About this title: Alexander Altmann's acclaimed, wide-ranging biography of Moses Mendelssohn (1729-96) was first published in 1973, but its stature as the definitive biography remains unquestioned. In fact, there has been no subsequent attempt at an intellectual biography of this towering and unusual figure: no other Jew so deeply rooted in the Jewish tradition was at the same time so much a part of the intellectual life of the German Enlightenment in the second half of the eighteenth century. As such, Moses Mendelssohn came to be recognized as the inaugurator of a new phase in Jewish history; all modern Jews ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: The University of Alabama Press, Alabama
Date Published: 1973
Description: Good. Blue cloth covers with gold title on spine; no jacket; minor wear to jacket and its edges; ex-library with usual stamps and markings, otherwise interior clean and unmarked; 7 3/4"-9 3/4" Tall; 900 pgs. read more
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Edition: First Softcover Edition
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization/Vallentine Mitchell and Co., London/Portland, OR
Date Published: 1998
ISBN-13:9781874774532ISBN:1874774536
Description: Fine. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Wraps with flaps, or folded card covers, sewn and glued binding., no flaws-clean, no writing or markings, tightly bound.; xvi-892pp., 16 b/w illustrations., first published in hardcover by alabama university press in 1973. still regarded as the definitive biographical work on the 18th century german-jewish scholar. read more
Edition: 1973rd edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: The Jewish Publication Society of America
ISBN-13:9780817368609ISBN:0817368604
Description: Very Good, Very Good. 8VO, 899 pgs., B/W Illus, Hardcover. Hardcover: Blue cloth binding with title on spine in gold. Paste-downs and endpapers are lightly oxidized. Foredge foxing. Frontispiece, title, text pages are clean. Moses Mendelssohn, " the German Socrates" was the most celebrated figure of German Enlightenment in the 18th century, who became recognized as the inaugurator of a new phase in Jewish History. Illustrated. Nice tight binding. Jacket: Slightly foxed on edges. Illustrated ... read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Date Published: 1973
ISBN-13:9780817368609ISBN:0817368604
Description: Very Good. **WITHDRAWN LIBRARY COPY** with customary markings or stickers; No writing or marks in text. Choose your shipping option based on the time you are able to wait for delivery. read more
Binding: Blue Cloth
Publisher: The Jewish Publication Society of America, Philadelphia
Date Published: 1973
ISBN-13:9780817368609ISBN:0817368604
Description: Good in Very Good jacket. 6.5x9.5. JUD 023148 Very solid cloth hard cover with clean text. Boards with slight wear and some soiling. Some moisture exposure has slightly warped the pages along the bottom edge. Slight musty fragrance. Dj with mild wear and soiling. Foredges soiled. 900pp. read more
Binding: Blue Cloth
Publisher: The Jewish Publication Society of America, Philadelphia
Date Published: 1973
ISBN-13:9780817368609ISBN:0817368604
Description: Very Good in Very Good jacket. 6.5x9.5. JUD 025585 LIVEZEY Very solid and clean cloth hard cover with clean text. Boards with slight wear. Dj with mild soiling and some wear inclu. some tiny chipping at the top edge. We have applied a protective fold-on cover. 900pp. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Original Cloth
Publisher: Jewish Publication Society of America, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Date Published: 1973
Description: Frontispiece Portrait and Other Illustrations. Near Fine in Very Good/Very Good+ jacket. First edition of this definitive life of Moses Mendelssohn [1729-1786], the leading Jewish participant in the Enlightenment and the leading figure of the Jewish Haskalah, often called "the German Socrates" and a leading figure in both Jewish and German literature in the eighteenth century. Bound in original blue cloth with spine lettered in silver, contents clean, binding sturdy. White dust jacket lettered ... read more
Binding: Cloth
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Date Published: 1973
ISBN-13:9780817368609ISBN:0817368604
Description: About VG/About VG. 0817368604 Ex-Library Sticker to front pastedown. Spotting to covers and along top edge. DJ worn/torn along edges. 900p. read more
Edition: First Edition. First Printing.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Date Published: 1973
ISBN-13:9780817368609ISBN:0817368604
Description: Very Good/Very Good. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" 0817368604 The front hinge of this book has cracked but the binding is intact. The text is unmarked. The dust jacket has a new removable mylar cover. read more
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