Biography of Moshe Mendelssohn- Out of the ghetto
Ha'aretz reports about a new Moshe Mendelssohn biography. Mendelssohn was a german-jewish philosophers and the first (jewish) person who translated the Chumash into the german language (in the printed book, the german text is written in Rashi-script):
The Zalman Shazar Center for Jewish History in Jerusalem has launched a new series on great Jewish writers and thinkers, edited by Prof. Aviezer Ravitzky. The first volume is devoted to Moses Mendelssohn, who spearheaded the German Enlightenment movement in the 18th century together with Gotthold Ephraim Lessing. No Jewish personality in modern times has commanded the kind of respect that Mendelssohn enjoyed in the intellectual circles of his day - although under the discriminatory policies of King Frederick II, he was merely a "tolerated Jew," with no rights to speak of.
At the age of 14, Mendelssohn left his poor family in Dessau in eastern Prussia to study at the yeshiva of Rabbi David Fraenkel in Berlin. But instead of going the normal route and becoming a Torah scholar, he ended up as one of the leading philosophers of the German Enlightenment and a revered figure in the German Jewish community in the 18th and 19th centuries. His meteoric rise was extraordinary in those days. ...
Haaretz - Out of the ghetto
The Zalman Shazar Center for Jewish History in Jerusalem has launched a new series on great Jewish writers and thinkers, edited by Prof. Aviezer Ravitzky. The first volume is devoted to Moses Mendelssohn, who spearheaded the German Enlightenment movement in the 18th century together with Gotthold Ephraim Lessing. No Jewish personality in modern times has commanded the kind of respect that Mendelssohn enjoyed in the intellectual circles of his day - although under the discriminatory policies of King Frederick II, he was merely a "tolerated Jew," with no rights to speak of.
At the age of 14, Mendelssohn left his poor family in Dessau in eastern Prussia to study at the yeshiva of Rabbi David Fraenkel in Berlin. But instead of going the normal route and becoming a Torah scholar, he ended up as one of the leading philosophers of the German Enlightenment and a revered figure in the German Jewish community in the 18th and 19th centuries. His meteoric rise was extraordinary in those days. ...
Haaretz - Out of the ghetto
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