“We dreamed of nothing but Enlightenment” – Moses Mendelssohn
Accompanying Publication to the Homonymous Exhibition
For his many admirers throughout Europe, the phrase “the Jew from Berlin” could only refer to the philosopher Moses Mendelssohn (1729–1786). This volume recounts the impact and the career of the self-made, discrimination-defying intellectual in Frederick the Great’s Prussia. Many of his life’s major themes remain present in our own 21st-century reality: the battle between fake news and the pursuit of truth, following one’s brain or one’s guts, civil rights, ideas about humanity, and conflicts over identity.
The rich spectrum of portraits of Mendelssohn made during his lifetime, assembled for the very first time here, illustrates his enduring significance and serves as a gallery of icons of a pioneering emancipator and the Jewish figure most frequently depicted before Albert Einstein.
Details
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„Wir träumten von nichts als Aufklärung“ – Moses Mendelssohn (“We dreamed of nothing but Enlightenment” – Moses Mendelssohn)
248 pages
166 color plates and 13 black-and-white plates
Softcover
Released on 14 April 2022 by Wienand VerlagISBN 978-3-86832-690-1
Bilingual in German and English - Edited by
Inka Bertz and Dr. Thomas Lackmann on behalf of the Mendelssohn-Gesellschaft
- With contributions by
Inka Bertz and Dr. Thomas Lackmann
- Price
29,80 €
Available at the museum and wherever books are sold
You can order this publication from a bookstore, or from the museum by contacting
Jewish Museum Berlin
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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
- Current page: “We dreamed of nothing but Enlightenment” – Moses Mendelssohn: Exhibition catalog, 2022, bilingual in German and English
- 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