MENDELSSOHN, MOSES

1729–86, German-Jewish philosopher; grandfather of Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn. He was a leader in the movement for cultural assimilation. In 1743 he went to Berlin, where he studied and worked, becoming (1750) a partner in a silk merchant's firm. In 1754 he met Lessing, and a life-long friendship began, out of which grew Lessing's play Nathan the Wise (1779). Mendelssohn's philosophy anticipated the aesthetics of Kant and Friedrich Schiller. His writings include Philosophische Gespräche (1755), Philosophische Schriften (1761), Phädon (1767), and Jerusalem; oder, Über religiöse Macht und Judentum (1783). He also translated the Psalms and the Pentateuch into German.

See biography by A. Altman (1973).

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Moses Mendelssohn and the Enlightenment
Book by Allan Arkush; State University of New York Press, 1994
Subjects: Enlightenment, Haskalah, Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm--Freiherr Von--1646-1716--Influence, Mendelssohn, Moses--1729-1786, Philosophy, Jewish, Wolff, Christian--Freiherr Von--1679-1754--Influence
Moses Mendelssohn and the Enlightenment SUNY Series...Goldenberg, and Elliot Wolfson, Editors Moses Mendelssohn and the Enlightenment Allan Arkush...Cataloging-in-Publication Data Arkush, Allan, 1949- Moses Mendelssohn and the Enlightenment / Allan...
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The Mendelssohns on Honeymoon: The 1837 Diary of Felix and Cecile Mendelssohn Bartholdy Together with Letters to Their Families
Book by Peter Jones Ward, Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy; Oxford University, 1997
Subjects: Composers--Germany--Diaries, Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Cecile--1817-1853--Correspondence, Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Cecile--1817-1853--Diaries, Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix--1809-1847--Correspondence, Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix--1809-1847--Diaries
THE MENDELSSOHNS ON HONEYMOON The Mendelssohns on Honeymoon The 1837 Diary of Felix and Cecile Mendelssohn Bartholdy Together with Letters to their Families EDITED AND TRANSLATED BY Peter Ward Jones CLARENDON PRESS OXFORD 1997...
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Mendelssohn: A Life in Music
Book by R. Larry Todd; Oxford University Press, 2003
Subjects: Composers--Germany--Biography, Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix--1809-1847
...Lavater and Lessing Visit Moses Mendelssohn, 1856. The Collection of...figurine, from the estate of Moses Mendelssohn. Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin...Judaism of his grandfather, Moses Mendelssohn. There is another issue in...
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Felix Mendelssohn and His Times
Book by Heinrich Eduard Jacob, Richard Winston, Clara Winston; Prentice-Hall, 1963
Subjects: Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix--1809-1847
...Grandfather Moses Mendelssohn 15...Facing page 17 Moses Mendelssohn, Felix Mendelssohns grandfather...makes men worth our reverence," Moses Mendelssohn, his wonderful grandfather...
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The World of Moses Maimonides: With Selections from His Writings
Book by Jacob S. Minkin; Thomas Yoseloff, 1957
Subjects: Maimonides, Moses--1135-1204
...latter translated into Hebrew with a commentary by Moses Mendelssohn 1729- 1786 . When, laden with years and weary of...discredit his lifework." 5 The five years 1160-1165 Moses Maimonides spent in Fez were years of comparative peace...
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Mendelssohn's Religious Perspective of Non-Jews
Journal article by Zvi Jonathan Kaplan; Journal of Ecumenical Studies, Vol. 41, 2004
Subjects: Jewish leadership--Research, Jewish priests--Research, Mendelssohn, Moses--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Mendelssohn, Moses--Research
...Bildung) and self-improvement. Moses Mendelssohn (1729-86, dubbed "the first...Translation in Alexander Altmann, Moses Mendelssohn: A Biographical Study (University...4) Eva Jospe, ed. and tr., Moses Mendelssohn: Selections from His Writings...
