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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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Biography of Moses Mendelssohn
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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 Summary
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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
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(born Sept. 26, 1729, Dessau, Anhalt—died Jan. 4, 1786, Berlin, Prussia) German Jewish philosopher and scholar. The son of an impoverished scribe, he began his career as a tutor but eventually won fame for his philosophical writings, which would...
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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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"Lebendige Schrift": Reprasentation und Idolatrie in Moses Mendelssohns Philosophie und Exegese des Judentums.(Book Review)
01/01/2003: 1,300 words, approx. 4 pages
"Lebendige Schrift": Reprasentation und Idolatrie in Moses Mendelssohns Philosophie und Exegese des Judentums, by Carola Hilfrich. Munich: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 2000. 188 pp. This book is methodologically guided by Jacques Derrida's Of Grammatology and Roland Barthes's semiology and participates in both the...
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The American Music Teacher
A Portrait of Mendelssohn
12/01/2003: 376 words, approx. 1 pages
Reviews of books, videos, software and music for the professional music teacher Books A Portrait of Mendelssohn, by Clive Brown. Yale University Press (P.O. Box 209040, New Haven, CT 06520-9040), 2003. 384pp. $45. Those expecting yet another standard biographical treatment of Mendelssohn will...
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NY museums fight to keep 2 Picassos
12/8/2007: 547 words, approx. 2 pages
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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