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.
Details & Reading Sample
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Moishe. Six Anecdotes from the Life of Moses Mendelssohn
88 pages
Hardcover
Scratch Books
Amsterdam 2022ISBN: 978-94-93166-59-2
- Copy & Drawings: Typex
launched by the Jewish Museum Berlin
- Book Design
Fake Booij
- Prize
24,- €
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