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Moses Mendelssohn Und Das Projekt Der Aufklärung
Journal article by Willi Goetschel; Germanic Review, Vol. 71, 1996
Subjects: Germanic Philology
Moses Mendelssohn und das Projekt der Aufklarung WILLI+ GOETSCHEL...Bd.2 (Wien: Passagen, 1994) 25. Vgl. auch ders., "Moses Mendelssohns geschichtliche Bedeutung", Moses Mendelssohn 1729-1979. Reden der Wolfenbutteler Gedenkfeier...
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Primary Sources: Creative Writing. the [self-] Identification of Mendelssohn as Jew
Journal article by Jeffrey S. Sposato; Musical Quarterly, Vol. 82, 1998
Subjects: Music
...philosopher and Jewish reformer Moses Mendelssohn, "a Christian Mendelssohn...to his father) he sees Moses Mendelssohn as a "well-known philosopher...supposed growth process is Mendelssohns composition of a Moses libretto for his friend...
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Notes from the Editor: Mendelssohn and the Jews
Journal article by Leon Botstein; Musical Quarterly, Vol. 82, 1998
Subjects: Music
...habitually add the word Jewish to Moses Mendelssohns status as a thinker. In 1840...which is no longer the case. Moses Mendelssohns posthumous fame as philosopher...and lifelong admiration for Moses Mendelssohns work was nontrivial. On the...
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Mendelssohn, Paulus, and the Jews: A Response to Leon Botstein and Michael Steinberg
Journal article by Jeffrey S. Sposato; Musical Quarterly, Vol. 83, 1999
Subjects: Music
...sin and of death . 26 That Mendelssohn himself found and included...death" (i.e., the law of Moses) represents perhaps his most...and the libretto drafts of Moses, Elias, and Christus in...mention having a copy of Mendelssohns outline, his libretto draft...
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Some Jewish Reflections on Locke's Letter concerning Toleration
Magazine article by Jonathan Cohen; Cross Currents, Vol. 56, Spring 2006
Subjects: Civilization, Western--Analysis, Civilization, Western--Religious aspects, John Locke's a Letter Concerning Toleration (Letter)--Criticism and interpretation, Locke, John--Criticism and interpretation, Locke, John--Religious aspects, Locke, John--Works, Religious tolerance--Analysis, Religious tolerance--Portrayals, Western culture--Analysis, Western culture--Religious aspects
...significant Jewish reader of Locke, Moses Mendelssohn. Mendelssohn, in his Jerusalem...allow space for that holism: Moses Mendelssohn. II Mendelssohn was the giant...Haven: Yale), 1997, 67. 15. Mendelssohn, Moses, Jerusalem, trans. Alfred Jospe...
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The Evolution of Secular Judaism
Magazine article by Seth Kulick; The Humanist, Vol. 53, March 1993
Subjects: Catechisms, Jewish theology, Judaism--Doctrines, Secular theology--Analysis, Secularization (Theology)--Analysis
...solution. German Jewish philosopher Moses Mendelssohn is generally considered to be...various degrees, for assimilation. Mendelssohn, despite his own deep affection...movements. For example, in 1862, Moses Hess, a German Jewish socialist...
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Directory of New Music and Instructional Materials
Magazine article; American Music Teacher, Vol. 52, August 2002
Subjects: Music industry--Directories, Music teachers--Equipment and supplies, Music--Equipment and supplies
...to Music: Composers Series (Vol. 7: Mendelssohn) for Piano, by Susan Cheung. The best of Mendelssohn comprises this collection, including...violin. Intermediate. $31.95. Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy--Sonata in B-flat Major for...
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Overlapping Opposites
Magazine article by Arnold Whittall; Musical Times, Vol. 142, Autumn 2001
Subjects: Composers, Musical criticism, Musicology, Schoenberg, Arnold
...derived from Bluma Goldsteins recent study of Moses and Aron, which argues that Schoenberg...over the Israelites at the conclusion of Moses and Aron, and in the authoritarian organizational...critical discussion, like Bluma Goldsteins of Moses and Aron, is more concerned with, and more...
