Moses Mendelssohn : sage of modernity / Shmuel Feiner ; translated from the Hebrew by Anthony Berris.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Feiner, Shmuel.

Series:

Jewish lives (New Haven, Conn.)

Jewish lives

Standardized Title:

Mosheh Mendelson. English

משה מנדלסון. אנגלית http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2010031400

Language:

English

Hebrew

Subjects (All):

Philosophers.

Germany--Berlin.

Mendelssohn, Moses, 1729-1786.

Mendelssohn, Moses.

Philosophers--Germany--Berlin--Biography.

Jews--Germany--Berlin--Biography.

Jews.

Genre:

Biographies.

Biography.

Physical Description:

237 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, [2010]

Language Note:

Translated from the Hebrew.

Summary:

From the publisher. 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 while formulating the philosophical foundations of a modern Judaism suited for a new age. His most influential books included the groundbreaking Jerusalem and a translation of the Bible into German that paved the way for generations of Jews to master the language of the larger culture. Feiner's book is the first that offers a full, human portrait of this fascinating man--uncommonly modest, acutely aware of his task as an intellectual pioneer, shrewd, traditionally Jewish, yet thoroughly conversant with the world around him--providing a vivid sense of Mendelssohn's daily life as well as of his philosophical endeavors. Feiner, a leading scholar of Jewish intellectual history, examines Mendelssohn as father and husband, as a friend (Mendelssohn's long-standing friendship with the German dramatist Gotthold Ephraim Lessing was seen as a model for Jews and non-Jews worldwide), as a tireless advocate for his people, and as an equally indefatigable spokesman for the paramount importance of intellectual independence.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

National Jewish Book Awards - Jewish Book of the Year, Winner, 2014 (for Jewish Lives series)

תרגום של: משה מנדלסון.

ISBN:

9780300161755

0300161751

OCLC:

601348145

Publisher Number:

99940102722