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Moses Mendelssohn : sage of modernity /

The "German Socrates," Moses Mendelssohn (1729-1786) was the most influential Jewish thinker of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. A Berlin celebrity and a major figure in the Enlightenment, revered by Immanuel Kant, Mendelssohn suffered the indignities common to Jews of his time whi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Feiner, Shmuel (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Hebrew
Publicado: New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, [2010]
Colección:Jewish lives (New Haven, Conn.)
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • A stroll down Unter den Linden
  • From Dessau to Berlin: an unpredicted career
  • Cultural conversion: the three formative years
  • War and peace, love and family, fame and frustration
  • Affront and sickness: the Lavater Affair
  • Dreams, nightmares, and struggles for religious tolerance
  • Jerusalem: the road to civic happiness
  • Specters: the last two years.