Podcasts about Moses Mendelssohn

Quand ma vie commence-t-elle ? Qu'est-ce qu'un début dans la vie ? Pourquoi cherchons-nous à vivre ou à revivre des premières fois ? Pourquoi s'épuiser à recommencer après avoir tant échoué ? Et puis, à l'échelle de notre monde abîmé, devons-nous espérer d'autres possibles, de nouveaux commencements ? La philosophe Claire Marin s'intéresse à nos débuts et elle est notre invitée. Son livre : « Les débuts. Par où recommencer ? » (Autrement/Le Livre de Poche). Quel fut le parcours de Moses Mendelssohn ? La vie et les idées de ce grand philosophe juif allemand du mouvement des Lumières. C'est dans notre Grand dictionnaire avec Jean-Philippe Schreiber, professeur à l'ULB et fondateur de l'Observatoire des Religions et de la Laïcité. Ce numéro vous avait déjà été proposé en avril 2023. Merci pour votre écoute Et Dieu dans tout ça ? c'est également en direct tous les dimanches de 13h à 14h sur www.rtbf.be/lapremiere Retrouvez tous les épisodes de Et Dieu dans tout ça ? sur notre plateforme Auvio.be : https://auvio.rtbf.be/emission/180 Et si vous avez apprécié ce podcast, n'hésitez pas à nous donner des étoiles ou des commentaires, cela nous aide à le faire connaître plus largement.

The “German Socrates,” Moses Mendelssohn (1729–1786) was the most influential Jewish thinker of the 18th and 19th centuries. A Berlin celebrity and a major figure in the Enlightenment, Mendelssohn suffered the indignities common to Jews of his time while formulating the philosophical foundations of a modern Judaism suited for a new age.Join us with Bar Ilan scholar Shmuel Feiner, author of Moses Mendelssohn: Sage of Modernity, as we explore Mendelssohn's tireless advocacy for his people and the importance of intellectual independence.

Plunge into the depths of thought with Dr. Jeremy Fogel, an enigmatic philosopher and poet who embodies the spirit of inquiry, in our latest episode, where a casual swim leads to profound insights on art of living through crisis and the poetry of existence. Tune in for an episode that's as incidentally raunchy as it is refreshing, intertwining the past with the present, and personal anecdotes with philosophical discourse – a spirited and profound meditation on the philosophy of life. Join us for a thought-provoking conversation that challenges us to think differently about the world around us and within us. Listen now and let your curiosity be your guide.Recorded on March 6 (Day 152). Dr. Jeremy Fogel teaches at Tel Aviv University's department of Jewish philosophy, as well as at its school of education. He is the academic director of Alma, teaches at the Kibbutzim College of Education, Technology and the Arts, and lectures publicly on philosophy in various forums. Jeremy holds a bachelor's degree in philosophy from the University of Cambridge and a master's degree and doctorate in philosophy from Tel Aviv University. His doctoral research explored the tension between universalism and particularism in modern Jewish philosophy, focusing on the Jewish-German philosophers Moses Mendelssohn and Hermann Cohen, and he continued exploring these issues as a post-doctoral fellow at Hamburg University. Jeremy is involved with several independent artistic and literary ventures. His first book, Tel Aviv is Water and Other Seasidian Thoughts, was published by Hava Lehaba in 2019. He is the co-creator and co-host of the "Think & Drink Different" podcast. His book Jewish Universalisms: Mendelssohn, Cohen, and Humanity's Highest Good was released by Brandeis University Press in December. Thanks for tuning in!

Moses Mendelssohn faced the intricate challenges of being a Jew in an enlightened European setting. Despite impactful contributions, his legacy includes challenges faced by his family and questions about the long-term impact of his ideas on Jewish identity. Join Schwab and Yael as they explore the complex story of Moses Mendelssohn, and delve into the intricacies of Jewish identity. This episode was hosted by Jonathan Schwab and Yael Steiner. Our education lead is Dr. Henry Abramson. Audio was edited by Rob Pera, and we're produced by Rivky Stern. For more on Moses Mendelssohn, and this episode: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1x3_mO1dbJc4DQf4sg6JZtyqfWkiU3nHNj8YNSszDhFc/edit#heading=h.j4qqg1vxy5x0

J.J. and Dr. Michah Gottlieb shed light on the origins of the Haskalah in Berlin, and examine Mendelssohn's role in it. Michah Gottlieb is Director of Graduate Studies and Associate Professor of Jewish Thought and Philosophy at NYU. An expert on the German Haskalah and its reverberations, he has authored several books and dozens of articles. His books include *Faith and: Moses Mendelssohn's Theological-Political Thought* (Oxford University Press, 2011) and most recently *The Jewish Reformation: Bible Translation and Middle Class German Judaism as Spiritual Enterprise* (Oxford 2021, paperback 2023), which won the Dorothy Rosenberg Prize from the American Historical Association. His current research project focuses on Maskilic Musar literature.

Dr. Ute Noeske gehört zum ZC Hannover und ist derzeit Governor des Zonta District 27. Ute fand schon immer und findet auch heute noch, dass man sich für das Gemeinwohl engagieren sollte, wie klein der Einfluss und die eigenen Möglichkeiten auch sind. Es ist für den Zusammenhalt einer Gesellschaft ungeheuer wichtig. Ute erzählt aus der Arbeit als Governor und der Zusammenarbeit mit der UN. Sie beschreibt, was sie unter dem Stichwort Advocacy versteht und diskutiert mit Susanne und Ute, wie wir den Zonta-Gedanken stärken und umsetzen können. Ute Noeske sagt dazu ganz klar: „Wer etwas bewegen will, muss Gesicht zeigen.“ Dazu passt auch ihr Lebensmotto: Nach Wahrheit suchen, Schönheit lieben, Gutes wollen, das Beste tun. (Moses Mendelssohn)

The controversial but complex legacy in an era that doesn't like complexities

Stay tuned for part 3, the final episode

Un día como hoy, 4 de enero: 1642, nace Isaac Newton. 1710, nace Giovanni Battista Pergolesi. 1785, nace Jacob Grimm. 1932, nace Carlos Saura. 1940, nace Gao Xingjian. 1786, fallece Moses Mendelssohn. 1834, fallece Mauro Gandolfi. 1920, fallece Benito Pérez Galdós. 1965, fallece T. S. Eliot. 1975, fallece Carlo Levi. conducido por Joel Almaguer Una producción de Sala Prisma Podcast. 2023.

Mendelssohn in his non-controversial "frum" phase. Not insular but very religious

Was ist vom Philosophen Moses Mendelssohn in Dessau geblieben? Die Spuren des bedeutenden Vertreters der Aufklärung verblassen langsam. Ein jährlicher Preis, der nach ihm benannt ist und in Dessau vergeben wird, soll sein geistiges Erbe sichern.Von Blanka Weberwww.deutschlandfunkkultur.de, Aus der jüdischen Welt mit ShabbatDirekter Link zur Audiodatei

Speciaal voor Rosh Hasjana wijken we een klein beetje af van het standaard-format van Mizrach. In Ets Haim spreken Aron Vrieler en Jos Hummelen prof. Irene Zwiep (UvA). Op deze bijzondere plaats filosoferen zij over Joodse (Europese) identiteit aan de hand van drie grote (mannelijke) Joodse denkers: Maimonides, Spinoza en Mendelssohn. Tuvit Shlomi doet vanuit Jeruzalem een duit in het zakje en wijst op pluraliteit, maar ook op Joodse identiteit van (ver) buiten (West) Europa, je hoort haar in de column. Verder lezen? Maimonides: Joel L. Kramer, Maimonides. The Life and world of one of civilization's greatest minds (2010) Spinoza: Steven Nadler, Spinoza. A life (meest recente editie Cambridge 2018) Mendelssohn: Alexander Altmann, Moses Mendelssohn. A biographical study (paperback Littmann Library 1998) De laatste publicatie van Irene Zwiep vind je hier. Mizrach wordt mogelijk gemaakt door Maror.

