Moses Mendelssohn
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Moses Mendelssohn was a German-Jewish philosopher and theologian. His writings and ideas on Jews and the Jewish religion and identity were a central element in the development of the Haskalah, or 'Jew
Portrait by Anton Graff (1773)
Mendelssohn (in red coat), Lavater (at right) and Lessing (standing), in an imaginary portrait by the Jewish artist Moritz Daniel Oppenheim (1856), Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life
Moses Mendelssohn's (reconstructed) grave in Berlin
Moses Mendelssohn's glasses, in the Jewish Museum, Berlin
Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi
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Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi was a German philosopher, writer and socialite. He is best known for popularizing the concept of nihilism, denigrating it as the necessary result of Enlightenment thought and
Portrait of Jacobi, sometimes erroneously identified as portrait of Immanuel Kant
Jacobi painting by Johann Friedrich Eich, 1780