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Moses Mendelssohn

Moses Mendelssohn
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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. Born to a poor Jewish family in Dessau, Principality of…

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  1. Étienne-Louis BoulléeFebruary 12, 1728 – February 4, 1799
  2. Mercy Otis WarrenSeptember 14, 1728 – October 19, 1814
  3. Anders ChydeniusFebruary 26, 1729 – February 1, 1803
  4. Edmund BurkeJanuary 12, 1729 – July 9, 1797
  5. Gotthold Ephraim LessingJanuary 22, 1729 – February 15, 1781
  6. Moses Mendelssohn (this page)September 6, 1729 – January 4, 1786

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