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Moses
Mendelssohn
A Biographical Study
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'Monumental
. . . a major achievement of scholarship.' Jacob Katz, Commentary
'This monumental work is now required reading for everyone interested
in Jewish intellectual history and in the spiritual, cultural, and religious
development of the Jewish people in modern times.'
Moshe Pelli, Jewish Quarterly Review
'The definitive biography of Mendelssohn.'
Salo W. Baron, Jerusalem Post Magazine
Alexander Altmann (1906-87) was born in Hungary and educated at the Rabbinical Seminary, Berlin, and at the University of Berlin. In 1938 he left Germany for Manchester, England, where he was appointed communal rabbi. While in Manchester he founded the Institute of Jewish Studies that later moved to University College, London. In 1959 he was appointed Professor of Jewish Philosophy at Brandeis University, Massachusetts, and Director of its Lown Institute of Advanced Judaic Studies.
A Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, his numerous publications in English, Hebrew, and German range over such diverse fields as classical rabbinic literature, medieval Judaeo-Arabic philosophy, Jewish mysticism, eighteenth-century Enlightenment, and modern Jewish thought. Among his significant contributions to the history of Jewish thought are Saadya Gaon: The Book of Doctrines and Beliefs (1946), Studies in Religions, Philosophy and Mysticism (1969), and Studies in Jewish Intellectual History (1981).
In later years, much of Professio Altmann's scholarly work focused on Moses Mendelssohn and the period of the German Enlightenment, and he took over the editorship of Mendelssohn's Gesammelte Schriften (collected works). In 1979, the 250th anniversary of Mendelssohn's birth, he delivered the key lecture in Berlin on 'Enlightenment and Culture' at the ceremony marking the city's celebration of Mendelssohn's life.
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| Format | 23.5 x 15.5 cm / 6” x 9” |
| Pages | 924 pages, 16 illustrations |
| ISBN | 978-1-874774-53-2 |
| Price | £22.95 /$29.95 |
| Date of publication | 1998 |
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© The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2008