Between Judaism and German Enlightenment
Recent Work on Moses Mendelssohn in English
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4299630 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michah Gottlieb (New York University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 4 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 22-38 |
| Publication date | 2010-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Religion Compass (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1749-8171 • E-ISSN: 1749-8171 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1749-8171.2009.00185.x |
| OpenAlex | W2067759096 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 25 |
Moses Mendelssohn (1729-1786) is generally recognized as the first German-Jewish philosopher. The past forty years have witnessed the appearance of five major book-length interpretations of Moses Mendelssohn in English: Michael Meyer's The Origins of the Modern Jew: Jewish Identity and European Culture in Germany 1749-1824 (1967); Alexander Altmann's Moses Mendelssohn: A Biographical Study (1973); Allan Arkush's Mendelssohn and the Enlightenment (1994); David Sorkin's Moses Mendelssohn and the Religious Enlightenment (1996) and Edward Breuer's The Limits of Enlightenment: Jews, Germans, and the Eighteenth-Century Study of Scripture (1996). These works have generally been guided by a single interpretive question namely whether or not Mendelssohn was able to harmonize his commitment to Judaism with his commitment to Enlightenment. I review these five interpretations of Mendelssohn
Art · Enlightenment · German · Haskalah · Jewish literature · Jewish studies · Judaism · Literature · Theology · Biblical Studies and Interpretation · Classics · Medieval and Classical Philosophy · Philosophy · Religion, Theology, History, Judaism, Christianity · Religious studies
A social and religious history of the Jews.
Antonio’s Devils
The Religious Enlightenment
The Origins of the Modern Jew
Moses Mendelssohn and the Enlightenment
The God of Religion, the God of Metaphysics and Wittgenstein's "Language-Games"
The Radical Enlightenment of Solomon Maimon
The Fate of Reason
Diotima's Children
Moses Mendelssohn
Mendelssohn's Metaphysical Defense of Religious Pluralism
Reluctant Modernism
The Limits of Enlightenment
"Rabbinic Law and Spirituality in Mendelssohn's "Jerusalem
The Mendelssohn Myth and Its Method
The Questionable Judaism of Moses Mendelssohn
Between the Yeshiva World and Modern Orthodoxy
Language, Counter-Memory, Practice
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,21 |
| Citation span | 2012 - 2025 (14) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |