Moses Mendelssohn: Sage of Modernity

by Shmuel Feiner

From the prizewinning Jewish Lives series, an accessible and fascinating biography of the seminal Jewish philosopher

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300161751
• ISBN13: 9780300161755
• Release Date: November 2010
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 8.5"