Moishe.
Six Anecdotes from the Life of Moses Mendelssohn
Graphic Novel Launched in Conjunction with the Exhibition “We dreamed of nothing but Enlightenment” – Moses Mendelssohn
Meet Moishe!
His wit, the elegant style of his writing, his kindness and diplomacy: the philosopher Moses Mendelssohn (1729–1786) had already fascinated his contemporaries.
For Mendelssohn, freedom of conscience within religious communities and equality of religions before the law went hand in hand, as ideas benefitting a modern, pluralistic society.
Anecdotes from Mendelssohn’s life have inspired many artists through ages. Typex focuses on the man himself and the dramatic situations he found himself in.
His “Moishe” draws upon the styles of the eighteenth century, its artistic variety, its appetite for the comic and grotesque, thus creating a new image of the great Enlightenment philosopher.
Typex: Moishe. Six Anecdotes from the Life of Moses Mendelssohn, Amsterdam 2022
Details & Reading Sample
- Moishe. Six Anecdotes from the Life of Moses Mendelssohn
88 pages
Hardcover
Scratch Books
Amsterdam 2022
ISBN: 978-94-93166-59-2 - Copy & Drawings Typex
launched by the Jewish Museum Berlin - Book Design Fake Booij
- Prize 24 €
Excerpt from Moishe
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Exhibition “We dreamed of nothing but Enlightenment” – Moses Mendelssohn: Features & Programs
Exhibition Webpage
“We dreamed of nothing but Enlightenment” – Moses Mendelssohn: 14 Apr to 11 Sep 2022
Publications
- “We dreamed of nothing but Enlightenment” – Moses Mendelssohn: Exhibition catalog, 2022, bilingual in German and English
- Current page: Moishe. Six Anecdotes from the Life of Moses Mendelssohn: Graphic Novel by Typex, 2022, English edition, with reading sample for download
- Moische. Sechs Anekdoten aus dem Leben des Moses Mendelssohn: Graphic Novel by Typex, 2022, German edition, with reading sample for download
Digital Content
- Moses Mendelssohn and His Time: Online feature, 2022
- Mendelssohn Discourses: Media Revolution – Publicity, Celebrity, A Flood of Images: Video recording with Frederek Musall, Caspar Battegay, and Shmuel Feiner, 2022, in Englisch
- Mendelssohn Discourses: Enlightenment: Fake News, Sentimentality, Reason: Video recording with Carolin Emcke, Hannah Peaceman, Frederek Musall, Inka Bertz, and Thomas Lackmann, 2022
- Based on a True Story: Interview with Typex, comic artist and author of Moishe, 2022
See also
- Moses Mendelssohn, Philosopher
- Haskalah/Enlightenment
- Moses Mendelssohn: More objects in our online collections, in German