Between Judaism and German Enlightenment: Recent Work on Moses Mendelssohn in English

Moses Mendelssohn (1729-1786) is generally recognized as the first German-Jewish philosopher. The past forty years have witnessed the appearance of five major book-length interpretations of Moses Mendelssohn in English: Michael Meyer’s The Origins of the Modern Jew: Jewish Identity and European Cult...

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Главный автор: Gottlieb, Michah (Автор)
Формат: Электронный ресурс Статья
Язык:Английский
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Опубликовано: Wiley-Blackwell 2010
В: Religion compass
Год: 2010, Том: 4, Выпуск: 1, Страницы: 22-38
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Итог:Moses Mendelssohn (1729-1786) is generally recognized as the first German-Jewish philosopher. The past forty years have witnessed the appearance of five major book-length interpretations of Moses Mendelssohn in English: Michael Meyer’s The Origins of the Modern Jew: Jewish Identity and European Culture in Germany 1749-1824 (1967); Alexander Altmann’s Moses Mendelssohn: A Biographical Study (1973); Allan Arkush’s Mendelssohn and the Enlightenment (1994); David Sorkin’s Moses Mendelssohn and the Religious Enlightenment (1996) and Edward Breuer’s The Limits of Enlightenment: Jews, Germans, and the Eighteenth-Century Study of Scripture (1996). These works have generally been guided by a single interpretive question namely whether or not Mendelssohn was able to harmonize his commitment to Judaism with his commitment to Enlightenment. I review these five interpretations of Mendelssohn.
ISSN:1749-8171
Второстепенные работы:Enthalten in: Religion compass
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-8171.2009.00185.x