Moses Mendelssohn im Urteil seiner Zeitgenossen

Berwin, Beate. Moses Mendelssohn im Urteil seiner Zeitgenossen. Berlin: Reuther & Reichard, 1919. First edition. Quarto. [4], 92pp. Uncut and unopened copy. Original printed wrappers. Remarkable work on Moses Mendelssohn as viewed by his contemporaries. Moses Mendelssohn was an 18th-century German Jewish philosopher to whose ideas the Haskalah (the ‘Jewish enlightenment’ of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries) is indebted. Although himself a practicing orthodox Jew, he has been referred to as the father of Reform Judaism. Wrappers sunned and partly chipped along edges. Minor age-toning along paper margin. Text in German. Wrappers in overall fair, interior in good+ condition. g. Softcover. (33950) $45