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What's in It for the Talent?
Magazine article by Aristides; American Scholar, Vol. 66, Winter 1997
Subjects: Genius--Analysis, Gifted persons--Analysis
...on either side of it. The so,n of Moses Mendelssohn (the philosopher), who was also the father of Felix Mendelssohn, is supposed, poor fellow, to have...young I was the son of the great Mendelssohn; now that I am older, I am the father...
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Prolific, Romantic, Backward-Looking Mendelssohn; Revisiting Eventful Life, Inspired Music of the Great Composer
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, March 14, 2004
Subjects: Bach, Johann Sebastian, Mendelssohn, Felix, Mendelssohn, Moses
...Todd begins with a prologue treating the family background of the composer. His banker father Abraham was a son of Moses Mendelssohn, the famous and respected philosopher, translator, and advocate of toleration of Jews in Prussian society. Felixs...
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Mendelssohn, the Lost Master; Universal Composer: Between 1831 and 1847, Mendelssohn Paid 10 Visits to Britain, Where He Was Beloved across All Social Classes
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), December 17, 2008
Subjects: Composers--Social aspects, Television broadcasting industry--Social aspects
...of great composers? Set aside, for the moment, the small matter of his Jewishness. A grandson of a philosopher, Moses Mendelssohn, who was the first Jew to be accepted as a German intellectual (he is lionised in Gotthold Ephraim Lessings play...
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Lloyd Webber Charity Fights to Sell [Pounds Sterling]33m Picasso 'Looted by the Nazis'; Ownership Dispute: Andrew Lloyd Webber's Charity Is Fighting a High Court Case over Picasso's Absinthe Drinker
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), November 30, 2007
Subjects: Charities
...Professor Schoeps, the director of the Moses Mendelssohn Centre forEuropean Jewish Studies at...been sold at least four times since Mr Mendelssohn-Barthodys death in1935. He said Mr Mendelssohn-Barthody did not mention the painting...
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Ever a Berlin Presence; Jewish Sites Testify to Holocaust and Survival
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, September 21, 2002
...know it learn that the Enlightenment philosopher Moses Mendelssohn, grandfather of the composer Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy...where azaleas and chestnuts grow and the tombstone of Moses Mendelssohn stands alone in what once was the oldest Jewish cemetery...
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Today's Best Bets
Newspaper article by Derek Simmonsen; The Washington Times, March 31, 2001
...nature and the American work ethic, are on display in "Grandma Moses in the 21st Century," a retrospective that explores her artistic...cant transport the listener to another time and place, Felix Mendelssohn would like a few words with you. His "Hebridges Overture...
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Mendelssohn, Moses
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
MENDELSSOHN, MOSES , 1729 86, German-Jewish philosopher; grandfather of Felix Mendelssohn . He was a leader in the movement for...Lessings play Nathan the Wise (1779). Mendelssohns philosophy anticipated the aesthetics...
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Mendelssohn, Felix
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Ger. ya kop loot vikh fa liks men d ls-zon , 1809 47, German composer; grandson of the Jewish philosopher Moses Mendelssohn . Mendelssohn was one of the major figures in 19th-century music. His father, Abraham, upon conversion to Christianity...
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Veit, Philipp
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
VEIT, PHILIPP fe lip fit, 1793 1877, German historical painter; grandson of Moses Mendelssohn. In Rome he joined the Nazarenes and was one of the most interesting members of the group. With them he assisted in the fresco...
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Haskalah
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...in Europe active from the 1770s to the 1880s. Beginning in Germany in the circle of the German Jewish philosopher Moses Mendelssohn and spreading to Galicia and Russia, the Haskalah called for increased secularization of Jewish life through secular...
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Judaism
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...untraditional figures of Baal-Shem-Tov , the founder of Hasidism (which Elijah himself fought against), and Moses Mendelssohn , the spiritual progenitor of later reformers whom Elijahs spiritual descendants repeatedly condemned. The Reform...
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