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" Moses Mendelssohn : "
Shmuel Feiner ; translated from the Hebrew by Anthony Berris.
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BL
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626720
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Mosheh Mendelson.English
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| Main Entry
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Feiner, Shmuel.
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Moses Mendelssohn : : sage of modernity /\ Shmuel Feiner ; translated from the Hebrew by Anthony Berris.
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| Publication Statement
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New Haven [Conn.] :: Yale University Press,, ©2010.
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Jewish lives
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237 pages :: illustrations ;; 22 cm.
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9780300161755
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: 0300161751
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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A stroll down Unter den Linden -- From Dessau to Berlin: an unpredicted career -- Cultural conversion: the three formative years -- War and peace, love and family, fame and frustration -- Affront and sickness: the Lavater Affair -- Dreams, nightmares, and struggles for religious tolerance -- Jerusalem: the road to civic happiness -- Specters: the last two years.
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From the publisher. The "German Socrates," Moses Mendelssohn (1729-1786) was the most influential Jewish thinker of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. A Berlin celebrity and a major figure in the Enlightenment, revered by Immanuel Kant, Mendelssohn suffered the indignities common to Jews of his time while formulating the philosophical foundations of a modern Judaism suited for a new age. His most influential books included the groundbreaking Jerusalem and a translation of the Bible into German that paved the way for generations of Jews to master the language of the larger culture. Feiner's book is the first that offers a full, human portrait of this fascinating man--uncommonly modest, acutely aware of his task as an intellectual pioneer, shrewd, traditionally Jewish, yet thoroughly conversant with the world around him--providing a vivid sense of Mendelssohn's daily life as well as of his philosophical endeavors. Feiner, a leading scholar of Jewish intellectual history, examines Mendelssohn as father and husband, as a friend (Mendelssohn's long-standing friendship with the German dramatist Gotthold Ephraim Lessing was seen as a model for Jews and non-Jews worldwide), as a tireless advocate for his people, and as an equally indefatigable spokesman for the paramount importance of intellectual independence.
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Mendelssohn, Moses,1729-1786.
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Philosophers-- Germany-- Berlin, Biography.
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Jews-- Germany-- Berlin, Biography.
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193B
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B2693.F4513 2010
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