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Moses Mendelssohn
* 1729 Dessau/Germany
+ 1786 Berlin
Moses Mendelssohn was a German-Jewish philosopher and theologian.
His writings and ideas on Jews and the Jewish religion and
identity
were a central element in the development of the Haskalah,
or 'Jewish Enlightenment' of the eighteenth and nineteenth
centuries.
2024 J. Giesen