in the philosophy of religion, having been a Talmudic scholar before entering mainstream philosophy.

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• - A brief excerpt from Mendelssohn's classic Jerusalem, a philosophical defense of the Jewish faith.
  
• - Scholarly study of this 18th-century scholar by Daniel Dahlstrom. From the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
  
• - Short paragraph describing his career.
  
• - Article from 1999 by Steven P. Meyer. Discusses at some length Mendelssohn's thought and his role in preserving the Bach musical legacy.
  
• - A 1780 portrait of this writer by Johann Christoph Frisch.
  
• - Relatively detailed entry from this philosophical database, with links to related topics.
  
• - Gerhard Falk's commentary on this Jewish Enlightenment thinker and his status in Judaic history.
  
• - Article from this openly-edited online encyclopedia.
  
• - Introduction by James Schmidt to the Thoemmes Press reissue of Samuels' 1825 biography of this thinker.
  
• - Essay by Shira Shoenberg, emphasizing this German thinker's role in Jewish history.
  
  

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