Fedon, oder uber die Unsterblichkeit der Seele, von Moses Mendelsohn sefer pedon khakira nifla'a al has'arat haNefesh (Phaedon) [=Phaedo or On the Immortality of Souls]

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In German. Frontispiece, (10), 224 pages. 168 x 104 mm. Fourth enlarged and improved edition. 3/4 leather. All edges dyed red. Additional scans available. Old inscriptions on front and back blanks. Some soiling to the pages. This work is modeled on Plato's dialog of the same name. Mendelssohn's work possesses some of the charm of the Greek work and it impressed German readers with its beauty and lucidity. Phaedon was an immediate success, became one of the most widely read German language book of its time, and was quickly translated into several other European languages, including English. The author was hailed as the "German Plato", or the "German Socrates." Royalty and aristocrats showered attention on Mendelsohn, and it was said that no stranger who came to Berlin failed to pay his personal respects to the German Socrates. Moses Mendelssohn was a German-Jewish philosopher, who made great contribution to the ideas the Haskalah, the 'Jewish Enlightenment' of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. He was born to a poor Jewish family and was originally destined for a rabbinical career. He studied philosophy and literature on his own and for his own writings on philosophy and religion he was viewed by both Christians and Jews in German-speaking Europe, and beyond, as a leading cultural figure. He also established himself as an important figure in the Berlin textile industry, which formed the foundation of his family's wealth. His descendants include the composers Fanny and Felix Mendelssohn; Felix's son, chemist Paul Mendelssohn Bartholdy; Fanny's grandsons, Paul and Kurt Hensel; and the founders of the Mendelssohn & Co. banking house. Title page has the rubber stamp impression of Max Freudenthal (12 June 1868 Neuhaus an der Saale, Unterfranken (Lower Franconia) - 11 July 1937 München), a German Reform rabbi and historian, with a focus on the Jews of Bavaria. Freudenthal served as rabbi in Dessau and state rabbi of Anthalt, 1893-1900, Danzig, 1900-1907, and Nuremberg, 1907-1935. When he retired from the rabbinate he remained in Nurnberg, where he died. He was one of the most vocal exponent of religious liberalism in Germany. His contributions to Jewish scholarship covered philosophy (e.g. Die Erkenntnislehre Philos von Alexandrien (1891) and history (e.g. Ausder Heimat Moses Mendelssohns (1900); Die Familie Gomperz (in collaboration with D. Kaufmann, 1907); Die israelitische Kultusgemeinde Nuernberg, 1874-1924 (1925), which includes his autobiography; and Leipziger Messegaeste (1928)). Freudenthal contributed a wealth of basic material to the study of modern Jewish history in Germany. He wrote for various learned publications, and was coeditor of the Zeitschrift fuer die Geschichte der Juden in Deutschland. He was the son of Benjamin Freudenthal and Johanna nee Wildberg. The father was a teacher at the Grünstadt Latin School, which Max Freudenthal attended. From there he went to the Gymnasium Worms, where he received his Abitur in 1886. He graduated from the Jewish Theological Seminary and studied history and philosophy at the University of Breslau. In 1891 Freudenthal received his doctorate with a thesis on Philo of Alexandria. He was a moderate reformer, carried out innovations primarily in religious instruction and in the preparation of prayer books, was active within the Bne-Briss-Lodge and founded the Jakob-Herz-Lodge in memory of the popular Bavarian-Jewish physician and Professor Jakob Herz in Nuremberg. He was chairman of the Bavarian. . . Mendelssohn, Kind eines armen jüdischen Gemeindeschreibers, gelang unter schwierigen materiellen Bedingungen, zu einem der führenden Vertreter der deutschen Spätaufklärung, einer der überragenden Gestalten des zeitgenössischen Judentums und einem höchst erfolgreichen Kaufmann aufzusteigen. Mendelssohns Leben ist ein staunenswertes Beispiel eines sozialen Aufstiegs durch Talent, intensive Arbeit, Selbstanstrengung und Willen. N° de ref. del artículo 015922

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