Moses Mendelssohn sage of modernity /

Feiner, Shmuel.

Moses Mendelssohn sage of modernity / [electronic resource] : Shmuel Feiner ; translated from the Hebrew by Anthony Berris. - New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, c2010. - 237 p. : ill. - Jewish lives . - Jewish lives (New Haven, Conn.) .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

A 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.


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

9780300167528 (electronic bk.)




Mendelssohn, Moses, 1729-1786.


Philosophers--Germany--Berlin--Biography.
Jews--Germany--Berlin--Biography.


Electronic books.

B2693 / .F4513 2010

193 B