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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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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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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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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descendants: Joseph Mendelssohn (1770–1848), German Jewish banker, son of Moses, founder of Mendelssohn & Co. Abraham Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1776–1835)...
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Immortality (section Moses Mendelssohn)
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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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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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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formulated in the first Maskilic locus at Berlin. Its members, like Moses Mendelssohn, Naphtali Hirz Wessely, Isaac Satanow and Isaac Euchel, authored tracts...
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