Moses Mendelssohn war zu seinen Lebzeiten eine Ikone der Aufklärung. Obwohl ohne staatsbürgerliche Rechte, schätzten die Intellektuellen in ganz Europa den jüdischen Philosophen. Er wurde zum Vorreiter der jüdischen Aufklärung, der Haskala, hielt selbst aber an den Geboten des Judentums fest.

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Annemieke Bosman praat met striptekenaar Typex over het biografische boek dat hij maakte van de 18e eeuwse filosoof Moses - Moishe - Mendelssohn.  Het Joods Museum in Berlijn vroeg Typex de catalogus voor een op handen zijnde tentoonstelling over Moses Mendelssohn te maken. De tentoonstelling opent op 14april in Berlijn en zal tot in september 2022 te zien zijn in Berlijn, waarna de expositie gaat reizen. Aan de hand van zes sprekende anekdotes weet Typex deze18e-eeuwse filosoof Moses Mendelssohn – Moishe – op aandoenlijke wijze weer tot leven te wekken. Terwijl Moishe een kleine, gebochelde, verlegen man was die stotterde, was iedereen onder indruk van zijn gevoel voor humor, zijn elegante schrijfstijl, en zijn vriendelijke en diplomatieke houding. Voor Mendelssohn gingen gewetensvrijheid en de juridische gelijkwaardigheid van godsdiensten hand in hand, zoals dat moderne, pluralistische samenlevingen past.

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BIOElise was born in Switzerland, raised in North Carolina, and since 1977 has made her home in Atlanta. She speaks fluent Italian, French, German, Spanish, and English and sings in over a dozen languages. Her passion for music and languages has led her to take her Global, Local & Homemade Songs™ across the United States and around the globe. Among her ancestors, Elise claims “Wedding March” composer Felix Mendelssohn and his grandfather, Jewish philosopher Moses Mendelssohn; Protestant cow farmers from northern Germany; Russian chemists; Polish intellectuals; French Bordeaux wine growers; a British painter; and a great great aunt from Cuba.  Elise has served as a cultural ambassador to South Africa, Nicaragua, China, Italy, and Yugoslavia. For the Kennedy Center's 25th Anniversary Celebration, Elise represented the State of Georgia, and she has crisscrossed the United States with her Global, Local & Homemade Songs™ – from New York's Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center and the People's Voice Café to festivals like Clearwater's Hudson River Revival, Falcon Ridge, LEAF, the North Georgia Folk Festival, and the Marin County Fair in California; from Minneapolis' Gingko Coffeehouse to Nashville's Bluebird Cafe; and from the Open Door Community to the Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Non-Violent Social Change. Elise's original songs are wildly eclectic. The Raleigh Times says, “Her performance is like a suitcase plastered with stickers from around the world… populated with interesting characters both heroic and comic.” http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/elisewitt4 (VALISE) is Elise's 11th recording on the EMWorld label. Her songs have been used in several documentary films, and include the anthem http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/elisewitt2 (Open the Window) (inspired by a Georgia Sea Islands Spiritual), http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/elisewitt2 (Why Are Our Eyes in the Front of Our Heads?) (acapella jazz vocal ); http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/elisewitt4 (Clothes Swap) (a funky ode to the virtues of re-cycling and girl gatherings); http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/elisewitt4 (Set Us Free) (inspired by the words of Reverend Timothy MacDonald at Martin Luther King Jr.'s 80th birthday celebration at the National Historic Site in Atlanta), http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/elisewitt4 (Venus Between Us) (a tribute to Soul Music), http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/elisewitt4 (Ma Roulotte) (a french gypsy jazz waltz, co-written with partner Mick Kinney), http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/elisewitt4 (Butterfly's Mysteries) (a scientific boogie, written at the Callaway Gardens Butterfly House), http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/elisewitt4 (Verkehrte Welt) (Crazy Mixed Up World, a German paradox poem à la Oh Suzanna), and http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/elisewitt4 (Blessed Nation) (original music by Elise Witt to a poem by Pete Seeger).The Elise Witt Choral Series makes Elise's songs available for choirs, choruses, and vocal ensembles. With arrangements by http://www.uucss.org/churchstaff/MusicDirector.html (Michael Holmes), there are currently 20 songs arranged for SATB, SSAA, and TTBB groups. Elise has collaborated with choirs, choruses, and vocal ensembles as composer, conductor, and clinician. Her choral arrangements have been performed by http://www.sarathomsen.com/choir.html (Echoes of Peace Choir) in Duluth MN, http://womansong.org/ (WomanSong) in Asheville NC, http://clearriverschorus.com/mainsite/ (Clear Rivers Chorus) in Carrolton GA, http://www.resonancechorus.org/ (Resonance) Women's Chorus of Boulder CO, Winston Knoll College in Saskatchewan Canada, Charm City Labor Chorus in Baltimore, and many other choruses, schools, and churches around the country. Notable Mentionshttps://elisewitt.com/web/ (Elise Witt): Global, Local and Homemade Songs...

Deutschlands erste Adresse für Literaturfans und Leseratten? Natürlich Berlin! Wer hier auf Entdeckungsreise geht, wandelt auf den Spuren von Anna Seghers und Kurt Tucholsky, Moses Mendelssohn und Theodor Fontane, E. T. A. Hoffmann und Irmgard Keun. In der Hauptstadt und ihrer märkischen Umgebung warten Buchcafés, prächtige Bibliotheken und versteckte Schatzkammern, Antiquariate und Museen, dazu eine legendäre Wassernixe, eine rätselhafte alchimistische Handschrift und ein bücherverliebter König: Ein Leseland, wie es im Buche steht!Quelle: Verlagstext

Who gets to decide what counts as “religion,” and how that should shape our understanding of how Judaism can be meaningful in our lives? What happens when a revolutionary Jewish thinker - fed up with his lower status as a Jew in 1700s Prussia - wants people to start thinking about the very essence of Judaism in a new way? And what happens when a Prussian Christian theologian has a very different idea of what Judaism should look like? In Part II of this episode, we reach the conclusion of figuring out: can we even call Judaism a religion? In This Episode, we learn about… What on earth is meant by “Judeo-Christian”? How being “spiritual” is not only an inner experience in Judaism The problem with “kids these days,” not wanting religion (in the 1700s) The radical ideas of Jewish individualism that Moses Mendelssohn proposed How a German theologian invented “religion” How “religion” can be (or was) anti-Jewish What Jews Have to Give Up in Exchange for Citizenship A Brief Tale of Historical Jewish-Christian-Muslim Relations How Eastern Europe, North Africa & Central Asia are playing a completely different ball-game Today's Jewish Identities & Geo-Politics My own answer to the question - “Is Judaism a Religion?” And why does all this matter for how we understand what it means to talk about or be Jewish today? Lots more details and extras can be found in the show notes, including translations of the Hebrew terms we used in this episode. Read a transcript of this episode.  Credits Shoot! is written, hosted, and produced by Jesse Paikin. You can always say hi, share your thoughts, or ask your own question at hello@shootpodcast.com  All audio credits for this episode can be found on our website. Shoot! is supported in part by a grant from the Hadar Institute.

