LEADER 03514nam 2200637 a 450 001 9910812986203321 005 20240418005305.0 010 $a0-300-16752-0 024 7 $a10.12987/9780300167528 035 $a(CKB)2550000000104961 035 $a(EBL)3420904 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000703791 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11426573 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000703791 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10691600 035 $a(PQKB)11464338 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3420904 035 $a(DE-B1597)486122 035 $a(OCoLC)1059259803 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780300167528 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3420904 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10579303 035 $a(OCoLC)923599050 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000104961 100 $a20100517d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aMoses Mendelssohn $esage of modernity /$fShmuel Feiner ; translated from the Hebrew by Anthony Berris 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aNew Haven [Conn.] $cYale University Press$dc2010 215 $a1 online resource (224 p.) 225 1 $aJewish lives 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-300-16175-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aA stroll down Unter den Linden -- From Dessau to Berlin: an unpredicted career -- Cultural conversion: the three formative years -- War and peace, love and family, fame and frustration -- Affront and sickness: the Lavater Affair -- Dreams, nightmares, and struggles for religious tolerance -- Jerusalem: the road to civic happiness -- Specters: the last two years. 330 $aThe "German Socrates," Moses Mendelssohn (1729-1786) was the most influential Jewish thinker of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. A Berlin celebrity and a major figure in the Enlightenment, revered by Immanuel Kant, Mendelssohn suffered the indignities common to Jews of his time while formulating the philosophical foundations of a modern Judaism suited for a new age. His most influential books included the groundbreaking Jerusalem and a translation of the Bible into German that paved the way for generations of Jews to master the language of the larger culture.Feiner's book is the first that offers a full, human portrait of this fascinating man-uncommonly modest, acutely aware of his task as an intellectual pioneer, shrewd, traditionally Jewish, yet thoroughly conversant with the world around him-providing a vivid sense of Mendelssohn's daily life as well as of his philosophical endeavors. Feiner, a leading scholar of Jewish intellectual history, examines Mendelssohn as father and husband, as a friend (Mendelssohn's long-standing friendship with the German dramatist Gotthold Ephraim Lessing was seen as a model for Jews and non-Jews worldwide), as a tireless advocate for his people, and as an equally indefatigable spokesman for the paramount importance of intellectual independence. 410 0$aJewish lives (New Haven, Conn.) 606 $aPhilosophers$zGermany$zBerlin$vBiography 606 $aJews$zGermany$zBerlin$vBiography 615 0$aPhilosophers 615 0$aJews 676 $a193 676 $aB 700 $aFeiner$b Shmuel$01618603 701 $aBerris$b Anthony$01620683 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910812986203321 996 $aMoses Mendelssohn$94018599 997 $aUNINA