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Name: Moses Mendelssohn
Birth Date: September 6, 1729
Death Date: January 4, 1786
Place of Birth: Dessau, Germany
Place of Death: Berlin, Germany
Nationality: German
Gender: Male
Occupations: philosopher

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Biography of Moses Mendelssohn
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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 the "German Socrates" and as the "Jewish Socrates."...
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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; a coin with Mendelssohn's portrait had just been...


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Mendelssohn, Moses (1729–1786) Summary
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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 studies were devoted to the Bible, the Talmud, and...
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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...
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Mendelssohn, Moses : Judaic Terms
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(RaMbeMan) (1729–1786) Philosopher. Mendelssohn dedicated his life to improving the civic status of the *Jews and providing a philosophical justification for the Jewish religion. His debate with the Christian clergyman John Lavater was widely...
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Moses Mendelssohn (Dessau, September 6, 1729 – January 4, 1786 in Berlin) was a German Jewish philosopher to whose ideas the renaissance of European Jews, Haskalah, (the Jewish enlightenment) is indebted. For some he was the third Moses (the other...


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The two Picasso paintings have been in prominent New York museum collections for decades. But now the institutions are asking a court to declare them the lawful owners amid a Jewish scholar's claims that the works were the rightful property of a relative persecuted in...


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