Im Jahr 1763 ruft die Königliche Akademie der Wissenschaften in Berlin zu einem Essaywettbewerb auf – und Immanuel Kant sendet einen Beitrag. Der wird mit großer Bewunderung gelesen. Doch Kant bekommt nur den zweiten Platz. Der Mann, der den Sieg davonträgt, ist ein Feierabendphilosoph, der tagsüber in einer Seidenfabrik schuftet: Moses Mendelssohn. Durch seine Schriften wird er zum Vater der jüdischen Aufklärung und steht am Anfang einer atemberaubenden Familiengeschichte, die bis heute weitergeschrieben wird. Die Biografie der Mendelssohns ist die Biografie des deutschen Judentums: Sie erzählt davon, wie die Welt der religiösen Juden genauso wie der preußische Staat und ganz Europa durchgeschüttelt werden von den Ideen der Aufklärung. Es ist die Zeit des 18. und des 19. Jahrhunderts, die Zeit der Aufklärung, der Geburt des Bürgertums, dann der Romantik – und des Kampfs der Juden um Emanzipation und Gleichberechtigung. Es ist auch die Zeit der Französischen Revolution und der Kriege Napoleons, der deutschen Befreiungskriege, der vielen Wandlungen Preußens und der Geburt des liberalen Judentums. In unserem neuen Podcast zeichnen wir die Geschichte der Familie Mendelssohn nach. Wir sprechen mit Miriam Rürup, der Leiterin des Moses Mendelssohn Zentrums in Berlin, über die geschichtlichen und politischen Bedingungen, unter denen die Familie Mendelssohn lebte. Und Thomas Lackmann, Nachfahre der Mendelssohns, bringt uns ganz nah an die Persönlichkeiten von damals heran, zum Beispiel an Menschen wie Felix und Fanny Mendelssohn Bartholdy – und natürlich hören wir auch ein wenig Musik. Mehr zum Thema lesen Sie auch in der aktuellen Ausgabe des Magazins ZEIT Geschichte. Unter diesem Link können Sie eine Gratisausgabe von ZEIT Geschichte zum Testen bestellen: https://abo.zeit.de/zg-testen/?icode=01w0169k0575angaudall2110&utm_medium=audio&utm_source=zgpodcast&utm_campaign=zg_zon_podcast&utm_content=&wt_zmc=audall.int.zabo.zgpodcast.zg_zon_podcast%e2%80%a6.x Alle Folgen von "Wie war das noch mal?" hören Sie hier. Die Redaktion erreichen Sie per Mail unter zeitgeschichte@zeit.de.

A virtual event presentation by Professor Paul Franks ABOUT THE EVENT: What is the legacy of German Judaism, and what can it still offer us today? German Judaism began with Moses Mendelssohn's controversial German translation of the Humash in 1783, and ended with the Nazi pogrom of November 1938. The best known slogan of the Torah-true wing of German Judaism is “Torah im derekh erets” (“Torah with the way of the land”). But this slogan is often misunderstood as nothing more than an educational philosophy that came in one flavor. In fact, it is an ideal of humanity articulated, in several competing versions, in the context of the quest for Jewish civil rights. The German-Jewish tradition raises vital questions that remain relevant today: What is the mission of Jews within civil society? What makes a Jewish community Jewish? What role should Jews play within the ongoing struggle for social justice and civil rights? ABOUT THE SPEAKER: Paul Franks is the Robert F. and Patricia Ross Weis Professor of Philosophy and Judaic Studies at Yale University. He was educated at Gateshead Yeshiva; Balliol College, Oxford; and Harvard University. Before arriving at Yale in 2011, he was the inaugural holder of the Jerahmiel S. and Carole S. Grafstein Chair in Jewish Philosophy at the University of Toronto. He has also taught at University of Michigan, Indiana University Bloomington, University of Notre Dame, and University of Chicago, and he has given shiurim at synagogues and Jewish community centers throughout Britain, Israel, and North America. Paul works at the intersection of the Jewish and German philosophical traditions, specializing in Kantian and post-Kantian metaphysics, epistemology, and philosophy of the humanities and social sciences. He is the translator and annotator, with Michael L. Morgan, of Franz Rosenzweig, Philosophical and Theological Writings (Hackett, 2000); and he is the author of All or Nothing: Systematicity, Transcendental Arguments, and Skepticism in German Idealism (Harvard, 2005), as well as over fifty academic articles. He is currently writing, with his collaborator Morgan, an ambitious survey that will reveal the dynamic interaction between Jewish philosophy and modern European philosophy from Luria to Levinas, and he is also working on a monograph on Kant's metaphysical and epistemological legacy. -- DONATE: www.bit.ly/1NmpbsP​​​​​​​ For podcasts of VBM lectures, GO HERE: www.valleybeitmidrash.org/learning-library/ www.facebook.com/valleybeitmi...​ Become a member today, starting at just $18 per month! Click the link to see our membership options: www.valleybeitmidrash.org/become-a-member/

The sixth instalment of David's Jewish Philosophy lecture series considers two renowned, sometimes controversial, philosophers living during the Enlightenment: Baruch Spinoza, and Moses Mendelssohn. Watch the lecture here: https://youtu.be/IC_bZTM55yA In the first part of this Zoom lecture, David examines the ideas and impact of Baruch Spinoza, including the ultimate cause of his excommunication from the … Continue reading "#84 A Journey Through Jewish Philosophy (6)" The post #84 A Journey Through Jewish Philosophy (6) first appeared on David Solomon. Related posts: #83 A Journey Through Jewish Philosophy (5) #82 A Journey Through Jewish Philosophy (4) #81 A Journey Through Jewish Philosophy (3)

In this second in a series of five Jewish Ghost Stories told by FRDH host Michael Goldfarb goes to Berlins. He explores the identity crises of some of the city's most famous Jewish ghosts: philosopher Moses Mendelssohn, poet and essayist Heinrich Heine and salonniére extraordinary Rahel Varnhagen

Fanny Hensel schrieb 1840 ihren meisterhaften Klavierzyklus "Das Jahr", in dem sie die Eindrücke einer Italienreise verarbeitet. Als Komponistin stand sie stets im Schatten ihres Bruders Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy. Dabei zeigt das Werk eindrucksvoll das Potential dieses Ausnahmetalents. (Autor: Martin Zingsheim)

Un día como hoy, 4 de enero: 1642, nace Isaac Newton. 1710, nace Giovanni Battista Pergolesi. 1785, nace Jacob Grimm. 1932, nace Carlos Saura. 1940, nace Gao Xingjian. 1786, fallece Moses Mendelssohn. 1834, fallece Mauro Gandolfi. 1920, fallece Benito Pérez Galdós. 1965, fallece T. S. Eliot. 1975, fallece Carlo Levi. Una producción de Sala Prisma Podcast. 2021.

Mit 14 Jahren folgt Moses Mendelssohn seinem Talmudlehrer nach Berlin. Dort entwickelt sich der Autodidakt zu einem der führenden Intellektuellen im 18. Jahrhundert.

Moses Mendelssohn ist Philosoph, gläubiger Jude und ein liberaler Geist. Er setzt auf Vernunft, aber auch auf Sinnlichkeit. Nur als Sinneswesen begreife der Mensch das Schöne und damit sich selbst, schreibt Moses Mendelssohn. "In den Regeln der Schönheit liegen die tiefsten Geheimnisse unserer Seele verborgen". Autorin: Claudia Friedrich

Miriam Rürup ist die neue Leiterin des Moses-Mendelssohn-Zentrums in Potsdam. Die Historikerin will jüdisches Leben als "selbstbewusste Minderheitengeschichte" erzählt wissen, von der man einiges lernen kann. Miriam Rürup im Gespräch mit Sigrid Brinkmann www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de, Fazit Hören bis: 19.01.2038 04:14 Direkter Link zur Audiodatei

