Moses Mendelssohn
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Moses Mendelssohn
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Moses Mendelssohn was a German-Jewish philosopher and theologian. His writings and ideas on Jews and the Jewish religion and identity were a central element in the development of the Haskalah, or 'Jewish Enlightenment' of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Born to a poor Jewish family in Dessau, Principality of Anhalt, and originally destined for a rabbinical career, Mendelssohn educated himself in German thought and literature. Through his writings on philosophy and religion he came to be
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German philosopher and theologian (1729–1786)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses_Mendelssohn
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2002-03-18T16:44:29Z
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2024-09-06T02:58:06Z
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