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    Moses Mendelssohn (6 September 1729 – 4 January 1786) was a German-Jewish philosopher and theologian. His writings and ideas on Jews and the Jewish religion...
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    The Mendelssohn family are the descendants of Mendel of Dessau. The German Jewish philosopher Moses Mendelssohn and his brother Saul were the first to...
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    Mendelssohn's Songs Without Words are his most famous solo piano compositions. Mendelssohn's grandfather was the renowned Jewish philosopher Moses Mendelssohn...
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    that it must be immortal. The tradition arguably culminates with Moses Mendelssohn's Phaedon. Theodore Metochites argues that part of the soul's nature...
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    As a result, many German Jews began to emigrate. From the time of Moses Mendelssohn until the 20th century, the community gradually achieved emancipation...
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    recommends candidates for ordination into the Jewish clergy. The Moses Mendelssohn Center for European-Jewish Studies focuses on the history, religion...
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    Jerusalem oder über religiöse Macht und Judentum) is a book written by Moses Mendelssohn, which was first published in 1783 – the same year when the Prussian...
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  • physician Moses Mendelssohn (1729–1786), German Jewish philosopher Moses Robinson (1741–1813), judge, governor, and senator from Vermont Moses Cleaveland (1754–1806)...
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    formulated in the very first Maskilic locus at Berlin. Its members, like Moses Mendelssohn, Naphtali Hirz Wessely, Isaac Satanow and Isaac Euchel, authored tracts...
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  • descendants: Joseph Mendelssohn (1770–1848), German Jewish banker, son of Moses, founder of Mendelssohn & Co. Abraham Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1776–1835)...
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    Mendelssohn, Felix Mendelssohn, Rebecka Mendelssohn, and Paul Mendelssohn. Mendelssohn was born and died in Berlin. The son of the philosopher Moses Mendelssohn...
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    1767, is a book by the Jewish Enlightenment philosopher Moses Mendelssohn, in which Mendelssohn offers a defense of immortality. Phaedon is a defense of...
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    parents were Abraham Mendelssohn (who was the son of the philosopher Moses Mendelssohn), and Lea [de], née Salomon, a granddaughter of the entrepreneur Daniel...
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    Joseph Mendelssohn (11 August 1770 – 24 November 1848) was a German Jewish banker. He was the eldest son of the influential philosopher Moses Mendelssohn. In...
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    great-grandfather was Daniel Itzig, and his paternal great-grandfather was Moses Mendelssohn. He studied sciences at Heidelberg University, where Robert Bunsen...
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    Enlightenment rationalism and it would finally end in absolute atheism. Moses Mendelssohn disagreed with Jacobi, saying that there is no actual difference between...
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    Maimonides (redirect from Moses ben Maimon)
    Moses ben Maimon (1138–1204), commonly known as Maimonides (/maɪˈmɒnɪdiːz/ my-MON-ih-deez) and also referred to by the Hebrew acronym Rambam (Hebrew:...
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    in the 18th century with the Orthodox Jacob Emden and the reformer Moses Mendelssohn, have sympathetically argued that the historical Jesus may have been...
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    2021-09-06. "The Baroque Synagogue Of Halberstadt - Moses Mendelssohn Academy Halberstadt". www.moses-mendelssohn-akademie.de. Retrieved 2021-09-06. "Partnerstädte"...
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  • Moses Mendelssohn (in German), Breslau: Gottlieb Löwe, pp. 2-4 Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi. "Über die Lehre des Spinoza in Briefen an den Herrn Moses Mendelssohn"...
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    as a personal disagreement between Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi and Moses Mendelssohn over their understanding of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing's Spinozist beliefs...
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  • Existentialism: Søren Kierkegaard Father of Logic: Aristotle The Jewish Luther: Moses Mendelssohn Laughing Philosopher: Democritus Longshoreman Philosopher: Eric Hoffer...
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    Paul von Mendelssohn-Bartholdy was a relative of the composer Felix Mendelssohn and the Enlightenment philosopher Moses Mendelssohn. Mendelssohn and Co...
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    studies of the thought of Moses Mendelssohn, and was indeed the leading Mendelssohn scholar since the time of Mendelssohn himself. He also made important...
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  • views are Jacob Emden, Eliyahu Soloveitchik, and Elijah Benamozegh. Moses Mendelssohn, as well as some other religious thinkers of the Jewish Enlightenment...
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  • Nov. 2014. Israel, Radical Enlightenment, 794 Altmann, Alexander. Moses Mendelssohn: A Biographical Study. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press 1973...
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  • Itzig family (category Mendelssohn family)
    married Abraham Mendelssohn (1776-1835; the son of Moses Mendelssohn). Lea and Abraham's children were Felix Mendelssohn and Fanny Mendelssohn. (Jakob persuaded...
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    Mendelssohn in 1764 in Berlin. Oldest daughter of the philosopher Moses Mendelssohn, a leading figure in the German Enlightenment (Aufklärung). In 1783...
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    communicated with Moses Mendelssohn, founder of the breakaway Haskalah movement: "A 19th-century copy of a 1773 letter from Moses Mendelssohn to Rabbi Jacob...
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    Weill Festival. Dessau was also the birthplace of the philosopher Moses Mendelssohn (in 1729), and Leopold I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau (der alte Dessauer)...
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