This week on Unorthodox, we’re recovering from our potentially poisonous etrog-tinis. Our first Jewish guest is actor and comedian Michael Ian Black, best known for "Wet Hot American Summer" and VH1’s “I Love The …” series, whose latest book is "A Better Man," a meditation on masculinity written in the form of a letter to his college-aged son. He tells us about the book, which is far more earnest than you might expect from the comic actor, and why he wants to offer boys and young men a better path than “toxic masculinity.” He also explains the Jewish influences on his thinking and parenting, and tells us about changing his name from Schwartz to Black when he got into showbiz (there was another Michael Schwartz in the Guild already). Our second Jewish guest is Kylie Unell, a Ph.D. student in Jewish thought at New York University and the author of an essay in JTA titled, “My mom is white and my dad is black. Don’t call me a ‘Jew of Color.’” She tells us how growing up in Kansas and then Israel and attending college in New York City shaped her Jewish identity and pushed her to reject other labels—like “Modern Orthodox”—which she felt didn’t fully capture her identity. She also tells us about drawing on Jewish history (like hosting a Moses Mendelssohn-themed Shabbat dinner) to create a new spiritual community for young Jews. Join us for our upcoming virtual events! Thursday 10/22, 6:30 p.m. EDT: Mark will be part of the panel event “What Have We Learned from the Pittsburgh Synogogue Attack?” Register here. Thursday 10/22, 7 p.m. EDT: Stephanie will be interviewing (a different) Ben Cohen as part of Generally Speaking, her interview series with children of Holocaust Survivors, presented by the Museum of Jewish Heritage. Register here. Saturday, 10/24, 7:30 p.m. PT: An Evening with Unorthodox, brought to you by the Stroum JCC Virtual BookFest. Register here. Send us questions and comments at unorthodox@tabletmag.com, or leave us a voicemail at (914) 570-4869. You can also record a voice memo on your smartphone and email it to us. Subscribe to our weekly newsletter to get new episodes, photos, and more. Get a behind-the-scenes look at our recording sessions on our YouTube channel! Join our Facebook group, and follow Unorthodox on Twitter and Instagram. Get your Unorthodox T-shirts, mugs, and baby onesies at bit.ly/unorthoshirt. Sponsors: American Jewish World Service is the leading Jewish organization working to fight poverty and pursue justice in the developing world. In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, AJWS is currently matching all donations tenfold; find out more about the organization and to make your matched donation at AJWS.org/unorthodox. Decision Points is a podcast that examines the key moments and figures that impacted the relationship between Israel and the U.S. The show, which just launched its second season, is hosted by David Makovsky, director of the Project on Arab-Israel Relations at the Washington Institute for Near East policy and a member of the peace team during the Obama Administration. The Bronfman Center at NYU congratulates Rabbi Yehuda Sarna for his 18 years of service to the Bronfman Center and the global Jewish community. Find out more at bit.ly/sarna18. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Un día como hoy, 6 de septiembre: 1620, nace la compositora Isabella Leonarda. 1729, nace el filósofo Moses Mendelssohn. 1781, nace el compositor Anton Diabelli. 1943, nace el guitarrista Roger Waters. 1998, fallece el director de cine Akira Kurosawa. 2007, fallece el tenor Luciano Pavarotti. Una producción de Sala Prisma Podcast. 2020

Wussten Sie, dass Nathan der Weise aus Dessau kommt. Natürlich spielt die Geschichte in Jerusalem doch, die Figur, der Lessing in seinem Nathan ein Denkmal setzte wurde vor 290 Jahren in Dessau geboren.

Heralded as the father of Reform Judaism by some, derided as a destroyer of traditional Jewish life by others and forgotten by most, Moses Mendelssohn's legacy continues to intrigue Jewish minds across the spectrum. He entered the gates of Berlin as a young 14 year old, and ultimately embraced the ideals of the enlightenment and German Philosophy. Through his teaching and prodigious literary output, an attempt was made to synthesize traditional Jewish observance while incorporating elements of the surrounding culture. The question remains as to what is his "true" legacy, but his influence remains in the Jewish world till today. Subscribe To Our Podcast on: Apple: tinyurl.com/yy8gaody Google Play: tinyurl.com/yxwv8tpc Spotify: tinyurl.com/y54wemxs Stitcher: bit.ly/2GxiKTJ You can email Yehuda at YGebss@Gmail.com Enjoy Jewish History Soundbites? Please give us a 5-Star Rating and write a positive review!

¿Todos los filósofos que son judíos hacen “filosofía judía”? ¿Cuáles son los principales temas que serán abordados en el pensamiento judío en la modernidad? Nuevamente junto al Dr. Emmanuel Taub, experto en filosofía judía, seguimos conociendo grandes pensadores judíos y sus aportes fundamentales al desarrollo de la filosofía judía. Retomamos al paradigmático y polémico Baruj Spinoza para luego hablar del padre de la filosofía judía moderna del iluminismo, Moses Mendelssohn. También hablaremos de Hermann Cohen, Franz Rosenzweig, Martin Buber, Gershom Scholem y Hannah Arendt. Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/pielef Apple Podcast: https://apple.co/2McoMOo Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2MdHNQn Android Google Play: http://bit.ly/2MaGhhW Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/urielromano/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/urielromano/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/uriel.romano Website: https://urielromano.com/ Comentarios & Sugerencias: urielromano@gmail.com

In his famous essay “What is Enlightenment?” the Prussian philosopher Immanuel Kant declared: “[E]nlightenment requires nothing but freedom … to make public use of one’s reason in all matters. Now I hear the cry from all sides: ‘Do not argue!’ … Only one ruler in the world says: ‘Argue as much as you please, but obey!’”  That ruler was Frederick the Great — and his influence was not lost on Kant.  “[T]his age is the age of enlightenment,” Kant declared. “[T]he century of Frederick.” Frederick the Great ruled Prussia from 1740 to 1786 and launched a blitzkrieg of Enlightenment reforms impacting religious tolerance and freedom of speech. He was hailed as a philosopher king by Voltaire and gave refuge to scandalous writers who had been persecuted around Europe. But his rule was erratic, and often Absolutism would trump Enlightenment ideals.  In this episode, we cover Frederick the Great’s reign and his attitude and policies towards freedom of thought and the press. Topics include: How Frederick’s Enlightenment ideals reformed Prussia How he favored Enlightenment for the elite, but not the masses How Voltaire, Diderot, and D’Holbach clashed over the merits of Frederick’s enlightened despotism How Frederick offered refuge to scandalous authors such as the French atheist Julien Offray de La Mettrie The dos and don’ts of Prussian censorship How the enlightened Prussian public sphere differed from its French and American counterparts   How the enlightened Prussian elite, including Kant and Moses Mendelssohn, praised both freedom of speech and Frederick the Great’s Enlightened Despotism  How the death of Frederick and the ascension of Friedrich Wilhelm resulted in a backlash against enlightenment values, including free speech and religious tolerance   Why have kings, emperors, and governments killed and imprisoned people to shut them up? And why have countless people risked death and imprisonment to express their beliefs? Jacob Mchangama guides you through the history of free speech from the trial of Socrates to the Great Firewall. You can subscribe and listen to Clear and Present Danger on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, YouTube, TuneIn, and Stitcher, or download episodes directly from SoundCloud. Stay up to date with Clear and Present Danger on the show’s Facebook and Twitter pages, or visit the podcast’s website at freespeechhistory.com. Email us feedback at freespeechhistory@gmail.com.

In this forty minutes long interview, Christpher Mielke talks with Marianna Birnbaum of UCLA and visiting professor at CEU about Hungarian Renaissance literature, Jews in the Renaissance, studying women in history, and more broadly about how it is to deal with individual life stories as historians. What were the main currents of Renaissance literature? Who were the main figures of Hungarian Renaissance poetry? How does a historian approach literary figures? In the first part of this interview, Marianna Birnbaum talks about Humanist literature, how books circulated in Renaissance Europe, and how Humanists approached Hebrew language and culture. The second part concerns a 16th century Portugese woman called Gracia Mendes. Why is she interesting, and how was she related to the famous Fuggers, a Jewish banker family? How did she come to manage this vast economic enterprise and why did she emigrate to the Turkish Empire? The third part of the interview is related to 18th century figure Fromet Mendelssohn, wife of the great philospher Moses Mendelssohn. How did she contribute to the intellectual milieu of the Jewish Enlightenment? What are the sources that can tell us about her life? Past Perfect! is CEU Medieval Radio’s show on medieval and early modern history and culture, where Christopher Mielke casually discusses with his guests various issues from the crusades to archeo-zoology to medieval urine sampling. The discussions are made with the aim to popularize medieval and early modern studies with the help of experts such as early musicians, historians, philologists and archeologists.This episode was first recorded and broadcast in 2013.

