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Mendelssohn, Moses
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 ...
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Mendelssohn, Moses(1729–1786)
Moses Mendelssohn, the greatest Jewish philosopher in the eighteenth century, was born in Dessau, the son of a poor Jewish copyist of sacred scrolls. His first stu...
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The German philosopher Moses Mendelssohn (1729-1786) was a major figure of the German Enlightenment. An intellectually emancipated and cultured German as well as a faithful Jew, he was referred to as ...
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In 1774 Johann Jacob Spiess, the editor of the Brandenburgische historische Münzbelustigungen, a popular numismatic publication, asked Moses Mendelssohn to supply him with some biographical data;...
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