Moses Mendelssohn: Select Bibliography


Arkush, Allan. Moses Mendelssohn and the Enlightenment. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1994.

Bahr, Ehrhard. “Kant, Mendelssohn and the Problem of 'Enlightenment from Above'” Eighteenth-Century Life Volume 8, Issue 1(1982): 1-12.

Barzilay, Isaac Eisenstein. "Moses Mendelssohn (1729-1786)," Jewish Quarterly Review Volume 52-3 (1961/1962): 69-93, 175-186.

Engel, Eva. "The Emergence of Moses Mendelssohn as Literary Critic," Leo Baeck Institute Yearbook, Volume 24, Issue 1 (1979): 61-82.

Erlin, Matt. “Reluctant Modernism: Moses Mendelssohn's Philosophy of History” Journal of the History of Ideas Volume 63, Issue 1 (2002): 83-104 [Available online through JSTOR]

Hochman, Leah. “The Other as Oneself: Mendelssohn, Diogenes, Bayle, and Spinoza” Eighteenth Century Life Volume 28, Issue 2 (2004): 41-62 [Available online through EBSCOhost]

Hoor, George John ten. “Moses Mendelssohn's Relation to English Poetry”  Publications of the Modern Language Association of America Volume 46, Issue 4 (1931): 1137-65 [Available online through EBSCOhost]

Goetschel, Willi. “Lessing, Mendelssohn, Nathan: German-Jewish Myth-Building as an Act of Emancipation” Lessing Yearbook Volume 32, Issue 1 (2000): 341-60.

Goetschel, Willi. Spinoza's modernity: Mendelssohn, Lessing, and Heine. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2004.

Katz, Jacob. "The German-Jewish Utopia of Social Emancipation," Emancipation and Assimilation: Studies in Modern Jewish History. Katz, Jacob, ed. Westmead: Gregg, 1972, pp.91-110.

Kepnes, Steven. “Moses Mendelssohn's philosophy of Jewish liturgy: a post-liberal assessment” Modern Theology Volume 20, Issue 2 (2004): 185-212 [Available online through EBSCOhost]

Librett, Jeffrey S. The Rhetoric of Cultural Dialogue: Jews and Germans from Moses Mendelssohn to Richard Wagner and Beyond. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 2001.

Morgan, Michael L. Dilemmas in Modern Jewish Thought: The Dialectics of Revelation and History. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1992.

Moshe Pelli, The Age of Haskalah: Studies in Hebrew Literature of the Enlightenment in Germany, (Leiden: Brill, 1979).

Rotenstreich, Nathan. "Enlightenment between Mendelssohn and Kant," Studies in Jewish Religious and Intellectual History: Presented to Alexander Altmann On the Occassion of His Seventieth Birthday, Stein, Sigfried, Raphael, Loewe, eds. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1979, pp. 263-279.

Rotenstreich, Nathan. Jewish Philosophy in Modern Times: From Mendelssohn to Rosenzweig. New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1968.

Rudavsky, David. Emancipation and Adjustment: Contemporary Jewish Religious Movements, Their History and Thought. Bloomington: Diplomatic Press, 1967.

Schmidt, James. “The Question of Enlightenment: Kant, Mendelssohn, and the Mittwochsgesellschaft” Journal of the History of Ideas Volume 50, Issue 2 (1989): 269-91 [Available online through JSTOR]

Schmidt, James. “What Enlightenment was: how Moses Mendelssohn and Immanuel Kant answered the Berlinische Monatsschrift.” Journal of the History of Philosophy Volume 30, Issue 1 (1992): 77-101 [Available online through Project Muse]

Snyder, Alice D. “Coleridge's Reading of Mendelssohn's Morgenstunden and Jerusalem” Journal of English and Germanic Philology Volume 28, Issue 1 (1929): 503-17.

Sorkin, David. “The Case for Comparison : Moses Mendelssohn and the Religious Enlightenment” Modern Judaism Volume 14, Issue 2 (1994): 121-38 [Available online through JSTOR]

Stratton, Stephen S. Mendelssohn. London: J.M. Dent & Co, 1901 [Full text Available through GoogleBooks]

Tobias, Rochelle. “The Letter and the Law: German-Jewish Perspectives” Modern Language Notes Volume 122, Issue 3 (2007): 467-601 [Available online through Proquest]

Walter, Hermann. Moses Mendelssohn, critic and philosopher. New York: Arno Press, 1973.

Weber, Elisabeth. “Fending Off Idolatry: Ceremonial Law in Mendelssohn's Jerusalem” Modern Language Notes Volume 122, Issue 3 (2007): 522-43 [Available online through Proquest]

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