Host Kevin Patton examines variations in human anatomy, including the fabella bone, situs inversus, and more. 00:40 | Preview Episodes 04:15 | Sponsored by HAPS 05:48 | Fabella Bone 15:51 | Sponsored by AAA 16:11 | Situs Inversus 32:18 |  Sponsored by HAPI Online Graduate Program 32:57 | Variety of Anatomic Variations 42:43 | Nuzzel Newsletter   If you cannot see or activate the audio player click here. Questions & Feedback: 1-833-LION-DEN (1-833-546-6336) Follow The A&P Professor on Twitter, Facebook, Blogger, Nuzzel, Tumblr, or Instagram!   The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety. (Moses Mendelssohn)   1 | Preview Episodes 4.15 minutes If you are skipping over the Preview Episodes, which are each released a few days before a full episode, contain a lot of helpful content that you don't want to miss! Upcoming topics Word Dissections Book Club selections Bergman's Comprehensive Encyclopedia of Human Anatomic Variation by R. Shane Tubbs, Mohammadali M. 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Fabella prevalence rate increases over 150 years, and rates of other sesamoid bones remain constant: a systematic review (recent research article) my-ap.us/2WkRSMs Sore knee? Maybe you have a fabella (plain English report from the BBC) my-ap.us/2Wmd6cN Fabella x-radiograph (to use in your course) my-ap.us/2Wm6Di3 Improbable Destinies: Fate, Chance, and the Future of Evolution by Jonathan B. Losos  (book  on  updated  ideas  of  evolution) amzn.to/2L9fzCE Browse The A&P Professor Book Club my-ap.us/bookclub    Fabella image: Jmarchn (my-ap.us/2Wm6Di3)   4 | Sponsored by AAA 0.5 minute The searchable transcript for this episode, as well as the captioned audiogram of this episode, are sponsored by The American Association of Anatomists (AAA) at anatomy.org. Their big meeting is in April at the Experimental Biology (EB) meeting in Orlando FL. Check it out! Searchable transcript Captioned audiogram      5 | Situs Inversus 16 minutes Situs inversus is a mirrorlike flipping of visceral organs that occurs in embryonic development. Also called situs transversus or situs oppositus. Normal siting of organs is called situs solitus. Situs inversus and my 'through the looking glass' body (recent article by someone living with situs inversus) my-ap.us/2WatPzP Body donor's rare anatomy offers valuable lessons (press release on recent 99-year old donor with situs inversus with levocardia) my-ap.us/2Wf5MzO Heart Transplantation in Situs Inversus Maintaining Dextrocardia (interesting study of transplanting 'normal' hearts into patients with dextrocardia) my-ap.us/2WmbTlL ERROR: In my discussion of the cast of situs inversus in the young man from the 1800s, I mixed up my left and right. Yikes. The appendix is on the right in situs solitus, but on the left in situs inversus. This was corrected in the audio file on 10 May 2019, but the correction may not be heard in all available platforms.    6| Sponsored by HAPI Online Graduate Program 0.5 minute The Master of Science in Human Anatomy & Physiology Instruction—the MS-HAPI—is graduate program for A&P teachers. A combination of science courses (enough to qualify you to teach at the college level) and courses in instructional practice, this program helps you power up  your teaching. Kevin Patton is a faculty member in this program. Check it out! There will be a HAPI table in the Exhibit Hall at the 2019 HAPS Annual Conference. Stop by and say hi! nycc.edu/hapi     7 | Variety of Anatomic Variations 5 minutes Perhaps variation is normal. And maybe "normal" is a mythical, but useful, construct we use in understanding human anatomy. Brief list of some human anatomical variations my-ap.us/2WrAC8q How do we handle anatomic variations (vs. "normal") in our A&P course? I'm thinking there isn't a best way. I'm thinking it's largely up to us as artists to decide what works best. Remember, in my world, teaching is both and art and a science. We are, among other things, artist of telling stories. Stories about the human body. So I think we need to really think about, play with, experiment with, different ways of telling our story of human anatomy so that at some point it's clear that we don't all look like the idealized sketches in our books and models on the lab bench. Or even all the elderly cadavers in our dissection lab. Perhaps we can begin by being clear and intentional about pointing out differences arising from development and aging, from the effects of sex hormones, from environmental influences, from the range of possible human activities (or lack of activity), then bring in all those variations in genetic code and variations in how embryological events  unfold, or maybe I should say fold. 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In a world riven with bitter divisions, perverting every opportunity for dialogue, Simon Schama examins the peculiar force of contradictory argument in Jewish tradition. From its distinctive place in the Bible, to the struggle to reconcile revelation with reason in the works of Maimonides and Moses Mendelssohn, at stake is not just the character and future of Israel, but the unity or division of Jews and Judaism world-wide. Sponsored by David and Judy Dangoor This event took place on 3rd March as part of Jewish Book Week 2019

Continuing on "What Is Enlightenment" by Immanuel Kant (1784), "On Enlightening the Mind" by Moses Mendelssohn (1784), and "What Is Enlightenment" by Michael Foucault (1984). We finish up Kant (the courage to know!) and lay out the Mendelssohn (cultivation vs. enlightenment) and Foucault (ironically heroize the present!). Will this conversation enlighten you? Who knows? Listen to part one first or get the unbroken, ad-free Citizen Edition. Please support PEL! End song: "Holy Fool" by Love and Rockets. Listen to singer Daniel Ash on Nakedly Examined Music #35.

On "What Is Enlightenment" by Immanuel Kant (1784), "On Enlightening the Mind" by Moses Mendelssohn (1784), and "What Is Enlightenment" by Michael Foucault (1984). At the end of the historical period known as The Enlightenment, a Berlin newspaper asked what exactly that is, and Kant and Mendelssohn responded. Both were concerned with whether too much enlightenment among the public can cause social unrest, and so whether there should be freedom of speech and opinion. Foucault thinks that we're not yet Enlightened, that it's an ongoing process of critique.  Continue on part 2, or get the unbroken, ad-free Citizen Edition now. Please support PEL!

Moses Mendelssohn was a critical philosopher of the German Enlightenment and the most controversial figure of the Jewish Enlightenment. Whether you think that he was a light to his generation or a boundary breaker who led many to sin, his life story deserves to be heard.

Moses Mendelssohn had already acknowledged that Jews in the modern era can make choices about how to practice and believe in Judaism, or whether to keep it at all. A range of choices then emerged in response to this new freedom, including ultra-Orthodoxy, the neo-Orthodoxy of Samson Raphael Hirsch, Reform Judaism, and the emergence of Conservative Judaism with Zacharias Frankel, when he said “yes” to both history and halakhah.Further reading:Zachariah Frankel in Mendes-Flohr and Reinharz, The Jew in the Modern World (2nd ed., 1995), 194-197, 178-182.

Our story begins with the pre-history of modern Jewish philosophy and the radical writings of Benedict Spinoza, who considered the Enlightenment’s challenges to Judaism, and found Judaism wanting. We then meet Moses Mendelssohn, the first traditional Jew to engage with the Enlightenment and mount a sophisticated defense of Judaism.Further reading:Moses Mendelssohn, Jerusalem, translated by Allan Arkush (102-139)

Moses Mendelssohn was a critical philosopher of the German Enlightenment and the most controversial figure of the Jewish Enlightenment. Whether you think that he was a light to his generation or a a boundary breaker who led many to sin, … Read the rest The post The Jewish Story: Season 2, Episode 14 — The German Socrates first appeared on Elmad Online Learning. Continue reading The Jewish Story: Season 2, Episode 14 — The German Socrates at Elmad Online Learning.

