Mendelssohn, Moses
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Jewish Virtual Library: Moses Mendelssohn
http://www.us-israel.org/jsource/biography/Mendelssohn.html
Essay by Shira Shoenberg, emphasizing this German thinker's role in Jewish history.
Biography.com: Mendelssohn, Moses
http://search.biography.com/print_record.pl?id=9848
Short paragraph describing his career.
Moses Mendelssohn and the Bach Tradition
http://www.schillerinstitute.org/fid_97-01/992_mend_spm.html
Article from 1999 by Steven P. Meyer. Discusses at some length Mendelssohn's thought and his role in preserving the Bach musical legacy.
Moses Mendelssohn
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/mendelssohn/
Scholarly study of this 18th-century scholar by Daniel Dahlstrom. From the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
Judaism as Revealed Legislation
http://www.ucalgary.ca/~elsegal/363_Transp/MendeslssohnJerusalem.html
A brief excerpt from Mendelssohn's classic Jerusalem, a philosophical defense of the Jewish faith.
Wikipedia: Moses Mendelssohn
http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses_Mendelssohn
Article from this openly-edited online encyclopedia.
Moses Mendelssohn: The First English Biography
http://www.thoemmes.com/theology/moses_intro.htm
Introduction by James Schmidt to the Thoemmes Press reissue of Samuels' 1825 biography of this thinker.
FOLDOC: Mendelssohn Moses
http://www.swif.uniba.it/lei/foldop/foldoc.cgi?Mendelssohn+Moses
Relatively detailed entry from this philosophical database, with links to related topics.
Moses, the Son of Mendel
http://www.jbuff.com/c020801.htm
Gerhard Falk's commentary on this Jewish Enlightenment thinker and his status in Judaic history.