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Moses Mendelsohn, 1729-1786. Eighteenth-century German Jewish philosopher. He was most active in the philosophy of religion, having been a Talmudic scholar before entering mainstream philosophy.

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• Jewish Virtual Library: Moses Mendelssohn

  http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/Mendelssohn.html
  Essay by Shira Shoenberg, emphasizing this German thinker's role in Jewish history.

• Judaism as Revealed Legislation

  http://www.ucalgary.ca/~elsegal/363_Transp/MendeslssohnJerusalem.html
  A brief excerpt from Mendelssohn's classic Jerusalem, a philosophical defense of the Jewish faith.

• Moses Mendelssohn

  http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/mendelssohn/
  Scholarly study of this 18th-century scholar by Daniel Dahlstrom. From the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

• Moses Mendelssohn and the Bach Tradition

  http://www.schillerinstitute.org/fid_97-01/992_mend_spm.html
  Article from 1999 by Steven P. Meyer. Discusses at some length Mendelssohn's thought and his role in preserving the Bach musical legacy.

• Moses, the Son of Mendel

  http://www.jbuff.com/c020801.htm
  Gerhard Falk's commentary on this Jewish Enlightenment thinker and his status in Judaic history.

• Wikipedia: Moses Mendelssohn

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses_Mendelssohn
  Article from this openly-edited online encyclopedia.

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