Benedito/Baruch/Benedict Spinoza (1623-1677) lived at the crossroads of Dutch, scholastic, and Jewish worlds. Excommunicated from the Jewish community of Amsterdam at 23, his works would later be put on the Catholic Church's Index of Forbidden Books. He was a heretic. And yet, he was and continues to be seen by many as perhaps the hero of the early modern period. A figure alienated by the structures that defined his life, Spinoza has been understood, by Jews and non-Jews alike, to have expressed a powerful self-definition that echoes to the present day, where biographies, plays, “guides”, and academic works continue to abound. In place of a simplistic origin story or master narrative of a modernity that begins with Spinoza, The First Modern Jew: Spinoza and the History of an Image (Princeton University Press, 2012), tells the story of how Spinoza came to be understood as a cultural hero, a reception history of his image at many crucial junctures in Modern Jewish history. Rather than probing his philosophy or strictly philosophic influence, Schwartz studies a malleable “Spinoza” as a symbol that captures the ways in which Jews have sought to understand and define themselves. Beginning in 17th-century Amsterdam before moving to 18th-century Berlin, 19th-century Eastern Europe, and Israel and America in the 20th century, The First Modern Jew is a chronological narrative of modern Jewish history that moves seamlessly between a larger thematic thread and local histories of both the famous (Moses Mendelssohn, David Ben-Gurion, and Yitzhak Bashevis Singer) and the forgotten (Berthold Auerbach, Salomon Rubin, and Yosef Klausner). In so doing, it probes the porous boundary between history and memory: the history of Spinoza and the history of the memory of Spinoza. And thereby we can see Spinoza as the “first modern Jew,” both because he was often projected as such and because he was a means by which people have asked the quintessential modern question: what does it mean to be me? Professor Daniel B. Schwartz is an associate professor of history and the director of the Judaic Studies program at George Washington University. Moses Lapin is a graduate student in the departments of History and Philosophy at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, he is a crypto-Spinozist and his hero is Blinky the Ghost. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Benedito/Baruch/Benedict Spinoza (1623-1677) lived at the crossroads of Dutch, scholastic, and Jewish worlds. Excommunicated from the Jewish community of Amsterdam at 23, his works would later be put on the Catholic Church’s Index of Forbidden Books. He was a heretic. And yet, he was and continues to be seen by many as perhaps the hero of the early modern period. A figure alienated by the structures that defined his life, Spinoza has been understood, by Jews and non-Jews alike, to have expressed a powerful self-definition that echoes to the present day, where biographies, plays, “guides”, and academic works continue to abound. In place of a simplistic origin story or master narrative of a modernity that begins with Spinoza, The First Modern Jew: Spinoza and the History of an Image (Princeton University Press, 2012), tells the story of how Spinoza came to be understood as a cultural hero, a reception history of his image at many crucial junctures in Modern Jewish history. Rather than probing his philosophy or strictly philosophic influence, Schwartz studies a malleable “Spinoza” as a symbol that captures the ways in which Jews have sought to understand and define themselves. Beginning in 17th-century Amsterdam before moving to 18th-century Berlin, 19th-century Eastern Europe, and Israel and America in the 20th century, The First Modern Jew is a chronological narrative of modern Jewish history that moves seamlessly between a larger thematic thread and local histories of both the famous (Moses Mendelssohn, David Ben-Gurion, and Yitzhak Bashevis Singer) and the forgotten (Berthold Auerbach, Salomon Rubin, and Yosef Klausner). In so doing, it probes the porous boundary between history and memory: the history of Spinoza and the history of the memory of Spinoza. And thereby we can see Spinoza as the “first modern Jew,” both because he was often projected as such and because he was a means by which people have asked the quintessential modern question: what does it mean to be me? Professor Daniel B. Schwartz is an associate professor of history and the director of the Judaic Studies program at George Washington University. Moses Lapin is a graduate student in the departments of History and Philosophy at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, he is a crypto-Spinozist and his hero is Blinky the Ghost. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Benedito/Baruch/Benedict Spinoza (1623-1677) lived at the crossroads of Dutch, scholastic, and Jewish worlds. Excommunicated from the Jewish community of Amsterdam at 23, his works would later be put on the Catholic Church’s Index of Forbidden Books. He was a heretic. And yet, he was and continues to be seen by many as perhaps the hero of the early modern period. A figure alienated by the structures that defined his life, Spinoza has been understood, by Jews and non-Jews alike, to have expressed a powerful self-definition that echoes to the present day, where biographies, plays, “guides”, and academic works continue to abound. In place of a simplistic origin story or master narrative of a modernity that begins with Spinoza, The First Modern Jew: Spinoza and the History of an Image (Princeton University Press, 2012), tells the story of how Spinoza came to be understood as a cultural hero, a reception history of his image at many crucial junctures in Modern Jewish history. Rather than probing his philosophy or strictly philosophic influence, Schwartz studies a malleable “Spinoza” as a symbol that captures the ways in which Jews have sought to understand and define themselves. Beginning in 17th-century Amsterdam before moving to 18th-century Berlin, 19th-century Eastern Europe, and Israel and America in the 20th century, The First Modern Jew is a chronological narrative of modern Jewish history that moves seamlessly between a larger thematic thread and local histories of both the famous (Moses Mendelssohn, David Ben-Gurion, and Yitzhak Bashevis Singer) and the forgotten (Berthold Auerbach, Salomon Rubin, and Yosef Klausner). In so doing, it probes the porous boundary between history and memory: the history of Spinoza and the history of the memory of Spinoza. And thereby we can see Spinoza as the “first modern Jew,” both because he was often projected as such and because he was a means by which people have asked the quintessential modern question: what does it mean to be me? Professor Daniel B. Schwartz is an associate professor of history and the director of the Judaic Studies program at George Washington University. Moses Lapin is a graduate student in the departments of History and Philosophy at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, he is a crypto-Spinozist and his hero is Blinky the Ghost. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Benedito/Baruch/Benedict Spinoza (1623-1677) lived at the crossroads of Dutch, scholastic, and Jewish worlds. Excommunicated from the Jewish community of Amsterdam at 23, his works would later be put on the Catholic Church’s Index of Forbidden Books. He was a heretic. And yet, he was and continues to be seen by many as perhaps the hero of the early modern period. A figure alienated by the structures that defined his life, Spinoza has been understood, by Jews and non-Jews alike, to have expressed a powerful self-definition that echoes to the present day, where biographies, plays, “guides”, and academic works continue to abound. In place of a simplistic origin story or master narrative of a modernity that begins with Spinoza, The First Modern Jew: Spinoza and the History of an Image (Princeton University Press, 2012), tells the story of how Spinoza came to be understood as a cultural hero, a reception history of his image at many crucial junctures in Modern Jewish history. Rather than probing his philosophy or strictly philosophic influence, Schwartz studies a malleable “Spinoza” as a symbol that captures the ways in which Jews have sought to understand and define themselves. Beginning in 17th-century Amsterdam before moving to 18th-century Berlin, 19th-century Eastern Europe, and Israel and America in the 20th century, The First Modern Jew is a chronological narrative of modern Jewish history that moves seamlessly between a larger thematic thread and local histories of both the famous (Moses Mendelssohn, David Ben-Gurion, and Yitzhak Bashevis Singer) and the forgotten (Berthold Auerbach, Salomon Rubin, and Yosef Klausner). In so doing, it probes the porous boundary between history and memory: the history of Spinoza and the history of the memory of Spinoza. And thereby we can see Spinoza as the “first modern Jew,” both because he was often projected as such and because he was a means by which people have asked the quintessential modern question: what does it mean to be me? Professor Daniel B. Schwartz is an associate professor of history and the director of the Judaic Studies program at George Washington University. Moses Lapin is a graduate student in the departments of History and Philosophy at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, he is a crypto-Spinozist and his hero is Blinky the Ghost. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Benedito/Baruch/Benedict Spinoza (1623-1677) lived at the crossroads of Dutch, scholastic, and Jewish worlds. Excommunicated from the Jewish community of Amsterdam at 23, his works would later be put on the Catholic Church’s Index of Forbidden Books. He was a heretic. And yet, he was and continues to be seen by many as perhaps the hero of the early modern period. A figure alienated by the structures that defined his life, Spinoza has been understood, by Jews and non-Jews alike, to have expressed a powerful self-definition that echoes to the present day, where biographies, plays, “guides”, and academic works continue to abound. In place of a simplistic origin story or master narrative of a modernity that begins with Spinoza, The First Modern Jew: Spinoza and the History of an Image (Princeton University Press, 2012), tells the story of how Spinoza came to be understood as a cultural hero, a reception history of his image at many crucial junctures in Modern Jewish history. Rather than probing his philosophy or strictly philosophic influence, Schwartz studies a malleable “Spinoza” as a symbol that captures the ways in which Jews have sought to understand and define themselves. Beginning in 17th-century Amsterdam before moving to 18th-century Berlin, 19th-century Eastern Europe, and Israel and America in the 20th century, The First Modern Jew is a chronological narrative of modern Jewish history that moves seamlessly between a larger thematic thread and local histories of both the famous (Moses Mendelssohn, David Ben-Gurion, and Yitzhak Bashevis Singer) and the forgotten (Berthold Auerbach, Salomon Rubin, and Yosef Klausner). In so doing, it probes the porous boundary between history and memory: the history of Spinoza and the history of the memory of Spinoza. And thereby we can see Spinoza as the “first modern Jew,” both because he was often projected as such and because he was a means by which people have asked the quintessential modern question: what does it mean to be me? Professor Daniel B. Schwartz is an associate professor of history and the director of the Judaic Studies program at George Washington University. Moses Lapin is a graduate student in the departments of History and Philosophy at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, he is a crypto-Spinozist and his hero is Blinky the Ghost. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Benedito/Baruch/Benedict Spinoza (1623-1677) lived at the crossroads of Dutch, scholastic, and Jewish worlds. Excommunicated from the Jewish community of Amsterdam at 23, his works would later be put on the Catholic Church’s Index of Forbidden Books. He was a heretic. And yet, he was and continues to be seen by many as perhaps the hero of the early modern period. A figure alienated by the structures that defined his life, Spinoza has been understood, by Jews and non-Jews alike, to have expressed a powerful self-definition that echoes to the present day, where biographies, plays, “guides”, and academic works continue to abound. In place of a simplistic origin story or master narrative of a modernity that begins with Spinoza, The First Modern Jew: Spinoza and the History of an Image (Princeton University Press, 2012), tells the story of how Spinoza came to be understood as a cultural hero, a reception history of his image at many crucial junctures in Modern Jewish history. Rather than probing his philosophy or strictly philosophic influence, Schwartz studies a malleable “Spinoza” as a symbol that captures the ways in which Jews have sought to understand and define themselves. Beginning in 17th-century Amsterdam before moving to 18th-century Berlin, 19th-century Eastern Europe, and Israel and America in the 20th century, The First Modern Jew is a chronological narrative of modern Jewish history that moves seamlessly between a larger thematic thread and local histories of both the famous (Moses Mendelssohn, David Ben-Gurion, and Yitzhak Bashevis Singer) and the forgotten (Berthold Auerbach, Salomon Rubin, and Yosef Klausner). In so doing, it probes the porous boundary between history and memory: the history of Spinoza and the history of the memory of Spinoza. And thereby we can see Spinoza as the “first modern Jew,” both because he was often projected as such and because he was a means by which people have asked the quintessential modern question: what does it mean to be me? Professor Daniel B. Schwartz is an associate professor of history and the director of the Judaic Studies program at George Washington University. Moses Lapin is a graduate student in the departments of History and Philosophy at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, he is a crypto-Spinozist and his hero is Blinky the Ghost. