Moses Mendelssohn

Moses Mendelssohn () adalah seorang filsuf Yahudi Jerman yang membuat gagasan Haskalah, 'pencerahan Yahudi' pada abad kedelapan belas dan kesmebilan belas. Lahir dari sebuah keluarga Yahudi miskin di Dessau, Kepangeranan Anhalt, dan awalnya ingin menjadi rabi, Mendelssohn mempelajari sendiri pemikiran dan sastra Jerman dan dari tulisan-tulisannya tentang filsafat dan agama yang dianggap sebagai figur budaya utama pada masanya oleh para penduduk Kristen dan Yahudi di wilayah Eropa pemakai bahasa Jerman dan lainnya. Ia juga menjadikan dirinya sendiri sebagai figur penting dalam industri tekstil Berlin, yang merupakan fondasi dari kekayaan keluarganya.

Para keturunannya meliputi komponis Fanny dan Felix Mendelssohn; putra Felix, kimiawan Paul Mendelssohn Bartholdy; cucu-cucu Fanny, Paul dan Kurt Hensel; dan para pendiri wangsa perbankan Mendelssohn & Co..

Lihat pula 
 Biuris
 Fridolin Friedmann
 Sara Grotthuis

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Attribusi

Sumber 
 Altmann, Alexander. Moses Mendelssohn: A Biographical Study, 1973. .
  Bloch, Marcus, Medicinische Bemerkungen. Nebst einer Abhandlung vom Pyrmonter-Augenbrunnen. Berlin 1774
 Brand, Aron, The Illness of Moses Mendelssohn, "Koroth" 6, 421-426, 1974
 Dahlstrom, Daniel, Moses Mendelssohn, The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2008 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.)
  Kayserling, Meyer Moses Mendelssohn, sein Leben und seine Werke. Nebst einem Anhange ungedruckter Briefe. Leipzig, 1862.
  Lavater, J. K., Sammlung derer Briefe, welche bey Gelegenheit der Bonnetschen philosophischen Untersuchung der Beweise für das Christenthum zwischen Hrn. Lavater, Moses Mendelssohn, und Hrn Dr. Kölbele gewechselt worden [Collection of those letters which have passed between Mr. Lavater, Moses Mendelssohn, and Mr. Dr. Kölbele on occasion of Bonnet's investigation concerning the evidence of Christianity], Frankfurt am Main 1774 (Google Books).
 Mendelssohn, Moses, tr. A. Arkush, intr. A. Altmann: Jerusalem, or, on religious power and Judaism, 1983. .
 Mendelssohn, Moses, tr., intr., comm. B. Rosenstock: Last Works, 2012. Includes Morning Hours: Lectures on the Existence of God (Morgenstunden, 1785) and To the Friends of Lessing (An die Freunde Lessings, 1786). .
 Arnaldo Momigliano, On Pagans, Jews, and Christians, Weslyan University Press, 1987 
  Schoeps, Julius H. Das Erbe der Mendelssohhns, Frankfurt 2009. 
  Tree, Stephen. Moses Mendelssohn. Rowohlt Verlag, Reinbek, 2007. .

Pranala luar 

 Works by and about Moses Mendelssohn in University Library JCS Frankfurt am Main: Digital Collections Judaica
 
 Moses Mendelssohn's books at Google Books
 Translation of Moses Mendelssohn's Sache Gottes, The Case for God, a work unpublished in his lifetime dealing with questions related to theodicy, including Mendelssohn's denial of the doctrine of eternal punishment
 Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry
 Ohr Le-Netivah (introduction to the 'Biur') on HebrewBooks.org
 Contains Mendelssohn's Jerusalem, slightly modified for easier reading
 Moses Mendelssohn In Our Time (BBC Radio 4) stream (original broadcast 22 March 2012) discussion with Christopher Clark (University of Cambridge), Abigail Green (University of Oxford), Adam Sutcliffe (King's College London), hosted by Melvyn Bragg, and including a list of further readings.
 Video Lecture on Moses Mendelssohn by Dr. Henry Abramson
 Guide to the Material on Moses Mendelssohn Collection at the Leo Baeck Institute, New York.
 

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