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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: III. MOSES MENDELSOHN AND JEWISH REFORM. Moses Mendelsohn, when spoken of in connexion with the reformed Jews, must be considered in his character of Reformer. As a literary man, his name is well known. He was one of those remarkable persons whose intellectual energy enables them to attain to eminence in spite of poverty, unfavourable circumstances, and infirm bodily constitution. Educated a Rabbinical Jew, he had to overcome his own prejudices and those of Christians. But he gradually triumphed over all difficulties, and was at last acknowledged both by Jews and Christians to be, in some respects, one of the first of his contemporaries. The Jews may, therefore, apply to him the words in which they eulogize Moses Maimonides, that from Moses to Moses there arose not like unto Moses. But Mendelsohn is to be considered not only as a genius, but as a Reformer. His brilliant career could not beuninfluential on his brethren. He shewed them that there was other knowledge besides that of the Talmud well worthy of their acquisition, and that a Jew, notwithstanding all the unjust prejudices against the nation, could attain and maintain high literary fame in the Christian learned world. The fact that his most celebrated works were written in German, and in such German as to call forth the admiration and applause of Lessing, and other celebrated German writers of the day, naturally turned the attention of his brethren to that language. Before his time, German was regarded by the Jews as a Gentile, and therefore a profane, language. Hebrew was the language of the learned, and Jewish the vernacular dialect of the great majority. Mendelsohn's translation of the Pentateuch and the Psalms, though printed in Jewish characters, introduced a purer dialect, and accustomed the youth to the dic...


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  • ISBN-13: 9780217793520
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 34
  • Spine Width: 2 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217793525
  • Publisher Date: 07 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 82 gr


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