The German Quarterly, Vol. 82, No. 3, German-Jewish and Jewish-German Studies (Summer 2009), pp. 373-394 (22 pages) In part taking up Steven Achheim's call not to retrospectively essentialize the ...

At an exhibition dedicated to him at the Jewish Museum Berlin, German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier described the philosopher's legacy as "universal." The Jewish philosopher Moses Mendelssohn ...

About the book: Moses Mendelssohn (1729–1786) is often described as the founder of modern Jewish thought and as a leading philosopher of the late Enlightenment. One of Mendelssohn's main concerns was ...

Google the name Mendelssohn, and you’ll have to click the “next page” button to find references to anyone other than the famous 19 th-century German composer, Felix. But only a couple branches away on ...

With remarkably little fanfare, the Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry and Brandeis University Press have launched a new book series that promises to alter profoundly the canon of modern ...

The two hundredth anniversary of the birth of Moses Mendelssohn was celebrated at official exercises held under the auspices of the Berlin Jewish community conjointly with the Academy of Jewish ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Alan Saunders: Hi, Alan Saunders here, and this week The Philosopher's Zone's special series on Jewish ...

Moses Mendelssohn, arguably the founding figure of modern Jewish philosophy, famously quipped that it was the hours of his youth spent studying the philosophical work of another Moses—Moses Maimonides ...

An English translation of key works, many never before translated, by Moses Mendelssohn, the founder of modern Jewish philosophy German Jewish philosopher Moses Mendelssohn (1729–1786) is best known ...

Alan Saunders: Hi, Alan Saunders here, and this week The Philosopher's Zone's special series on Jewish philosophy takes a big leap forward to the 18th century and to Moses Mendelssohn. Mendelssohn, ...