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Benedito/Baruch/Benedict Spinoza (1623-1677) lived at the crossroads of Dutch, scholastic, and Jewish worlds. Excommunicated from the Jewish community of Amsterdam at 23, his works would later be put on the Catholic Church’s Index of Forbidden Books. He was a heretic. And yet, he was and continues to be seen by many as perhaps the hero of the early modern period. A figure alienated by the structures that defined his life, Spinoza has been understood, by Jews and non-Jews alike, to have expressed a powerful self-definition that echoes to the present day, where biographies, plays, “guides”, and academic works continue to abound. In place of a simplistic origin story or master narrative of a modernity that begins with Spinoza, The First Modern Jew: Spinoza and the History of an Image (Princeton University Press, 2012), tells the story of how Spinoza came to be understood as a cultural hero, a reception history of his image at many crucial junctures in Modern Jewish history. Rather than probing his philosophy or strictly philosophic influence, Schwartz studies a malleable “Spinoza” as a symbol that captures the ways in which Jews have sought to understand and define themselves. Beginning in 17th-century Amsterdam before moving to 18th-century Berlin, 19th-century Eastern Europe, and Israel and America in the 20th century, The First Modern Jew is a chronological narrative of modern Jewish history that moves seamlessly between a larger thematic thread and local histories of both the famous (Moses Mendelssohn, David Ben-Gurion, and Yitzhak Bashevis Singer) and the forgotten (Berthold Auerbach, Salomon Rubin, and Yosef Klausner). In so doing, it probes the porous boundary between history and memory: the history of Spinoza and the history of the memory of Spinoza. And thereby we can see Spinoza as the “first modern Jew,” both because he was often projected as such and because he was a means by which people have asked the quintessential modern question: what does it mean to be me? Professor Daniel B. Schwartz is an associate professor of history and the director of the Judaic Studies program at George Washington University. Moses Lapin is a graduate student in the departments of History and Philosophy at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, he is a crypto-Spinozist and his hero is Blinky the Ghost. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The work of Moses Mendelssohn (1729-1786), one of Judaism's great philosophers and defenders, has nonetheless defied easy categorization or definitive depiction. While advocating for the granting of full rights to the Jews of Germany, Mendelssohn also was cast in the role of defender of the faith and advocate for continued obedience to what he termed “ceremonial law” or “divine legislation.” In his new book, Moses Mendelssohn's Living Script: Philosophy, Practice, History, Judaism (Indiana University Press, 2016), Elias Sacks, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies and Jewish Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder, delves into Mendelssohn's Hebrew and German works to develop a comprehensive perspective on Jewish practice, Jewish citizenship, and Jewish history. Professor Sacks pays careful attention to Mendelssohn's historical context and the influence on his work of late Enlightenment philosophy, Christian theology, and emerging scientific models of thought. David Gottlieb is a PhD Candidate in the History of Judaism at the University of Chicago Divinity School. His research focuses on interpretations of the Binding of Isaac and the formation of Jewish cultural memory. He can be reached at davidg1@uchicago.edu. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The work of Moses Mendelssohn (1729-1786), one of Judaism’s great philosophers and defenders, has nonetheless defied easy categorization or definitive depiction. While advocating for the granting of full rights to the Jews of Germany, Mendelssohn also was cast in the role of defender of the faith and advocate for continued obedience to what he termed “ceremonial law” or “divine legislation.” In his new book, Moses Mendelssohn’s Living Script: Philosophy, Practice, History, Judaism (Indiana University Press, 2016), Elias Sacks, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies and Jewish Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder, delves into Mendelssohn’s Hebrew and German works to develop a comprehensive perspective on Jewish practice, Jewish citizenship, and Jewish history. Professor Sacks pays careful attention to Mendelssohn’s historical context and the influence on his work of late Enlightenment philosophy, Christian theology, and emerging scientific models of thought. David Gottlieb is a PhD Candidate in the History of Judaism at the University of Chicago Divinity School. His research focuses on interpretations of the Binding of Isaac and the formation of Jewish cultural memory. He can be reached at davidg1@uchicago.edu. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The work of Moses Mendelssohn (1729-1786), one of Judaism’s great philosophers and defenders, has nonetheless defied easy categorization or definitive depiction. While advocating for the granting of full rights to the Jews of Germany, Mendelssohn also was cast in the role of defender of the faith and advocate for continued obedience to what he termed “ceremonial law” or “divine legislation.” In his new book, Moses Mendelssohn’s Living Script: Philosophy, Practice, History, Judaism (Indiana University Press, 2016), Elias Sacks, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies and Jewish Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder, delves into Mendelssohn’s Hebrew and German works to develop a comprehensive perspective on Jewish practice, Jewish citizenship, and Jewish history. Professor Sacks pays careful attention to Mendelssohn’s historical context and the influence on his work of late Enlightenment philosophy, Christian theology, and emerging scientific models of thought. David Gottlieb is a PhD Candidate in the History of Judaism at the University of Chicago Divinity School. His research focuses on interpretations of the Binding of Isaac and the formation of Jewish cultural memory. He can be reached at davidg1@uchicago.edu. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The work of Moses Mendelssohn (1729-1786), one of Judaism’s great philosophers and defenders, has nonetheless defied easy categorization or definitive depiction. While advocating for the granting of full rights to the Jews of Germany, Mendelssohn also was cast in the role of defender of the faith and advocate for continued obedience to what he termed “ceremonial law” or “divine legislation.” In his new book, Moses Mendelssohn’s Living Script: Philosophy, Practice, History, Judaism (Indiana University Press, 2016), Elias Sacks, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies and Jewish Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder, delves into Mendelssohn’s Hebrew and German works to develop a comprehensive perspective on Jewish practice, Jewish citizenship, and Jewish history. Professor Sacks pays careful attention to Mendelssohn’s historical context and the influence on his work of late Enlightenment philosophy, Christian theology, and emerging scientific models of thought. David Gottlieb is a PhD Candidate in the History of Judaism at the University of Chicago Divinity School. His research focuses on interpretations of the Binding of Isaac and the formation of Jewish cultural memory. He can be reached at davidg1@uchicago.edu. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The work of Moses Mendelssohn (1729-1786), one of Judaism’s great philosophers and defenders, has nonetheless defied easy categorization or definitive depiction. While advocating for the granting of full rights to the Jews of Germany, Mendelssohn also was cast in the role of defender of the faith and advocate for continued obedience to what he termed “ceremonial law” or “divine legislation.” In his new book, Moses Mendelssohn’s Living Script: Philosophy, Practice, History, Judaism (Indiana University Press, 2016), Elias Sacks, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies and Jewish Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder, delves into Mendelssohn’s Hebrew and German works to develop a comprehensive perspective on Jewish practice, Jewish citizenship, and Jewish history. Professor Sacks pays careful attention to Mendelssohn’s historical context and the influence on his work of late Enlightenment philosophy, Christian theology, and emerging scientific models of thought. David Gottlieb is a PhD Candidate in the History of Judaism at the University of Chicago Divinity School. His research focuses on interpretations of the Binding of Isaac and the formation of Jewish cultural memory. He can be reached at davidg1@uchicago.edu. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The work of Moses Mendelssohn (1729-1786), one of Judaism’s great philosophers and defenders, has nonetheless defied easy categorization or definitive depiction. While advocating for the granting of full rights to the Jews of Germany, Mendelssohn also was cast in the role of defender of the faith and advocate for continued obedience to what he termed “ceremonial law” or “divine legislation.” In his new book, Moses Mendelssohn’s Living Script: Philosophy, Practice, History, Judaism (Indiana University Press, 2016), Elias Sacks, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies and Jewish Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder, delves into Mendelssohn’s Hebrew and German works to develop a comprehensive perspective on Jewish practice, Jewish citizenship, and Jewish history. Professor Sacks pays careful attention to Mendelssohn’s historical context and the influence on his work of late Enlightenment philosophy, Christian theology, and emerging scientific models of thought. David Gottlieb is a PhD Candidate in the History of Judaism at the University of Chicago Divinity School. His research focuses on interpretations of the Binding of Isaac and the formation of Jewish cultural memory. He can be reached at davidg1@uchicago.edu. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The work of Moses Mendelssohn (1729-1786), one of Judaism’s great philosophers and defenders, has nonetheless defied easy categorization or definitive depiction. While advocating for the granting of full rights to the Jews of Germany, Mendelssohn also was cast in the role of defender of the faith and advocate for continued obedience to what he termed “ceremonial law” or “divine legislation.” In his new book, Moses Mendelssohn’s Living Script: Philosophy, Practice, History, Judaism (Indiana University Press, 2016), Elias Sacks, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies and Jewish Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder, delves into Mendelssohn’s Hebrew and German works to develop a comprehensive perspective on Jewish practice, Jewish citizenship, and Jewish history. Professor Sacks pays careful attention to Mendelssohn’s historical context and the influence on his work of late Enlightenment philosophy, Christian theology, and emerging scientific models of thought. David Gottlieb is a PhD Candidate in the History of Judaism at the University of Chicago Divinity School. His research focuses on interpretations of the Binding of Isaac and the formation of Jewish cultural memory. He can be reached at davidg1@uchicago.edu. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the work and influence of the eighteenth-century philosopher Moses Mendelssohn. A prominent figure at the court of Frederick the Great, Mendelssohn was one of the most significant thinkers of his age. He came from a humble, but culturally rich background and his obvious intelligence was recognised from a young age and nurtured by the local rabbi where he lived in the town of Dessau in Prussia. Moses's learning earned him the sobriquet of the 'German Socrates' and he is considered to be one of the principal architects of the Haskala, the Jewish Enlightenment, and widely regarded as having helped bring Judaism into the mainstream of European culture. Mendelssohn is perhaps best remembered today for his efforts to bring Jewish and German culture closer together and for his plea for religious toleration.With:Christopher ClarkProfessor of Modern European History at the University of CambridgeAbigail GreenTutor and Fellow in History at the University of OxfordAdam SutcliffeSenior Lecturer in European History at King's College, London Producer: Natalia Fernandez.

