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Moses Mendelssohn (6 September 1729 – 4 January 1786) was a German-Jewish philosopher and theologian. His writings and ideas on Jews and the Jewish religion and identity were a central element in the development of the Haskalah , or 'Jewish Enlightenment' of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Moses Mendelssohn (born September 26, 1729, Dessau, Anhalt [Germany]—died January 4, 1786, Berlin, Prussia) was a German Jewish philosopher, critic, and Bible translator and commentator who greatly contributed to the efforts of Jews to assimilate to the German bourgeoisie.
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Dec 3, 2002 · Moses Mendelssohn (b. 1729, d. 1786) was a creative and eclectic thinker whose writings on metaphysics and aesthetics, political theory and theology, together with his Jewish heritage, placed him at the focal point of the German Enlightenment for over three decades.
Learn about Moses Mendelssohn, the first Jew to bring secular culture to Orthodox Jewish life. He valued reason, defended Judaism, translated the Bible, and advocated for emancipation and tolerance.
Moses Mendelssohn was born in Dessau (now in eastern Germany) into a traditional ghetto family–his father was a Torah scribe. Mendelssohn received a thorough Jewish education, studying with David Frankel, the rabbi of Dessau and an important intellect in his own right.
May 23, 2018 · MENDELSSOHN, MOSES (1729 – 1786), German-Jewish philosopher and public figure of the Enlightenment period. Born in Dessau, the son of a poor Torah scribe, Mendelssohn received a traditional education that, rather exceptionally, included the study of the philosophy of Moses Maimonides.
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Moses Mendelssohn, orig. Moses ben Menachem, (born Sept. 26, 1729, Dessau, Anhalt—died Jan. 4, 1786, Berlin, Prussia), German Jewish philosopher and scholar.
