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Title:
Das Forschen nach Licht und Recht: in einem Schreiben
an Herrn Moses Mendelssohn auf Veranlassung seiner
merkwürdigen Vorrede zu Manasseh ben Israel

Author:
[Cranz, August]

Place of publication:
Berlin

Publisher:
Maurer

Date:
1782

Physical description:
47, [8] p. ; 17 cm

Language:
German

Subject:
Enlightenment -- Germany -- History
Haskalah -- Germany -- Early works to 1800
Mendelssohn, Moses, 1729-17868

Description:
Anonymous pamphlet, Das Forschen nach Licht und Recht in einem
Schreiben an Herrn Moses Mendelssohn (The Search for Light and Right
in an Epistle to Moses Mendelssohn), written in 1782 by August Cranz,
a member of the German enlightened circles and in fact a defender of Jewish
rights and an ardent admirer of the Jewish philosopher*

Shelfmark:
Mont 60h19

Image cite as:
Foyle–Montefiore Collection, Leopold Zunz Collection
Leopold Müller Memorial Library

Book ID number:
013

Full text digitised by:
Judaica Sammlung Frankfurt

Digitised (date):
Frankfurt am Main : Univ.-Bibliothek, 2008

 

* Feiner, S. & N. Naimark Goldberg, Cultural Revolution in Berlin, Oxford: 2011, pp. 41-42.


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