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the work and influence of the eighteenth-century philosopher Moses Mendelssohn. A prominent figure at the court of Frederick the Great, Mendelssohn was one of the most significant thinkers of his age. He came from a humble, but culturally rich background and his obvious intelligence was recognised from a young age and nurtured by the local rabbi where he lived in the town of Dessau in Prussia. Moses's learning earned him the sobriquet of the 'German Socrates' and he is considered to be one of the principal architects of the Haskala, the Jewish Enlightenment, and widely regarded as having helped bring Judaism into the mainstream of European culture. Mendelssohn is perhaps best remembered today for his efforts to bring Jewish and German culture closer together and for his plea for religious toleration.With:Christopher ClarkProfessor of Modern European History at the University of CambridgeAbigail GreenTutor and Fellow in History at the University of OxfordAdam SutcliffeSenior Lecturer in European History at King's College, London Producer: Natalia Fernandez.

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the work and influence of the eighteenth-century philosopher Moses Mendelssohn. A prominent figure at the court of Frederick the Great, Mendelssohn was one of the most significant thinkers of his age. He came from a humble, but culturally rich background and his obvious intelligence was recognised from a young age and nurtured by the local rabbi where he lived in the town of Dessau in Prussia. Moses's learning earned him the sobriquet of the 'German Socrates' and he is considered to be one of the principal architects of the Haskala, the Jewish Enlightenment, and widely regarded as having helped bring Judaism into the mainstream of European culture. Mendelssohn is perhaps best remembered today for his efforts to bring Jewish and German culture closer together and for his plea for religious toleration.With:Christopher ClarkProfessor of Modern European History at the University of CambridgeAbigail GreenTutor and Fellow in History at the University of OxfordAdam SutcliffeSenior Lecturer in European History at King's College, London Producer: Natalia Fernandez.

Die Dissertation untersucht auf Grundlage der deutschen Uebersetzung des 68. Psalms durch Moses Mendelssohn die juedische Schreib- und Druckgeschichte biblisch-hebraeischer Poesie sowie deren Rezeption im 18. Jahrhundert in Deutschland.